Vinyl

I had a pretty nice cassette deck in the 90s and it got a lot of use before the days of recordable CDs, when I was trading Phish shows left and right.   Then it fell into disuse, and one day I noticed it had just given up and died.  Poor guy.  Lost the will to live apparently.

Cassettes were definitely the best design of the three. 4-tracks and 8-tracks had a single spool inside. The tape was drawn from the center of the spool, across the heads and them back to the outside of the spool. Sometimes the spool would become too tightly wound and the tape would drag and it would sound like playing a 45 at 33 1/3. 

Walton Street wrote: it just occurred to me .. when I get all of my stuff out of storage, I should pull the more interesting doubles out of the pile, check the condition, and offer them up here if they pass muster.   I wouldn't want money for them ... if someone wanted to pay for the shipping they could just have them..

Here is a great article on vinyl by The Guardian........notice in the pics who is listening to vinyl in the bar, not grumpy old codgers as some think, looks like 20-30 somethings and I also like their comments on why vinyl....."You take ownership of something...." I like that.

Catcher10 wrote: Here is a great article on vinyl by The Guardian........notice in the pics who is listening to vinyl in the bar, not grumpy old codgers as some think, looks like 20-30 somethings and I also like their comments on why vinyl....."You take ownership of something...." I like that.   http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/07/-sp-vinyls-difficult-comeback

Great article, the vinyl manufacturing seems very interesting. I also liked this phrase "When you listen to CDs after you’ve been listening to vinyl for a long time, it sounds a bit … synthetic", althought I listen to vinyl regularly for the last two years and I already notice that

More new stuff, first thing I noticed about this one is that the digital version is longer: the digital has some instrumental before the initial vocals. The instrumental is very good, even better than Relayer IMO, but its only sin is being a double LP. I only listened to the first LP today
About quality, I can't say much, I'm still suffering from Red withdrawal

Took the photo and listened with the cover down, what do you think Argo?

Meltdowner wrote:  The instrumental is very good, even better than Relayer IMO, but its only sin is being a double LP. I only listened to the first LP today

Catcher10 wrote: HolyMoly wrote: I had a pretty nice cassette deck in the 90s and it got a lot of use before the days of recordable CDs, when I was trading Phish shows left and right.   Then it fell into disuse, and one day I noticed it had just given up and died.  Poor guy.  Lost the will to live apparently.   Yea.....my last deck was top-end Akai. Made the best tapes ever, I should have kept it as I am sure it was just a belt or a motor that needed to be re-greased...but I too let it die on me.

I always got the "hi-bias" cassettes, but never the metal ones.  I recorded in "Dolby B" as well.  Back then, slightly muffled sound was much preferable to tape hiss.  Tape hiss was the Devil.  Nowadays modern "lo-fi" bands actually TRY to get tape hiss into and vinyl surface noise into their recordings.  Funny how things happen.

Walton Street wrote: HolyMoly wrote: I always got the "hi-bias" cassettes, but never the metal ones.  I recorded in "Dolby B" as well.  Back then, slightly muffled sound was much preferable to tape hiss.  Tape hiss was the Devil.  Nowadays modern "lo-fi" bands actually TRY to get tape hiss into and vinyl surface noise into their recordings.  Funny how things happen.     I was the exact opposite because I used to prefer a high end sound to the muffled sound and with Dolby it chopped off the entire high end - or at least that's how it sounded to me.   I always liked that crisp sounding tweeter

That's how I feel today, but back then chopping off the high end was kind of a necessary evil to me.

Walton Street wrote: Dolby it chopped off the entire high end - or at least that's how it sounded to me.  I always liked that crisp sounding tweeter