ARP!
Beware!
There is a new preditor in the used TASCAM market and he has a name!
The Herminator!!
Congrats to you Herm on the score.
To Billy,
No. He can't link them up together. The 38 can only be a master in a multi-machine lock up and for that scenario to work, one of them would have to slave to the other. Sorry Herm, if you heard that here first.
You could use them together though for ping ponging, where you fill up 8 tracks on one and then bounce to the second in stereo and add six more tracks with minimal generation loss and the preservation of the original beds, in-case the mix of the bounce wasn't to your satisfaction.
The second machine can also be used for doing safety copies and for doing alternate noise reduction copies too.
You could also convert one of them into a half track, stereo mastering deck and have a wicked two track machine as the result.
Yet an other application is for doing blended, multi-track masters where you have one song blending into the next on alternate tracks so that the original songs are kept separate for individual use as singles. I did a concept album a few years back that used this method of mastering a series of songs that blended together to form one continuous piece of music, assembled from 7 different songs with sound effects added in-between the tracks as well that could all be separated, thanks to the multi-track master.
There are probably more uses and applications for two machines as well and I encourage anyone else out there with a cool tip to throw it out here for the benefit of the gang!
Cheers!