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Hi, I'm making the step up from basic home recording to a more
substantial setup. It's still very basic (I wouldn't even go as far as
to call it a studio) but I've been accumulating some fairly cheap gear
to get started with. The aim is to replace with better gear as time and
funds allow. It's good enough to get an idea of what I'm doing in a
learn-as-you-go kind of way.

Anyhoo, the main reason for this post is that I've managed to get my
hands on a Teac "Tascam series" M-15 desk. 24 channel, 8 bus, looks its
age but has been reasonably looked after and supposedly everything
works, although I haven't fully tested it yet. It's certainly been used
til very recently in a local recording studio (they got rid of because
they were upgrading).

However I'm struggling to find any info or a manual or anything about
this desk. The internet seems pretty sparse and I'm not sure where to
look for companies or organisations who might be able to help.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the desk, or any suggestions where I
might be able to get more info?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

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Big Tim wrote:

However I'm struggling to find any info or a manual or anything about
this desk. The internet seems pretty sparse and I'm not sure where to
look for companies or organisations who might be able to help.


Call Tascam. The complete service manual is available, and I think it
is around twenty dollars.

Start with 213-726-0303 and ask for Tascam manuals.
--scott


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In article . com writes:

Anyhoo, the main reason for this post is that I've managed to get my
hands on a Teac "Tascam series" M-15 desk.


However I'm struggling to find any info or a manual or anything about
this desk. The internet seems pretty sparse and I'm not sure where to
look for companies or organisations who might be able to help.


That console was from the pre-Internet days, and back when they
printed manuals rather than produced them as PDF files. It didn't
become a "legacy" product and you simply won't find much about it. I
have the Product Information Bulletin on it that describes the
controls on the modules, has the specifications, and a block diagram.
It's nine pages, more than you usually see today, and is reasonably
informative. It's not going to scan well, at least not with my
scanner. If you'd like me to copy it and send you a copy by mail,
it'll cost you a few bucks for my time, trouble, and postage.

By today's standards, it's pretty crappy. I hope you didn't pay more
than a few dollars for it. It's a good learner and looks pretty
impressive, but with all RCA ins and outs, and a lot more EMI floating
around our environment than at the time that the console was designed
(and TASCAM gear of that period always had pretty poor EMI rejection)
it's far from "quiet enough for digital."


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Thanks for the info guys. I didn't pay anything for it, so there's
nothing to lose on that front!

I did wonder about the RCA connections, and it came with some god-awful
handmade cables which didn't exactly inspire confidence. But I've
bought all-new cables which are of decent quality so I'm not expecting
problems on that front now. In fact, as it's going to be hooked into a
DAW, it means I can buy an M-Audio Delta 1010LT and hook it in without
having to make lots of custom cables. I'm only going to be doing mostly
"good demo" quality, garage rock stuff to start with, so it's not too
critical for it to be especially quiet.

I heard from the guys at the studio it came from over the weekend and
it seems they may now have found the manual, so hopefully I'll be able
to learn some more about it soon. If that falls through though, I may
well be interested in your offer, Mike. Many thanks.


Thanks again for your time.

Tim

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Although using adapters isn't necessarily always a good idea, I've found
that RCA adapters of decent quality when used with decent grade video cables
worked quite nicely. A group of them can be quite ungainly, but if you find
any RF problems, this is one possible solution. Or a Faraday cage, as Mike
mentioned! g

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Thanks for the info guys. I didn't pay anything for it, so there's
nothing to lose on that front!

I did wonder about the RCA connections, and it came with some god-awful
handmade cables which didn't exactly inspire confidence. But I've
bought all-new cables which are of decent quality so I'm not expecting
problems on that front now. In fact, as it's going to be hooked into a
DAW, it means I can buy an M-Audio Delta 1010LT and hook it in without
having to make lots of custom cables. I'm only going to be doing mostly
"good demo" quality, garage rock stuff to start with, so it's not too
critical for it to be especially quiet.

I heard from the guys at the studio it came from over the weekend and
it seems they may now have found the manual, so hopefully I'll be able
to learn some more about it soon. If that falls through though, I may
well be interested in your offer, Mike. Many thanks.


Thanks again for your time.

Tim



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One thing that you should check before you get frustrated is that there
is a jumper between the ACCESS Send and Receive jacks on each
channel, or, as I did when I had a TASCAM Model 5, connected them
to a normalled pair of jacks on a patchbay.


Thanks for the heads up. I know there are a number of jumpers with it
as I noticed them (and wondered what they were!) when I gave it a
cursory inspection after I picked it up, however I don't know if
there's one for every channel so I'll check that out.

I'm hoping to get the beast set up in our rehearsal space this weekend,
so I'll find outr how much of it really works then!

Thanks,

Tim

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