I use this to record acoustic instruments, electric and steel guitars (DI and via miced cabs) and vocals using an Intel Macbook Pro and Reaper as my primary DAW. Also used extensively with Ableton Suite on Mac and Cubasis 3.5 on an iPad Pro 11.
The preamps are really excellent. Clean, deep, high fidelity and very low noise. This is subjective, of course, but I have been doing this for a long time, so know what I like sonically. And I know what’s relatively easy to get a great sound out of -and what isn’t.
The 6 additional outputs are super useful… easy to route signal out to processors and pedalboards, returning through one or two of the front panel channels.
Tascam seem to have leveraged their decades of real studio world know-how to produce products that will stand the test of time and help you produce a really rewarding, creative experience.
My Tascam Series 208 has been in almost daily use for about 4 years performing flawlessly, and has been tested to the limit of its channels regularly. Its so good, and such a part of my workflow that if a disaster happened, I would replace it with another in a heartbeat.
There is a flexibility in use that aids creativity. And when I was looking at expandability, the fact that Tascam make an 8 channel adat equipped rackmount pre with the same preamps was in my mind.
In summary, it is to set up, easy to sound good with, well built and rock-solid. I’m still greatly inspired every time I sit at the home studio desk.
