Nice setup! what do you think of that Tascam? I've been looking very hard at one...
I love it. The sound quality is superb and it is easy to use, build quality is sturdy where it needs to be, lessened where they can to save cost (the knobs are all cheep plastic). It is very quite and has tons of gain if you need it.
The two gripes I have, the headphone amp is just meh at best and the monitor out's (the only output with volume control) seems to not sound as good as the main outputs, but don't take that to the bank, it was a real quick test.
Being USB you need to be careful though. USB shares a total of 480mbps across each buss (Fire wire is actually a bit slower). Any two USB ports that are stacked on top of one another are generally on the same buss and usually there are no more than two per buss (unless you add a hub.) You want to make sure the Tascam has a buss all to itself, otherwise you may get dropouts and such when whatever else is on the buss tries to access it.
Oh, and as always, it doesn't have enough in's and out's.
But any of you that do this kind of stuff will know there are never enough.
Here are a couple tracks I have recorded with my band in my garage. All mixed on the included Cubase LE 4.
Not This
Family
Wrong Side of the Tracks
do you like mixing on a screen? i am old and used to using a desk, but i am learning cause there are lots of ways to make a record
I don't really have the in's and out's to mix on a desk nor the money to get them. I managed to pick up the Tascam on sale for $250. I do live to two channel mixes for my church (they put out DVD's) and really do prefer having a physical interface but just can't afford one.
For my own use I do use a Mackie CR-1604 when tracking. I use it as mic-pre's and to run headphone mixes for everyone on the aux outs. Fantastic mixer. :yes: