Is it true about the Tascam bbs forum?

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Teysha --

You know damn well I'm in Hawaii. And, we had turkey, and . . . uh, kalua pig . . . and poi . . . and maitai's with little umbrellas.

We've pretty much quit that missionary roasting thing altogether . . . although, I hear the Captain Cook was pretty tastey! :p :rolleyes: :cool:
 
Yeah, I know yer in Hawaii (like you'd ever let me farkin forget that! :D )...that was for our Canadianese pals like Ghost Toasties. He gets all pouty if you dont wish him a happy holiday. :D
 
Extreme Disappointment

Well, like the rest of the people here, I was pretty shocked to see such a well developed and successful forum such as the Tascam Forums disappear over night.

I had hoped that it was some kind of elaborate bluff to get Tascam on board, but having received the reply to the emails that we were requested to send to Tascam, I guess that’s it! Unless..., there is a cheaper way of doing it in order to allow private individuals to keep such a forum running. Actually, I would be more than willing to pay a (modest) annual subscription fee to keep a site such going.

Anyway, its reassuring to see a few familiar names from the Tascam forum here. I really feel for you guys who, unlike me, contributed so much to it. I never got the chance to say "thanks". So thanks, and maybe we'll meet up again here - or some other place in cyber space.

K Road
 
MCI2424 said:
The membership is you analog guys who:
1. Cannot part with $$$ for new analog equipment, then whine on about why it is gone.
2. YOU guys did not donate to keep the site up. I guess the ladies over at "The French Chef" bbs should kick in for you cheap idiots.


Analog is dead and gone because of people like you, the cheap home wannabe recording crowd.

Studer still makes pro machines for people who open their wallets.

Otari still makes a great open reel 2 track, but sadly, the eBay welfare analog crowd cannot afford such equipment. I guess TASCAM were a bunch of real stupid weenies to turn up the great opportunity to host a forum with 0 interest in new products. Why don't you guys go dumpster diving for your next prime piece and leave TASCAM alone?

Just an observation, mind you.
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Yeah, another uninformed observation to add to your extensive list under various user names.

I did donate to the forum – so did many others. It was not primarily an analog forum. The old Tascam sponsored forums before that were not primarily analog either.

But that isn’t the real issue with your posts. One thing that has stayed the same through your various user names is a failure to demonstrate a grasp of the fundamentals of recording.

Perhaps you are puzzled and even bitter with the success many here have had as professionals and hobbyists with relatively modest (narrow format) equipment, yet that success eludes you no matter what you use (or pretend to use). Many people have embarked on a futile pursuit of technology only to be disappointed that it didn’t solve the underlying problem – a basic lack of talent. Worse yet are people, who have had little or no real recording background, but come here and play a fantasy role.

You wear the 2” MCI as some sort of badge of authority (whether you have one or not). That doesn’t cut it with people like me and others here who have been recording for decades now. You might as well go to the AMA forum and pretend to be a doctor or one of the many aircraft forums and pretend to be a pilot.

Ok, just for grins lets say you have some kind of recording experience and really own an MCI.

Being able to afford an F-16 doesn’t make one a fighter ace. And whether one chooses a mustang or a Ferrari, one must know how to drive.

Have you ever thought of doing something else? Or pretending to do something else, whatever?
 
:D lol lol Well said man!!!!!!Thank you
Beck said:
Yeah, another uninformed observation to add to your extensive list under various user names.

I did donate to the forum – so did many others. It was not primarily an analog forum. The old Tascam sponsored forums before that were not primarily analog either.

But that isn’t the real issue with your posts. One thing that has stayed the same through your various user names is a failure to demonstrate a grasp of the fundamentals of recording.

Perhaps you are puzzled and even bitter with the success many here have had as professionals and hobbyists with relatively modest (narrow format) equipment, yet that success eludes you no matter what you use (or pretend to use). Many people have embarked on a futile pursuit of technology only to be disappointed that it didn’t solve the underlying problem – a basic lack of talent. Worse yet are people, who have had little or no real recording background, but come here and play a fantasy role.

You wear the 2” MCI as some sort of badge of authority (whether you have one or not). That doesn’t cut it with people like me and others here who have been recording for decades now. You might as well go to the AMA forum and pretend to be a doctor or one of the many aircraft forums and pretend to be a pilot.

Ok, just for grins lets say you have some kind of recording experience and really own an MCI.

Being able to afford an F-16 doesn’t make one a fighter ace. And whether one chooses a mustang or a Ferrari, one must know how to drive.

