The Mellotron Group

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, jonesalley wrote:

> I like to have a variety of media formats in my home studio, and I just
> acquired a mint, late-model Alesis ADAT with all manuals, original
> accessories and packaging, which I primarily plan to use as an archiving
> tool and a lasershow development platform.  It cost me the princely sum
> of $20.50 on eBay and as it's a local seller, I don't even have to pay
> for shipping.  Have these things dropped THAT far in value or was that
> an unusual deal?



they HAVE dropped that far.
tape-based digital multitracks are dinosaurs already.
the ONLY place i know that still uses them at all is
a local post-house that uses a DA88 for recording
the 'stems' for film projects.

[for those unfamiliar, 'stems' are the separate elements
that make up a soundtrack: dialogue, ambient sound, special
effects, music. they are used when making alernate language
mixes so they ONLY have to re-record dialogue and can keep
all the other elements the same]

other than that, i have not seen anyone use an ADAT or DA88
type machine for at least 5 years - possibly a bit longer.

you got a good deal if the thing is useful to you.
just because other have moved on/abandoned then, does not
invalidate its usefulness to you.

...jeff