| Re: Remote recording on 2"?
Ahhh, back in the days, when everything "always" sounded great...
Yep, everything was tracked to 2" tape, except for a few Sony DASH gigs we did here and there. Analog 2" on 14" reels loaded with 5000' of tape was the way to record live. Dolby SR @ 15IPS was the "choice" way to record live multitrack back then. Some clients even recorded at 15IPS with no noise reduction. Crazy right.. it was a standard for many.
A 14" reel gives you double the amount of time of a 10.5" reel. That's about 33 minutes per reel @ 30IPS, double that @ 15IPS.
The recordable media choice has always been up to the client, unless I'm producing the project. Then the media choice is left up to me. Unfortunately, to many executive producers and/or clients, economics speaks louder then the sound quality achived by using 2" media. Bean counters love MDM's and PT, et cetera, etc.
At $375.00 per reel, the tape bill can cost more then the mobile unit's day rate. From Black Gospel to Rock n' Roll, our clients didn't mind paying for 2" tape until the MDM's came to town. It took a fair amount of time, but things changed in a big way (as we all know now) when the MDM option was available.
With the Advent of ADAT and DA88 machines, many clients went for the switch. Over the years, more and more clients went for the modular digital machine alternative. The only clients that stuck with the 2" thing were our big budget Jazz dates and every heavy metal/hard rock session. But things changed since then...
Every Roadrunner Record project we did was on 2", until we were hired the record Jerry Cantrell back in June 2002. I took me some time to recover from it. I could not believe they requested DA*8's over 2" analog. With 24bit @ 48K or better, many clients say, "why bother." I beg to differ, but no one is listening.
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