Blast from the past...

[pflash4001]

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?

[Basshappi]

I still own one.

[mellowinman]

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.

[Richland123]

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.

[ma4rk]

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.

[pflash4001]

Like I said, man, learning experiences...lol!

[Mike M.]

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.

[jive1]

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.

[4dog]

Did tons of demos with one they werent keepers but hella lot better than casettes.