Behind the Eye: Tascam ‘Portastud’ Recording Studio – Are You Stud Enough? : Tue, 18 Mar 2008 : Music Industry Newswire™

Behind the Eye: Tascam ‘Portastud’ Recording Studio – Are You Stud Enough?

by Christopher Laird Simmons
published Tue, 18 Mar 2008 – 18:51:35 +0000 UTCNo Comment

One of the most hilarious things I’ve seen online lately is at the online music store, Musicians Friend, which is selling a “mislabeled” version of the Tascam DP-02CF Portastudio, which has a mis-print on the actual recorder of “Portastud.”

While this could smack of a marketing gimmick if it were something more consumer oriented like Diet Mountain Dew (wouldn’t that be funny? mis-print it as Mountain Dewd?), it’s so far-fetched a mistake for venerable recording company TASCAM, that it’s truly bizarre something was “let loose” to manufacturing that way, let alone delivered to dealers in the U.S.

Certainly, one could comment on the “relaxing” of quality control of some “made in China” products from Tascam over the past couple of years (I’ve owned everything from an A3340S 4-track in the early 80s, to a more recent FW-1884 which was a nightmare of driver hell with Cakewalk Sonar), this has to be one of the more hilarious “errors” to come down the road in years.

But, hurry! If you want to be the first guy on the block to own a portable “portastud” product, you’d better hurry. Every “stud” is going to want one!

The product page blurb says it all: “Complete 8-track digital recorder with an incomplete product name for collectors. Thanks to a misprint at the factory, you can own one of a few DP-02CFs with the name ‘Portastud’ emblazoned on its casing! It’s an 8-track digital recorder you’ll be especially proud to take anywhere, and a joke that never gets old. Can a digital recorder become a collector’s item? Only if it’s the TASCAM Portastud! Order one of these mislabeled recorders while they last!”

See:
www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Tascam-DP02CF-Digital-Portastudio-Recording-Studio?sku=241813 .

(Disclosure: this site is NOT an affiliate of the above company and the link does not result in any financial or other benefit for this site or author.)

[tags]Tascam Portastud recorder, Portastudio misprint, Christopher Simmons[/tags]

About The Author / Editor:

Christopher Simmons has been writing about music since 1984 when he sold his first feature to Polyphony (now Electronic Musician) magazine. He has composed music for two TV cable shows, is a member of ASCAP and PRSA, and is the managing editor for Music Industry Newswire(TM), as well as the CEO of Neotrope(R) Entertainment. His 80s music can be found on iTunes, CDBaby, and Napster, among others. © Christopher Laird Simmons and and Music Industry Newswire. UNAUTHORIZED RE-PUBLICATION OF THIS CONTENT IS PROHIBITED UNDER U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW EXCEPT FOR QUOTING IN CONTEXT OF ANOTHER ARTICLE OR A SHORT SUMMARY LINKING TO THIS FULL STORY.