Re: battery powered multitrack recording?

[Walter Knapp <>]

Aaron Ximm wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> I'm wondering if there are any standard pieces of gear for battery powere=
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> multi track (4 tracks would be great, 3 is sufficient) recording.
>
> My preliminary research suggests there may be MD-based 'portastudio' type
> boxes capable of doing 4 track recording, albeit with MD-quality
> compression (perfectly acceptable) -- has anyone used such in the field?
> Any reviews or reports form the field?

The MD based multitracks are not using compression. They are not the
same thing as regular MD, in many cases use the datadisc version of the
MD disk. I don't remember any portable ones, just 110volt models.

Walt



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