This one stumped the tascam forum

[needledrop]

I have a chance to buy a Tascam GA-40 Quad Sync Noise Gate. Anybody know anything about this. I cant find any info online about. A pic would be great.

[The Ghost of FM]

Needledrop,

Where did you discover this mysterious product?

Never mind, I found it! ...on a craig's list posting from some guy in NYC. I suspect the seller is confused.

Cheers!

[A Reel Person]

I said it's out there but very rare & no pics!

[Beck]

Originally Posted by needledrop

This one stumped the tascam forum

That’s easy to do. “Tascamforums” is in name only. The people that make up the most significant remnant of the old company sponsored TASCAM BBS are right here. The current TASCAM Forums are to the old BBS as a blow-up doll is to a real woman.

Sure, you’ll get some good info there, but that’s because 95% of the info over there was taken from here and some of us used to cruise through there... some still do. I see people struggling with issues in the analog section that aren’t answered or aren’t answered correctly, but I’m not paying those boneheads for the “privilege” of participating in that forum.

Anyway, I digress…

I remember TASCAM having a rackmount 4-channel gate, but I never owned one. It would be in an older catalog with the RS-20 Reverb and MU-40 Meter bridge… stuff like that. GA-40 sounds right. Maybe Herm has info on it? There were so many inexpensive gates, it probably wasn’t a very big seller. I wouldn’t pay what the guy wants on Craigslist. It’s not like a Drawmer or somethin’.

I would be looking at some of these quad gates for good price/performance:

Audio Logic MT44
Omni Craft GT-4A
Ross RX-NR4
Valley People Gatex

[A Reel Person]

I've seen pics of the GA-40, and would have one if I didn't sleep thru so many auctions!

I implied, if not saying directly, it's a 2U rackmount unit that's brown with colored caps, in 4 section that's most like the PE-40, or anything in that line, (MX-80, RS-20, GE-20, MH-40).

Sorry, due to system crashes I have no pics!

PS: It takes a lot more than that to stump me!

[Herm]

I just looked through a Tascam pamplet that has just about everything in it but it doesnt show the unit you folks are talking about.
But this flier still has the rx-9 dbx unit in it and not the dx-4d plus the tascam reverb unit in it is the early version that does not have gain controls on it so the Gate you are talking about must have been a later idea for tascam.

And thanks Tim now I see some stuff I need to start looking for on ebay to fill out my collection. There goes the budget!

[Beck]

Originally Posted by A Reel Person

I said it's out there but very rare & no pics!

Just to clarify... I was talking about tascamforums.com, not the TASACAM forum here at homerecording. I thought that was the forum needledrop was referring to. It didn't occur to me that he might have been talking about our TASCAM section.

[needledrop]

Thanks for the clarification guys. I knew you wouldn't back down from a challenge!!
I would really like to purchase this, because i do need a gate and it would fill up my all Tascam/Teac rack, but I agree the price is high.
BTW I do own an RS-20B.
I'm still waiting for a DX-8 to pop up on ebay??? They're like cops, always around when you dont need 'em!

Your right about that "Tascamforum" I payed money to watch tumbleweeds go by.

thanks again.