The TASCAM DA-6400 was introduced as a permanent multitrack recorder at Chicken George, a long-established live house in Kobe, and was used to record the Japanese jazz fusion band T-SQUARE's "YEAR-END SPECIAL 2015" concert held at the same venue in December 2015.TASCAM interviewed Mr. Maseba, the representative of Chicken George Entertainment, and Mr. Masaki, the engineer, about this recording, how it was introduced, and its operation.First of all, please tell us about the introduc

"Unfair Moon" is a popular mystery novel adapted into a play, which was performed at the Tennozu Ginga Theater in Tokyo from February to March 2018. It attracted a great deal of attention at the time as popular actress Mariko Shinoda played the lead role of a special investigation agent.A TASCAM ML-32D 32-channel Analog/Dante Converter was installed to combine the audio signals from the wireless microphones used by the performers.TASCAM interviewed Mr. Kadota of K2sound, who was in cha

Japan's largest international broadcast equipment exhibition, Inter BEE 2018, was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture from November 14-16, 2018. Many companies and organizations attended this event while presenting new equipment and technologies while hosting various demonstrations and seminars.The TASCAM Model 24 was used as part of the main PA system at Convention Hall A on the 2nd floor of the International Conference Hall where the opening ceremony and the largest keynote speeches

Saturday, August 25, 2018, "SHAKIN' THE HOUSE".The Faith Mass Choir Gospel Concert" was held at Namba Hatch. TASCAM's DA-6400DP 64-channel Digital Multitrack Recorder and IF-MA64/EX MADI interface card were used for this concert, along with over 30 microphones and up to 62 channels that were connected between the stage and the PA desk, leading to an outstanding gospel performance with rock and ballad music.TASCAM had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Sasaki, the producer o

Koji Ryu, former vocalist and drummer of C-C-B and now a popular solo drummer, released his new live DVD "Koji Kasa Live Tour 2017 feat. Hideyuki Yonekawa". The TASCAM DA-6400DP 64-channel digital multitrack recorder and CG-1800 clock generator were used for the sound recording on this tour. TASCAM interviewed producer Takahiro Matsuki and recording/mixing engineer Koji Morimoto on the recording process and their impressions of the system. TASCAM: What prompted you to use DA-

Japanese singer-songwriter Kazuyoshi Saito's "Singing to the Rain" Acoustic Tour 2017, started in Sapporo on May 11, 2017, and ended in Ishikawa on July 3, 2017. Out of the 23 shows, the Tokyo concert held at Nakano Sun Plaza Hall on June 21 has been made into a CD and DVD, which was released on October 25, 2017.TASCAM recorders such as the DA-6400 Digital Multitrack Recorder, the DR-100MKIII, and the TM-2X were used for recording during the entire tour. TASCAM interviewed Kazuyosh

Livermore, CA—November 2017… Joey McCloud, aka Joey Mack, and podcasting partner JDub often spend 90 minutes commuting to work, Mack in the San Francisco Bay Area and JDub in Oregon. The two friends usually call each other during their commutes to help pass the time, and most often they discuss beer and board games. Eventually, they decided to turn their conversations into a podcast, and the Gaming on Tap Podcast was born.“The podcast is bite sized,” observes Mack. &ldqu

Los Angeles, CA-September 2017… Composer and sound designer Steve Mayer relies on a wide variety of sound sources for his game, TV, and film work. He often uses a mixture of hardware synthesizers and virtual instruments when creating sounds for Leapfrog, Disney, and Ubisoft games, and composing theme music and underscores for HGTV, MSNBC, the E! Network, ABC's High School Musical, and Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. However, Mayer does not rely on synths alone. "I always li

Monterey, CA - July 2017… Held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in June 1967, the three-day Monterey International Pop Festival was the first great rock festival and helped kick off the late 1960s music scene, the Summer of Love, and much that followed. From June 16 to 18, 2017 -exactly 50 years to the day later - "Monterey International Pop Festival Celebrates 50 Years" brought two of the same artists (Eric Burdon and The Animals and Booker T., albeit without the MGs) and man