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"In 1979, TASCAM unveiled the TEAC 144 Portastudio, the world's first 4 track recorder based on a standard cassette tape. Priced at only $1,100 suggested retail, the 144 brought unprecedented quality, economy and portability within the reach of every serious musician. The 144 Portastudio was a revolutionary creative tool. It allowed musicians the ability to record any number of instrumental and vocal parts on different tracks of the built-in 4 track recorder and later blend all the parts together while transferring them to another standard 2-channel stereo tape deck (remix and mixdown) to form a stereo recording."

"The term Portastudio has become a household name among musicians. Despite a growing number of competing multitrack formats and technologies, the Portastudio remains the most popular multitrack recorder in the history of audio recording. Over 20 years since its introduction, thousands and thousands of musicians and songwriters purchase and use Portastudios to capture the creative moment. Over one million TASCAM Portastudios have been sold since 1979!"

Quoted Tascam's History page

'function' section

lacks citations, & the part about flanging is OR, as well as badly explained. I don't know how to tag for that, but as soon as I figure it out, I will. also, do we have to have a massive list of people no-one's ever heard of who've used one the of damn things? a couple of the bigger names will do, surely?

duncanrmi (talk) 13:11, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Let's take out the flanging bit and all the uncited claims about people who've recorded with one. Cheers! DoctorMatt (talk) 00:25, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I added "citation needed" tags to many of the recorded-with claims in February so I'm happy to wait until April to hack away at these. Cheers! DoctorMatt (talk) 00:27, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]