Infographics – Designer Fray DeVore

So, you’ve scored a Tascam AM 424 MKII Portastudio — a sweet analog 4-track cassette recorder — but you cannot figure out how to use it.

There is a good chance you have already found the user manual online. If you are like me, it was too convoluted to be useful. After scouring multiple forums and YouTube videos, I finally figured out how to use it. Still, I was worried that I would forget everything and have to search for it all again.

That is why I designed this cheat sheet. Since the interface is not particularly linear, I numbered each step of the process. It works much like a flowchart. I included helpful tips and even a color legend to differentiate between your inputs, outputs, and volume controls. Once you have mastered recording with it, I also have pages for Playback, Bouncing Tracks, and Mixdown.

No, you don’t have to sign up for anything. It’s free. I just wanted to share this, after having so much trouble with it myself. If you ever need a custom infographic like this, just reach out to me. I am a designer based out of Atlanta, GA, and I also do illustrations, animations, logos, and websites.

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Many Atlantans remember “Album 88,” or WRAS Atlanta, Georgia State University’s 100,000 watt student-run radio station as it was before 2015, when Georgia Public Broadcasting (GBP) strategically stole the airwaves from the student DJs.

The public was outraged. Station supporters went to social media with the hashtag #SaveWRAS and waged war with peaceful protests, a press conference, and a benefit concert named WRAS-stravaganza. I was involved in many of these efforts, as well the designs that accompanied them. Sadly, on June 2, 2014, the contract with GPB went into effect.

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Concert Poster

WRAS was once widely regarded as an Atlanta staple, where many artists got their first big exposure — a list spanning five decades that includes The B-52s, REM, Janelle Monáe, Outkast, Collective Soul, Sade, and the Indigo Girls.

Broadcasting at 100,000 watts, it was the most powerful student-run radio station in the nation. I was the last music director before the GPB takeover.

Me and my older brother, "DJ Adam Bomb," doing our DeVore Family Christmas special on WRAS

For three years, I selected the songs heard in the station’s album-based regular rotation. I also hosted Soul Kitchen, a 2-hour weekly retro soul and funk program, as DJ Freight Train. I met many close friends and made some of my fondest college memories while working at Album 88.

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How to Record with the Tascam 424 MKII Portastudio

#SaveWRAS Movement