They are cheap, make alot of noise, (this is the mixers that i am talking about), have crappy eq..... Does the 424 have a seperate tape out for each individual track? If so then that is the one for me. Also, is there a digital recorder that you could recomend to me? Since you said that they arent any more expensive than analog? One that has seperate tape outs for each track? Remember, i am poor.