Looking for Input on a rack mountable Digital Audio Recorder
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Check Sweetwater. They have a 24 track rack mountable digital recorder. A little pricey.
prcguy
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What kind of quality do you need? If its just for scanner audio you might be better off with an old laptop running a free recording program that has a squelch function. Set and forget and it will only record when there is audio activity. Or load it up with Audacity, a free program that will do pretty good audio quality.
Have several PC's running with DLI Personal Logger software: DLI DOWNLOAD CENTER
Records both radio or phone if needed. Audio quality is excellent and recordings are time-stamped. The page above also has links to their hardware products.
Records both radio or phone if needed. Audio quality is excellent and recordings are time-stamped. The page above also has links to their hardware products.
hfflunki
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I no everything on a raspi running DC and when I ran standard radios I liked Gemini setups the
Done out of slot of rf noise but most that stuff is no longer made .if you have your heart set on rackmount
Get a tascam but if you want the best for the money and most widely used this is what you need
Sangean DAR-101 Professional Grade Digital MP3 Recorder (Black) Amazon.com: Sangean DAR-101 Professional Grade Digital MP3 Recorder (Black): Electronics
Done out of slot of rf noise but most that stuff is no longer made .if you have your heart set on rackmount
Get a tascam but if you want the best for the money and most widely used this is what you need
Sangean DAR-101 Professional Grade Digital MP3 Recorder (Black) Amazon.com: Sangean DAR-101 Professional Grade Digital MP3 Recorder (Black): Electronics
Thanks Dan, I had looked at that Sangean and it looks pretty much what I need but not in a rack, thanks for your input, I'll keep searching around.
I would like to avoid running a computer just to record audio. Thanks for your reply
hfflunki
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Check out the tascam sd 20 m the remote is separate purchase
Even though a small system like a raspi can allow you to do logging, file naming, ethernet transport (or wireless) and runs on a 5v wall wart? You wouldn't even need to rack mount it.
hfflunki
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I run my sdrs on raspi and do logging on a tablet along with freq lookup and it does fine for me I use a 909x for mw dx and run the TV and raspi DC but it's not the most nice looking gui and you need a fan case plus buck converter
It doesn’t look like it has a remote line in for switching record on and off by relay, maybe it has a hand held remote?
AC9BX
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Ugh, once you get to rack mount you're looking at professional products, very expensive. Most are multi-track, 24bit, thousands of dollars.
Consider the Tascam SD-20M or Denon DN300R (still in stock, about $200). The SD-20 has a front panel remote control plug in, intended for use with a foot switch but that could be adapted to about anything.
I wouldn't recommend it but there's the Gemini DRP-1, might find it used.
Some of the Tascam CD recorders (which you could also use) have solid state recording as well, SS-CDR250 or without CD, SS-R250.
Denon DN700 is quite nice.
If it's just for radio scanning I would consider an old Tascam MD301 or 350 Minidisk deck. (Or similar Sony) Minidisk is cheap, robust, those decks have a 'vox' mode, makes a new track for each new recording, and in mono or LP2 mode the 80 minute disk holds 160, in LP4 mode it holds 320 minutes. There's also Hi-LP mode which on a 1G Hi-MD disk you'd get 2040 minutes. Only the newest models support the Hi-MD modes. You'd have to check the specs to see what the model supports.
Consider the Tascam SD-20M or Denon DN300R (still in stock, about $200). The SD-20 has a front panel remote control plug in, intended for use with a foot switch but that could be adapted to about anything.
I wouldn't recommend it but there's the Gemini DRP-1, might find it used.
Some of the Tascam CD recorders (which you could also use) have solid state recording as well, SS-CDR250 or without CD, SS-R250.
Denon DN700 is quite nice.
If it's just for radio scanning I would consider an old Tascam MD301 or 350 Minidisk deck. (Or similar Sony) Minidisk is cheap, robust, those decks have a 'vox' mode, makes a new track for each new recording, and in mono or LP2 mode the 80 minute disk holds 160, in LP4 mode it holds 320 minutes. There's also Hi-LP mode which on a 1G Hi-MD disk you'd get 2040 minutes. Only the newest models support the Hi-MD modes. You'd have to check the specs to see what the model supports.
Great input, thanks for your reply, I will research these models! Thanks again
There is a lot of nice TASCAM rack mounted recorders on Ebay for a fraction of the price when new.
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Check out the Digital Loggers F16 on ebay. It records up to 16 channels and has a computer interface. The unit is rack mounted and only takes up a couple units. DIGITAL LOGGERS F16 USB AUDIO LOGGER **30 DAY RETURNS** | eBay
A F-16 would be perfect, well the new version would anyway, it looks like the older version won't run on anything newer than Windows 2000? maybe I'm wrong on that?
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