The Tascam Portastudio

The Tascam 424 was my first ever multitrack recording device. Here's a rare photo - with a Roland D5 and an  Alesis MMT8 - that was all the gear I had in 1991

The Roland sounded much better than Lumanog guitars!

Fast forward a few decades, and here's the 424 Mark 3. This is a rather curious release from Tascam, in 2001, when hard disk recording was already becoming cheap. I just got this today, a bit pricey for what it is but the unit is in excellent, almost new condition

Feed me some magnetic tape!

I'll do a trial run in a few hours, I just need to re-learn (or re-plan) the analog workflow.