I'm really gonna show my age with this comment. I miss the old Tascam 244 Portastudio.

With all of our discussions about BIAB, RB, DAW's, VST's, Ozone, Reason, Rewire, Jamstix, BFD, synths, loops, etc, etc, etc, ...... the emphasis is on what tech you're using and less about music.

With the old Tascam 244 Portastudio, you didn’t have to be a “gearhead” or a “geek” to use it. There were no driver issues, software problems, confusing terminology or hardware conflicts.

Just plug in a mic, record a click track from a mechanical metronome on Track 4, then pick up a guitar, hit the record button and start playing. If you needed "backing tracks" that you couldn't play, just call up a friend, tell them you had beer and weed, invite them over and tell them to bring their instrument. After a couple of Buds and a few bong hits, you slap some headphones on them, stick a mic in front of them and hit record.

The only effects I used during recording was on the guitar amp when I was playing electric guitar and then on the final mixdown when I ran all 4 tracks through a 10 band EQ and a reverb unit and into a 2 track cassette.

It was a piece of cake. I got more songs recorded on that old Tascam, (30-35 originals), in a few months time than I ever recorded the rest of my life.

My interest changed to live playing only and by the time I got interested in recording again, it had gotten so complicated and expensive to do so that I never got anything finished.

Oh well.

Last edited by bobcflatpicker; 12/30/12 03:02 AM.
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