Re: Tascam DR-680 in the field

["Paul Jacobson" thebrunswicktwitcher]

On 17/06/2010, at 1:19 AM, Scott Fraser wrote:

> This is certainly true for any recording via computer to hard drive as =

> well, so it's not a "feature" exclusive to the Tascam. The system has =

> to write some data to the header of the audio file and/or the media
> directory at the conclusion of the recording in order to have a valid =

> file.

The Tascam HDP2 writes data to CF every second. If you experience a loss of=
 power the most you'll lose is a second or two, so this is a "DR680 feature=
" rather than a "Tascam feature".   It might be a limitation of processor p=
ower and the number of tracks - there is obviously an overhead incurred in =
writing the headers to each channel every second, and this would be 4 times=
 higher if you were utilising 8 tracks vs a stereo pair.

cheers
Paul