While it's nice to know that you can hook multitudes of microphones and instruments up to the Tascam DR-1, most of us are probably only going to be using it for one thing: recording our beautiful and inspired acoustic rock love ballads.

Owen O'Malley puts the DR-1 to the test with a song that he didn't write, but wished he did. Can this cold-soulless piece of machinery capture the existential despondency of the (probably) ironically entitled tune?