Comments on: Vestax MR-44 Four Track Recorder

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:43:10 +0000

Sometimes a build-up of ferrous oxide on the pinch rollers can cause this, so give them a clean with some cleaning fluid and a cotton bud. Alternatively, you might want to check that all the rollers are aligned correctly.

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:19:36 +0000

Mine has taken to eating tapes. Does anyone have a remedy for this?

By: robtechone

robtechone — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:05:50 +0000

THIS VASTEX RECORDER WAS GIVIN TO ME LIKE IN 2003 ITS GREAT FOR ALL KINDS OF RECORDING QUALITY

By: Stephen Bloe

Stephen Bloe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:54:37 +0000

hi there,
i’ve recently acquired the mr44 but am having trouble finding a suitable power adapter. do you know of anywhere that i could find one of the special adapters or any other alternatives? cheers

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:01:17 +0000

I just got mine down out of the closet & will mess with it tonight. I got mine back in 94 & I even got a 4-space portable rack unit I mounted it in (& still is). I’ll have to crank up the Danzig or something & get back in the old days groove & record!

By: simon garrett

simon garrett — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:43:26 +0000

I had a Vestax MR-44 around the same time too – i bought it for my 19th birthday and felt like i was suddenly in a recording studio all of my own..
A wonderful piece of kit with good EQ and noise reduction and all that – i just read another blog piece about it praising the support – mine is still going..

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:54:06 +0000

the thing i remember most about my Vestax 4 track (which was different than the above pic, no eq, not rack mountable, etc) was that you could record on tracks 1, 2, 3, and 4, but that while you were recording onto 4, you could not hear track 3. weird! I LOVED my vestax 4 track.

By: guitdown

guitdown — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:41:56 +0000

Ahhhh I had an MR44 back in ’95… traded a cheap Ibanez EX bass for it. I had so much fun with mine. I actually still have some masters somewhere!!! The 4track Broke, and i sent it back to the Vestax of USA company, they repaired it for me for ($60USD in ’97) and threw in a new power supply. As you may remember, the power supply was a special kind, or mine was. it looked like a regular 12 volt Barrel style, but had a small stinger in the middle that closed a switch so the machine would come on…. talk about PROPRIETARY! Sadly, my dog chewed up the cord to my P/S a few months later, and by then Vestax was out of the recorder business. I then used a 12 volt car battery to power it with! Then finally, sadly it went Kaput.
The main thing i remember about my vesty was you could record all 4 tracks at once if you wanted, and the slick punch in feature. And yes, it did sound like a bowling alley when the transports moved!