You clearly don’t know a fucking thing about those “instruments” and are laughably stupid about sound recording, playback and “fidelity” for even mentioning “tape” and “hi-fi” in the same sentence as you try to fake being an “audiophile”. You’ve probably never owned anything but CDs and MP3s in your life, probably “burned” or “ripped” every last bit of “music” you could steal. And you aren’t smart enough to properly operate a tape deck or turntable so even “hi-fi” vinyl and cassette tape would be trashed by the time you got done listening to your favorite “track” half a dozen times back to back although its highly unlikely an “audiophile” like you would own “equipment” good enough to be able to tell the difference between “new” and “trash” records and tapes unless Mommy and Daddy bought them for you. Hell, I seriously doubt if you even own any CDs and have ever heard “recorded” music and certainly have never been exposed to “videotape” or you’d know why tape sucks dick and there has never been “hi-fi” magnetic audio/video tape or recording equipment made for “home audio” use and why the only way you’ll ever hear “live” music – i.e. “live to tape” – on “modern” stereo audio/video tape is when some wannabe “audiophile” is using a cassette recorder (audio or video) to try to “bootleg” live music or is trying to “record a demo” in his mom’s basement with a cassette player “boombox” and letting the “external microphone” do the rest. That’s also the only way you’ll get “new recording” sound quality shittier than a “Mellotron” but at least unlike the Mellotron which is constantly dragging a “piece” of tape back and forth and back and forth and is never “flipping” the tape to “wear” it evenly, isn’t going to get a whole lot worse than “shitty” given the quality of the recording media and the “data” being recorded on it by a boombox tape deck which as far as using all the available “tracks” ends up using one of them. There ain’t no “mixing” involved “laying down tracks” in mom’s basement with a boombox.