mfro

Mixdown To G5 Or Dat?

I have a pretty basic question. I record to analog tape (4-track open reel at the moment) and have always mixed down to a tascam DA20MKII DAT machine. I just bought a new 1.6 G5. I'm wondering if its better to continue mixing down to the DAT and then transfer digitally to the G5 for editing/cd burning, or if it would be better to mix directly to the G5. Is the Dat obsolete? It's only 16bit and I believe the G5 can record at 24bit but I wonder if the DAT has better converters. How are the a/d converters if I record directly into the sound input jack of the G5? Would I need to buy an expensive interface like the MBox to make it an improvement from the DAT?

thanks for your advice,
mark

Mac Built-in Audio Ports

hi

this is probably a dumb and somewhat obsolete question but nonetheless:

I've been recording into my BW G3 into Pro Tools Free through the built-in sound input which works fine except that I have to pull the jack halfway out (to the ring I suppose) to get the full signal or, in some cases, a stereo signal. If it's in all the way I only get a partial signal that sounds like half of the audio is cut out. I've spent hours of internet searching but haven't been able to dig up much info, other than it may have something to do with Apples' plaintalk technology. I'm using 1/8" to 1/8" cables from radio shack with a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter on one end to go into my mixing board.Since the jack is practically hanging out of the input the tiniest bump or pull disengages the signal making it really hard to get anything done. I tried the griffin imic as a solution but couldn't get it to work properly with Pro Tools free.

Anyone know what is going on?

thanks much
mfro