I just shoot up a bunch of crystal meth and make tracks for like 19 days straight. I wrote four albums in a row on my last bender.

Make sure your meth has extra lithium from rechargeable batteries, it will make your tracks more energetic.

The Timeline looks dope. You could have a lot of fun with that and a decent reverb.

Move to the south side of Chicago.

You need a TB-303, it is the only way to get that sound.

I'm starting to think that I'm not tortured enough to make decent music

I think that is a complete load of 19th century romantic bullshit.

The secret to good music is talent and a work ethic. Don't buy into that tortured artist crap; just sit down, clear your mind, and get to work.

You can put a playback head after a recording head, that is how a tape echo works.

As far as realtime playback goes, it is possible if the unit it set up that way, but I doubt the Nagra works like that. However, you can run audio through its circuits and use it as a sort of preamp.

If you are going to go R2R it is better to go with a more expensive professional deck with a legacy parts community surrounding it. The consumer end of the market was phased out by cassette by the early 80's and a lot of the consumer decks are from the 60's-70's. This which means most of them are 40...

The thing I want to know is if the sequencer can be stepped from the 5v outs of Roland drum machines. If this is possible, people are really not getting how much of a BFD this product is. This is basically Korg making a cut down version of the SH101. Yeah, it's limited, but it's retail price is a th...