George Harrison said 'I like a little bit of tape hiss' and don't we all. Perfect to record a simple demo for a new song or to record that real tape sound. It fits the easy 4-track recording I want. I enjoy the mutitracking and simple equalizer controls. So many different uses for such a versatile recorder. and you are recording analog! I also use the machine to make mix tapes so I can listen to them in my car. You can buy cassettes at many stores making it easier than memory cards. These machines are pretty out dated but I enjoy the simplicity of recording onto cassette tapes. I have used this Tascam cassette 4 track for over 4 years now. If you're going to go the four track tape route, either for your main set up or for playing around with on the side, the Tascam Portastudio 424 is the model I would definitely recommend. These are readily available on eBay, so if you're interested in picking one up you'll be able to find one no problem. Tascam is one of the best at their game, especially with products made around this time period. The price of the Portastudios 424 has fallen significantly, so if you're looking to play around with a four track tape recorder that is put together well, this is a great time to buy this one. The quality of the recordings you will get as a whole will probably be nothing better than average since you are recording to a tape medium, but at the same time it has a cool quality to it that is hard to replicate without using an actual tape cassette recorder. Even if you don't have any prior experience with recording or machines like this, I think you should be able to catch on pretty quickly. The interface is very user friendly as everything is easily located. For a compact mixer, its got a lot of different features and options including equalization, dbx noise reduction, and some nice faders.
Let me start off by saying that this is a popular four track recorder as far as these go, and for a good reason. If you're looking to get into recording music, I would definitely recommend looking into a computer based system rather than this one, but if you're looking for four track tape recorder like this one, please continue reading. Of course this is an older piece of technology, so I will review the unit based on what it is capable of doing, and not fault it for being a product of its time. Yes even when I crank the level it into the tascam you can still hear a whistle at around 5-8k and a lot of noise, it’s better, but it’s still there.The Tascam Portastudio 424 is a cassette based four track recorder and mixer. Distance may be the only solution unless someone has a better one I have never heard of. So I have a mackie coming in which I think should clean things up considerably, maybe I can move the tascam really far away and split off a stereo mix to it for cassette recording - I like the sounds of cassettes just without the noise. I don’t like that, that kind of defeats the purpose. It’s like when you invest a lot in synths with a low noise floor only to introduce noise and have to use a denoiser on the master track. I mean cleaning it up with izotope is still cool - it’s sounds ok in the end - but I wish didn’t have to because I don’t like filtering out noise and hum out afterwards as sometimes it can effect the other sounds in the mix - even though izotope denoise is pretty much as clean as it gets.
I am thinking there may be no pure fix to the problem, it’s super noisy. I have not tried the distancing thing as my studio does not allow for much of that (small), but I may be able to put it across the room more just to see if it’s picking up noise from the instruments or something. Gotcha, yeah I figured it was kind of the older gear thing too.
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