Kolpak DA-98 manual Project studio ‘B’ room

Section 13 – Example setups

13.3 Project studio (‘B’ room)

The DA-98 provides an excellent recording solution for the smaller project studio.

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MIDI INTERFACE		KEYBOARD
MIDI IN	MIDI OUT	MIDI IN

MIDI OUT

MTC

MIDI OUT

MIDI OUT

MMC

MIDI INDA-98

MIDI IN

MIDI IN

MIDI IN

SOUND

MODULE

SYNC

DA-38

SYNC

DA-38

MONITOR SPEAKERS

MIXER

EFFECTORS

AMP

Since the machine itself is relatively small and portable, it can be transported to larger assembly studios which are not equipped with DTRS recorders. When the assembly studios use DTRS units, of course, the small size and compact nature of the Hi8 cassette medium makes it easy to transport working (and even mas- ter) tapes between locations.

Should the DA-98 be moved between locations, the different user setup memory banks allow instant switch- ing of the DA-98 from the “master recorder” role in the project studio, to the “secondary recorder” role in the larger studio.

Digital dubbing involves no loss of quality, so project studio tapes may be duplicated as often as required, and the quality of the tapes produced “at home” is equal to those produced in the larger studio.

The DA-98 can be considered, in many ways, as a modular multitrack system, and hence the number of tracks available to the project studio can be incremented at relatively little cost and with no learning curve for the expansion. For project studios which are already using DTRS machines and require a little more function- ality than is available from, say, the DA-38, the DA-98 represents an attractive upgrade path, adding addi-

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