Nod to The Legend · The gear · 1979
The TASCAM Portastudio
Four-track cassette recorder
The Portastudio 144 put a mixer and a four-track recorder on a regular cassette, so anyone could record demos at home.
Still heard: Home recording, and the saturated cassette sound of lo-fi.
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