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3rd January 2008
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Texas
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Thread Starter | Tascam M-208
Anyone still use one of these? I looking for a small board to run tracks through and this model caught my eye... I will mainly be using it for running tracks from my mpc 1000 into PT LE...tired of mixing in the box... |
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4th January 2008
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I take it this is not a popular mixer? Lol...
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5th January 2008
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA
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I used the 216 for years (same thing, more channels).. was it great? no. was it horrible? no. It's not terribly flexible (one effects send, one aux send.. both mono, etc, etc) but it works. Strangely, a lot of the stuff I recorded with it DOES sound good years later. "-) |
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5th January 2008
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Well, would you think it's worth about a hundred bucks? Also, does it have balanced outs? thanks for the advice! -barrett |
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5th January 2008
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if I recall - it has stereo balanced outs... and balanced outs for the 4 buses - but that's it.. the rest of the ins/outs are unbalanced, I believe. $100 bucks? may be worth it.. see if you can play with it and see if you like it. |
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5th January 2008
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| Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Texas
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Thanks for the advice! At the chance of sounding dumb: Do you think the unbalanced ins/outs would make a huge difference?
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5th January 2008
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If you're just looking at it to go 'analog - out of the box'... there may be better options for a little more money. Frankly - for a little more, pick up a used Mackie - it's probably a better sounding (and infinitely more flexible) option. The Tascam did it's job for me, but it's pretty smeary and there's crosstalk and a lot of noise... ymmv. |
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6th January 2008
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| Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2006 Location: Texas
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How much more money do you think it'll take?
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6th January 2008
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You can find a used 1604 pretty cheap... a quick search of craigslist or ebay shows the nicer VLZ versions going for about $300.. less for the older original style.
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3rd July 2009
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| Gear interested Joined: Jul 2009
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OUR YOU STILL LOOKING FOR A TASCAM 208 MIXER? IF SO EMAIL ME AT rsimonelli@airamerica-gov.us. RICK | |
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