f you're old enough to remember 1979's Teac 144 Portastudio, or the follow-up Tascam 244, you'll easily “get” the Zoom R4. The 144 was a simple 4-track recorder/mixer about the size of a briefcase that used both sides of a standard cassette tape in the one direction. It allowed anyone to lay down a track, layer three more on top, then mix as required. It was revolutionary, and gave loads of musos their first experience with multi-track recording, as well as their first experience with wow and flutter as the
