Hi all..Just moved to Las Vegas (As of June 2nd, 2025) to live with my sister and our aging father. I remember spending so much time on this forum and always loved writing and helping others. Sad to see it wither away. I realize I am a bit late on that notion, it seems nobody has really written anything here for some time. This forum is a ghost town compared to its golden days of DM routing and driver forum fury. There were so many good guys here, all focused on our DMs. I've been involved with a great album in a studio in Lancaster PA for the last couple of years, all tracked and mixed by yours truly in the box on Reaper, (working with excellent musicians) working there every weekend. Countless other side work at the same studio, keeping my mixing chops up. There are a lot of digital boards out there, many with great new features and nice looking screens. Most are more live sound oriented, which makes sense, as 16 to 32 busses are just not needed in the studio. But I always felt that the DM series was a solid precursor, almost a grandfather, to what is out there today. It was a diamond ahead of its time, but has succumbed to the end of the transitional period from analog mixing workflows to the point and click era. I miss owning, talking about and even just looking at my glorious DM3200 (Beauty is in the eye of the beholder), last seen in 2015. My old studio computer used windows 7, had a core 2 duo (2Cores!!) CPU with a stunning 4 GB of PC133 ram, and a 1GB 7200RPM Hard drive that I was sure i could never fill up! I just built a new computer based on an ASRock Pro-A WIFI z890 MB, Core Ultra 7 265K (20 cores) CPU, 32GB of DDR5 ram running at 6400Mhz (3200DDR), a 2TB NvME main drive, a 1TB secondary drive on windows 11. Damn its fast! But enough about that. I guess i am just being and old fart reminiscing about a bygone era. It really was a shame that Tascam never filled the void of the aging DMs with something else. We talked about it here all the time. Just think of the customer base they lost. We all could be discussing the newest drivers or routing techniques on our new DM6200 Ultra uber XL plus MKIII super mega chromed out mixing boards with 5 Bazillion contrast/color touch screens. Oh well. Think I'll go find an old rotary phone and try to call someone. If anyone actually is around to read this, feel free to reply or comment or whatever they call it these days. I'd love to reach out. I haven't really met anyone yet in the Las Vegas community, so if you exist, let me know. My avatar is my old dog Charlie, who was just a pup when I took that picture of him on our boat many moons ago. My ex-wife took him, so i assume he's probably dead now. Oh well. Farewell Charlie.
