It’s always been a fond memory from high school watching one of my teachers with a TEAC TASCAM 4 track Cassette Portastudio. He was just there doing a rhythm t

It’s always been a fond memory from high school watching one of my teachers with a TEAC TASCAM 4 track Cassette Portastudio. He was just there doing a rhythm track using a pair of those things you shake that rattle (pretty sure that’s the technical term for them). It was a keen insight at the time on how music was created and recorded, and something as a consumer we take for granted. We may be aware of the process of music recording or film editing in the abstract without really realizing the complexities involved. We’re used to the final products, not the bits and pieces they’re built from. I thought it was a really amazing piece of kit, while realizing its limitations and why it ran at double speed. (there’s only so much you can squeeze onto a thin cassette tape). But there he was in his living room with this thing on an end table, it was an empowering piece of tech.