Switch to Cassette Four-Track?

[A Reel Person]

While we're at it, let's take a peek at a few cassette 8-tracks!!!

Tascam 488

 

[A Reel Person]

Better yet,...

the Tascam 488mkII

 

[A Reel Person]

This is the high techiest Portstudio of them all!

The Tascam 688!

 

[A Reel Person]

Unless you consider this a Portastudio?!?!

The Tascam 388!

You only go around once in life, and in Portastudios as in e'thing else, sometimes you just gotta go for the gusto!

 

[A Reel Person]

Above are Tascams you'll find on Ebay. Below are the Portastuios availbable as new.

Like the Tascam 414mkII.

Cute, functional and sounds great!

This dude has his Pitch control all the way to the right, too!!

(Conspiracy?)

 

[A Reel Person]

Aagghh! Where'd my mixer go??

Tascam Porta02mkII

This is what it is, and for what it is, it's not bad.

 

[A Reel Person]

Sometimes it's all about economy, all the way!

The MF-P01 !!!

Dang, y'gotta admit it's cute! Cute & sporty looking!

I gotta testify, that the sound reproduced by the MF-P01 is a lot better than you'd think by just looking at it!

Front-end capability is bare minimum, but it's 4-tracks to tape, by gosh! (Hint: simple; great for kids!)

If I had something like this in 1978 at age 17, I'd have been in heaven. I could practically have,... dare I say,... ruled the world!!!!!!!!!

 

[billyshuler]

I made the switch back to cassette not too long ago. I've got a tascam portastudio 424 mkIII. I've been getting alot more done now that I switched. Since I grew up recording to cassette in my bedroom as a teenager, it just feels more natural to me. My computer is still used to make my drum tracks,and bouncing, but all of my instruments are recorded to the portastudio. I will continue doing it this way until tapes are not sold anymore because I like it so much.

 

[A Reel Person]

Almost forgot this beauty! They just don't make'm like this any more!

The Tascam 238 !!!
Daaaaannnnnggg! Sssswwwweeeeeettt!!!!

8-tracks simultaneously to cassette in a 3U rackmount unit!
Move over 234!!!

Find this one Ebay, too, folks!

 

[cjacek]

Well, Dave (A Reel Person) has done it once again! Brilliant and exhaustive info and picts! Thanks!!

~Daniel

 

[CoolCat]

damn reel that was a stroll thru the past...awesome.

i think i had almost all those at one time or another too...

its all a blur, can't believe you even got the years down.

i recall liking the 238 and the 488MK2 the most. the 688 the worst..midi menus!!

of course the 144 was my first one, its still working!! and being used by my nephews as a mixer but the recorder section works also!! now thats quality built..26years never been in the shop and 10,000's of hours on it!! amazing really.

 

[XLR]

This is kind of like in the movie, You've Got Mail, where Meg Ryan's boyfriend, Greg something-or-other (before she meets Tom Hanks) who's a writer, has an obsession with collecting a certain make of old electric typewriter because it helps his writing.

I have an old Yamaha MT3X cassette 4 track/6 channel mixer that I still love. It's a beautiful piece of gear.

Tim

 

[CoolCat]

yeah reel the 238. thats was a nice one. NASA took a few of those things up with them and recorded space noises, so i read.
it was built really well...
didn't it have 2 4track heads or something??
oh well, be careful buying on Ebay..it may be one of NASA old ones with Moon dust on the heads!

 

[gordone]

My first four track was the Yamaha MT100! I got it for my Bar Mitzvah present when I was 13 back in 1990! I had it until college when I "upgraded" to a Tascam 424MKII, which I still have. That was/is a nice unit. I've been meaning to fire it up one of these days. How do you think my Great River will sound through it?

Thanks for all the pictures, takes me back to the wonderful 1990s!