Tascam DP01 8 Track Digital Audio Workstation

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Twenty-five years after the introduction of the first Portastudio™, the new DP-01 8-track Digital Portastudio makes hard disk recording affordable and simple enough for all musicians. Continuing TASCAM's "Capture Your Art" campaign of making recording approachable to all musicians, the DP-01 features the one-knob-per-function design that has made TASCAM cassette Portastudios the choice of thousands of musicians. It shatters the confusing page-shift-menu interface popular with most other digital recorders. And at a price that starts under $400, multitrack recording to hard disk has never been more affordable.

The DP-01 has two mic inputs on ¼" TRS jacks for dual mono or stereo recording. Its eight tracks record at uncompressed CD quality to an internal 40GB hard drive, and a stereo master track is available for recording a mix. Each channel of the DP-01 has a 45mm volume fader, plus dedicated controls for pan, effects send, high EQ and low EQ. An LCD display shows meters, editing settings and locate points. The DP-01 has a USB 2.0 jack for file backup and transferring mixes to a computer. There are analog RCA line outputs, a headphone out and S/PDIF line output.

These are affordable 8 track digital audio workstations for home recording.
With all the ease of use that make cassette based Portastudios indispensable songwriting tools, the DP-01 uses a familiar analog style mixer interface instead of hiding things like EQ and menus.

The DP-01FX adds phantom power and a bank of effects like reverb and delay for polished sounding mixes.

8-track recording at CD quality 44.1 Hz
2 track simultaneous recording
Dedicated stereo mixdown track
Dedicated controls on each channel for volume, pan, effect send, EQ high and EQ low Two band parametric EQ per track
Two 1/4" TRS mic/line inputs
Two phantom powered XLR mic inputs (DP-01FX only)
Guitar level input Built in effects processor (DP-01FX)
Effects send and stereo return RCA line input
S/PDIF Digital Optical output
Headphone output with level control
USB output for computer backup, exports .wav files as individual tracks for editing on any software or stereo mix for burning to a CD
Track editing: copy, paste, move, erase, silence, exchange Scrub selected track
Built in 40GB hard drive

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