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wait for it posted:Cassettes were fun but let's be real, when they'd get all jammed up in the reels and you'd have to try to get the tape out of the reading head and put it all back in the cassette by spinning the thing with your finger. That poo poo all sucked. Mix tapes were fun though. my old toyota tercel devoured so many of my beloved tapes. i probably bought the same john prine album like 5 times because the deck kept mangling them 
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When I was a kid, in order to save money on mix tapes, I would dub records and radio to to the left and right channels separately and listen to them on my stereo with the right or left channel mixer knob. Did anyone else do this?
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May 3, 2023 21:18
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Pencils to rewind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0
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Buce posted:my old toyota tercel devoured so many of my beloved tapes. i probably bought the same john prine album like 5 times because the deck kept mangling them The AUX jack is one of humankind's finest inventions. No way would I trust one of those things with one of my limited release cassettes in a hot car today Tarkus posted:When I was a kid, in order to save money on mix tapes, I would dub records and radio to to the left and right channels separately and listen to them on my stereo with the right or left channel mixer knob. I didn't, but that's a clever idea
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May 3, 2023 21:35
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Tarkus posted:When I was a kid, in order to save money on mix tapes, I would dub records and radio to to the left and right channels separately and listen to them on my stereo with the right or left channel mixer knob. That's hilarious! Our family had a component system and then one of those "fake component" systems that had a CD player; I had a portable cassette player and didn't get a boombox until much later, so I never would have thought of that.
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May 4, 2023 02:44
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Scotch to make a seam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iVWK2W48o
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Zeluth posted:Pencils to rewind. I actually just found a pen that's suitable for rewinding tapes today. All the ones I had bouncing around were cylindrical 
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May 4, 2023 03:54
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Might have access to a workshop to put my own cassette shelf together soon. How worried should I be about magnetic fields damaging the tapes if I put it in front of a power outlet with a surge protector plugged into it? The surge protector itself will be 2-3 feet away from the shelf.
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Buce posted:my old toyota tercel devoured so many of my beloved tapes. i probably bought the same john prine album like 5 times because the deck kept mangling them Good quality decks never ate tapes though. At least not in my experience.
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May 4, 2023 09:11
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A vivid imagination is the best music format
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Born to push you down.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Good quality decks never ate tapes though. At least not in my experience. what part of late 80s "toyota tercel" made you think of good quality deck?
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olives black posted:The AUX jack is one of humankind's finest inventions. No way would I trust one of those things with one of my limited release cassettes in a hot car today ~Coxy posted:That's hilarious! My dad had an Akai tower stereo set with a JVC tape deck and speakers from about 1980 or so. It was possible to mix stuff on the pre-amp to left and right from either the record play/radio or tape deck and really I found the left/right channel thing by accident because I had recorded Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon onto tape and it sounded like poo poo on (I think) the right channel. After that I found that it was possible to use the mono out from the pre-amp to go to the tape recorder and record both L/R from the record to the tape. I had a late 80's Sony Boombox with a mixer/channel slider and when I played it back, it sounded acceptable but not very good. You could hear a little bit of bleedover from the other channel very faintly. Also, playing it in anything else was awful.
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I now have a workflow that I like for recording vinyl records to tape (Audio Technica AT-LP120 switched to line out and run directly into a Sony TC-WE305). Been thinking about how best to get my CDs onto tape and boy oh boy this is a rabbit hole https://youtu.be/GUf0heY1J_Y https://youtu.be/Gl563onzwqU 2nd video says that the best budget CD transport is 500 euro 
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olives black posted:I now have a workflow that I like for recording vinyl records to tape (Audio Technica AT-LP120 switched to line out and run directly into a Sony TC-WE305). What's the problem with line out from your CD player to line in on your tape deck? Get a nice used Sony or Denon in whatever Craigslist equivalent you have, or go to your nearest thrift store and pick up a DVD player to use. You gotta make an active effort to find CD playback that's bad enough to be noticeable when recording on anything other than a Nakamichi Dragon.
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Buce posted:what part of late 80s "toyota tercel" made you think of good quality deck? None, why?
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evobatman posted:What's the problem with line out from your CD player to line in on your tape deck? Get a nice used Sony or Denon in whatever Craigslist equivalent you have, or go to your nearest thrift store and pick up a DVD player to use. You gotta make an active effort to find CD playback that's bad enough to be noticeable when recording on anything other than a Nakamichi Dragon. Nothing at all, of course. I mean I get the point of a DAC but paying top dollar for a CD transport is cuckoo bananas.
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Tarkus posted:When I was a kid, in order to save money on mix tapes, I would dub records and radio to to the left and right channels separately and listen to them on my stereo with the right or left channel mixer knob.
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May 8, 2023 12:32
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 Not mine but  All my tapes were at our old home and my dad got rid of them all when we sold the place
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May 8, 2023 12:46
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Incitatus posted:OP you can CDs nutz tape deez nutz to ur mouth
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mobby_6kl posted:
I'm sorry for your loss. That was a nice collection there.
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Really want to get a box of these: https://www.nationalaudiocompany.com/product/ferromaster-c256-type-1-60-minute-cassette-30-min-side-copy/ Reviews up to 2022 have been bad, but I can feel my curiosity getting the better of me. Maybe they finally worked out the kinks?
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Is that the only company making tapes now? Or can you still get TDKs or something? New blanks has not been a concern for me in a long time but I've been thinking of making something for my cousin.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Is that the only company making tapes now? Or can you still get TDKs or something? New blanks has not been a concern for me in a long time but I've been thinking of making something for my cousin. There's still plenty of blanks from Maxell and others available. I just worry about them running out and not having new stuff from companies that have their act together. If the reviews from 2019-2022 are accurate than NAC does not 
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cleaning up the belt and volume slider on a tps-l2 seems trivial compared to possibly recapping a d6c to reduce noise
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Booty Pageant posted:cleaning up the belt and volume slider on a tps-l2 seems trivial compared to possibly recapping a d6c to reduce noise Which one did you decide on?
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I feel like the older Walkmans without the extra bells and whistles like radio tuners are better bets than the later models. My old WM-EX112 works quite well, but the WM-FX290 has some annoying rippling on the left channel.
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New boom box just dropped https://youtu.be/CiSLp77Wwcg Up to 10khz frequency response! 
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olives black posted:Was watching an interview with Steve Albini where he was talking about how he had to cut new masters for the vinyl releases of Big Black records (which all came out in the 80's) because the old ones corroded. lol if you think some lovely little cassette was equal to studio quality r2r tape 7.5 ips r2r > vinyl >>>> cassette
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Woolie Wool posted:lol if you think some lovely little cassette was equal to studio quality r2r tape I was making a point about the superiority of tape in general, you buffoon
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Woolie Wool posted:lol if you think some lovely little cassette was equal to studio quality r2r tape but yes for day to day use cassettes own harder than r2r nothing against r2r, it's cool for stationary chilling the same way that vinyl is it's also expensive as gently caress https://youtu.be/ttsL1fPJnSw
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I was listening to (and ripping) my old DJ mixtapes from the 90s today. Recorded onto metal cassettes using a Yamaha KX 580 with Dolby S. They sound really, really nice. Well except for the odd slightly dodgy mix, or some, erm, overstimulated technique (a capellas over everything, and general showing off) Dolby S is so drat good, it's a real shame it wasn't more widely used. I'm sure that you could tell the difference between a Dolby S tape and a CD in an a/b test, but just on its own it was as good as CD to most ears. I got a new KX deck off ebay recently. It had a busted lid, but worked perfectly. £25, haha, the original one was about 400 quid iirc. gently caress, I was so overplayed back then, welp. It also has HX Pro, I forgot all about that. I'll post some pics of my collection blank tapes for you fellow nerds soon. No prerecorded though, it was vinyl for DJ work and CD for home listening. Well, I did have loads of albums on tape in the 80s, but gently caress knows where they went. I'll see if I can dig out the few DAT cassettes that I have somewhere. They are so wee and cute. And sound incredible too of course. Oh yeah, and I got a great 1970 era cassette storage thing from the thrift shop recent. Cream, brown and smoke coloured plastic, real classy unit. Holds about 80 tapes so well worth the 50p it cost. YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 10:36 on May 24, 2023 |
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Adolf Glitter posted:I was listening to (and ripping) my old DJ mixtapes from the 90s today. Recorded onto metal cassettes using a Yamaha KX 580 with Dolby S. Even Dolby-B sounds p good imo. This video has an a/b of the original FLAC and the Dolby-B recorded version and the latter sounds - dare I say it - better? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER73ayOqMo4 Would love to see your collection!
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olives black posted:I was making a point about the superiority of tape in general, you buffoon Cassettes are awful, I'd rather have 128 kbps mp3s from the pirate bay
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Woolie Wool posted:Cassettes are awful, I'd rather have 128 kbps mp3s from the pirate bay 
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so this all still works apparently
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kntfkr posted:so this all still works apparently I hope it's as much of a treat for the ears as it is for the eyes. Purtty
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drat, those actually sound pretty good!
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 managed to save this from the dump, sadly there's a demented rear end in a top hat at the recycling center who can't stand the sight of nice things being dropped off so he breaks things. basically cleaned, lubed and greased switches and pots and it sounds great. but i really should buy a big bag of belts
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