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Posted: Wed 06.07.11, 4:22 am** *Post subject: Re: The Tascam 388
Tascam to release limited reissue run of Tascam 388 mkII studio 8.
(July 5, 2011 Tokyo, Japan translated from Yomiuri Shimbun )

The worldwide popularity of analog tape reel to reel recording has been making an increasingly strong resurgence in the pro and home recording realms in recent years. Tascam had become aware of the particularly high popularity of a combined 8 track mixer/multitrack tape recorder unit the company released in the mid eighties which had been emerging as a talisman of the indie scenes in San Francisco and elsewhere. So much so that Tascam is gearing up to release a limited reissue run of the machine for 2012 according to Tascam Japan.

Masaharu Fukuoka, lead R & D engineer technician in Tascam Japan’s headquarter Yokohama plant, said that they got the go ahead when it was found that the machine plates for the 388’s head configuration had been salvaged, and not scrapped as had been previously believed.

According to Fukuoka “We had seen a surge in the popularity and usage of our heritage analog equipment, and felt enough of a critical mass had been achieved to warrant a brief run of the Tascam 388 to fill this demand. It had been discussed previously but deemed economically unfeasible until Shinobu Ichimura, a retired lead engineer on the original 388 project, had heard of the reissue interest and produced the original production plates which he had saved after they had been scheduled for scrap.”

The Tascam 388 Studio 8 mkII is estimated to begin shipping by the second quarter of 2012, with April 1st being the target date.
MSRP is tentatively set at $3500.00 us
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I have no idea. I'm just passing on what I've heard

Would you like it to be?
 
Hi Tascam, some extra parts would be nice while you are at it.
 
I'll believe it when I see it.

Wonder about the source of the Tape Op post.

Don't see this one actually coming to fruition.
 
Does anyone else find irony in WEB hoaxes about ANALOG gear?
 
So even if it were true, would it have LEDs ala TSR8/M25xx style, or have the original VU meters?? I'll stick with the 388 I have.
 
It'd have LED meters, a lot less I/O jacks and an S/PDIF out jack. I gaurantee there'd be no cool ELCO jack on the back. It'd be all plasticky looking. Some of Tascam's best looking stuff was made in the 80's.
 
Yeah...with an LED next to it to make it look like its glowing.
 
This is no joke...ART does it all the time with their entry level "tube" stuff...My "Tube MP OPL" has a 12AX7 stage in it and my TCS 2 channel dynamics processors have a tube filter circuit in them...there are little slats in the faceplate to expose the tube and there is a low-level amber LED behind to make it look like the tube is glowing. Behringer does it in their tube stuff too. Its a 797 Audio thing I believe. The trick is that these are all starved plate designs and where the tube is placed in the circuit they'd never glow...they do get warm, but no fire. Kinda funny. I like my TCS processors and Tube MP OPL for what they are though...they work well and have value to me, but sometimes I wanna just pull those LED's.
 
Oh I know it's no joke, in addition to the ART and Behringer stuff, I believe I've seen it in some dbx stuff too. Ah, marketing departments...
 
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