Information About

Prodigi




2-track recorders:
  • X-86

  • X-86HS (capable of recording and playing back at 88.2 kHz and 96 kHz sample rates as well as the X-86's 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz)

  • X-86C (for "compatible"; the X-86C could play back 50.4 kHz tapes made on the X-80 as well as normal X-86 tapes)


16-track recorder:
  • X-400


32 track recorders:
  • X-800

  • X-850

  • X-880

  • Otari DTR-900 (an X-850, rebadged for Otari).


The ProDigi format was extremely popular for use in Country Music . Specifically, at studios in Nashville , Tennessee where nearly all of the large recording studios used Prodigi machines.


PRODIGI'S PREDECESSOR


The Mitsubishi X-80 2-track 1/4 inch digital recorder from 1980 predated the Prodigi format and has many similarities, although it used an unusual 50.4 kHz sample rate, and is not directly compatible. However, Mitsubishi did build the capability to play back tapes created on an X-80 into the X-86 series machines. Only 200 X-80's were manufactured.