| What You want to do is going to be a synchro nightmare. As Dave said, you'll get some delay between record and repro head. Even if you only monitor the live track before tape (+the PT tracks already done), you will get a delayed track in PT, which you will want to time-offset at a later date. The tape machine has to be very "time-stable and reliable".
Buy yourself a Studer for that matter (something like A807, A810...). SMPTE option on the 2-track might help for your purpose, but the heads have then to be parallel tracks. Track width on the tape will be smaller as with butterfly (no timecoding-) heads -- sound quality will be therefore a bit not so good with a timecode track, I mean specs like S/N and so on... but it might not bother you too much depending of what kind of music and levels you want to track.
Hope this helps |