Mr. Afternoon
Mixing Engineer & Artist
Im just curious are any members still recording on cassette
Im just curious are any members still recording on cassette
Ah, well, now you're going to tell us that Golden Bonanna was recorded on a Tascam 4 ch cassette deck, right?
Nope, it was recorded with something far worse.Ah, well, now you're going to tell us that Golden Bonanna was recorded on a Tascam 4 ch cassette deck, right?
Yes.
But only because this car:
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Has this for a stereo system:
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So, I do have a small collection of cassettes. Nothing major, just a couple albums I like. I'm a firm believer in an automobile should reflect it's era. The 80's were about cassettes and the tail end was about the slow adoption of CD's. The CD-player is a slight anachronism as it debuted for the 1988 model year and my car is an '87. But, I managed to cobble together everything to install it and make it work. Silliest $300 I ever spent.
Nope, it was recorded with something far worse.
I've just actually been experimenting with DPLii on regular plain ol' cassettes.
I used tapes extensively in the 1990's as teenager getting into music. They had a time and a place. Which was largely before I "got" hi-fi: I am too damaged now to ever return. I got everything I could in a hissless digital form and eventually turfed them about 15 years ago.
Though, by chance, life threw tapes at me again. I ended up helping digitise over 100 Hunters and Collectors (an Australian band) desk tapes... and they were mostly chromium dioxide tapes. I feel a little sorry for tapes now: these were pretty good. Especially since many had been sitting in cupboards for 30 years - and not a single one audibly warped or snapped.
I'm amused Nakamichi got a mention, too... that's what I was using. We broke one machine and I got a second one. I think that accidentally got thrown out because someone thought it was the broken one *facepalm*
My Tascam 133 AV cassette deck also runs at 3-3/4 IPS .1 7/8 IPS FROM 15/30 IPS MASTERS ...... Are you kidding ME?
Signed,
El Exigente [the DEMANDING ONE]
Why do I feel like I'm about to be burned on a cross?
That sounds like an exercise in futility!Nope, it was recorded with something far worse.
I've just actually been experimenting with DPLii on regular plain ol' cassettes.
Certainly CD sales are in decline as most consumers move towards downloads and streaming ; it was never a great format anyway as I used to demonstrate to visitors by playing CDs of the same albums as I had on vinyl and showing the superiority of the analogue format .Im just curious are any members still recording and or buying cassettes? There is supposed to be a cassette revival like Vinyl but I see little evidence of it.
There are a few new cassette players being made but they are not high quality.. One cannot buy new chrome or metal tape anymore only normal or ferric oxide.
Because my car is so old it has both a cassette player and CD player. So I would occasionally record a tape from records to play.
In the old days I would record entire albums on tape not just for the car but to play at home so I wouldn't have to keep getting up and flipping records. I also liked to make mix tapes as many people did.
I always liked fooling with cassettes but is there really a practical use for them when you can play digital files?
Of course practicality and hobbies don't always go together.....
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