Tascam Model 2400... gotta admit, it looks fun

With this, you don't have to tear apart your normal setup. 

gain staging is a little wonky, pre's don't have a lot of headroom, and the recording/tracking workflow is a little wierd. that said, yes these little mixers are fun and have a place. i used a smaller version with a former music partner of mine, we'd jam out songs in his basement, do overdubs straight to SD card etc. then we'd go into a real room and re-record the songs proper. it was a great tool for songwriting. for me, i have looking at a computer screen when i'm in writing/jamming mode.

one really cool feature is that you can hook up the usb directly to certain devices, like the newer MPC's, and add i/o directly to it. pretty cool feature for electronic musicians to be able to send out stems directly to the PA and have decent control for mixing monitors and foh.

I was going to post up about the tascam model 12 to see what people thought about it, I was thinking of using it at a writing station with a quick 12 inputs that record to SD cards, it's not analog like the 24 but? The 24 is really only a 12 channel with a bunch of stereo inputs up to 20 channels, not sure why they call it the 24?

I think the 24 is actually 16 mono channels and then a bunch of stereo channels.

I don't know, but a friend of mine who has been a working AE for nearly decades picked up the current model portable interface (102i or something) for "throw it the backback" duties and was pretty surprised at how usable it was. I think this is the same pre-amp and conversion so, based on his judgment, I'd say it'd probably be just fine for writing station type duties.

I almost picked up a Model 12 on the super cheap for the same reason, to be a souped up version of the voice recorder I use on my iPhone for most song ideas. But then I thought of better ways to use $500, like not spending it to begin with!

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Chris

Looks like the price came out on this board, $1,999.00

Is this price for the Special Prince Edition?

I think I'd still spend up to an A&H SQ series. Does much more, sounds just fine.

I mean…it is a toy…but a really fun useful toy…

Yup played a bit with a used 24 at GC, this thing is a toy 3 aux 1 pre to post, no selection, eek. The EQ was pretty useless, faders felt like peavey, tiny cramped. It was $500 for that a used Soundcraft 200 no direct outs but inserts on every ch vs 2 ch kicks it ass, a used Soundtracs Topaz might feel a bit flimsy but Sonics and the fact that I can get my fingers around a knob worth every penny.
Now hbased on the history of Tascam/ Gibson ask yourself what is the chance that that Gibscam is going to support this thing as an interface? Because that would scare the living hell out of me!
Honestly I kept thinking damn this thing makes a Mackie SR 24 look really good, I haven’t had that thought in over 30 years!

I've got two Model 12s, which tells you a bit about how I feel about this particular Tascam line of products. Initially, I bought one because I was desperate to get away from the screen/mouse scene. I used it as a writing tool, and got into it for basic demos/tracks. I could drag it around the house to my drums or to the piano in the days before we converted the basement into a proper recording space. I bought a second one once the basement studio was built. I've been using that one mostly as a mixer/interface. Kick, snare, mono room and stereo OH mics, plus a vocal mic, a PZM on the piano for idea-catching and a spare track for guitar amp or whatever.

The Model 2400 looks ideal for me - more than enough inputs for tracking a full band, for a start. And hopefully a workable way of getting the guts of a song plus overdubs down before finally shoveling everything into Logic for final sexy baking.

For a fellow like me, working at home, mostly on my own, the basic grunt-level vibe of a Tascam works well.

Indeed,I've had great luck with the Model 12, and I'd be happy to sell one if I had the Model 2400 rolling. Not sure when those will be on the market, but feel free to DM me.

A key to both the 12 and the 2400 for me is MIDI. As tempted by the Models 16 and 24 as I've been, no MIDI was a no-go. Not that I've used the 12 as a master commander HQ, but being able to simply hook up a drum machine without needing to take up tracks is a simple pleasure.