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Amid applications for large scale digital desk technology, a need exists for something smaller. Zenon Schoepe finds hope in an unlikely guise
I make absolutely no excuses for raving about this little console, despite the fact that I fully expected to dismiss it as a project studio orientated plaything. While its ambitions in the TM-D1000 are not enormous, Tascam has managed to cram an unnerving level of functionality into this tiny little console which takes up about as much room as the opened up magazine that you're reading. What you are presented with is a row of 21 short-throw unmotorised faders handling the 16 input-channels, 4 group/aux masters and the main stereo output. It will handle incoming 16, 20 or 24-bit lengths and if I describe what it has you'll get the picture. There are eight analogue line inputs, four of which also offer mic XLRs with phantom power and inserts. Eight digital I-Os on TDIF come up at faders 9 to 16, while there is one stereo digital input and two stereo digital outputs on paralleled AES-EBU and SPDIFs. There are four group outputs which can also act as aux sends; external stereo inputs; stereo outputs; a monitor output; and a headphones circuit complete with switch- operated monitor- source selection. There are 2 inbuilt stereo effects and 4 dynamics devices.
Options include the fitting of an additional TDIF interface...