20 Most Recent Tascam DP 008 Digital Portastudio Questions & Answers

You could install VLC. It is free of charge and has everything to play your music and video's. And the best thing it is for Windows and MAC. VideoLAN Official page for VLC media player the Open Source video...

1. Press and hold down the ASSIGN A button (the light should be blinking) then (simultaneously) press the REC button above channel number 1. The light should blink when you do this. 2. Release the ASSIGN A and the REC button 3. Press the REC button above channel 1 (the light should be blinking by itself) 4. You should see the meters moving with in the display above Input A and Track 1 when you speak into the microphone. 5. Press the REWIND button twice until the display reads ABS 00.00.00.00 6. Press and hold the RECORD button and press the PLAY button. The REC light above channel one, the PLAY light and the RECORD light should become solid. 7. After recording press the STOP button. 8. Press the REWIND button twice until the display reads ABS 00.00.00.00 9. Press the PLAY button.

You should be able to remove the card and plug it into your computer... you might need an adapter.
Other than deleting to get space on the card there is not much else you can do. Replace card with larger... it can go to 32Gb. Remember to format a new card beforoe use.

Only if you are using microphones that require phantom power- otherwise no.

Several of my music programs seem to have a limit of around 2Gb for a track... this is inspite of having plenty of disk space... this seems to be a limit set by the program rather than the resources available.

I recommend contacting Tascam at this link:http://tascam.com/contact/support/ Describe your problem. As far as I can tell there were some problems with the media you could use. This article might help:http://www.sweetwater.com/forums/showthread.php?10128-Tascam-CD-RW5000 You could also try contacting Sweetwater Sound and ask:http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/ They have a great staff.

Here are some good links for you:http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ( Audacity is a free recording program ) also:http://www.reaper.fm/ ( Reaper is the software I use and is full featured and worth the licence fee and free to try) also:http://www.recordingreview.com/ ( excellent site to answer all your recording questions. Note the free download.)

If you are trying to copy disks that are copyrighted, the unit is likely locked out with copy protect firmware from doing copies.

I would vote for a power supply issue on this one.

You can use headphones or monitor speakers that are hooked to an amp. If you don't have one ,consider downloading a manual:http://www.tascam.com/i-3582-232-128-1-4A000F90.pdf Pay attention to the caution on page 9 and the hookup diagrams are on pages 12 and 13. Hope this helps.

first set the in and out points of song make sure your holding down the shift key while setting in and out points.then pres shift key holding down on it pres master key it should start flashing.then pres record play.good luck

The most likely case is that one of the main output transistors (if which there are many) is shorted. When the protect circuit senses DC on the final output, it will not allow the output relay to come on to protect the speakers from raw DC. With the power removed, you can check between each outputs Emitter and Collector and you will probably find close to zero ohms. From that point you need to unsolder each of the pins of the bad channel until you find the shorted device(s) and replace them.

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