New Tascam HS8 8 track to SD card

matthewd · 13th January 2011

Thought this new product from Tascam might be of interest to some on here. I spotted it in the Studiospares catalogue which came this morning. I believe it retails around the £3500 mark which is much more costly than Joeco but significantly cheaper than the Sound Devices 788T - totally different market intentions clearly. We do quite a lot of chamber music, choral and live orchestral work where the track count can often but contained within 8 tracks. 16 would be the sweet spot for us to be honest - I am guessing these units can be slaved together. At the moment we use Sadie LRXs which is fine but it would be nice not to have to bother with a computer sometimes.

Matt

MichaelPatrick · 13th January 2011

I considered it some time ago and I'm sure others have too.

You can get a portable Nagra VI or Sound Devices 788T for about the same money, with more features. A recorder for 8ch DSD and PCM might be interesting. Korg may have one someday.

P.S. It uses CF cards. Tascam's 8ch DR-680 uses SDHC cards.

13th January 2011	#1
matthewd Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Thread Starter	New Tascam HS8 8 track to SD card Thought this new product from Tascam might be of interest to some on here. I spotted it in the Studiospares catalogue which came this morning. I believe it retails around the £3500 mark which is much more costly than Joeco but significantly cheaper than the Sound Devices 788T - totally different market intentions clearly. We do quite a lot of chamber music, choral and live orchestral work where the track count can often but contained within 8 tracks. 16 would be the sweet spot for us to be honest - I am guessing these units can be slaved together. At the moment we use Sadie LRXs which is fine but it would be nice not to have to bother with a computer sometimes. Matt

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13th January 2011	#2
MichaelPatrick Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,254	I considered it some time ago and I'm sure others have too. You can get a portable Nagra VI or Sound Devices 788T for about the same money, with more features. A recorder for 8ch DSD and PCM might be interesting. Korg may have one someday. P.S. It uses CF cards. Tascam's 8ch DR-680 uses SDHC cards.