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From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: Re: Tascam 238 8-track cassette
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Date: 9 Apr 91 22:09:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.145831.25954@welch.jhu.edu> jimh@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Jim Hoffman) writes:

>I have read some reviews about 8-track decks and was told by some
>friends that is cassette is too thin to handle 8-tracks.

Boy, am I ever glad Tascam never read those reviews.  If they had, I
suppose my 238 wouldn't work nearly as well!  ;-)

>                                                          But I
>did stumple upon this really nice 6-track cassette for $1,100.  It has 
>two imputs on each channel, so in theory, you have 12 tracks.

BZZZZT!  WRONG.  Tracks does not equal inputs, nor vice versa.  Those
two inputs are mixed prior to being recorded, and are therefore not
available for SEPARATE remix.  This means it is, in both theory and
practice, a six track tape deck.

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