TASCAM
TASCAM makes recording and playback products for music, professional audio, broadcast and film. For more than 30 years, TASCAM has developed products for every segment of the sound and music industry. From the high-end audio professional in a major post-production studio to the novice or hobbyist at home, TASCAM is everywhere. We are a company committed to providing our customers audio/video solutions that enable breakthroughs by using sound in ways that are as exciting as they are accessible. In short, we provide tools that let people translate their creativity into reality. After virtually creating the home recording scene during the early 1970s, TASCAM went on to achieve recognition for pioneering products in the professional recording arena as well. Our legacy of product development and innovation is reflected in the sheer number of industry firsts. As evidenced by the awards and professional recognition we've received, TASCAM products are clearly in a class by themselves. Our MMR-8 digital audio dubber for the motion picture industry won an Oscar® at the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards in 2001 - based largely on its contribution to the Dolby Surround EX final mix for "The Lord of the Rings." TASCAM also won Emmy Awards in 1995 (for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for the TASCAM DA-88 Digital Multitrack Recorder) and 2000 (for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for the MMR-8 and MMP-16).www.tascam.com
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Oct 9, 2026
John AthaydeGUEST
Now, it took me a long time to figure out how to make those sound good.
John AthaydeGUEST
A kid today, even just with Ableton and a little bit of AI mix magic, would be miles ahead of where I was, you know, when I had like a little TASCAM cassette four-track.
John AthaydeGUEST
[laughs] But the thing is, is that I...
John AthaydeGUEST
Even though I could make all the songs I wanna listen to, I'm still a rabid music consumer.
Kevin WilliamsHOST
But this came from their 1985 album.
Robert HarrisonHOST
You had a Tascam four-track.
Robert HarrisonHOST
[laughs]
Kevin WilliamsHOST
Exactly.
Chelsea WolfeGUEST
Mm
Billy CorganHOST
... with a, with an 8-track Tascam.
Chelsea WolfeGUEST
Yeah.
Billy CorganHOST
Um, I had the 688, not the 488 like you.
Chelsea WolfeGUEST
Yeah
Billy CorganHOST
...
Billy CorganHOST
Tascam 8-track.
Billy CorganHOST
That thing is a-
Paul WallerHOST
I went back and listened to the score of the first and compared to the second, and this is my take.
Paul WallerHOST
I feel like the first score was like he's got a, a, a Tascam four-track thing, uh, but he doesn't know how to work it, so he's recording basically on one track.
Paul WallerHOST
Uh, and he's done that, and that's how it is.
Paul WallerHOST
And for the second film, I feel like he's learnt how to use the four-track, but it is still the cheapest bog standard Tascam four-track that you can get.
Paul WallerHOST
So, you know, I feel like that's the difference, that like it, it doesn't make a, a lot of difference if your ears are untuned to this sort of thing.
Paul WallerHOST
But I feel like that's the same with the film.
Nate FarleyGUEST
I played bass and guitar on it.
Nate FarleyGUEST
We did it at my dad's house on, like, a Fostex, or on a Tascam four-track.
WillHOST
Of course.
DanHOST
Mm-hmm.
Nate FarleyGUEST
They gave it to you in shop class.
DanHOST
That's how-
Nate FarleyGUEST
Um, um, I had f- I had a Fostex four-track, and I think my dad had a Tascam, which was slightly nicer, so-
DanHOST
[laughs]
Tom PetersonGUEST
I'm like producing songs at home.
Tom PetersonGUEST
I'm like trying four track recordings on like my little Tascam to just like give myself limitation.
Tom PetersonGUEST
But then also I'll just like jump out of that and do Logic.
Tom PetersonGUEST
But like I involved my partner Piper like recently with a couple of songs and And she's really helpful.
Dan MayHOST
Wasn't there a period where they were recording on like videotape? That
Keith GiosaGUEST
was the Tascam, was that, either that was the Tascam DA-88 or it was the competitor.
Keith GiosaGUEST
One of them was a small tape and one was a, yeah, it was literally a VHS tape.
Dan MayHOST
Had you ever had, I mean, you'd been bitten by the musician bug so hard that you'd never considered being an engineer as a profession, did you?
speaker_1HOST
It changed literally everything.
speaker_1HOST
In 1984, Tascam released the PortaStudio.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
speaker_0HOST
The PortaStudio.
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speaker_0HOST
So let's look at the tools he used during those late night sessions because his gear list is shockingly minimal.
speaker_1HOST
It really is.
speaker_0HOST
We know he had the Tascam Portastudio acting as, like, the central nervous system of the whole operation.
speaker_0HOST
But beyond that, he had just four other primary pieces of equipment.
Azniv KorkejianGUEST
And I was telling him a little bit about where I was coming from and that I just kind of wanted like a tape machine or something.
Azniv KorkejianGUEST
And he was talking to me about different options that he had some like this TASCAM recorder that maybe I could borrow and do.
Azniv KorkejianGUEST
myself.
Azniv KorkejianGUEST
But then I think I like piqued his curiosity a little bit.
Jeffrey WettigHOST
And he throws this Pelican case looking thing at me.
Jeffrey WettigHOST
And it's a Tascam A8, like brand new recorder.
Jeffrey WettigHOST
And he said, you can have it, you just have to let me borrow it back when I need it for whatever I want to use it for.
Jeffrey WettigHOST
And I'm like,
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