Los Angeles, CA – June 2017… Randy Rodarte is a music educator on a mission. While most music teachers school their young charges on classical music and orchestral instruments, Rodarte’s Modern Band program at Pio Pico Middle School in central Los Angeles covers music of the last 60-70 years, including Motown, Beatles, and other contemporary sounds, with students learning on modern instruments including electric guitars and basses, electric keyboards, and drums. As he observes

Phoenix, AZ — April 2017… As any audio engineer will testify, recording a live performance is not for the faint of heart. It’s a world rife with unpredictability, from the environment to the spontaneity of the performance itself. And within that world, even fewer engineers dare to tread into the realm of symphony orchestras and acoustic performances, where the demands are even more pronounced.Jim Stern has been happily inhabiting that world for more than 30 years. The owner of

Burbank, CA—March 2017… Jimmy Church has a multifaceted career. He recorded and produced rock bands on the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, opened the Pro Audio department at Guitar Center’s Megastore on Sunset Boulevard and became the GC chain’s number one salesperson, and worked in sales for equipment manufacturers Alesis, Amek, and HHB. In 2008, he started an Internet radio sports talk show, then went on to be the host of a live show, Fade to Black on the Game Changer Netwo

New York, NY—March 2017… Founded in 2014, Play Too Much nurtures emerging artists and helps them reach audiences via several areas of content on their site: with in-studio sessions and interviews, artist-curated playlists, reviews, features, podcasts and more. Play Too Much also sponsors popup shows to help build exposure for artists.For their newest podcast series: How Hits Made, Play Too Much equipped New York City band Great Caesar with a TASCAM DR-40 handheld 4-track digital rec

Hayward, CA—March 2017… Death Angel made its mark as a seminal San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band in the 1980s, then broke up at the end of the decade. Fortunately, the band reformed in 2001 and has been touring and recording ever since, issuing its eighth studio album, The Evil Divide, in May 2016. San Francisco native Ted Aguilar took over rhythm guitar duties when the band reformed. Long a fan of TASCAM recording gear, Aguilar continues to rely on the company’s produc

Valhalla, NY—February 2017… Career-training programs for high school kids rarely include music production and post production, even in the great state of New York. But thanks to a new program, 11th and 12th graders are learning to work with audio and video the way professionals do. This is practical, career-oriented instruction, and TASCAM recording equipment is at the heart of it.“The TASCAM US-4×4 interface and DR-701D field recorder are exactly what we need; it’

 Los Angeles, CA — February 2017… Sean Murray’s powerful music has been the backdrop behind award-winning games like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: World at War, and Counterstrike: Global Offensive, as well as acclaimed TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and God, The Devil, and Bob. His scores are musically dense, visceral, and at times almost otherworldly—all the more interesting in light of his love of organic sounds and natural musical instruments.&ld

Ringwood, NJ—February 2017… A legend in the pro audio world, recording engineer Kooster McAllister and his Record Plant Remote (RPR) location recording truck have captured so many important concerts and other major events that even attempting to list the biggest is hopeless. McAllister has long relied on TASCAM recording products, and his current equipment list still includes classic DA30 DAT machines and DA88 and DA98 digital multitrack tape recorders. His current mainstays, howeve

Paducah, KY—January 2017… TASCAM DR-series field recorders are used in a wide range of applications, ranging from broadcast and film to sound design, education, and much more. But even the TASCAM team didn’t anticipate that the DR-701D, DR-100mkIII, and other DR-series recorders would prove particularly well suited to investigating paranormal phenomena—more colloquially, “ghost hunting.” Such is indeed the case, according to Gavin Kelly, the host and lead inv