Tascam

Even in his mid-30s or -40s, the Prince of Bel-Air can still rock it, so long as he has a Tascam BB-800 SD recorder boombox to blast D-lite over his shoulder.  

Add the US-122mkII and the US-144mkII to you holiday wish list, as they are now smaller and faster, with all the necessary features as before and then some. For under $150, you can have one of these audio interfaces and a copy of Cubase LE4 too.  

Handheld portable recorders will get the job done for hobby projects and most of our audio work, but those who want to go pro would do well to invest in a heavy-duty location recorder meant to record and withstand just about anything. The Tascam HS-P82 was designed especially for pros and pro wannabes in the entertainment biz.  

The ultra portable DP-008 offers eight-track recording and is small enough to be tucked into a guitar case or cargo pocket. Just don't put it in your center pocket.  

Tascam may have gone overboard with its gratuitous flaunting of inputs, leaving little room for outputs. Announced at AES today, the US-2000 has not 8, but 16 inputs for your plugging pleasure.  

Musicians starting out with recording by themselves for the first time can lead to that annoying initial frustration because of all the technicalities that seem to be very foreign to learned musical concepts. Breaking through that technical barrier, the TASCAM US-100 is also going to break the $100 price barrier.  

Whether you've got that idea in your head that you wish to fix into media permanently or practice both pitch and timing, tools right for the job are needed. TASCAM PT-7 combines all these needed tools for education and practice.  

It's quite unexpected that some active studio monitors are priced way lower than your pair of headphones. In today's world, such things are possible. Just take a look at what the TASCAM VL-M3 is proudly exhibiting.  

Handheld digital music devices don't spell the end for technologies such as hardware CD players. In fact, they can seamlessly work together like the TASCAM CD-200i  

Jitter is one heck of an annoyance that despite audio clarity, it is so noticeable that it's very disturbing with very clear clicks far worse than that in vinyl. With TASCAM CD-200, your CD can possibly have the fluidity of your grandfather's turntable you've always envied.  

Sure digital audio is convenient, crystal clear and robust, but sometimes you just need to record to magnetic tape cassette, and there's no better solution for that than the new Tascam 202 MKV rack-mount cassette recorder. When are those times? Beats me.  

They're known mostly for the Portastudio and the home recording revolution, but back in the day Tascam was also know for making analog mixers with a pretty amazing bang-for-buck ratio. The new Tascam M-164 series recalls those summing-glory days with three new compact models.  

The TASCAM DR-100 pushes the boundaries of portable recording by jamming as many features as possible into a casing still small enough to be ported. It's like when college kids try to set world records for jamming people into phone booths. I hear someone died doing that once.  

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of the original Portastudio, Tascam announces the new Tascam DP-004, the most compact digital Portastudio yet. Makes you wonder what all those other Portastudios were celebrating.  

If you thought location recording was only for the rich and famous, guess again. TASCAM brings portable recording down to a price point that any red-blooded, slim-walleted American can appreciate.  

The TASCAM BB-1000CD never met a bit of audio it couldn't consume, process and regurgitate as another piece of audio. With SD, CD, XLR and other acronyms standard on the BB-1000CD, we asked TASCAM's Winter NAMM 2009 rep to help us sort it all out.  

Record straight to CD with the TASCAM BB-1000CD. It's portability and ease of use makes it the perfect choice if you're recording on the run from -- I don't know -- the law. I'm not implying that anyone who buys this is a criminal, but I'm not implying that everyone who buys it ISN'T a criminal.  

The sheer amount of portable recorders that TASCAM is releasing at the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, when assembled as a whole, makes them collectively very unportable. How about that? Anyhow, TASCAM introduces the DR-100, which is the version for advanced users.  

Digital recording drops down a notch in size and price with the TASCAM DR-07. This digital recorder takes its cues from the DR-1, shrinks them and somehow manages to fit a comparable amount of functionality into the unit.  

Here's the exciting finale of the Tascam DR-1; like Klark Kent becoming Superman, Owen O'Malley has gotten the specs out of the way, and is now set to put the DR-1 through your basic "trial-by-Radiohead-cover."  

There sure are quite a few digital field recorders out there nowadays, with more hitting the market every quarter. Here to help you sort through them all is your field recorder field guide Owen O'Malley; this time around he's taking a look at the Tascam DR-1.  

Those of you who still hold tightly to your Portastudios, hording your collection like Elaine Benes horded sponges in an obscure situational comedy from yester-decade, can finally breathe easier knowing that the gigantic, mechanical claw of technology will one day, inevitably drag you kicking and screaming into the unknown. The TASCAM DP-004 Digital Pocketstudio is here to help make that transition as painless and gentle as a gigantic, mechanical claw can be  

We see what's new with Tascam courtesy of Jeff Laity who is happy to show us a pair of stereo mics. Tascam debuts the TM-STPRO and TM-ST2, two mics that don't shy away from any application.  

Rising from the aftershocks of the recent field recorder arms race, Tascam introduces the hybrid GT-R1. It combines Tascam's long standing dominance over the guitar trainer market with the hoopla and craze of field recording.  

Stepping up to the 125th AES new product challenge, Tascam releases two new stereo microphones, the TM-ST2 and TM-STPRO. Both mics are suitable for live, video or home recording; use it at your kid's next junior football game, and in twenty years he can re-experience the booing crowd after his missed field goal attempt AS IF HE WERE RIGHT THERE ALL OVER AGAIN. You can't put a price on that kind of memory.  

The neo-est incarnation of the Tascam 2488 is called the "Neo." If you still haven't found the hard disk recorder that you can call "The One," the 2488 Neo may just end your search, what with its new suite of mastering effects and sleek new look.  

Bay Area singer, musician, model and more, Serena Toxicat, released her first solo track on a recent compilation. She talks about a couple of the pieces of gear she used to record the track.  

The Tascam GT-R1 takes the growing popularity of field recording and adds some features from their guitar trainers. Now you finally have a secret guitar training device that doesn't scream out, "I had to slow down that DragonForce solo, because I was having too much trouble learning it at full speed."  

Elmira, New York is home to the progressive goth stylings of À Rebours. Ian Stone talks about guitars and recording with the band.  

It looks like Tascam GigaStudio and related products will not live to see 2009. Reports indicate that Tascam's Marketing Manager has confirmed that the GigaStudio line is already finished in terms of development and sales and support are scheduled to stop by year's end.