![]() ![]() In a short history of the Portastudio, Reverb, the audio community, said that throughout the 1980s and 90s many companies, like Fostex and Yamaha, came out with their own versions of the Portastudio. The final record was made from those original cassettes. But even with dirty heads and a incorrectly set “varispeed” adjustment, the machine captured the precise sound Springsteen wanted. When Springsteen made the recordings with Mike Batlan, his guitar roadie, the paid had little technical knowledge. One of the great projects was Bruce Springsteen’s album, Nebraska, which was recorded in 1982 in a spare bedroom on a TASCAM Portastudio 144 and a pair of Shure SM57s. Many great (and not-so-great) songs were created on these devices in bedrooms and basements worldwide. Next came sweepable stacked-knob EQs and dbx noise reduction, a big boon for improving the quality of cassette audio. As the years passed, the company came out with many new models, always upping the feature set.
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