This is what I used to record with.The Emerson on the right was given to me by my neighbor in 1992 or so. I started with this and picked up multi-track recording when I used my parents’ 1970s cassette player (not pictured). It had a metal façade over the speaker that created a distorted sound when played at full volume. I would record with the Emerson, play it back on the 70s machine, play along and record on the Emerson on a second cassette. Sometime around 1995, my parents gave away their old cassette player and in 1996 or 97 I got the other cassette player at Pic N Save. So that partially explains the lack of multi track recordings from late 95 to early 97. I used these two from then until late 2002, when I finally got my Tascam 4-track.