Can I use a DAT recorder to record lip sync sound ?
A. Yes. A DAT recorder can be used as long as the field audio cassettes are resolved correctly. A DAT recorder is very similar to a videocassette recorder in the way that it scans the tape during record and playback. A servo system is required to keep the spinning head and linear tape transport locked together. DAT recorders must have their own internal crystal oscillator in order for this servo system to operate. Portable DAT recorders like the Sony TC-D7, D8, D10ProII, the new PCM-M1 and the Tascam DA-P1, however, do not allow for any resolving other than their innate ability to play back in real time against their own internal clock. They cannot be slaved to some other external master source such as a videocassette recorder, for instance (see “…recording sound for…video”). If the DAT recorder will be used only for transferring the field audio cassettes to magnetic film and if the mag film recorder (see “What is a magnetic film recorder”) is also referenced to crystal, there is u
