The Tascam Portastudio 424mkII
My Friend Chuck has one of these (in fact this is a picture of his) and hasn't used it. I have been recording stuff on my computer, but it turns out that there are a lot of hassles related to computer recording that I am not wanting to @&$% with. With a tape based system you rewind, level and record. There are a lot of things that are more difficult to do on tape, but I essentially fire up a drum track on the trusty SR-1 and play guitar over it, play it back and redo, or play another track. This system will satisfy all of those needs without worrying about drivers and hard disk space etc. it will be pretty easy to transfer a completed track over to the computer for goold old fashioned MP3 pleasure.
Chuck's Tascam Portastudio 424mkII
I was just about to pack it up for the night (me, not the Portastudio) when the call of gadgetry pulled me in. I quickly plugged it in, shoved the 1/4" cable from my guitar into the input marked 1 and drum machine into 3 (don't ask, it is some weird sort of superstition I picked up long ago), started the blues program on the drum machine, played with the many knobs and faders and tada . . . I was playing the 12-bar blues in the key of E. This thing has a cool orange LED that looks kick ass in a dimly lit room. Now all I need are some casettes. Anyone remember those?
Cool LEDs
Side note on the "Portastudio": This thing is big. Not sure what they were comparing it to, but I can think of a lot of portable things that aren't even close to this big. I don't plan to take it anywhere though so who cares.
Chuck's Tascam Portastudio 424mkII
I was just about to pack it up for the night (me, not the Portastudio) when the call of gadgetry pulled me in. I quickly plugged it in, shoved the 1/4" cable from my guitar into the input marked 1 and drum machine into 3 (don't ask, it is some weird sort of superstition I picked up long ago), started the blues program on the drum machine, played with the many knobs and faders and tada . . . I was playing the 12-bar blues in the key of E. This thing has a cool orange LED that looks kick ass in a dimly lit room. Now all I need are some casettes. Anyone remember those?
Cool LEDs
Side note on the "Portastudio": This thing is big. Not sure what they were comparing it to, but I can think of a lot of portable things that aren't even close to this big. I don't plan to take it anywhere though so who cares.
posted by Juniorrocker at 10:58 PM
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Turns out that cassettes are still readily available. This came as a surprise to me since I ceremoniously discarded ALL of my many cassette tapes years ago. Good for me though a pair of decent Maxell high-bias 60-minute cassettes was $4.99 at Fred Meyer. That should keep me in recording for at least a week.
I can't believe that I am accumulating cassettes again!
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