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Title: Tell me about the Tascam 564
Post by: melvis1645 on December 08, 2012, 05:17:58 PM

There is one for sale locally for $125. Is it worth the money? Can it be powered by battery or is it strictly a plug in? Thanks in advance for your comments as I am new to taping and have very little knowledge of these things.

Title: Re: Tell me about the Tascam 564
Post by: TSNéa on December 08, 2012, 05:30:50 PM

Take a look at:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/dec96/tascam564.html
This was written in 1996... Then I loved my MDs!

Nowadays, I think that the main (and big) problem is the availabilty of MiniDiscs. Then support. Then quality.
FWIW.

Title: Re: Tell me about the Tascam 564
Post by: melvis1645 on December 08, 2012, 05:50:57 PM

Thanks.

Title: Re: Tell me about the Tascam 564
Post by: HarpDoc on December 12, 2012, 04:15:28 PM

I had one of those 10 or 11 years ago. Made some nice live recordings of my band (4 tracks at a time) with it. By today's standards it's bulky, sound quality is not as good due to compression, and storage capacity is limited by what you can fit on a MD (if you can find any). Was nice back in it's day.