"If I can't figure out how to work this thing since everyone here knows (what did you call him? 4 track) I'm gonna get one of you guys to help me find out where he lives and I'm gonna make Buster take an 18 wheeler load to where he lives and I'll have Buster sit on him until he shows me how to work this contraction."

If buster has to go through death valley to get here, have him bring me a rock.

"Is this the same guy that rants and raves about copywrite? "

Nope

"Sir, if you are the same gentleman I'm thinking of, please forget everything I said and I relly apologzize if I hurt your feelings. Really!"

Finally we somewhat agree on something, as I feel sorry for you as well. Really!

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Now that we all agree...what are your major issues with the recorder, what other gear are you working with ( mixer, mics and so on ).

As your going to be combining live sax with some keyboard backing, your going to have to pay much mind to get them to meld somewhat natural. Right off I would say with backing, go for two parts. First part being drums and bass..get those in order on your keyboard, then record them to the tascam across two tracks. After that layer other filler flesh out parts directly to the recorder. Main reason for this...while you could stack everything in the keyboard then just record the entire backing to two tracks, you would lose some after the fact mixing control (regardless of you mixing freedoms within the keyboard ). Heck you could record all parts independent, you can do anything anyhow any order.

For your sax...HAVE to go with two channels, while mono is workable and fine...a close mic and a room mic with a sax ( and many other random things ) would be great. PLUS it could kill any need for any type of reverb effects blah blah blah and so on, as you would have a great natural sound tracked in the first place. On top of that two mics would help balance it with the keyboard parts, as most of those should be ( or at least the piano voice of your board ) in stereo.

In relation to the natural sax and the harsher sound of the keyboard, you can get a feel for the dynamics of your recorded sax parts...and match your keyboards effects before the fact to fit better with the sax.