Have you ever thought of doing something else? Or pretending to do something else, whatever?
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TeyshaBlue said:
Yeah, I know yer in Hawaii (like you'd ever let me farkin forget that! :D )...that was for our Canadianese pals like Ghost Toasties. He gets all pouty if you dont wish him a happy holiday. :D
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Actually, Canadian Thanksgiving was way back in October, but thanks for keeping me close to your heart anyway. :p :D

Cheers! :)
 
MCI2424 said:
The membership is you analog guys who:........blah blah blah........Why don't you guys go dumpster diving for your next prime piece and leave TASCAM alone?.........Just an observation, mind you.
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And a very snotty, poorly conceived one at that. The kind of people that were regulars at TF.Com were the kind who DID open their wallets as much as possible, and they would be happy that you are soooo blessed that you can afford to buy any piece of gear you want. And after they told you how fortunate you are, they would freely give you every bit of knowledge they have to help you make recordings that come out far better than your so called "observations" do.

Believe me, if I won the powerball, I'd buy all the gear I need to make recordings and cd's that would smoke guys like you right out of town. But with my finances the way they are right now, I would gladly spend all of my time hanging out with the scrooges from TF.Com before I'd wanna spend one minute listening to your "observations." With "observations" like that, who needs glasses!

Besides, that's a pretty strange "observation" coming from a screen name that starts with "MCI".....MCI used to be WorldCom, the biggest cheapskate bankruptcy grand larceny in history! Now that I think about it, you sound exactly like someone who works for Tascam!

I will gladly stack up the TF.Com home made tunes I have against anything you've done in your knowitall "studio." If you are such hot, odorless sheeit, why dont you post some samples of your killer tunes so we can all be dazzled by your overwhelming music engineering wisdom and mind boggling mastering expertise???
 
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Hey Dudes!

Doc Who has posted an update over at TF.com that the site will be back up and fully operational by Dec 14th! :D

He's asking for donations -- but regardless will be back on line by the 14th, or sooner.

Good news! No diss intended for this group here. :)

Just wanted to let the regulars from over at TF.com know what's going on.
 
It was nice to stumble onto all of you guys chewing the phat over here. This place is a little more mellow than tha Har-mo-nee Cen-trul forums. This place is like a small coop farm town compared to that NYC bustle over there!!! LOL!!

I, for one, will do my best to help out TF getting back online in the next 2-4 weeks. Unfortunately, I, for one, will not have any new tunes to post yet. I'm still waiting for my mixer to get repaired. Mackie sent the wrong parts to the tech in Omaha, now they are just telling them to send it to the auth'd service guy in KCMO.......more shipping $$$$$, more $$$$ per hour, more final $$$$$$$. But as long as the final tally is less than the price of a new mixer, I guess there aint much I can do about it. The best part of it is I have become good friends with my guitar amp!

By the way Dude......I'm leaning more heavily than ever toward those Yorkville monitors! But in the mean time I have discovered a very pressing need to treat my room before I try mixing anything again. I've just tackled the learning curve for sound deadening and bass traps! Lumber yard here I come......

Hey Ghost, nice to see you up and around! Hope all is well enough with your clan up there in the colder part of the Upper Tropics! Hey.....you want me to handle that Teysha dude for ya? He's kinda lippy some times......if you say the word I'll make sure his organordion gets snared in his wah wah.

more later Friends and Neighbours! - SC
 
soundchaser59 said:
Hey Ghost, nice to see you up and around! Hope all is well enough with your clan up there in the colder part of the Upper Tropics! Hey.....you want me to handle that Teysha dude for ya? He's kinda lippy some times......if you say the word I'll make sure his organordion gets snared in his wah wah.

more later Friends and Neighbours! - SC
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Hey Gary,

Nice to see you round these parts! :)

Everythings kind of in a holding pattern around here with my dad's situation remaining somewhat stable but at the same time in a slow decline so we'll make him as comfortable as possible and see what happens.

As for Mark, I think I can handle that situation but thanks for thinking of me anyway. :D

Keep well, my friend!

Cheers! :)
 
The Ghost of FM said:
To label ALL of the analog enthusiasts as cheap individuals is unfair and insulting to say the very least. Many of the analog guys WERE contributing members to the forum and many of us also contributed huge amounts of our personal time and experience to make the forum a place to want to come to. Money alone will not make a bbs fly. There must be content and personnel to attract people to the board and keep them coming back.

