The thing is very clearly intended to be used as a bridge between an old school analogue mixing desk and computer. Basically, find yourself a big chonky analogue *recording* (Ie with the tape in and out, or switchable insert) desk on Reverb, and buy one of these, and you got yourself an absolute banger of a recording setup.
It would have been nice if they had a stagebox interface to connect similar to the (Midas M32) Behringer X32 via CAT6 cable. I have not detected any noticeable latency. I use this board in one of our speaking rooms for classes at our church. It works quite well. The X32 is a nice board as well with many features. *(edit typo)
I do not have an old-school console, but I think the Bridge will work great as a multitrack recorder for my fleet of synths, with the Phoenix Audio N-8 as a preamp if anything is too quiet. Add some Switchcraft patchbays and I'm good to go!
@@MikeFoerster I did get one! Haven't done any serious work yet but I love it to bits already. I could record directly into the Bridge but then I'm not able to incorporate multiple musicians in a recording session, so I decided to run all the instruments into a mixer first, as it was designed to do. I've seen people talk about Radar and Tridents and Mackies and giant Soundcraft boards but I haven't seen anyone mention the Soundcraft FX16ii which I've owned for two years (the price has gone up $56). With individual outputs for each channel, it's perfect for the Studio Bridge -- and it fits into my rack wagon! Works out better than the Allen & Heath MixWizard because the FX16ii has 4 stereo returns that I can route to aux outputs. That means 24 inputs, not 16! And most of my sound sources are stereo anyway. I would have liked the Korg SoundLink mixers but they don't have enough outputs while the Tascam Model 16 does not have enough inputs. I think 2025 is going to be fun!
And don't forget - Long and McQuade can order it for you - on the internet. They have the internet there and can order things. Just like we all can. They might even ship it to you someday. But probably not.
@@MikeFoerster I have not once had a successful Long and McQuade online order. Not one time. I cancelled one 2 weeks ago. You cart it up, pay for it - and then it's all just lost in the void. No ETA , no communication, no nothing. Sweet Water however - you get your stuff in about 4 or 5 days. Canadian e-commerce for the most part sucks.
@@MikeFoerster Wow I'm the opposite! Always good orders from Red One. I think the key for any of them is to simply communicate. If it might take a week - say so. If you don't know - say you don't know. Long and McQuade and Cosmo are fine leaving you in the dark - forever. Cosmo will even go on and on about how the product has to ship from another country blah blah blah. That's fine - except I can get anything I want from Sweet Water in 4 days ... I don't care what kind of boats Cosmo gets a load from - from eastern Europe. Maybe I should get all the stuff from Sweet Water and sell it to Cosmo and Long and McQuade.
@@QuestForGear I haven't bought anything from Cosmo either. I was getting good orders from Red One but then they started having issues and gave me the run around on it. So I gave up on them.
Thanks. Did you watch the first video? I did cover that as well, I had gotten how it worked wrong. I thought you would connect your mics into this and then it would connect to your mixer. That is where I was wrong.
On the diagram Tascam should have labelled the 'external mixer' and 'line level' for in and out of Studio Bridge. Do you think the unit is value for money?
For me it would be useless because I don't have any large equipment to use with it. I do have friends who have old mixers and use a DAW for recording and for them it would work out great.
The thing is very clearly intended to be used as a bridge between an old school analogue mixing desk and computer. Basically, find yourself a big chonky analogue *recording* (Ie with the tape in and out, or switchable insert) desk on Reverb, and buy one of these, and you got yourself an absolute banger of a recording setup.
It would have been nice if they had a stagebox interface to connect similar to the (Midas M32) Behringer X32 via CAT6 cable. I have not detected any noticeable latency.
I use this board in one of our speaking rooms for classes at our church. It works quite well. The X32 is a nice board as well with many features.
*(edit typo)
I do not have an old-school console, but I think the Bridge will work great as a multitrack recorder for my fleet of synths, with the Phoenix Audio N-8 as a preamp if anything is too quiet. Add some Switchcraft patchbays and I'm good to go!
If you get one. Let me know how it goes.
@@MikeFoerster I did get one! Haven't done any serious work yet but I love it to bits already. I could record directly into the Bridge but then I'm not able to incorporate multiple musicians in a recording session, so I decided to run all the instruments into a mixer first, as it was designed to do. I've seen people talk about Radar and Tridents and Mackies and giant Soundcraft boards but I haven't seen anyone mention the Soundcraft FX16ii which I've owned for two years (the price has gone up $56). With individual outputs for each channel, it's perfect for the Studio Bridge -- and it fits into my rack wagon! Works out better than the Allen & Heath MixWizard because the FX16ii has 4 stereo returns that I can route to aux outputs. That means 24 inputs, not 16! And most of my sound sources are stereo anyway. I would have liked the Korg SoundLink mixers but they don't have enough outputs while the Tascam Model 16 does not have enough inputs. I think 2025 is going to be fun!
@troublesomecorsair I can't wait to hear what you record with it. Please share when you're ready!
And don't forget - Long and McQuade can order it for you - on the internet. They have the internet there and can order things. Just like we all can. They might even ship it to you someday. But probably not.
Ok...I'm assuming something happened lately? Do tell....
@@MikeFoerster
I have not once had a successful Long and McQuade online order. Not one time. I cancelled one 2 weeks ago. You cart it up, pay for it - and then it's all just lost in the void. No ETA , no communication, no nothing. Sweet Water however - you get your stuff in about 4 or 5 days. Canadian e-commerce for the most part sucks.
@@QuestForGear Odd, I've never had an issue with Long and McQuade. I've had issues with Red One.
@@MikeFoerster Wow I'm the opposite! Always good orders from Red One. I think the key for any of them is to simply communicate. If it might take a week - say so. If you don't know - say you don't know. Long and McQuade and Cosmo are fine leaving you in the dark - forever.
Cosmo will even go on and on about how the product has to ship from another country blah blah blah. That's fine - except I can get anything I want from Sweet Water in 4 days ... I
don't care what kind of boats Cosmo gets a load from - from eastern Europe. Maybe I should get all the stuff from Sweet Water and sell it to Cosmo and Long and McQuade.
@@QuestForGear I haven't bought anything from Cosmo either. I was getting good orders from Red One but then they started having issues and gave me the run around on it. So I gave up on them.
Its meant for if you want to keep using your analog mixer
Thanks. Did you watch the first video? I did cover that as well, I had gotten how it worked wrong. I thought you would connect your mics into this and then it would connect to your mixer. That is where I was wrong.
On the diagram Tascam should have labelled the 'external mixer' and 'line level' for in and out of Studio Bridge. Do you think the unit is value for money?
For me it would be useless because I don't have any large equipment to use with it. I do have friends who have old mixers and use a DAW for recording and for them it would work out great.