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Tascam’s Model 12 and Studio Bridge bring cohesion to Tomas Bringas’ production

Born to Cuban parents, Tomas Bringas - also known as Tómalo Dub - grew up skateboarding and playing in punk, ska, and rock bands. He has a passion for dub reggae, a genre of popular dance music made from remixing reggae recordings that he “personalizes” with a touch of punk influence. He uses a Model 12 12-track digital recording mixer with DAW controller and audio interface along with a Studio Bridge 24-track recorder and USB audio interface with MIDI - both from Tascam.

Bringas recently tracked singer-songwriter Giulianna Cobolli with his Model 12 and is in the process of finishing some touches on the dub version of “Dancing Without You”. “I usually start on the Model 12 or in a DAW (hybrid dub mixing)”, he explains. “The Model 12 enables you to track to it as if it was a cassette-based Tascam Portastudio - all while providing the convenience of having the ability to save to SD card, which is great for moving your work between different pieces of equipment or to a DAW.”

“The Model 12 gives me the ability to use compression, reverb, delay, chorus, and other effects, along with 3-band EQ on individual channels and a 3-band mastering EQ”, he continues. “It’s also a powerful audio interface for connecting with other types of equipment. From there, I can transfer everything to my Studio Bridge, which serves as the main production tool for fine-tuning the music. I use the Studio Bridge to help make judgements in balance and to store all my songs and stems - almost like a dub stem dictionary. Together, these two recording systems provide the ability to mix and contour the music as I envision it while seamlessly interacting with other types of gear as well.”

“The Model 12’s faders give me the ability to have a good sense of control over my mixes without having so many that it becomes confusing in terms of signal routing management”, he furthers. “These number of faders make you think carefully about what musical elements you want the most control over. The fact that the Model 12 also supports HUI/MCU protocol emulation makes it easy to interface the console with other components such as a DAW.”

While Bringas has owned his Model 12 for roughly two years, his Studio Bridge has only been part of his setup for about three months. “The DB25 analog line level input and output capability on the Studio Bridge has proven very useful”, he says. “This is a great feature for interfacing an analog mixing console into the equation so that you gain the benefits of digital recording while maintaining the warmth of analog. Like the Model 12, the Studio Bridge also supports the use of SD cards.”

Bringas shares an experience where the SD card capability of both the Model 12 and Studio Bridge really had a profound impact on his ability to complete a project: “For the song ‘Hola Buenos Dub’ by Jacuzzi Fuzz, they really had a lot of tracks. I spent about two days trying to figure out how I was going to upload all these tracks to the various channels of the Model 12. Had it not been for the SD card technology, the trial-and-error process of bouncing and listening back to all the various stems would have been redundant to say the least.”

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