In 1973 they introduced the first TASCAM-branded products:
TASCAM's first products were TEAC brand multitrack recorders. In 1974 it moved its headquarters to 7733 Telegraph Road, Montebello, California. The company's first headquarters was at 5440 McConnell Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. It also conducted additional market research in the US for the Japanese parent company. In 1971 TASCAM (TASC AMerica Corp.) was founded to distribute TASC products in the U.S. Tani, one of the founders of TEAC-Japan and Dr. The group was called TASC ( TEAC Audio Systems Corp).
TASCAM started out as a research and development group to research how to use TEAC's recording technology in musician and recording studio products. The TEAC 2340, a popular early home multitrack recorder, four tracks on ¼ inch tape TASCAM tape Portastudios were sited by as one of the top used gear pieces to increase in value in 2020, with original units jumping 30-65% over their price two years prior. TASCAM recording units have been used for everything from Star Wars to Bruce Springsteen to Alan Parsons to Spoon and have won awards as diverse as "Hottest Tech" to "Hall of Fame" status. TASCAM celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. Since the early 00's, TASCAM has been an early innovator in the field-recording and audio accompaniment to video with their DR-series recording platforms. TASCAM also introduced the first low-cost mass-produced multitrack recorders with Simul-Sync designed for recording musicians, and manufactured reel-to-reel tape machines and audio mixers for home recordists from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. TASCAM established the Home Recording phenomenon by creating the "Project Studio" and is credited as the inventor of the Portastudio, the first cassette-based multi-track home studio recorders.
TASCAM is the professional audio division of TEAC Corporation, headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, California.