ADAtS suck. the trasports eat tape, the sync between decks blows, recording 8 tracks of audio to a VCR is silly.
black face units sound bad, XTs are only slightly better. it's like recording to a 1" 16 track. all those narrow band tape decks sound the same. thin, and mid rangey. adats were a genius marketing phenomenon. have i cut full legnth records on them......yes. have they sounded ok? yes they sounded ok, not stellar, mostly like adats.
is fantastic planet a total exception.........
either give me a reasonable argument for them or, take your love for adats to another forum.............HA