Cassette
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Topic: Cassette
Posted By: aglasshouse
Subject: Cassette
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 13:39
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Hey guys! So...there's a vinyl thread...and I don't know if there's a counterpart for those little rectangular tape-y things. I find them quite interesting and I happen to own a few. Of course, they aren't as majestic as vinyl, but... ..I mean they're easy to play and stuff... ..and there's these...  Anyway! A hit or miss discussion has been started and I am the creator. Go semi-all out! ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 13:43
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I still have a bunch of mix tapes but nothing to play them on. I don't even know what's on them...it drives me nuts. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 14:01
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I have an old Walkman connected to the sound card's input jack of an old desktop computer that's in my music room (aka as my youngest kid's bedroom now that he's in college). I tossed several hundred cassettes four years ago when we moved from South Dakota to Pennsylvania but still have a small number that were never reissued on CD which I've ripped to mp3s. Come to think of it I haven't even used that Walkman in at least three years so never mind... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 14:03
Maybe it's time to dust it off. Also, cassettes are like a penny a piece these days at thrift stores. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
ClemofNazareth wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 14:06
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I still have a cassette deck on my hi-fi chain in Bruussels, and I still have somewhere a walkmůan,... I still have three wooden wine crates filled with my old Maxrll XL-IIS tapes... but lest time I really gave them a spin was when I bought that used Citroen Xantia car that still had a cassette deck in it some 10 years ago... Waited two or three months to replace the old cassette deck with a CD deck ... Interesting nostalgia experience, but musically, it didn't change much since what I listened to back then (from 81 until 93) was roughly correspon,ding to what I listened before and still represent 85% of what I listened 10 years ago. |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 14:07
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I have a boom box that I use when I'm working on a project in the garage or the back yard. As you know, these units have a CD player on top and a cassette player in the front. I have a box full of cassettes from my pre CD days that are mostly heavy metal and hair/glam bands. I will occasionally throw in Skid Row, Testament, Metallica, Lynch Mob or Mr. Big since I did not repurchase these on CD.
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Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 14:17
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Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 15:31
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^ I only have it outside or in the garage when I'm working. The rest of the time it is in the house. Back in the day the cassette players I've had in different cars would sometimes eat a tape. If you were lucky you could carefully pull the tape out and manually rewind it but that wasn't always the case.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 16:38
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I also have a number of cassettes that haven't been played much in recent years. Many have been replaced by CDs or MP3s. I have also converted a number of them to MP3s. I still have a cassette player in my car, as well as a walkman, a couple of boomboxes and a cassette player on my stereo system. Most of mine are also 80's heavy metal and hair/glam metal bands. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 17:04
I sold all my cassettes at a garage sale decades ago. I remember the hours of recording the damn things so that my records would stay somewhat pristine. And...my albums are sitting boxed in storage for the last few decades as well. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 17:09
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I still have all my cassettes.....Had an Akai deck and it finally kicked the bucket about 8yrs ago....Been thinking of getting another deck but not too interested. I do have a Walkman, still works and our minivan has combo cassette/CD/DVD player....never use it though. Regarding tape, I still use 1/4" reel to reel tape, the deck I have is in pristine condition, makes amazing dubs of my vinyl. -------------   
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Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 17:50
That's about all I listened to back then.
