Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

its hard to start on the best features this recorder has, but if i must than its the quality of the recordings. there are some reviews they say the guitar affects are not that good, i just can not agree with that. i have found all the
affects to be of the highest stander, and what you record into the neo is what you well here in the end results. if you play badly that is what you're going to here, on the other hand if you play good it sounds so sweet.
i well say this unit well make you sound like a professional did the recording, so if you want the best home studio money can buy the 2488 neo by tascam is the wise choice. i'm so happy that i made the right choice.

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

The 2488 I bought from MF in 2006 started showing its age after about 180 finished songs and about as many radio shows. The headphone jack shorts out a channel on a regular basis, and the record button became tough.
The NEO's faders can stand up to any of the big boys. The old fader would drop right off a cliff at about -40db, and it took several attempts to get a good fade on a song. The faders are stiff and very usable. It took me about 2 hours to appreciate the differences, but the torch has been passed to the neo to be the heart of my home studio. The effects are still cheesy, get your own. Same goes with the phantom power. They dropped the drum machine (which I never used anyway), and the channeling is a bit different. But the clean recordings you can make with this recording are WELL WORTH it. The price has dropped now to where it's almost a steal! If you're not into the DAW/PRO TOOLS/CAKEWALK world, and would like a recorder that's more hardware oriented, this is the one, look no further.

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

The TASCAM 2488 neo recorder has a lot of the hiteck recording mixdown mastering tools that the outher hi $$$$$$$ recoreders have, one step mixdown recording,stereo dynamics, compressors,
expanders,effects, an on bord tuner,hands free punch recording,
If you have every used a computer you will find this is pretty simple to use..
Buy one of these TASCAM 2488neo recorders.
It has lots of great Mastering tools, also auto punch recording, and lots of effects..
and talk about room this has alot of recordering room....
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This TASCAM 2488neo is great.Well made, easy to use with a little reading...
I'm not a computer wiz so it took some reading and work on my part. but if you realy want to make great music this TASCAM 2488 neo is a great place to start...great price to $$$$$...
The TASCAM2488neo can pay for itself in notime...just make cd's for all the bands you know...
(OF THERE WORK ONLY) to help them find there boo boos...

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

The only dislike is the manual. They lost a lot during the translation from Japanese to English in my opinion. spen the extra $29 and get the instructional DVD, it fills in most of the blanks that the manual leaves you scratching you head over. If the manual had been better written I would have rated the Tascam 2488 neo as a 10.
A lot of thought went into this machine. It has very usable effects.In addition, the various reverbs and the ability to EQ each track individually really makes it easy to turn out quality recordings that seriously border on professional studio quality. The compression featurs is awesome as well. Yoiu may not neeed to compress everything but its there is you need it. 250 virtual tracks make is easy to decide what solo makes the CD and what goes in ther trash.
I have only had mine neo for about 90 days but seems well made. I owned 2 Fostex digital "studio in a box" before moving to the Tascam. The fostex was nice but did not give me the flexibility on EQ or the ability to compress tracks that needed it nor did I have any virtual tracks so I had to get it right the first time or spend time bouncing everything to a new song just to record a different version of a bass line or a guitar line. Sure you could punch in and out but that's not always practicle. MY Fostex MR 16 now serves as a backup should something happen to the Tascam.
For the money this machine is the last word!

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

Good recorder, solidly built and lots of features for the price. I found out the hard way that it takes a Long time to export or master the recorded tracks. As an example, it took 45 minutes to export a five minute song that only included 6 tracks. I recorded our band's 3 hour practice the other day, and it took me basically an entire day to download the recordings onto my computer so I could convert them to .mp3 and distribute to the rest of the band.

I contacted Tascam Customer Support about this issue. Here's their response:

"Unfortunately transferring files to the Fat partition or CD does take time and there isn't any way to speed up that process, I apologize for any inconvenience."

