I got this four track for free :)

[bradleyverde]

I am not a musician. I do not play an instrument. 'Don't make music of any sort. 'Do not know how a video from David Hilowitz Music made it into my suggested videos feed one day a few weeks back. Do not know what led me to click the video. But I do know what led me to watch the video all the way through and what's kept me coming back to every video since:

David, you're a great story teller and, even if I'm not a musician, I can certainly recognize the creativity and imagination that goes into your work. Thanks for making these videos.

[Azeria]

for the record, you don’t really need new tapes, used tapes are a lot cheaper and erasers aren’t expensive. almost always it’ll be exactly the same as new, and if on the off chance it isn’t, that might be cool in itself anyway

[albertopeixoto]

I’m trying to control my envy, someone gave you something a lot a people dream of getting.

But I couldn’t think of a more deserving person, you already gave us so much with this channel. Thank you.

[LANPA]

The dude with the sunglasses in the chair on the cassette getting blown away by the sound is Peter Murphy, the lead singer of Bauhaus! ❤

[internetperson]

I got a tascam 4 track in 1997. Lots of great times with friends and recorded probably 25-30 songs that I eventually transferred to digital and still have copies of today. What an amazing experience it was to write and record, alone and with friends.

[LouieTaylorMusic]

This couldn't have come at a better time!!! I can't believe it. A great friend of mine just recently gave me the exact tape recorder for free too and I'm a little lost so this was a big help! Thank you

[RGoots]

As always, blown away by your creativity and abilities for creating soundscapes and sound designs. Every sample, every video, every story, is as fascinating, intriguing, and captivating as the last.

[silford]

To be serious, I love the hiss that a tape produces. It's really warm and welcoming.
I havw a cassette player and love to listen to it when I'm low

[johannesviljoen]

when you get something for cheap you feel really excited but when its for free you feel really happy

[bensherwood]

This was my very first multitrack recorder! I remember buying the whole recording rig including an Alesis SR16 drum machine.. good memories

[bobbyspeaker]

This was the first thing I used for song writing when I was in Highschool. 1998! Cool to see it featured somewhere. ❤

[timdanyo]

I started with 4 tracks in the 80s. They were and still are (as you've demonstrated here) liberating.

[Palooka]

David, I just want to say how comforting and soothing your content is. For real, it's like therapy. Not to mention just plain exciting sometimes. Thank you.

[hisnameisjoel]

So funny story. I've been working for the last 4 weeks on completing the restoration of my 1981 DeLorean. While I've been covered in dust and dirt and old car parts, I've gone through every video you have in your series. I finally just got the last piece re-installed while listening to this one. It feels fitting to be restoring something from the past while you bring the past to the present.

Keep up the amazing work. Your videos kept me sane while everything was broken apart!

This brings back memories! My recollection of the 4-channel version of this machine from the 80's was the individual tracks were stacked like a sandwich on one side of cassette.

[Eigenstates.]

You pulled a 10cc "I'm not in Love" with your mixer. It sounds incredible.

[mikeshvedov]

You are just an evil genius. The samples you made here is
Best thing about this one is it's IMPERFECTION. They are NOT identical, they are not 100% in tune, there is something OFF and this is BEAUTIFUL

[rougefive]

All I can say is "WOW". its sounds beautiful!!!!

[ele_ditor]

Everything is very beautiful, the studio holder, the person who gave it as a gift, you who rescued it and the sounds you have created on that beautiful machine, which allowed many (myself included) to introduce ourselves to the world of audio recording and mixing and also in the music.
With the same attitude you have in the video, pure experimentation.
The door to that world was the Tascam 144 (4 tracks), where I was able to record a band of friends playing techno pop, darkwave, without having much idea how to do it, but with a lot of enthusiasm and intuition. Then the Tascam 424 and finally the Tascam 488 which for us was god level, with 8 tracks. I really liked your video.

😃👏👏❣

P.S. Apologies if there are errors in the writing, I wrote in Spanish using the google translator.

[LuckERadio]

I have the same one! It's definitely a fun thing to mess around with and can stimulate creativity through the limitations you have to work around.