Vesta Fire Mr-30

[firefox999]

Hello. I dont have any recording experience, so im thinking of starting out with a 4 track cassette recorder. I found one on ebay for a good price, and i was wondering if anyone could tell me if this is any good for my very first recorder, thanks.

 

[FuseBox41]

Vesta Fire

Man this thing is OLD OLD OLD and not very user friendly. Don't buy a Vesta Fire anything. Go for something newer. You can get Audacity for free and use your computer as a wave tracker. You can also get Jeskola Buzz For free (it's a modular synth and tracker and it's awesome. Big learning curve but it's worth it. You may need to buy some sort of input device for your guitar and/or vocals to get a professional sound quality but you can get some of those pretty cheap. Try http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (don't let the warnings about "advanced users" scare you it's really quite simple if you play with it for awhile. And try http://buzzmachines.com. Make sure you read the help documentation thoroughly or you will get lost trying to use it. Just takes a little reading to figure it out. Line6 has some good input devices and I highly recommend them. Not super expensive but very cool sounds and very flexible. Or go to your local music store and ask around. Here is a playlist of some of the things I've been learning with Jeskola Buzz: http://strangeandcool.net/2009/07/11/recent-songs-added-to-my-playlist-listen-here/ . Make sure you listen with headphones or a high quality stereo amp. It sounds like crap on laptop speakers and those cheapo desktop speakers that usually come with most computers.