Old school recording okay?

[circwell]

Hi I'm a guitarist that's recorded on my digitech GNX3 several times before with decent results, but I was just looking throught a junk room at my school's music suite and found an old sony tape recorder (like with the two big reels of tape), a few nice big stereo cassette players, and a decent looking 4 track tascam portastudio with 8 channels of mixing capability. My music teacher has told me to go ahead, borrow any of it (they were going to throw some of it away) but I was wondering if these three items would result in a better recording when used in conjunction with my GNX3. Thoughts on if I should use them or not? If so what would you recommend the setup to be? Thanks for any advice.

[Nicko_Shmicko]

i got a crazy idea...try them?

[airborne50caliber]

old school rocks

[pitchfork]

yeah i love old school recordings i want an old ribbon mic for recording vocals when i start

[akoaysigod]

Just give it a try and see how it turns out. It's not like you're really putting too much money into it.

[moaner]

i loooooooooove analogue!

[Jilm21]

You have the greatest music teacher in the world to let you borrow unwanted school property. When I was in school they just would said F you get back to class, so enjoy what you got. I use analog and it really makes you work at what you do cause there is less ability to touch up. I might just be stupid though and not know how to perfect analog.

[airborne50caliber]

Jlim's got a good point about analogue.