TASCAM Wallpaper

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The Ghost of FM said:
You've got a sharp eye but you're still missed a couple of other changes...and now that I think about it, it still needs one more missing component on the deck!! Figure that one out and I'll add it in! ;)

Cheers! :)
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I'm at a loss, Jeff...but dying I know! :eek:
 
Here's a fairly obscure item from the era before digital reverb. This is the AKG BX 10 studio/touring use, spring reverberation unit made in Austria. This beast is rack mount width, a similar depth and about 16 inches high. So there's obviously some series sized tanks in there. This was part of a 3 model line which also offered up the smaller BX 5 stereo unit and the much larger BX 20 model which featured a vertical spring tank and resembled a large wooden tower speaker and came with a hard wired remote, similar to the EMT units of the day and was strictly made for studio use.

Anyway, here's the BX 10 for now...



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Cheers! :)
 
Staying on the spring reverb theme a bit longer, I did a render of the Fostex 3180. Why a render? Because there's no decent head on shots of this unit on the web, so I cobbled one together out of a few usable detailed shots of things like the knobs. The rest of it was hand drawn.

Anyway, here she be...



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Cheers! :)
 
Thanks Dave! :)

I'm sure me and my camera could have a field day over at your place! :D

Cheers! :)
 
Thanks Ron! :)



Next up, staying with Fostex for the moment, the infamous A-8 which was designed to go after Tascam's client base by offering up less expensive alternatives. I can still remember the snobbery between the fans of both of these companies! :D

Of course, many versions followed the A-8 which had improved features but the A-8 was first one so I wanted to include it here. The image, like the one above it is a rendering of several different images as there's very few decent images of it out there on the web.



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Cheers! :)
 
I still have my Fostex a2 but don't use it because I have a otari now. They were pretty nice machines.
 
pianodano said:
I still have my Fostex a2 but don't use it because I have a otari now. They were pretty nice machines.
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I was looking for A-2 pics but couldn't find anything usable. Care to take a nice head on shot of yours and send it to me via PM so I can ad it to the thread?

Cheers! :)
 
A few months back I started a thread about Tascam's mysterious and illusive CF-20, a two channel chorus flanger that followed the same design lines as the system enhancement series of gear. At that time, I could only find a smaller sized image of it and from an oddball angle that didn't lend itself well to being turned into a decent wallpaper shot. Today, I finally got up to courage to try a render of it in Photoshop borrowing much of the components from sweetbeats' RS-20 reverb unit which had all the same knobs and switched, just in different places with different labels and different colors! Amazingly, this project only took me a few short hours to put together, so I must be getting a bit more proficient at doing these sorts of Frankensteins! :D

Anyway, here she be, the TASCAM CF-20 official wallpaper shot!



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Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
I was looking for A-2 pics but couldn't find anything usable. Care to take a nice head on shot of yours and send it to me via PM so I can ad it to the thread?

Cheers! :)
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My wife is the photographer. I'll try to get her to do that this weekend.
 
the ghost of fm said:
a few months back i started a thread about tascam's mysterious and illusive cf-20, a two channel chorus flanger that followed the same design lines as the system enhancement series of gear. At that time, i could only find a smaller sized image of it and from an oddball angle that didn't lend itself well to being turned into a decent wallpaper shot. Today, i finally got up to courage to try a render of it in photoshop borrowing much of the components from sweetbeats' rs-20 reverb unit which had all the same knobs and switched, just in different places with different labels and different colors! Amazingly, this project only took me a few short hours to put together, so i must be getting a bit more proficient at doing these sorts of frankensteins! :d

anyway, here she be, the tascam cf-20 official wallpaper shot!



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Cheers! :)
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nnnnice!!!
 
Thanks guys! :)

Deciding while I was still feeling adventurous, I'd also do up a render of the DL-20: the stereo compressor limiter from the same Japan only market! This one took a bit longer to do as there was more work required but was worth the effort as there's just no decent pics out there of this beast either, so I figured...why not! :D

Anyway, here's the TASCAM DL-20 official wallpaper...



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Cheers! :)
 
Fantastic work! You create a significant and substantial something out of virtually nothing...
 
sweetbeats said:
Fantastic work! You create a significant and substantial something out of virtually nothing...
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Thanks again, Cory. :)

But in all seriousness, if it weren't for your efforts to take those quality shots of your RS-20B, I'd have a much harder time trying to create these "missing link" renderings as they give me a high quality building block in which I can then add, subtract and rearrange all the details from!

Earlier efforts I've done like the GA-40 noise gate now look woefully fake in comparison to these newest ones but that also gives me encouragement to maybe try re-dong that one too one day!

Cheers! :)
 
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And speaking of the GA-40, here's take two on a render with a few small refinements...



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Cheers! :)
 
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