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Tascam 688 Midistudio
8-track cassette multitrack recorder and mixer, 1990 onwards. Analogue eight-track recording on standard cassette at double speed with dbx noise reduction, built into a 10-channel mixer with MIDI synchronisation. Put eight tracks on an ordinary cassette, a home-studio workhorse of the early 1990s.
Source, read 15 Nov 2026
Records it appears on · 1
- Your Woman
White Town · Women in Technology, 1997
- Lead vocal · Input chainVerifiedEight-track cassette recorder that the vocal was recorded onto, through the PZM and BE-5.
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IK Multimedia TASCAM Tape Collection
tape
Models TASCAM's own home multitrack recorders, including the Porta One cassette four-track, close relatives of the 688.
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Wavesfactory Cassette
tape
Recreates the sound of recording to cassette tape, the medium this machine used; it is not a model of this unit.
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