I would skip the tape and get a Boss digital 4 track like a boss br-532. It has a drum machine, some basic effects. Each track also has 8 "virtual tracks", so y

I would skip the tape and get a Boss digital 4 track like a boss br-532. It has a drum machine, some basic effects. Each track also has 8 "virtual tracks", so you do have some room to record variations, but more importantly, it lets you record 4 tracks and then "mix them down" to a virtual track, allowing you to record 3 new tracks on top. You can even keep mixing more and more tracks down (though you lose the ability to mix them all independently). But because you have "virtual tracks" all the original tracks are still there and you can always go back and remix them.