Here’s how it works. If our teenage selves could see the new Zoom R4 Multitrak - a handheld 4-track recorder - we’d probably choke on our low-cost lager. This takes the old cassette-based home ...

Tascam knows some musicians pine for the 'warm' quality of cassette recordings, and it's willing to effectively resurrect dead technology to meet their needs. The company has introduced a 424 ...

It was about 30 years ago that Tascam introduced the first 4-track cassette recorder -- the Portastudio 144.In 1984, Tascam introduced the Porta One, a revolutionary product that many would argue ...

Here’s how it works. If you miss the immediacy of recording on a 4-track cassette recorder but don’t want to sacrifice the creative options that digital technology has to offer, you might need to take ...

Tunde Adebimpe's debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, had an unlikely origin: a break-in. After someone stole hard drives full ...

In 2002, I bought my first Tascam Portastudio—a clunky, navy-blue four-track cassette recorder—for around $150. It was a time when Digital Audio Workstations like Protools and Cubase were ...

Troy Sheets began making music at 15 years old in his home studio with a keyboard synthesizer, drum machine and four-track cassette recorder — an impressive setup for a high school sophomore.

and he discovered a forgotten box of old 4-track cassette tapes the culprit had left behind. "I got my 4-track recorder out — also in a box somewhere in the garage — and I just started going ...