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Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: November 11 2015 at 22:50
I have a lot of cassettes, and still buy them when I see them cheap. It helps that I have a tape-to-mp3 converter. 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 12 2015 at 04:54
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I found an old cassette deck and a bunch of tapes in the loft last week. The deck is going to the dump along with all but 2 of the cassettes, these will be transferred to MP3 along with a load of recordings that I made on a 4-track Fostex X15 back in the 80s. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: November 12 2015 at 15:18
Mp3 conversion's usually a good way to go. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: November 14 2015 at 10:08
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High end cassette players from 1983 such as the Nakamichi 700 & 1000 zxl were so good that it made reel to reel tape players obsolete. It remains extraordinary sources that compeat with very big turntable setups...   4...as for portable, Sony WD 6 are fantastic as well, excellent portable source of course, among the best available and also a good source for a home system! And a very good recorder BTW: http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/project/sony-wm-d6c-professional-walkman-working/" rel="nofollow - http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/project/sony-wm-d6c-professional-walkman-working/ |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: November 14 2015 at 11:41
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I still have my Denon deck but never use it these days. I never bought pre-recorded tapes always feeling they were inferior to vinyl but i did tape quite a bit of stuff over the years. Problem with Cassettes is they don't always age well and can develop dropouts, usually in 1 channel and other faults over time.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 14 2015 at 14:26
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I have a couple of albums on casette most notably New Kids On The Block's first and Michael Jackson's Dangerous - the former being one of the very first tapes/albums I bought with my own money. I blame the hot chicks in my class. I have a bootful of mixed tapes as well, but they were all made in a haze of beers and weed. No information given other than some terribly deranged titles. I am looking at two right now. One is called 'Sauce Bearnaise' the other 'Bror Leverpostej' loosely translates into Brother Paté. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: November 14 2015 at 14:38
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oh, I additionally might open a minidisc thread, I still have one and can't get rid of ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 14 2015 at 14:41
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------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 15 2015 at 08:56
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I still have an old Onkyo cassette deck but when I play the cassettes they sound very muddy.....so not sure if the highs have dropped off over time on the actual tape or if the heads on the deck have gone bad. Any ideas...? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: November 15 2015 at 09:27
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^Not sure about that; some of my tapes fluctuate abnormally in volume when I play them in a cassette player and I'm not sure why ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: November 15 2015 at 09:36
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^^ Did you try cleaning the heads? |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: November 15 2015 at 10:12
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^^^ If all of them sound muddy it will probably be dirty heads, if it's just some of them then it will more likely be tape deterioration. Try getting some head cleaning solution and clean with ear buds. ^^ If they're fluctuating in volume it sounds like faulty tapes. I've had that happen in the past.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 15 2015 at 11:35
Yes..several times with a tape cassette head cleaner and with a liquid wipe system....didn't seem to help. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Rando
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 15:20
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Yes...Cassettes - How many times I still do this - These days I find the best ones at yard sales!  ------------- - Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats - |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 18:05
Depending on age of the deck and usage, only other possibility could be heads are magnetized, which can cause drop outs and over all dull sounds, especially in the highs. You can get a tape head demagnetizer pretty cheap on flea-bay....I still have a hand held one from Rat Shack that works very well. It is very, very important that you follow the directions on head demag or you will defeat the purpose. When you clean the heads use Q-tips and 91% or better IPA, never use Rubbing Alcohol as that contains a lot of water and well, water and metal are not good together  .-------------
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Posted By: poeghost
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 18:28
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Catcher10, what is IPA? I still have a cassette deck and some portable players/recorders. I listen to cassettes quite often. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 18:33
no!!!! It is too late but what have you done. We have enough of the vinyl hipsters.. that is just what we need to encourage... a bunch of millennial cassette loving hipsters. As if the racist right wing nuts weren't bad enough. Yes we had it best in the 80's, but it was the women.. not the modes of music. Revel in your times.. yeah your women look like sh*t and fake and plastic.. but man alive. You will never have to repair a f**ked up cassette tape or have to wait to hear the song you want to hear because you have to hit rewind. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 20:27
I was unaware of your personal beef with the tapes. If I had known this earlier I would have shut it down right away. I apologize sincerely. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 21:00
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------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 21:28
IPA = special beer...... IPA = Isopropyl Alcohol (or beer) -------------
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 16 2015 at 21:32
I am sure if you had a '67 Mustang you would be driving that or at least tinkering with it every weekend in the garage. I am not a hipster...on the contrary, my dumb a$$ decision to fall into the digital/CD music trap is something I slap myself in the face for daily, that was my hipster move back in the late 80's. -------------
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: November 17 2015 at 09:46
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The CD player in my car broke, but luckily the car has a cassette deck. I dusted off about 10 boxes full of cassettes and am now digging in......no, the sound isn't nearly equal to the car CD player, but the titles I have in the boxes are magnificent.....hundreds - literally hundreds - of Grateful Dead shows from my days in a Deadhead tape swapping club. I'm exploring 1977 - one of my favorite Dead years - at the moment. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 17 2015 at 09:52
The head cleaning system came with it's own fluid and tips for cleaning.....I'll try a de-magnetizer. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: November 17 2015 at 11:27
Nice!! My cousin was a huge Phish follower...traveled all over to see Phish and also was into recording their shows. He used a portable Sony DAT recorder and had two small mics he would place in his beanie cap, I know he had probably 200 tapes. Quality was very good, considering he was standing in the crowd with lots of fan noises, clapping, screaming..... -------------
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