The Alesis ADAT recorder when it arrived in 1992, literally changed the world overnight for studios and home musicians alike, by bringing digital recording to an affordable level for small studios and musicians. Comping was a thing when we didn't have DAWs or recording units that can record a great amount of tracks.Alesis ADAT 8 Track Digital Recorder. The ADAT uses a standard VHS video cassette for. ADAT (Alesis Digital Audio Tape) An eight track digital recorder developed and manufactured by the Alesis Corporation, employing modified videotape recording technology. ADAT - Alesis Digital Audio Tape: Originally an 8-track digital recorder, now shorthand for a digital transmission protocol Some content below is with permission of Wikipedia.

Then I would playback the drum and play bass on top of it and record the result to track 3 and 4 I could record the drums in stereo using a mixer on 2 of the tracks of the recorder. Adat units worked fine when last hooked up, however they have not been used in a few years. The principal is that you always need an available track(s) to record new stuff in.Alesis Adat 8 Track Digital Audio Recorder. I have thus far stood over this machine and tried to route. Specifically It seems to me that years back we were recording two tracks at a time and were able to hear playback and then at the same time record on a different set of tracks, basically sound on sound sort of scenario.

So you didn't record in stereo pairs, you simply used the pan for the routing fore the correct destination channel, or in a lot of cases, you just left the pan central, and then hit say 1-2, but only enabled recorder track 2 to record something - it was, looking back, a bit strange, but it did work. Desk inputs on the inline desk had 4 group selectors, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, using the pan. This didn't matter because on playback, each track came back on it's own channel.