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Using a Tascam recorder

Using a Tascam recorder

- As this market has gotten bigger and bigger and the demand for better audio has picked up, many companies have created new products. - Yeah. - And what I have here is one from Tascam, the DR 60, I believe it is? - Yeah, and this is kind of a, kind of hybrid product. It used to be that we have a lot of pre-empts that we can find out there from Beach Tech and Juice Link, and that kind of stuff. And then we had digital audio recorders that were kind of like these Zoom H4n here, where we can attach, you know microphones and that kind of stuff. And these came in varying price points. But kind of in form factor, there was nothing that kind of looked like a pre amp, like a Beach Tech or a Juice Link and was a recorder that attached directly to the camera. And this guy from Tascam is really unique. It's a little bit of a beefy unit, but what it essentially allows us to do is combine IO functionality, getting stuff into the unit and into the camera and recording and connecting professional…

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