four-track

So, I just saved up all my money from waiting tables and got an old reel-to-reel four-track to set up in the living room of the apartment that I was living in.

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So, I just saved up all my money from waiting tables and got an old reel-to-reel four-track to set up in the living room of the apartment that I was living in.

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I'm not sure how you'd get a quality microphone hooked up to the iPad, but this is a long way from the $500. cassette four-track recorder that I used in high school.

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So, I just saved up all my money from waiting tables and got an old reel-to-reel four-track to set up in the living room of the apartment that I was living in.

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So, I just saved up all my money from waiting tables and got an old reel-to-reel four-track to set up in the living room of the apartment that I was living in.

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I would write them very quietly, and they were filled with maybe anger, rebellion, role-playing, jokes, and they were just a very personal expression that I recorded on a four-track cassette.

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"Fish Heads" was one of them, and we sent it off to Dr. Demento...actually that was a four-track.

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"Fish Heads" was one of them, and we sent it off to Dr. Demento...actually that was a four-track.

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I would write them very quietly, and they were filled with maybe anger, rebellion, role-playing, jokes, and they were just a very personal expression that I recorded on a four-track cassette.

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He began making demos on a four-track cassette recorder.

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