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I had been looking for a tape recorder in the local pawn shops to record our regular Saturday jam sessions. If there was anything to be found, it was old, and or didn't have right and left external Microphone inputs. I started looking and reading articles. The ratings and reveiws on the Tascam units were positive and for the money, I was able to procure one off of Ebay I couldn't go wrong. I have not been disapointed. It has great 88 pg opperations manual that can be downloaded off line. Unit has features that I will probable never use but are there when needed. I haven't been disappointed in the sound or quality. If I had a complaint or a need would be at least one more record channel maybe two. It currently has two. Tascam has a step up model I may be looking at in the near future.
I like it a lot as I'd used an old Fostex 4 track tape machine for years. Not having tape, having a hard drive and being able to upload mixes to my computer is great. It seems a bit quirky when I'm assigning tracks to be recorded but it's probably just my inexperience for now. I'll think I've got track 1 selected but I'll either not have it assigned or I'll have another one. It's also probably not as fast menu wise as newer machines but it's totally fine and does the job I need. I'd also like to be able to upload a track right after recording but you have to mix it first and move it before you can do that. Not a huge deal considering I could do anything at all like that before with the tape machine! Overall, it's great and I'd buy it again. Oh, it could use a backlight on the screen but it's fine in a well lit room!Read full review
I bought the Tascam DP-01FX to record my musical ideas and expressions. It is a great recorder. Takes some effort to get familiar with the unit. Easy to use features. The screen does not have a backlight, so the text is difficult to read, need a small desk lamp. Pan and EQ effects are active during playback and Mix down not during the actual recording. However, I can adjust to compensate. Overall, very good unit.
I love this 8 track! It is super easy to use, I have had it about 3 weeks and have recorded 4 songs. The only thing I would say to buy to go with the recorder is a Art mic pre/amp to warm your sound, and a compreser limter to get a better vocal sound. The guitar programs in the Tascam are great, I use them with Strat and my acuostic. I have put a mic on my amps and blanketed it and the sound is to cool, I did this with my Marshall,my Fender and my Peavey ampand the sound id very good. Burning to cd is to easy and the final product sounds great. People don't believe I recorded it in my bed room. Great bang for the buck, if you want to make demos and keep it smiple this is the recorder for you. The Tascam DP-ox1FX.
I bought this Tascam DP1 FX recorder because my Tascam Neo 24 track machine won't rest on the couch or on the porch with me- it's too big and I don't use 24 tracks, I'm a basic solo guitarist, bassist, vocalist, drum programmer and turntable DJ. I use about 5-8 trax-max. Now I'm getting in my 40's in age, at age 20 I had a Yamaha cassette 4 track and made rock and roll for hours every day. Got a huge box stack of old 4track cassettes. Then I got many different digital units throughout the years and a list of ideas on what worked and what didn't for me. Basically for a simple minded jam/song creator like myself, a recorder with expensive features but low recording capacity was a drag on me financially and dependently, The best idea was just a large hard drive attached to 8 solid digital tracks and some play record buttons, best extra features would be adjustable reverb, song creation, 2+hours long record time unit untouched! some pleasant eq adjustments (I have a electronix filter queen for my radical frequency tweeking and I recommend one to the experimentalist) so now what I have for a portable studio set up is this Tascam DP1 and my filter queen together. No virtual tracks, no huge recorder or pocket megabyte recorder but something a bit leveled out. I know that a musicians taste in equipment is so personal with what they are into. (unless they don't know what they are doing.) But if you do,, and you want a simple recorder with a lot of recording space and bareback features that you can top off else wise with external devices such as a dat or processor then I suggest a basic Tascam DP no effect or cd and you can run this stuff directly to your computer via USB, RCA or Digital output. The effects are ok for filling but not if your a tweeker- you'll need to buy some powerfull effects processor. I bought a vintage filter queen which I rave over. So it has no LCD. Use a flashlight and go with the upside- these Tascam DP are pretty damn fun to a 40 year old. Haha... Plus they look cool too keep in mind the Tascam DP seems built for the sturdy minded creative owner who loves digital and some space to play in, and who needs basic materials such as 2 track stereo/mono input, 8track (no virtual) plus 1 stereo mastering track on top of 8. The multi fx on it are ok if you like 1 parameter adjustable patches, the reverb is good. With a CD unit in here, the boxes become fat. Just the basic Tascam DP is modest all the way. Though one with fx isn't gonna cost that much today. I mean this is a recorder that you can grow by. If you can't afford a 300-500 dollar recorder, and you need more room than an 100-200 dollar new megabyte gadget- the Tascam DP offers more space and strait forward fun multitrack recording.Read full review
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