Everyday Tracks: Tracking with the TASCAM Portacapture X8

I took a break last week so I could produce this special episode.

I've used the TASCAM DR-07 for many years to record podcasts and other things, but it was aging and not very gracefully.  I had been holding it together for years.  It's time to something else.

In this episode:

• Vintage radio promos and announcer lines
• The history of the TASCAM DR-07 and what happened to it
• It's not as portable as the DR-07, so recording with it and using other microphone isn't easy
  • It's more difficult when the wires and cable I'm using to record this are too long to use while mobile
• Using a Rode NTG-1 shotgun microphone and Electrovoice RE-20 microphone with this podcast
• Sample rate and bit depth features
• Inputs and simultaneous recording channels (where the other 2 channels)
  • Included mics (2 channels, one for each), 4 balanced audio using combo XLR or TRS (using one each), Line-in (one for left and one for right) and USB (2 channels).
• Features of the X8
• Portacapture X8 launcher and its apps
• Responsive touchscreen
• FCC's announcement for mobile carrier's not receiving customers opt-in to share location data
• Portacapture X8 has a limiter, compressor and EQ setting for each channel or tied together for stereo audio
• Two channels are mixdown and used for only two of the included apps
• Included mics can be arranged for A/B or X-Y recording