Why would a cassette lie? Thirteen reasons why they're cool again in 2018, narrated using the same model of tape recorder as seen in the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why".
Gigidag77 i agree it’s rare, but i used Dolby S to mimic the quality of digilog and to sound crystal clear. And with S being the highest level of noise reduction and fidelity, and it’s completely backwards compatible, Dolby B and C still sound good on a S encoded cassette as well as not using a noise reduction system. It’s just a touch of audiophile for those who have the equipment.
I have one! A fully functional Sony TC-WR635S auto reverse and full logic deck from 1993. Also good for recording as it will automatically calibrate its self for almost any blank cassette out there. Throw a good quality cassette at it such as the Maxell UR-90s shown in this video and it will give results comparable to professional duplication houses.
I record vinyl to cassettes, I just purchased an EQ for my home stereo. Its night and day when you record with an EQ. More bass and highs etc. My Walkman and my car cassette player dont lie. Try an EQ. Cool Vid. You can buy albums cheap on ebay.
I do this all the time, record off RU-vid, because 1. There is many songs I like that are available anymore or is hard to find, and 2. I do not have much money to buy LP records or tapes, so this is a cheaper alternative. I used to record live radio broadcasts, but due to radio going down a good bit, like television, there's less and less music I like being played. I like pre-1990's music, but the radio stations keep playing the same songs over and over again and none of the less well known songs. Also, I am not big into the more popular songs, I like rarer music, so RU-vid is the best way. Even the music streaming services like the spotify one don't have many of the songs I like, so RU-vid is the best service out there.
Since this pandemic started I got an old school boom box with Bluetooth and a bunch of bricks of blank tapes from Amazon I feel like a kid again making mixtapes And thanks to RU-vid I can get all kinds of live performances from my favorite bands that we normally couldn't get as kids unless you ordered a rare CD out of a metal magazine or something
Reason 14: Cassette tapes stay where you leave them. Stop listening, let it rattle around the car for a year or more, put it back in the same machine or in another machine and it continues from where you left off.
15. You don't have to pay a monthly subscription to get "ad free" music. 16. You can get albums cheap, and even free from garage sales, family, and the trash. Yes I've pulled cassettes out of the trash, and I enjoy them.
15. Since you're stealing music ig this wouldn't be a problem for you, you can use a cracked Spotify APK to have unlimited ad free music for free. 16. You can have free music on your phone too, by just downloading it. And you can have wayyyy more music on a phone than on a cassette.
@@microwavedcaprisun6521 if you’re really paying for RU-vid premium music and not Apple Music, Spotify, etc. that’s a really sad horrible decision. RU-vid music isn’t even good. I have premium myself and know this
There is one total advantage of cassettes over other medias: they look great. And a sight of a well-equipped deck with tape running is something mesmerizing.
Whether it was Vinyl, Cds or Tapes, you just couldn't beat the unwrapping of them being brand new, you just don't get the same feeling with digital streaming media, you just can't buy that feeling, I'm so glad it's nearly all coming back, in this case, vintage is best!!👍👍
I mean I went to a garage sale once where I got 3 storage cases that could hold 117 cassettes total for a whole 1.50 50 cents for the whole case, and all three of them were half full of chrome tapes. I was actually amazed.
Fun fact- I have made mixtapes for crushes (I'm 18, and only caught the tail end of cassette usage) and 99% of the time you hand someone a mixtape that you spent a good few hours recording and decorating, their face will light up and they'll be thrilled because nobody else has ever done something like that for them. Make sure you use a good deck, if you can, when you record it, so they'll have the best sounding mixtape you can muster!
Logan MacGyver OMG You use them too I'm the same kid at my school do you use it in public do people stare or anything?? I'm too scared to use my Walkman in public
Screw 'em. You're using that format because you like it, because you prefer it. I still have tons of tapes lying around..and old amps. I keep them because to my ears they sounds more engaging. I have Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits and Genesis' Invisible Touch on CD..I also have them on tape and the latter, well to me it sounds totally different as in 10x better. Whereas the CD sounds flat and fatiguing (even in very expensive equipment), the tape versions positively bristle with energy. Some people prefer digital audio, but I always say that regardless of the format or cost, it's what your own ears prefer that's most important.
And number 15: If you are listening to a book on tape and switch cars, or whatever, it REMEMBERS where you are. The only format with a built-in bookmark
I think thats why they remained a common format for audiobooks, for some time even after they stopped selling music cassettes. It was a major advantage that cd players and mp3 players could not do, if you were to bring the cd to another player, or switch the device off.
