Yeah I shoulda said DA-30 Mk.II because that's undoubtedly what it was. It almost always is. Either that or SV-3700 but the DA-30s were black and therefore cooler. Can you... find the troublemaker?

General audio practice is "more samples are better" and also "if this ever touches video holy god it better be 48kHz" so it would make sense that the tape is going to be 48, not 44.1 but, you know. CDs. What's funny is that computer audio has absolutely no idea what to do with external clock other than go "well I guess the world is 11% faster for some reason." When I feed the laptop, which usually plays Tidal, without messing with the word clock it'll play fine but fast for about a song and a half and then start skipping as its buffer goes "WTF are you doing". Amusingly enough I also run watch/clock timing software on that one and if it gets a different word clock on its pro audio interface than, for example, Zoom thinks it should be at, the software gets so upset that it dumps its log files, erases its authorization and resets its preferences. It literally has a stroke. Which is extra dumb because it's got provisions for external wordclock in, but if it's not on a BNC (because the author has it on BNC) it loses its fucking mind.

To be fair to Tascam, most of their stuff won't slave to any old word clock. It will go "hey buddy - you told me we were at 44.1? And we're at 48? So... I'm just going to flash my display at you angrily and refuse to pass audio until you remedy the situation." And to punish Avid/Digidesign, they decided that a 44.1/48kHz word clock was wholly inadequate to their purposes so they have "superclock" which is 4x the rate, but only really works at 192kHz, and also passes cleanly through some systems and totally breaks things in others.

If I switch from a 48kHz movie project to a 44.1 music project I have to switch two physical switches, change a menu item on another piece of hardware, then go into the computer, close pro tools, change the slave speed in the audio hardware driver, open pro tools, and open an existing project at the proper sample rate, close it, then start a new project at the sample rate I want. Failing to do this in the proper order can result in crashes and 0dBFS blasts of pink noise through five very expensive Genelec speakers.

So yeah. Let's just put that innocuous little switch right up on the front where bored guitar techs start looking for things to go wrong.

Right, Eddie?