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Those people on the forums are salesmen for product companies real musicians that have distribution companies and know the income from streaming know that making music is worthless. i had 25.000 streams of my music and earned $4 now think who in their right mind would spend money on expensive gear for $4.

And filmed on VHS 🎉

Sounds like the Lemonheads kinda

There solid machines, they actually sound better than using protools

hi to all under the transport there's a pcb on rails that has to be recap i am going to do 5 decks i had to wait for the right eye wear we tecs are getting older and need a little help i am seeing at the same time check you can see right first i know it's silly i did not know till i was in poundland looking at things bob

You're 29 yrs old & pretending you're from the analog tape era of 1985. If you're serious about analog you only need to focus on a Revox/ Studer reproducer, if you even know what that is lol

I love it bro!

is there a way to put a different effect on each different line with this thing?

You can sync multiple machines together as well as syncing them to other tape machines for higher track counts

Great video. We use multiple Fostex D80s, circa the same time period, and they are excellent multitrack recorders. Hardware, is much better than software.

There are very few videos of DA-88 or DA-38 recordings on RUclips, but those seem to have a very distinct sound. Very wide and 3D stereo image, soft, and unique transients. Would you agree?

Sounds great if you want 8 tracks. But if you plan to use more... An alesis hd 24 is the way to go. Dirt cheap for 24 tracks at once. It uses hard drives not tapes. And.. it is 24 bits. Check it out

You're the man Sammy

I owned 3 DA 88’s they broke down on a regular basis. I don’t miss them.

That's nice your board can do that. I discovered a different way to do it with my Tascam MSR16. I only have the inserts on the board and I have a 24 channel board that I use the first 16 channels for the recorder. The I(nput) is coming from the output of the deck for each channel and the O(utput) for each channel is feeding an RCA patch panel. What that does is when I have a microphone plugged into channel 1, the channels can be patched without moving the microphone and the level will not change going to each input of the deck. All of the EQ settings are feeding the input of the deck and only the output of the deck is feeding the faders for each channel. The Trim Pot is the level control going into the board. I didn't know how well it would work until I tried it and it does an amazing job. Thank you for posting this.

Very practical review and introduction to signal compression. I've used a couple of these units; the MDX1400 for recording and the MDX4600 for live work. Both are very reliable and do the job, though in a somewhat brutish and amateur way. That's OK for the hobby musician who's not planning on spending their retirement savings on gear and just wants to improve the sound a bit. They're worth it just for the noise gate if nothing else, but are effective for compression, and as stated are great tools for learning and experimenting.

Mine makes a screaming digital noise out of the blue even when my phone on the next block

The issue with those is that those will die out very quickly. Far more qucikly than cassette or reel to reel. after recordings you should always bounce your music swiftly. Some day it will break. Some day no machine will be left. Some day no one will remember this format. Reel to reel and cassette on the other hand will prevail. Or at least reel to reel... the studio world will use tape machines for maybe 100 years more. EDIT: Before this digital format, there were a lot of other digital tape format machines. All those machines died out and studios were left with problems. This all happened in a span of a few years. Without DAWs studios would straight go back to analog tape.

Great recording! I love the organic yes tight sound of this analog recording.

You are a kindred spirit Sir. You are right, that is REAL music, not enough of it around these days.

Thank you for making this video, it's a great help for me.

👍 YOU ~ ROCK ! ! 🤛

Great video. Found one of these for dirt dirt cheap and wanted to know if it was reasonable. Thanks for the nice overview

hey! what if i'm using Hi8 tapes that aren't DTRS? it is possible or not? using exclusively DTRS tapes is a must? I'm trying to format a 120 TDK (not DTRS logo on it...), tape in my Sony PCM800 and when the process is around 1h 45min approx, it suddenly stops and rewind... Thanks and greetings from Chile

Despite the unit being somewhat limited compared to a plugin, it more than makes up for it with this 3D depth that none of my plugins can match, and that includes UAD, Waves, Eventide, Valhalla, etc.

I just got hip to you off this video, you had me at the intro

Have you experienced many dropouts with this thing? Mine drops out constantly

Oh my fucking God I love your production value! This is masterful work!

You are doing gods work 😂

Love the video. I'm trying to get one. If the mechanisms do go south and you can't find an engineer to fix it... you can still go in and out of it and get use from the quality pre amps. These things are still a bargain when they break! Lovely warm sound for mic recording👍

As long is reparations team on the back of your Tascam DA 38, you are good to go…

...computers are overrated!

Lot of guys used these in Nashville back in the day a real work horse I still have two I couldn't sell them in 06 so I left them with a friend and moved to chile

I love that early 90s vibe in this video :)

At this point in time, those old machines are totally unreliable, need constant maintenance, and the tapes and parts are unavailable. A cheap computer and free recording software is your best bet. Take it from. I've used these machines for years, and they are now nothing but trouble.

I buy the broken machines on ebay and Reverb and make a profit selling them. Lots of people still like them and would like to get away from the computer. Its fun stuff and there are a LOT of machines out there with low hours on the heads.

Dreamed of owing one of these in the 90's. Haven't noticed how cheap they're now! Thanks!

I'm going to assume that this guy knows about sound, because his use of graphics... hooo boy (hopefully this is satire, in which case full marks, but you can never tell nowadays).

How this channel isn't huge is beyond me....I picked up a Sony PCM-R300 and find your channel fascinating for a 40 year old such as myself...keep it up! If you like rock music feel free to follow me I would really appreciate it you may enjoy it, it's all Florida based

You may want to consider an Alesis HD24. It’s a standalone 24 track unit. You can get them for $400 and up.

Anyone know where I can get one of these? 🙏🏼

Hello there! Question, do the same connection principles apply for something like a reel-to-reel machine?

Great video, new subscriber. I totally agree about using dedicated channels for returns for the reasons you mentioned. I only ever use stereo returns for integrating side mixers.

On smashing pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album ,this was used (TASCAM DA-88)

this is so sick thank you so much

What kind of mixer?

Love this review. This was super helpful. I actually have a practice space setup where I have all of the players run direct into a stage box which runs into my interface. Then I run sends back to a Behringer Behringer P16-I and have each player setup with Behringer P16-M as a personal monitor mixer, but I want to the vocalists or horn players to have some reverb on their voice in the monitor mix, so I have a reverb unit setup between the return an the P16-I. I just picked up one of these son that I can use it for reverb on an additional channel that we're monitoring, and it's great.

This was a great watch thanks for this .. where does the tascam da88 come in on all this ?

I have one with the sync card in perfect condition for sale. Used only a few times and bought as a backup.

I'LL use the M100 by bridging my 5F4. Channel1 dry Channel 2 wett..... Works soooo good....