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cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:55 am

Strictly like a tape machine on which you can do editing. It requires an outboard mixer and accessories as desired.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

tubemonkey35 · Post by **tubemonkey35** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:07 am

It's a tape-less machine; no plugins. It was not designed to be a DAW or compete in that field. You can do basic cut, edit, paste (with cross fades), slip slide stuff though.

inverseroom · Post by **inverseroom** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:22 am

PERFECT. Someday...

tubemonkey35 · Post by **tubemonkey35** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:44 am

We all use something like Nuendo or other DAWS for those functions, since getting in and out of RADAR digitally is so easy.

I do mix automation if needed and other DAW functions too on Nuendo and play it back through light pipe into the RADAR and out to my my console for analog summing.

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:19 pm

tubemonkey35 wrote:We all use something like Nuendo or other DAWS for those functions, since getting in and out of RADAR digitally is so easy.

Speak for yourself. I try to avoid haveing a computer in my control room!

tubemonkey35 · Post by **tubemonkey35** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:24 pm

"for those functions" i.e. DAW functions.....

I try to stay away from it too. Hencethe comtuer screen if off to the side.

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:10 am

I've got my RADAR monitor off to the side too. One of my favorite features of RADAR is being able to turn the screen saver so the musicians don't come in 'Look at the take."

Mix413 · Post by **Mix413** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:39 am

Radar is superb. Been using it quite a bit for the last 4 years or so. Makes a great front end/back end convertor for ProTools systems too.

Chris, did you get the combo drive directly from iZ? Do you prefer transfering WAV files via DVD as opposed to ftp? Faster that way?

tubemonkey35 · Post by **tubemonkey35** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:42 am

John, I'm still loving that Federal I picked up from you; I have 2 now

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:07 pm

tubemonkey35 wrote:We all use something like Nuendo or other DAWS for those functions, since getting in and out of RADAR digitally is so easy.

No we all don't. I don't see the point in moving recorded material from one format to another just to edit when the original format edits like a 60 year-old sushi chef.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:16 pm

John Noll wrote:Chris, did you get the combo drive directly from iZ?

No, but as I suspected, I bought the drive that iZ uses.

John Noll wrote:Do you prefer transfering WAV files via DVD as opposed to ftp?

I haven't done any transfers in a work environment yet. I just got all of it installed and operationala few days ago. I've also been slammed with sessions the past week, so I haven't been able to do much with it yet. I did pull a few things into it that I had lying around via the combo drive and it worked fairly quickly. Seemed to be faster than ftp, but I could be wrong about that. I have gotten the ftp set up out at the new studio and it works fine.

I'm in the middle of mixing an album that the former studio owner tracked and was in PT. I wanted to do the transfers before I had the combo drive installed in case I ran into any funky issues, so I did it that way just to be safe. I think tomorrow I'm gonna try exporting some stuff to CDR or DVD, just to get into that. The combo drive is backing up and restoring from DVD RAM like a champ. I really want to get into just writing native broadcast wavs, but I think I have the only mashine around here currently running v3.37. Two of the others I've been using the last few years are at 3.26, so I couldn't take a drive initialized for BWFs to another room if I had to for some reason.

I've got a live remote jazz trio record in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to do that one 96k BWF.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

restless-young-romantic · Post by **restless-young-romantic** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:53 pm

I just picked up a Otari Radar II for $2800. Was that a good deal ?

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:10 pm

If you had the money available and it works and it does everything you need it to, then I would say yes, it was a good deal.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

restless-young-romantic · Post by **restless-young-romantic** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:54 pm

There accesory prices are on the high side. Dsub to 1/4 8-channel 8ft snakes are $200 +, but 10ft made by Redco with Mogmi are $72.

tubemonkey35 · Post by **tubemonkey35** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:21 pm

I made my own dsub to tuchels with Mogami.

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