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Old 6th February 2006, 07:11 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by DaveH
My experience, my comment:

Unless Tascam changes their colors over night I would not have anything to do with a X-48.
For me it doesn’t matter how “great” the product may be. Tascam support has been bottom of the barrel.

I have a pair of DM-24’s and a pair of MX-2424s. Also GigaStudio 3.
The support for ALL of this has been a pain in the %$#@*.

I would drop GigaStudio in a heartbeat if I hadn’t bought a dedicated computer and about $8,000 in sampled software.
( VSL Pro is just one of the packages).

If fact last time I got support for GigaStudio3 they were insulting.
It took 30 minutes to get routed to tech support. Then 2 hours 40 minutes to
get someone in tech support only to get routed back to a “secretary type” person
who could barely be bothered to get the right “code” for an upgrade from one version
of gigastudio to another.

If this was an isolated experience I would have over looked it.
But I have not had ONE pleasant experience with Tascam.
(To date no other company has been worse to deal with.)

Tascam dropped support of the MX-2424s at the hint of the new X-48.
(About a year ago, and the X-48 has not shipped).

I would look toward another company for better support.

Just my opinion.

p.s I am arranging a demo of the Radar V.
Check the threads, their support is reported as great.

Interesting feedback on Gigastudio. It's supposed to have great sounding samples that play at low latency, directly from the hard drive. When I demoed it on my computer it caused it to crash. I'm really leaning towards a strictly out board gear set up...

As far as Tascam goes I use one of there soundcards and I like it. It has never gone down on me once, (ok once but it had a lot to drink that night). As far as color goes, eq your own color. You can feel it all over, just like music.

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