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In
early 2007, after coming to grips that the heads on the old 414
were wearing out, I himmed and hawwed about what to get next for
recording. Since using my PC wasn't an option (principle) and
cassettes were starting to be annoyingly hard to find -
especially the chrome ones, I knew I had to go digital.
At the time there were 4-tracks, 8-tracks
(which I almost went for) and what I ended up getting, a 24-track
Tascam 2488 PortaStudio. And I love it. The clincher was the
price tag. Since the Tascam 2488 mrk2s just came out, I picked
up mine for $750 (about half price). Not bad since my old cassette
414 was still $600-something.
It changed my life. Actually, that's not
too far-fetched. And still continuing on from the 4-track
tradition, each one gets better and better. Since I got it, I
ended up with
Hits The Spot,
On
Ice,
Drives It Home and
Blind Date
as well as an unfinished re-recording of Freshly Squeezed, me doing
Deep Purple covers "acoustic" and the latest that I'm working on at
the time of writing. I use it quite a bit.
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