Tascam 2488 Support group

[Kenny Yates]

There seems to be quiet a few 2488 users and as Joey suggested we could use this as a support group so I thought I would start one. I am certainly not an expert, but I have made a few recordings, so maybe we can help each other

Ken

[Jim Eller]

So what do we do next?

[Joey Ace]

The best resource I've found on the web is at
http://tascamforums.com/

It is not a Tascam sponsored group, just users.

If you'd like to ask questions / make comments here, that's fine.

It would be nice if they were all kept to this thread and it grew, similar to the the ZB User thread.

[Alan Brookes]

I'll go for that. The 2488 has so many options that I rarely use it. I keep a dictation machine handy so that when a new tune comes into my head I record it straight away before I forget.

[Kenny Yates]

A friend at church wanted a recording of themselves singing with an audio track. No problem, I thought, until I started to load the track. I cannot find a way to load a prerecorded soundtrack. I finally realized that the 2488 is not smart enough to tell the difference between a guitar and a plug from the computer so I plug a patch chord from the computer headphone jack into the 2488 guitar plugin and bingo it worked great. Has anyone found a better way? I would love to hear about it. Loading a track from a cd seems a no brainer, but they have found a way to make it hard.

Ken

[Alan Brookes]

Does anyone have a copy of the rhythm tracks which are supposed to come with the machine? I bought a refurbished machine and it doesn't have any of those in memory. I just need someone to download them onto a CD so that I can upload them.

[Jim Eller]

Alan,

I would help you out but I bought the 2488MKII and I can't find any rhythm tracks. I think they did away with that on the MKII model.

Jim