If you want to talk about what people can and can not afford to buy with their money, you should think before hitting the submit button. Much of TASCAM's original analog line-up of larger format mixers and open reel gear was aimed squarely at the lower end of the professional studio market place, meaning, people who earned a living by using the gear. Why you see fit to group a hobbyist recorder into the same level of customer escapes my comprehension. Should we analog enthusiasts be vilified because we have a love for the sound quality of analog gear and use our money to purchase it second hand because of there being no other way of getting it? Is it our fault that they made sturdy analog gear that could last 25 years or more? Should we throw our working analog gear in the garbage just to make you happy?

Studer and Otari, who do still offer highest end, professional analog gear do so because there is a remaining professional client base out there to purchase their products.

The recording world went digital because of emerging technologies that allowed end users the opportunity to have more tracks and more automation but not necessarily better sound or at least the character of analog sound which many people with real ears still appreciate and prefer.

The last time I looked, the store shelves were loaded with cheap digital software and hardware products aimed at getting people into computer based, digital recording for well under $1000 for a program and sound-card to facilitate home multi-tracking and in many cases, these products could be had for under $100 for those on the tightest of budgets.

TASCAM and others knew that they couldn't continue to offer entry level, semi-pro analog gear at several times the price of digital and made their own marketing decision to abandon analog.

Cheers! :)
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Observation 1: There are ten times more TASCAM home analog recorders than all the other pro machines lumped together.
2: TASCAM no longer cares about analog. Sales died eons ago.

Your argument is very weak at best.
 
MCI2424 said:
Observation 1: There are ten times more TASCAM home analog recorders than all the other pro machines lumped together.
2: TASCAM no longer cares about analog. Sales died eons ago.

Your argument is very weak at best.
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Your opinion of the strength or weakness of my argument doesn't concern me, to be honest with you.

What ever ax you have to grind with TASCAM or TASCAMFORUMS or its clients is of your own mental construction and you can stew on those issues or move on to other more productive pursuits. It's your choice. ;)

Cheers! :)
 
And on that cheery note, tascamforums.com is back online it seems. Although on a more somber note I hear Bruce (drwho) has been in a serious auto accident, lets hope there is no permanent injury and he recovers soon.

Mark
 
I hope he's fine. The forums are back, but don't seem to work.
 
An update from Bruce's brother in law:

Bruce Heidorn was involved in a head on auto collision December 11 at 0030hrs. in Boulder Colorado, he was thrown from the vehicle.

He was flown by Flight for Life to Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado.

Both knee caps are broken, both lower legs are crushed, broken femur, broken ribs, collapsed lung and a brain injury.

He has had 3 surgeries so far and needs more, however they can not do them all because of his condition at this time.

He is on a ventilator and is in Intensive care unit. He is in a drug induced coma at this time.

At this point the doctors believe he will live, however they say the next 48 hrs., are critical and advised us, his family that things could change.

Bruce is my brother in law.

Bruce spoke with me Friday morning before the accident and spoke of the tascam forums and how they would be up again very soon. He was the happiest I had heard him in awhile.

I ask that you keep Bruce in your prayers. As he needs them.
 
The Ghost of FM said:
Your opinion of the strength or weakness of my argument doesn't concern me, to be honest with you.

What ever ax you have to grind with TASCAM or TASCAMFORUMS or its clients is of your own mental construction and you can stew on those issues or move on to other more productive pursuits. It's your choice. ;)

Cheers! :)
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I have no axe to grind
You guys whine all the time why Tascam does not care
Companies build and sell product to fill demands of a market, not the other way around
People begged Tascam for digital recorders because they would not pay the high prices of analog equipment.

People who supposedly love analog still don't pay to get it



There is nothing left to say. Tascam should not have to pay for a bunch of people who were never customers and want to talk about some old, decrepid eBay crap.
 
MCI2424 said:
I have no axe to grind
You guys whine all the time why Tascam does not care
Companies build and sell product to fill demands of a market, not the other way around
People begged Tascam for digital recorders because they would not pay the high prices of analog equipment.

People who supposedly love analog still don't pay to get it



There is nothing left to say. Tascam should not have to pay for a bunch of people who were never customers and want to talk about some old, decrepid eBay crap.
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Actually analogue heads (like myself) are a minority on the Tascam forums. Most of the people there are people who do own either the latest (or at least most recent) models/software.

So you're saying Tascam doesn't owe these people even that level of customer care?

You're a jerk
 
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