What's Inside? | 90s Digital Multitrack Recorder Tascam DA-88 Teardown

The Tascam DA-88 is a legend in the history of multitrack audio recording. At the professional level, these machines were everywhere, and had unique features that gained them a huge following in the sound for film world. This DTRS deck was at one time the top selling product from TASCAM, with over 60k of these units selling in the 1990's. The pro-audio, pro-video and digital production worlds were forever changed by these machines and the technology Tascam created here. Storing digital data on inexpensive Hi-8 tapes, allowing complex multitrack recording and playback in mobile environments, it was all new and very exciting at the time.

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