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

Guitar effects are not good, but I didn't buy it for any of that.
I have been a Tascam user since the 70's and a Tascam 2488 user since the modal was first offered around 2005 as I remember. I have two of them now and my original 2488 probably has logged more than 1000 hours of recording time and still works like the day I bought it (a I mean that in the best way). A friend of mine who recently did some recording on my 2488 decided to get one of his own. He mentioned to me that he read a few reviews that concerned him since he wanted to do his final editing on his computer but someone said that it was very hard to do on the 2488.This isn't true. It is probably a matter of inexperience and Tascam's less than stellar manual that comes with the 2488.

I'll try to explain. It really is not difficult. Since like many digital recorders the 2488 stores each track in it's own digital format or "language". In order to transfer tracks to a computer you need to move a copy of the tracks to FAT partition of the 2488 that is set aside just for this purpose. This is the area on your 2488 hard drive that your computer can acsess. After recording just highlight (click) on each track you want to export on the track menu and the 2488 can move a copy of all the tracks to the FAT partition on the 2488 drive while simultaniously and turning them into .WAV files (Depending on whether your recorded in 16 or 24 bit). After that you attach the USB cable (I leave mine plugged in all the time) from your computer to the 2488 and click "Open" on the USB menu on the 2488. Your computer will display the 2488 FAT drive like any other external drive or jump drive and you can then copy, move or just drag and drop all the tracks on the 2488 FAT partition to your computer. Same thing in reverse to move tracks back to the 2488. One reviewer here said you had to move each track "one at a time" and it was difficult. I can asure you that this is not true. I do it all time and you can move all 24 tracks at once if you like.

If you buy a 2488 also spend a little more and buy the David Wills tutorial DVD. It is excellent and after one viewing you will start recording. Also check out the Tascams forum web site. It is not associated with Tascam but is user run site where you can get tons of help. For the low dollar amount you cannot beat this recorder. It records exactly what you put into it. If you have a good quality microphone, a decent set of powered monitors, you will be amazed. See the Alan Parsons review on YouTube. He loved it.

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

Super product that does exactly what it says and it does and then some. I recommend buying the tutorial DVD available on if you search for it on YouTube. While the manual is useful, the walk through is super to get you maximizing all of the features as soon as possible.
The addition of the mastering feature is fantastic. The USB connection makes this unit extremely versatile for people not wishing to delve into the world of ProTools and the likes.
The unit istelf is great and I'm very happy with the quality of the recordings I'm getting through the on-board pre-amps and digital effects. One xlr plug input lost the plastic cover the springs into place when the channel is empty, but that's mostly cosmetic.
I bought this on a Black Friday deal and after having it, I would have even paid the normal price for it.

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

i really have only recorded , have not mixed yet but has so much its not easy to master i'll try to redo this after next week when i do my mixdowns .i still think mixdowns should be in 24 bit so iam looking for a way to put it down on dvd audio or ? sacd so i can get most out of it but this one will only do 44k at 24 bit. i will send my premix to a friend that has a studio in austin on a wav file ( ok i will chea just a bit )
has alot , i just opened mine a week ago i bought it in jan .
can not beat for what i paid

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

Ther is no ad ons needed to us this system all the features you need are here ALL
2488 Neo
I like this system so much I bought two and use them you just can't go wrong its great.
Go from no to pro in 24 hrs.
The price is on the mark with the system

Comments about TASCAM 2488 Neo 24-Track Digital Recording Workstation:

