[Joe Jaime]

This post comes years after the original thread was started, it’s June 2015 now.

Having bought a DR-40 and used it for a year, my conclusion is that it’s a great device. However, I too noticed the Artifact, and while not in a studio, my client’s meeting room was not like Noiseland, centered in the building it’s pretty much Isolated. I Set-Up the Recorder using the built in Mics. I find in a U-shape table meeting, inside on a tripod is the best back-up copy.( We run 3 ). This time though, I lowered the rate to 32 and sure enough, just as Gerald Mucci wrote, there present, was that worn out cassette tape sound. I was glad I ran a test recording and played it back. When I did, I just defaulted to WAV with it’s big files. I went back and reviewed previous MP3 recordings with the DR40. and they were set at 128. I log my settings. It’s an old guy thing. I will talk to Tascam about it, their support is in California, so one has to call at the right time. Who knows, they may have a Firmware Update that fixes that. I recently worked with a client that had 60 Tascam Recorders they had rented from a company for a weeklong conference. The problem of it not STOPing when the button was pushed was annoying. It would not finish writing the file. It turns out, the machines were 4 Firmware Updates behind! (The bail out by the way, was to quickly eject and re-insert the SD card. This apparently breaks the DO loop, as we used to say in Fortran days. ) Joe