DC Audiovisuel - TASCAM DA-88 8-Track

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Digital 8-track studio recorder on HI-8 cassette with TC

In a few words

Tascam DA-88 is an 8-track digital recorder, on Hi-8 video cassette. Released at the same time as the DAT, it compensates for the limitation of the latter to 2 tracks (apart from the Sony PCM-R204): the tape is of course wider, but the low rolling speed and the rotary drum spiral recording system are the same kind. Therefore the tape transport and the mechanical guiding remain tricky, and it is strongly counselled to play back the tapes on the same recorder. The DA-88 does not allow any post-recording monitoring and does not have a monitor speaker. The tapes - of a certain type and quality - must imperatively be formatted (tracking) before all non-continuous recording. The DA-88 manages the SMPTE time code and is synchronizable in recording as in playback. The TDIF digital format, launched by Tascam together with the DA-88, has little by little become a standard, at least with the music-oriented Japanese manufacturers.

This product is commonly named: Tascam DA-88, Tascam DA 88, Tascam DA88, DA-88, DA 88, DA88

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