Palm Sounds report on Belkin's great-looking TuneStudio iPod portastudio, which can record 4 tracks mixer - which can mix four tracks into a two channel recording on a 5G ipod. You can nearly do the same thing with a Behringer mixer and a Tune Talk (although there will be a level problem as the Tune Talk only has a mic input). But this thing is cute and knobby, and $180 isn't a terrible price. Alternatively, for $99 you can stay strictly old-school on cassette with the Tascam MFP01 which is actually sold with the line "Records one track at a time with classic warm analog sound"... (More coverage of the TuneStudio at iLounge, Engadget and Gizmodo.) (Thanks to everyone in the comments for explaining this story back to me...)
Posted by Tom Whitwell.
Comments:
Looks dead cool, unfortunately it doesn't appear to be a four-track in that it only records a stereo mix of the four channels.
I have the Tunetalk Stereo (works with a 5g iPod). I regularly use it to record live sets (16bit 44khz stereo wav files, each one usually about 10-15 mins) straight from the output of my laptop soundcard.
It doesn't seem to have a problem with line level signals either (with the autogain switch in the off position).
it doesn't seem much more to me than a mixer + recorder.
Multi tracks would have been great: most folks already have shiny black 30gb hard drives, and it would be great to integrate those into multi track recording.
As it stands: it is a big piece of pseudo-nickelodeon-style (remember their cameras?) stuff that doesn't do much.
I'd get a fostex mr8 (or mr8hd) instead. The boss does look cool, though.
I didn't understand where the Tunestudio gets the power. I see just a usb plug... if so, it works only with a usb power source (like a laptop or something...), or does it get power directly from the Ipod?
Palm Sounds report on Belkin's great-looking TuneStudio iPod 
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