GREAT DEAL! WITHOUT A VIDEO THE BOOK IS IN PLACES A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO GRASP IT ALL.BUT THEN I DREAM OF GETTING A 24 TRACT TASCAM REEL TO REEL ANOLOG RECORDER.DIGITOL RECORDERS DON'T HAVE AS GOOD A TRACK SEPERATION IN THE MIXING SOUND ECT NOT TO MENTION TONE AND DEPTH.BUT I'M FINDING TRICKS TO COMPENSATE.ALL IN ALL I'M THANKFULL TO HAVE BOUGHT FOR SUCH A GOOD PRICE AND
I'M STARTING TO GET SOME DECENT RECORDINGS OUT OF IT.
PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE A DIGITOL RECORDER THAT OLD ANOLOG USERS CAN NAVIGATE EASIER.HIRE ME I'LL SHOW YOU HOW TO PROGRAM IT AND EVERY CLASSIC ROCKER ON THE PLANET WILL BUY ONE I PROMISS YOU.
ANY IT'S DECENT AND CHEAP-NOTHING ELSE THAT I KNOW OF COMPARES ALTHOUGH I HAVENT CHECKED OUT ZOOM PRODUCTS.FOSTECK IS ALOT SIMPLER TO USE BUT EVEN THIER 24 TRK ISN'T THIS CHEAP SO I LOVE IT.
WHO EVER IT IS THAT IS SAYING THIS UNIT IS SIMPLE TO USE IS DEFINANTLY HIGHLY
DIGATALLY LITTERAT.I SAY BECAUSE I OWNED A SIMPLE FOSTECK 8 TRACK DIG REC AND IT WAS SIMPLE AND PRODUCED GOOD QUALITY RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVE THIS RECORDER.BUT! EASY TO USE I THINK NOT.YOU BETTER HAVE THAT MANUAL IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES EVERY STEP OF THE WAY OR FORGET RECORDING.
THE FEATURES WELL TTHEY ARE COMPLECATED TO USE AND MOST ARE USELESS TO SOMEONE LIKE ME WHO IS NOT TONE DEATH.FOR EXAMPLE;THE EFFECTS DO NOT CUT THRU THE MIX,THE GUITAR INPUT AND APPLICAL EFFECTS ARE TERRIBLE BY THEMSELVES.BUT! USE A LINE 6 GUITAR PROCESSOR ECT AND YOU'LL BE OK.AND THE MIC PRE-AMP IS A JOKE USE YOUR OWN AND MAKE WHATEVER ADJUSTMENTS YOU NEED.BUT! AS I ALWAYS SAY THEIR IS NOT NO SUCH THING AS AN ALL IN ONE RECORDER YET.YOU HAVE TO BUY OTHER PROCESSORS,PRE-AMPS,EXCITERS ECT.
BUILT VERY WELL.IT'S VERY TOUCHY WITH VERY SLIGHT POWER DRAINS AND SURGES.
IT HAS TOTALLY FROZEN UP ON ME AND I HAD TO TURN IT OFF AND ON AGAIN AND LOST THE TRACK I JUST RECORDED-I THINK IT WAS A POWER DIP OR SPIKE?NOTHING ELSE WAS AFFECTED.SO BACK YOUR RECORDINGS UP ON DISK,IT'S EASY BUT TAKES A WHILE.
EVEN THOUGH TO AN OLD ANOLOG RECORDING FREAK LIKE MYSELF IT IS A LITTLE COMPLICATED BUT HANG IN THERE AND LEARN THE MACHINE AND IT WILL GIVE YOU DECENT RESULTS...GREAT RESULTS FOR THE MONEY.
OVERALL QUALITY IS GOOD..EFFECTS-POOR, E/Q-MARGINALLY FAIR.ONBOARD GUITAR PROCESSOR-BAD,MIC PRE-AMP DON'T ASK!ONBOARD DISK RECORDER HIGH QUALITY
BUT THE RECORDING NEVER SOUNDS LIKE YOU HEAR IT THRU THE MONITORS OR HEADPHONES,BUT YOU GET USE TO JUDGING THE SOUND.I WISH THEY STILL GAVE YOU A VIDEO ON THIS THING I NEED ONE! I'M STILL GLAD I BOUGHT IT.
I GOT MY NEO ON SALE FOR $499 BECAUSE THEY HAD TO PRICE MATCH A COMPETETOR
AND THEY FOUND THE SALE AND MATCHED IT FOR ME.I LOVE THESE GUYS I SAVED OVER $600 ON MY ENTIRE PURCHASE.I GOT ALMOST $1700 WORTH OF STUFF FOR $1007.THANKS FOR THE GREAT DEAL ON MY RECORDER EVEN THOUGH I STILL HAVENT QUITE LEARNED HOW TO USE IT YET BUT I'M GETTING THE HANG OF IT.THE RECORDINGS ARE SOUNDING BETTER AND BETTER AS I USE IT.YOU CANNOT BEAT THE VALUE AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO BUY A $1800 ROLAND TO COME CLOSE TO THE QUALITY.