All user reviews of 1/5 for the Tascam DM-4800

non-rackable, 24 physical inputs and XLR jacks in, hands out in xlr, jack in the rest (at this price it's really foutage of mouth)
effects all over "chemical" as each other, équalos parametric "accurate" but cold ...

UTILIZATION

the general config is difficult to access, this is clearly not designed to work in live sound, manual translation is fairly low-end, in short they need to understand the digital tascam to get there quickly.

SOUNDS

preamps are horrible, but so awful, it's even a Bassman cools everything back by a ribbon, unless you opt for external preamps do not expect to get a nice round sound, also even with external preamps over in the table, everything will be cool and garish.
effects are absolutely hideous, and compressors are required to get some gain, but even then it overwrites the signal ...

OVERALL OPINION

I had to use it for dubbing a play, because it was the console that the company had purchased for the previous show. after two days I did everything for it to be sold as soon as possible because it was so vile.
impossible to use it properly for live if not program these scenes and remember ... not my method anyway.
The big downside of this table are the preamps and équalos, nothing to do that always sound hard and cold.
other hand have only 2 xlr outputs for a table at € 5000 is more than the foutage of geule. (I tried to make the Multicast, I quickly abandoned ...)
better a good analogue with an external rack (so yes it is heavier, more limited effects) but it is not necessarily more expensive and mostly you will have a table with a more ergonomic and better sound.