TEAC

 Yoshiharu Abe is known as the father of personal multi-track recording in the audio engineering field.  He was one of the five founders of TEAC in 1957 and went on to become one of the company’s most important product designers.  Abe-son designed several landmark products over his long career including the 80-8 and the Portastudio series.  He later worked for Fostex and was a key player in the teams that created the B-13 and X-15.  Beginning in 1948 he also began writing extensively

Budd Johnson has a lot of history to share. He was a key member of the TEAC team that over saw the development of the American branch of the company known as TASCAM. As a result Budd was there in the late 1960s and early 70s to witness first hand the remarkable and somewhat unexpected success of the home recording market. His product spec sheets and ads later played a key role in the popularity of TASCAM's reel and mixing units. He also played an early and important role in the success of Fostex.

Hajime Yamaguchi was born on September 26, 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 18 he traveled the country as a professional drummer and a year later landed a stellar job as drummer for a late night TV talk show in Japan. After a few years his girlfriend (and future wife) explained her parents concerns for her getting married to a musician. They wanted him to have a steady paying job. Knowing a friend who worked for TEAC, Hajime applied for a job and was hired.