You should be able to plug that directly into the Tascam.Will our electronic drum kit require an active dual channel DI for its twin outputs or can they go straight into the Tascam ?
The DP-24/32(SD) recorders are great.
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: **First thing out of the box... 1) be sure to use ONLY SD cards from the approved list from Tascam, and 2) immediately upgrade to the latest firmware.
You will find this first link enormously helpful. The block diagram is your friend. And the second link is a page that is loaded with DP-24/32(SD) user content, tips, and tricks. And you'll find Phil, me, and a couple other long time DP users over at the Tascam forum should you get in a pinch.
You'll see at the youtube video series page - Phil sells a great dedicated step-by-step user guide that is available in pdf format.
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It's true that the DP series can be finnicky about SD cards. Some are problematic. Which is why there is an "approved" list. Like suggested above - once you find one that works - buy several. Since you can move data back and forth from the cards.... they'll last pretty much forever.Once you find a card that works well, I suggest getting several from someplace like Amazon. I found that I could get 5 cards for about twice the price of a single card locally. Then you've got spares and backups for the time when you need one. It's not like they go bad.
Hey Marco62.....I have a Tascam DP-24. I used it for a number of years until I went to a DAW. The one thing I can tell you is....the manual is written in a confusing way with confusing teminolgy......and I had plenty of previous recording knowledge. So...as Talismanrich mentioned...Google your questions.@PorterHouse Music: Thank you so much for the links! I started watching the YouTube link and then decided I'm going to wait until next week when I actually have the DP-24sd in front of me so I can follow it step by step. I have to be honest. I'm a little worried about what I've done. I'm not a technical or an extremely detailed guy, and just watching the first 2 videos made me break out in a sweat. I'm hoping that the operation is similar to the DP01-FX/CD I've been using for so long. I know it won't be the same, but hopefully there will be a couple of things that will make me think I have a shot at being successful. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
What Rich and Mickster said. You got this!@PorterHouse Music: Thank you so much for the links! I started watching the YouTube link and then decided I'm going to wait until next week when I actually have the DP-24sd in front of me so I can follow it step by step. I have to be honest. I'm a little worried about what I've done. I'm not a technical or an extremely detailed guy, and just watching the first 2 videos made me break out in a sweat. I'm hoping that the operation is similar to the DP01-FX/CD I've been using for so long. I know it won't be the same, but hopefully there will be a couple of things that will make me think I have a shot at being successful. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
I'm hoping this is as easy as you're saying it is It's supposed to be showing up tomorrow soI will know more then. Thank you!I would say Don't Fret It!
I hear people say they don't know how to this or that all the time. I had a coworker who was totally stressed about not being able to do things in Excel like I could. A year later, she was building spreadsheets that were far beyond what I was building. You can learn, and when you hit a bit of a wall, just put in Google "How do I ...... DP24SD. I'll bet several videos will pop up. I still do that with Reaper, and I've been using it for 7 or 8 years.
Start simple, plug in a microphone, put in an SD card, learn how to arm a channel to record, and hit the record button. It's not like it's going to cost you a dime. Do it, erase it, do it again. Listen to it and try to add a second track. Do it again. If you don't like it, erase it and start over. We learn by doing. You can't read a book and suddenly know everything there is to know.
It's not any more difficult that sitting down at a 64 channel mixing board, with a dozen knobs per channel, a patch bay with outboard compressors and EQs, and a 24 track tape deck. Everyone who recorded analog years ago did that, right? It was all so simple then... not!
There's truth in the phrase "practice makes perfect".