The TASCAM Portastudio was the first four-track recorder based on a standard compact audio cassette tape. The term portastudio is exclusive to TASCAM...

creating the "Project Studio" and is credited as the inventor of the Portastudio, the first cassette-based multi-track home studio recorders. TASCAM also...

group the Shangri-Las and The Velvet Underground & Nico, they bought a Portastudio in 1983 when their father lost his job in a local factory and gave the...

God" "Day of Reckoning" "Shore Song" "Dry Land" "Worlds in Worlds" "Portastudio" Roddy Frame - vocals, guitar; bass on "Days of Reckoning" and "Worlds...

parents' lounge turned into a makeshift studio) with Mex's TEAC 4-track Portastudio. Because most of the day was spent on "Wham Rap!" and Ridgeley's mother...

performing with his son Jamie Watson, as well as releasing an album, The Portastudio Diaries (2009), which chronicled a series of recordings in Bruce Watson's...

label. "Modulor Mix", a tribute to Le Corbusier, was recorded on Godin's Portastudio, and appeared on the Source Lab album in 1995. With several remixes,...

experimented with starting in 1974, but never gained a toe-hold until cassette portastudios established themselves ten years later just before digital took off....

and bassist Greg Demos. Noted at first for its lo-fi aesthetic and Portastudio four-tracks-to-cassette production methods, Guided by Voices' music was...

talent that is Sting". The recording was made prior to the launch of the Portastudio in the late 1970s, which Sting would later use for writing and demoing...

band only had access to their guitars and a 4-track cassette Tascam Portastudio; the albums were recorded in their apartment (nicknamed "The Pod," hence...

the title to "Atlantic City". He recorded at least five takes on his Portastudio at Colts Neck during a two-week period, December 17 to January 3, 1982...

California on February 25 and March 5, 1989, on a TASCAM quarter-inch 8-track Portastudio and mixed on Hi-Fi VHS. The band borrowed $3,000 from Claypool's father...

and get some notoriety, I scoff at it." In 1979, Tascam introduced the Portastudio, the first portable multi-track recorder of its kind to incorporate an...

started when Moreno and his friend Todd Wilkinson bought a cassette tape Portastudio-type four-track recorder in 1994. They continued this collaboration through...

his own ideas, but when Daniel Miller heard some demos (recorded on a Portastudio, a 4-track cassette machine) and asked to reproduce them, Recoil became...

guitar and backing vocals. Go West had a publishing deal and possessed a portastudio, but lacked a band or recording company. Cox and Drummie decided, with...

front room of his parents' house. He had an upright piano, a 4-track portastudio, a drum machine, and a keyboard in the studio. He wrote the song quickly...

C30 and C40 IEC Type II tape cassettes for use with 4- and 8-track portastudios. The full tape width is 3.8 mm. For mono recording the track width is...

Angeles, Pink began experimenting with recording songs on an eight-track Portastudio as a teenager. His early influences were artists such as Michael Jackson...

1970s using reel-to-reel tape. In 1979, the introduction of the TASCAM Portastudio, which first used the same 1⁄4-inch (6.4 mm) reel-to-reel as quarter-track...

Some examples of products that used the format are a few multitrack "portastudio"-style audio recorders such as Sony's MDM-X4 and Tascam's 564. In 1997...

with tracks sometimes laid down on home tape recorders or four-track portastudios. Punk rock lyrics are typically blunt and confrontational; compared to...

wrote material for it after the end of a six-year relationship, using a portastudio at co-manager John Best's house over several weeks. The Verve started...

I think, was put it in Gothic terms." The song was first demoed on a portastudio during a rehearsal studio session, with Robert Farrell on guitar, Barry...

Tascam incorporated dbx Type II in their Portastudio four-track cassette recorders. Tascam's Portastudio family of 4 track cassette recorders became...

tape-based equipment (from simple, late-1970s cassette-based four-track Portastudios, to eight-track cassette machines, to 2" reel-to-reel 24-track machines)...

TASCAM Portastudio 244 with dbx noise reduction processor....

"Happy Place" 2:24 8. "F.Hole" 1:07 9. "Rider" 2:12 10. "On the Wall" (Portastudio demo) 3:41 11. "Surfin' USA" (April outtake) 2:58 12. "Here It Comes...

professional studios and wealthy artists. In 1979, Tascam invented the Portastudio, a small four-track machine aimed at the consumer market. With this new...