TASCAM has made a portable, battery and AC operated 4-track digital recorder. It likes mighty interesting if you ask me.

http://www.tascam.com/products/dp-004;9,16,3707,14.html

That does look interesting, thanks for the heads up.

looks dope, doesn't someone on here rocks the boss micro???

I'm very happy with my Micro BR, but this unit looks tight too sporting the knobs. The Micro BR comes with a nice cloth sheath, and also a separate leather open case so you can wear it & or conceal it in jacket whilst keeping it protected.

Tascam seems to like to use knobs to differentiate themselves from Roland. Roland usually gives you way more goodies but you have to menu surf to get at them.

that looks really good for $200. I really wish Zoom would make an updated version of MRS-4B. That thing is dope ! I have one but my card slot on it broke

I have been looking at a portable recorder so I can record dj sets and what not. A lot of people swear by the Micro-Track, but it looks too plasticy for $300. But like I said, maad people swear by it.

Yeah exactly. Not having knobs makes it flatter, like a cell phone- easier to carry around- I'd be afraid them knobs would bust unless they have a special case for it. The Tascam seems to have stereo onboard mic.

The Sound Professionals is selling the DP-004 here and they have a cases that can fit it, too:

http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-b ... tegory/315

If you get all As on your street report card we'll pitch in & buy it for you

a ps04 rules all over this - slightly fatter than a cassette walkman (fits in top shirt pocket) - 4 tracks and a drum machine and bass machine that can be sequenced separately (make yr own patterns) then effect them and bounce to a record track.

on the surface this tascam has more going for it - usb - two inbult mics - two inputs - bu that's it ---

but no stereo line input? oops...

nooo virtual tracks???? the ps04 has 10 per track for more takes..

what keeps my MRS4 on the cooking plate over this tascam is it's midi clock out which is ka-dang with the sp404 patterns.

the tascam is old already. this is for guitar heads who don't want get their head around anything more complicated than a cassette player.

Only real shortcoming the Zoom PS04 has is the smartmedia storage. I been eyeing the 8 track version of the Tascam. The DP02CF $100 more but twice the tracks and still just as easy to work with.

the zoom ps04 has a lot of shortcomings - it's way old technology now - but that was my point about comparing it to this thing.
Knowing what most folk here would be using it for - i asssumed they would get bored with it pretty quick.

i don't know if its newer, but i have the mrs 8, its got 8 tracks (really?), and it does pretty much everything that the mrs 4b does (i just read up on it a little), but its pretty tight, i just got a fostex cassette 4 track fixed though and haven't fucked with it, so we'll so how that works