| A comparison of old and new technologies: the 1980s Tascam PortaOne Ministudio (a four-track cassette recorder) and the new Tascam DP-008 Pocketstudio (digital 44.1/16 bit, eight-track recorder) from 2010. While this video was meant to be more nostalgic than anything else, I guess it ended up as a review of the DP-008, which I am so very please with. I received my DP-008 one week ago and have used it every day since! I doubt I'll ever have these two units out again, side by side like this, so I decided to shoot a video. I purchased by PortaOne new in 1987 and used it for over a decade until I became more and more involved with computer recording. It was always a very reliable machine. Recently I decided to update some things in my studio and looked at what Tascam had to offer. I had been using their digital DR-1 for field recordings and for some of my musical projects, but really was in need of a multi-track recorder. Initially I was going to purchase Tascam's four track DP-004 (even had it in my "cart" on Amazon), but after looking up the price of the DP-008 (their scaled-up eight-track recorder), and comparing its features to my needs, it was a no-brainer. I couldn't be more happy, now that I own a DP-008!! It is feature-laden, offers many user-changeable settings (input assignments, mic/line levels, etc....), and is quite intuitive to operate. The only down side of the DP-008 is perhaps the way in which tracks and masters are transferred to the computer. Unlike a lot ... |
