I thought it would be justified to make a dedicated thread for this interesting unit.
24-In/24-Out multitrack recorder
website: TASCAM Introduces the Studio Bridge Multitrack Recorder / USB Audio Interface | TASCAM - United States
and Studio Bridge | 24-Track Recorder and USB Audio Interface with MIDI | TASCAM - United States
Could this be the solution for dawless (home)studio’s who have big mixing consoles?
Tascam has a lot of good stuff on the market right now. I won’t be buying this anytime soon as I very recently picked up a dp32sd on the cheap and there are other things more immediately demanding of my meager gear budget (and I assume this won’t be cheap) but it could be a someday purchase for me. It does seem a bit niche seeing as it makes the most sense for someone with a larger mixing situation but I’m in that niche. It’s too bad I sold my db25 cabling but they’re easy to make.
Also love that it can be rack mounted!
The disappointing thing about the Model series to me is that the inputs are hardwired to the tracks unlike something like the old 388 where any mixer channel can feed any tape track. It’s more suited to someone tracking bands, or if you do your dawless hardware stuff all live and don’t do any overdubs. It’s not really the solution for someone with a lot of instruments that they want to leave plugged in all of the time, but who might want to overdub multiple layers of a particular instrument.
I use a Cymatics Utrack for this same purpose, it’s an essential part of my studio, was cheap even new (although you have to factor in the cost of the DB25 snakes).
They’ve since been discontinued and the 2nd hand price has gone silly. This could fill a hole in the market.
I think this needs to be a bit cheaper though…
A cheap patchbay overcomes that problem. I have a Model 12 and a patchbay and I can record any instrument into any channel with minimal effort.
Finally a official video from Tascam folks themself 
I was hoping to see some early adaptors, sharing their first reviews. But it seems this Studio Bridge isn’t making waves at all.
Is a niche? or is this product a flop?
Holy shit this is what I’ve been wanting tascam to make for years. If you can run tracks out to mixer/effects and then record that back onto another track then I’ll definitely get one of these.
I think it’s incredibly niche. I think it’s too pro for most hobbyists and probably not pro enough for pros.
But I think there’s definitely a niche of people that this will be perfect for. Glad it exists.
That statement may sum up every discussion point made on every elektronauts thread since it’s inception. In four sentences none the less 
Yeah, this answer makes so much sense!
This was also a big discussion when the SSL SiX came out, the DB-25 is more for studio’s i guess?
I also own the SiX (witch also got the 25DB IO) It makes the Studio Bridge more apealing for me I think. I guess i’m a pro-sumer, one who rather saves a bit more money and get some quality gear.
(as far I can be a judge of that)
Like if it’snot me the who? 
