Gibson buys Tascam. RIP.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:17 pm

Anyone who recalls Opcode, Tobias, KRK, or any other once great brands, will know this is the death knell.
http://www.sweetwater.com/insync/gibson ... e-in-teac/

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:28 pm

Glort
FS: Tascam xxxxx $375

"Hi Glort. I am interested in your Tascam xxxxxx, but your price is a little high. -Florb"

"Hi Florb. Thank you for your interest. It is in great condition and is a pre-Gibson era model."

"PM sent"

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:16 pm

shedshrine wrote:Glort
FS: Tascam xxxxx $375

"Hi Glort. I am interested in your Tascam xxxxxx, but your price is a little high. -Florb"

"Hi Florb. Thank you for your interest. It is in great condition and is a pre-Gibson era model."

"PM sent"

Nice, very Douglas Adams.

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:41 pm

shedshrine wrote: FS: Tascam xxxxx $375
It is in great condition and is a pre-Gibson era model.
And it comes with a towel"

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:43 pm

hey settle down now!

naw for reals though.
I guess I expected everyone to chime in with their fond memories of Tascam. Spill a little out for our homies and so on. But it's kind of slowed down a little around here lately. What happened, everybody get jobs?
I guess I'll register my gratitude to Tascam for making the 80-8, the 688 and the 388.
I especially liked the hernia inducing 80-8. It was kind of crude, in a good way.

markjazzbassist · Post by **markjazzbassist** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:50 pm

sad day. i used to work there

love my teac 3340s to death, thanks for the good times teac/tascam!

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:02 pm

I liked Teac too! Ah well, progress...

GJ

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:20 am

I keep meaning to write a song, "Ode to the Porta Studio" ...

T-rex · Post by **T-rex** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:11 am

I was hoping this was posted on April 1st. . .

ott0bot · Post by **ott0bot** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:07 am

as much as this probably stinks...Tascam hasn't really put out anything worthwhile for quite sometime. They've decided to make iOS, portable, and budget interfaces...nothing the was build incredibly well or provides some sort of unique functionality. they've even stopped being helpful about legacy gear tech support.

I'm as fond as the next guy about my Portastudio, but I can't see how this buyout is going to make Tascam any worse then they've become on their own. That being said, I've never had to deal with Gibson customer service...just played some of their old guitars here and there. Are the like El Diablo, or something?

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:30 am

ott0bot wrote:as much as this probably stinks...Tascam hasn't really put out anything worthwhile for quite sometime. They've decided to make iOS, portable, and budget interfaces...nothing the was build incredibly well or provides some sort of unique functionality. they've even stopped being helpful about legacy gear tech support.

I'm as fond as the next guy about my Portastudio, but I can't see how this buyout is going to make Tascam any worse then they've become on their own. That being said, I've never had to deal with Gibson customer service...just played some of their old guitars here and there. Are the like El Diablo, or something?

It isn't so much the customer service, as much as every company that Gibson buys gets destroyed by them. Either the quality suffers, or they simply dwindle away into nothing.
Tobias, Steinberger,Kramer, Slingerland, KRK etc

Jim Williams · Post by **Jim Williams** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:33 am

I have friends that work in Montebello, some a very long time. I'll ask about this.

As bad as it sounds, I wish it was Harmon that bought them. Gibson is the kiss of death. Mike Tobias said it was the worst decision he ever made selling to them. He kicks himself every day for that blunder.

Sony = gone.

Tascam = ???

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:41 am

yeah, Harmon may take away some of the personality of a company, but those companies benefit from being under the same umbrella as other pro audio companies. So you see some constructive collaboration.

I'm the last guy to be trumpeting this, I work for a giant media conglomerate and need a bulldozer and two sticks of dynamite to get any upper management level attention.

Jim Williams · Post by **Jim Williams** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:18 am

You could just send them a memo with your avatar on the letterhead.

Might not get the reaction you want, however.

BTW, do they allow tattoo's on upper management candidates there?

I avoided them because of the stigma and the ability of law enforcement to have another identifier on me. Read too much Ann Frank when I was young.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:01 pm

what? Thats me in that avatar.
Yeah I know us Cajuns are kinda goofy looking.

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