SO glad to find you guys! New guy here with a Tascam 2488Neo and some crazy ideas.

[jadinRave]

Hey everybody!
Long time user of the 2488, recently got my hands on a 2488neo. I'm in the process of getting serious with my home studio and I'm trying to make the neo one of the primary workhorses until I win the lottery and can buy a couple DM4800 . At the moment I'm trying to work out a couple crackpot ideas to tie everything I have together into a more cohesive work station.

#1. My current crackpot idea is sending my external effects sends separately to a Yamaha spx90 and the other to a Behringer MDX4600 and combining the returns either by splicing the two together or routing through a micro mixer so I only have to give up one input.

#2. I know I can slave a second Tascam 2488 into the first using the midi in and outs and setting the primary board to master with the secondary to slave. I was wondering if anyone has tried combining a neo with the original 2488 and hooking them up to the musermix T2488 program? would it be possible to get the best of both worlds by having access to the Neo on board mastering effects and still have musermix fully integrate with the original 2488?

#3 I'm still in the process of figuring out how to get all my hardware together and I haven't purchased the Musermix T2488 program yet, but if anybody here has the program, is it possible to send the audio from the T2488 software to Sonar? I'm running SonarX Producer with all kinds of bells and whistles and I'd like to make it my final editing medium.

Thanks guys! Any Thoughts?

 

[petejones]

I recently bought the 2488neo as well and am looking to do the same as yourself - record the tracks through the neo, then export them as wav files to the PC for further processing. To me, that's the best of both worlds! I was very disappointed in the mixdown on the 2488neo, it sounded nothing like the mix I heard through the machine when I exported it to my PC, so I'm hoping this will fix the problem.

 

[RAMI]

I was very disappointed in the mixdown on the 2488neo, it sounded nothing like the mix I heard through the machine when I exported it to my PC, so I'm hoping this will fix the problem.

That's impossible unless there's something wrong with your machine. Or unless your monitoring while you mix through a different monitoring source than when you listen to the final mixdown. Once you mixdown (which they call "Pre-master"), you should hear the exact same thing you heard while mixing down.