It was easy to learn and extremely powerful," he writes.
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"Suddenly I was able to create beautifully produced demos that were almost as good as studio masters. said he bought one of these "Earth-changing" machines as soon as they came out.
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In a review of the Teac 144, Reverb user Trey Y. Why not bounce those 4-tracks down and layer more on top, like their heroes at Abbey Road? Use the limitations to spark creativity. In addition to the raw, homespun sound, many music makers wanted to stretch the limits of the technology. For some reason, you sometimes get a better vocal sound in a kitchen or bathroom or basement than you can in a big studio."Ĥ-track recordings by some of the biggest names in rock, alternative, and electronic music carried both the charm and lore: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, grittily recorded on his 144 and salvaged from his jacket pocket PJ Harvey's tape-turned-proper-release 4-Track Demos Ween's warped, Portastudio-grown The Pod Aphex Twin's first full-length, Selected Ambient Works 85–92, tracked at home on cassette with self-constructed instruments, by Richard D.
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Plus it was with the 4-track that we came closest to getting the sound that we had in our heads. The important thing was the immediacy and the economy. With the 4-track down here in Toby's basement, we could just come over and do it. By the time you booked the place and got everything together, the spirit of what you wrote would be gone. "In the beginning, we never had much success with recording studios. Robert Pollard-whose group, Guided By Voices, released a prodigious amount of homemade recordings throughout the '80s and '90s-summed up the 4-track philosophy in a 1997 interview with Musician magazine: Portastudios were not just a step on the way to the real studio, they were even preferable. It wasn't long before 4-track recordists began to engineer their own mythos too. Hip-hop producers created their own beat tapes to share and shop around their creations. Electronic musicians could sync a sequencer to one track while recording onto the other three. Upstart and established artists alike, from The Jesus and Mary Chain to Lou Reed, created 4-track demos on their own. The new machines allowed songwriters to workshop their songs in private. Their newly coined Portastudios proliferated across the music-making world, while competition from Yamaha, Fostex, and other manufacturers flooded the market.
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In the following years, one of Teac's divisions, Tascam, began churning out machines that just got better and smaller. Unveiled in 1979, the Teac 144 was the first 4-track of its kind, weighing in at 20 pounds and measuring 18 inches by 15 inches. Depending on model and condition, 4-track recorders fetch a few hundred to almost $1,000 USD. Yet take a look at the recent Reverb Price Guides for these nearly vintage machines: The Tascam 414, 424, 244, or even the comparatively limited Porta02 all have strong demand.