CompuServe Messages

Thanks for the overview: It would seem to me that the DAT recorder would be good to have as a portable for a first purchase. Right now I take a Hi8 recorder with PCM Stereo into the field to audio record as it is the most compact best quality recorder I have for audio. The price sounds good. The Turtle Beach sounds like something I should check out further. I don't think I do need SMPTE on the DAT as my recent experience with it indicates that a 60 minute program can maintain lip sync end to end with a simple clapboard type pulse for synchronization. I dump the dat back to betacam with the pulse and then line it up in edit. I do need to have a SMPTE time line in the audio software though to make it work. I currently have a 16 bit Soundblaster with a SCSI II port and the DSP chip. I haven't done anything with it except use it for CD-ROM audio. Maybe I should just check this existing hardware out for capabilities to see if I even like doing this. The audio inputs are stereo mini's and arn't very reliable. I suppose I could hardwire a couple of XLR's to a breakout cable if things get serious. What do you think of this sound board? I don't know anything about MIDI or how it relates to WAV but I do know that the audio sounds better from a MIDI file when I play them back.