• zigor
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Topic: Clock setting in FF800 when recording with a DAT machine?

Good morning,

I want to make a safety copy of a recording I'll make with the FF8OO coupled to my MSI portable thru an R34 Express Card LaCie.

I would like to connect a Sony PCM 2700 via the spdif output of the FF800 : what setting should I use for the clock, spdif or internal?

Will it still be possible to record simultaneously onto the MSI and the PCM-2700?

Thanks for your help

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Re: Clock setting in FF800 when recording with a DAT machine?

Zigor -

You would set the clock to internal. This way the source of the SPDIF (RME-FFTo question800) owns the clock, so when you are setting up your recording device, you would set ITS clock to SPDIF IN.

To question #2, yes. Use your mixer/matrix to assign the L&R RME Inputs (or their feeds) of the source to L&R of the 2700. ALSO assign the L&R inputs to the L&R pair that feeds the MSI.

Another way to do this in software: send your recording on the MSI using the mixer/matrix to busses (2) that have outputs to the 2700 and the normal (MSI) outputs. You woul duse the AUX SEND controls in your software mixer to route signals to these output busses. This way, if you wanted, you could have a separate mix for the 2700 using AUX1 sends on each active channel, and the MSI outputs (assuming monitors) by adjusting AUX2 on each channel.

Pete

  • zigor
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Re: Clock setting in FF800 when recording with a DAT machine?

Hi Pete,

And thanks for your input.

As I am still relatively unexperienced with the FF800, do I understand you correctly by assuming the  2 x 2 output channels are both in digital format?

I want of course get the maximum benefit of the beautiful DAC's of the FF800 by feeding their outputs directly onto the external HDD connected to the MSI and have a simultaneous safety backup thru the SPDIF channel onto the 2700.

The recording takes place friday evening, that leaves some time to practise your solutions.

Thanks again

Michel

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Re: Clock setting in FF800 when recording with a DAT machine?

Hi everyone,
Recording session successfull, no problems at all : I made one set onto the HDD at 24/88 and another at 16/44 onto the PCM 2700, but using the analog outputs of the FF800. Splendid cello sound! Thks Pete, and RME..!:cool: