Cassette Tapes
Discussion
I love them, and still use them to make compliations for the car.
Found a box in the garage, and the writing on the inlay cards in the cases had faded, and am now having hours of Dank Holiday fun playing them and trying to remember the tracks.
On now is (I think) Kextex - In the Forehead. Cracking Acid Techno, Routemaster style.
More to discover soon.
Koenig
Found a box in the garage, and the writing on the inlay cards in the cases had faded, and am now having hours of Dank Holiday fun playing them and trying to remember the tracks.
On now is (I think) Kextex - In the Forehead. Cracking Acid Techno, Routemaster style.
More to discover soon.
Koenig
I HATED cassettes when the came out, and have hated them ever since. Crap quality and magnetic tape wipes itself over time, so whatever you have, won't last. As it was the only option in the 70s, I still have boxes full of them. Luckilly, I no longer have a cassette player.
I use DAT tape - better quality than CD - and for the car... well the MP3 plugs in.
Rant over!
I use DAT tape - better quality than CD - and for the car... well the MP3 plugs in.
Rant over!
GetCarter said:
I HATED cassettes when the came out, and have hated them ever since. Crap quality and magnetic tape wipes itself over time, so whatever you have, won't last. As it was the only option in the 70s, I still have boxes full of them. Luckilly, I no longer have a cassette player.
I use DAT tape - better quality than CD - and for the car... well the MP3 plugs in.
Rant over!
Pre-recorded were absolutely dire.I use DAT tape - better quality than CD - and for the car... well the MP3 plugs in.
Rant over!
But get a decent chrome/metal tape, with a decent recorder (ie. my old Sony WM-D6C) from a reasonable source (the old Linn LP12/Ittok). Decent head unit in the car (I had some Denon back in the day, but wanted a Nakamichi or Soundstream), and the sound could be either good or excellent.
clonmult said:
GetCarter said:
I HATED cassettes when the came out, and have hated them ever since. Crap quality and magnetic tape wipes itself over time, so whatever you have, won't last. As it was the only option in the 70s, I still have boxes full of them. Luckily, I no longer have a cassette player.
I use DAT tape - better quality than CD - and for the car... well the MP3 plugs in.
Rant over!
Pre-recorded were absolutely dire.I use DAT tape - better quality than CD - and for the car... well the MP3 plugs in.
Rant over!
But get a decent chrome/metal tape, with a decent recorder (ie. my old Sony WM-D6C) from a reasonable source (the old Linn LP12/Ittok). Decent head unit in the car (I had some Denon back in the day, but wanted a Nakamichi or Soundstream), and the sound could be either good or excellent.
However, I was the first London composer to pitch my music on CD - and got SO much work from it, as everyone else was on cassette, and they thought I must be REALLY good to present work on a CD
These days it's not the medium, nor the material, but 'blue sky thinking' and 'imaginative reinterpretations'.
OK - I take it all back... bring back the cassette. Analogue life was a st load easier.
Another rant over.
koenig999 said:
Technonotice said:
Check out routemaster 45. Awesome track
Take's me back to shopping in Chocci's Chewns, with Chocci dancing on the counter!I do have a lot of D.A.V.E. The Drummer, but not that one, so I will keep an eye out for it.
Koenig
Have 1,000's of cassette tapes, some priceless sets included therein. Some V. early Spiral Tribe, Aphex Twin @ dawn from Hampstead Heath '91, loads of Ellis Dee, Adrian Age, Billy Bunter, Ratpack, Stu Allen etc. Really must get round to digitising them one day...
Mr Heathen said:
Watch yer bass bins, I'm tellin' yer...
Altern8 lyric?Does anyone know a good set up for getting my old mix tapes downloaded, cleaned up & into iTunes?
I have a reasonable tape deck, a sound card with a line in & a recommendation to use Audacity freeware software to tidy it up. I also have £80 quid to buy an Ion Tape2PC from Faeces World if it is less hassle. I have quite a few tapes to do...
Thoughts?
TIA
brisel said:
Mr Heathen said:
Watch yer bass bins, I'm tellin' yer...
Altern8 lyric?Does anyone know a good set up for getting my old mix tapes downloaded, cleaned up & into iTunes?
I have a reasonable tape deck, a sound card with a line in & a recommendation to use Audacity freeware software to tidy it up. I also have £80 quid to buy an Ion Tape2PC from Faeces World if it is less hassle. I have quite a few tapes to do...
Thoughts?
TIA
Adrian Swarl said:
I am often scanning Ebay for a silver, Sony tape deck (so it'll match the rest of the kit) to rediscover my cassette collection on.
You can still buy them new (and not too expensive):-http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&...
I used to love cassettes, the old days when you could record an LP onto 1 side of a C-90 were great.
A decent desk would give quite good sound quality too, they were a bit crap in the car though (minidiscs were better).
I still have 100's of tapes with recordings of classic Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show and Dream FM which was a cool pirate radio station in Leeds & Manchester in the early 90's (eventually turned into the awful Galaxy). None of them are labeled so it's nice to put on a random cassette and see what comes on.
Quite a poor medium for storing music on, play a 20+ year old recording and it's a bit poo now.
A decent desk would give quite good sound quality too, they were a bit crap in the car though (minidiscs were better).
I still have 100's of tapes with recordings of classic Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show and Dream FM which was a cool pirate radio station in Leeds & Manchester in the early 90's (eventually turned into the awful Galaxy). None of them are labeled so it's nice to put on a random cassette and see what comes on.
Quite a poor medium for storing music on, play a 20+ year old recording and it's a bit poo now.
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