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Old 03-20-2013, 03:34 PM
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Blast from the past...

My kids dug around the music room at my parents' house and dug up our old Tascam 424 and a bunch of old tapes...spent part of the afternoon listening to stuff we did. Some was awful, some pretty cool, all a learning experience...my kids (10 & 6) want me to teach them how to use it...anyone else have memories of those old cassette 4-tracks?
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Old 03-20-2013, 04:09 PM
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Old 03-20-2013, 04:15 PM
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I recorded literally thousands of hours with a friend of mine. The recordings are pretty uniformly awful, but they helped capture hundreds of original songs, some of which are pretty darn good.
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Old 03-20-2013, 04:44 PM
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I was in a band in the early 80s and we bought a Fostex 4 track cassette recorder for $1,500 and we had to take out a loan to buy it. We were recording original material and all set to record an album and used it for the demo tracks. I still have some of the recordings. The machine is long gone.
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Old 03-20-2013, 05:11 PM
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I remember doing some recording on one of those in high school, we did some great takes & went to listen to it on the home stereo - everything was half speed & we couldnt figure out why, so we binned the whole thing - D'OH! If only we plugged the damn thing into the aux in on that stereo.
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Old 03-20-2013, 05:24 PM
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Like I said, man, learning experiences...lol!
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Old 03-20-2013, 09:36 PM
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I've got quite a lot of old cassette tapes I used for song ideas. I'm always surprised when I find a tape with an original idea and have no rememberance of playing what I came up with.
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Old 03-20-2013, 09:59 PM
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I remember when I rented a 4 track recorder in the 80s. I was the most popular musician in the neighborhood for about one month.
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Old 03-20-2013, 10:03 PM
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Did tons of demos with one they werent keepers but hella lot better than casettes.
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