I just ogt an Akai Multitrack for $15.

[Loose Cannon]

I was just on ebay today, and i seen this Akai 6-Channel 4-track casette recorder. Ive been lookin at the Tascam Portastudios for a long time, but i saw this and it was about to go for $9.99. So i put $15 down and i just won it. The only thing wrong with it was that the heads need some cleaning, but i got a cleaner for that. This thing is gonna be dope.

Let me know if anybody got any experience with these.

AKAI MG614
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This shit got the same record-overdub-play-playstart lookin buttons like on the mpcs and its got the armrest from the 60.

 

[x-squizet]

yo that looks ill dog

 

[Vex]

It was good in its time, but what you gonna do with it???

I got a Portastudio and i use it rarely to get beats onto tape, iv never used more than one track on it.

But for that price, thats dope.

safe.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Im usin it for puttin demos together. Like get the beat on 1 track. Put the different verses and the chorus on the other tracks. This is just for when i dont wanna pay $50 an hour for studio time. Just to get basic layouts and some smalll tracks together.

 

[Shonsteez]

Thats dope for personal use, but if u wanna send yer tunes out like that as a demo, just about anybodys gonna look to tha next demo in tha stack cuz tape is so old and outdated now...(yes. some labels,etc do still listen to tapes, but tha amount of cats actually taking time to find a tape player these days to listen to a demo is slim)

STEEZ

 

[Loose Cannon]

Thats dope for personal use, but if u wanna send yer tunes out like that as a demo, just about anybodys gonna look to tha next demo in tha stack cuz tape is so old and outdated now...(yes. some labels,etc do still listen to tapes, but tha amount of cats actually taking time to find a tape player these days to listen to a demo is slim)

STEEZ

I can get my shit onto a cd mad easy though. I dont mind doin that. But id just rather have it on tape first. Keep the grime.

 

[Shonsteez]

Sal good then, i was jus sayin....

 

[Dysphuncktional]

Dude, that is slammin! Nice find! And you peeps who said tape is shit etc., well, that has certain advantages too ! just like how some cats be looking for sp1200 to get gritty low quality sample sounds, tapes are very useful for a certain sound quality too. When you record something on to tape the sound gets 'warmer', due to saturation, tape delay, etc.etc..

Portishead likes to take their samples, rerecord them onto tape, and transfer them from tape to sampler/multitracker etc, because it gives it a nice analog warmth and perhaps lo-fi fuzz, depending on the tape, the recorder, and the equipment of course.

 

[berserk]

I read that about Portishead funnily enough... But that does look dope personally... But I would rather jus go straight to CD... But it's still very cool for that bargain price... Thas like £8.00 over here...

Also the effect channels and parametic EQ are always better on hardware...

 

[nas2000xl]

yo! does that brings back memories? i owned a tascam 4 track that was kinda simular to this one. i forget the model. i bought at a pawn shop for $75.00 back in 91. the only thing that was wrong with it is that the tape transport buttons were broken. back then i knew a guy that worked at radio shack so i took it to him and he sent it out to get fixed and it only cost me $25.00. i had it back in a week. that thing was awesome back then. good luck with yours and try and get the most out of it for what ever you use it for.

 

[Da Beat Lab]

for 15 dollas thats tight as hell

 

[eXampuL_oNe]

DAMN thats a bet! nice find man..

 

[erkl]

i like the arm rest on it - matching the mpc 60 mk 1's beauty!

autechre still uses cassettes to shop around there upcommin releases and demos so that its less desirable for bootleg'rz to leak there shit