Same with video cassettes also (VHS, Betamax, Video 2000, etc). I hate the way that DVD's make you sit through a whole load of adverts and copyright warnings and public information films, etc, and then you have to wait for a long drawn out menu screen to pop up to press play and it's only then you get to see the film or programme series you wanted to watch. On streaming service on the internet, you also have to watch a whole load of adverts and then, if the internet is slow, the programme or film keeps buffering all the time, making you lose interest in the thing you wanted to watch. Finally, if you switch off the DVD or streaming service and you want to watch it at a certain point, you have to go through all the nonsense I mentioned all over again. With video tape, you push the cassette into the video recorder machine, press play (some VCR's will start up automatically) and away you go, and if there is adverts or copyright warning or anything at the start, you can just fast forward through all of it until you get to the film or programme you wanted to watch. Also, if you want to stop it and watch it another time, you can press stop and when you come back to it, its still at the point you were at the last time. Audio cassettes and video cassettes are much better than many people think!
True. Idk how popular books on tape still are. Most non RU-vid audio books tend to be on CD. I think tape has a lot of advantages for them. You can stop and replay like that, move to different devices easier. Though CD's have the advantage of being able to skip chapters if you wanted to do that.
Right, I was listening to A Book by Desi Arnaz when my wood-paneled station wagon broke down. I simply ejected the tape, got into my Yaris and continued listening. (I was in my driveway at the time.)
I think the good thing about the cassette revival, along with the vinyl revival, is that kids who grew up on digital files or even CDs are now listening to albums in their entirety, something they didn't have to do with a digital source. This helps them discover a lot of music they overlooked when their listening habits were oriented towards singles, not to mention reintroducing the album as an artistic statement.
I was never around for the 60's or late 90's, when cassettes were originally popular. But being here for the revival, I'm happy to say I'm proud to have helped in the rising demand of new tapes.
lol they should have provided free one's with the C120 tapes I got a few years ago.They were fine until you got to a certain point in the tape, after which it was just too much for tape's motor. However if your tape machine could handle the load you could apparently fit an awful lot of ZX Spectrum games onto that tape ;) Good times.
I just love listening to music on a physical format period... cassettes, compact disks, mini disks, DAT, records, even the 8-track format. I love them all!
Why I don't think is true. Many Synthwave albums were actually embracing "the new technology" - the CD. So listening on a tape is true "retro", but actually, I am sure many of those have been inspired by digital technology (let alone their synthesizers). So listening it on a original 1985 stereo on "Compact Disc" is probably more Synthwave then on a cassette, because Synthwave was "the future", "spacy" and all "tech-y", and the future was surely not analogue tapes in a plastic case but shiny CDs without the need to rewind and read by a sexy, futuristic laser with crystal-clear, binary sound. (Yes, I now many awesome synths are analog)
What? First vinyl, now cassettes? I hear VHS is next? I'm also hearing that CD's are making a comeback as well. Better get these physical copies before you are FORCED to deal with streaming and pay-per-play (like a jukebox) instead of owning...
Just to clarify - found out that newer "remastered" CD's sound worse than original releases. Trying to get those CD versions and get rid of "remastered" ones I had gotten... wish I never got rid of those originals, which are getting harder and harder to find...
Greg Karris Current magnetic tape technology features magnetic particles measuring several nanometers across (well under 10 nm), and magnetic recording head gaps that are in the low tens of nanometers, which is the maximum head gap size practical to read these nano particles. With these advancements, we can now achieve areal densities on tape in excess of 200 gigabits, that is 25 gigabytes, per square inch of magnetic tape surface. To give you an idea of how much data you could record onto the longest tape-length VHS videocassette ever made (the DF-480 [T-240 equivalent]) could store 4 hours of recorded video at SP mode and contained 1,614 feet (19,386 inches) tape length and, of course, utilized 0.5"-width tape that defined the VHS format itself; if you calculate that in square inches, you get 9,864 square inches of total tape surface area in that particular tape, which assuming 200 gigabits (25 gigabytes) per square inch, translates to 1936.8 terabits (242.1 terabytes) of data per tape. To add some further information and give you a better idea of how vast that amount of data storage is, let's assume you could record a maximum of 4 hours (240 minutes/14,400 seconds) of digital video and audio onto this tape, it would mean a maximum theoretical data rate of 134.5 gigabits (16.8125 gigabytes) per second. Compare this to the first, last, and only consumer-level, digital videotape standard, D-VHS, which using the same tape specifications as above but without modern technology, could store a meager 50 GB and supported a maximum bitrate of 28.8 megabits (3.6 megabytes) per second. There is absolutely NO reason why this technology shouldn't be democratized and produced at an affordable price that would make it available to the masses, and it's a shame how nobody is talking about this.
Large media companies want to go to a Pay-Per-View/Pay-Per-Play model where you stream everything and pay each time you play/view it instead of owning. Hence they really, really want these old physical formats to go away...
You want the remastered ones. The used to put the album mix right on CD's, and it would sound harsh. Source tape remixed for digital expands the dynamic range. Of course, it depends on the quality of the remix and the source recording...
I can vouch for #8 as last year I decided to record mixtapes of the music from my college years, with one side of each tape representing one year of college. There's a lot more heart put into it when you have to carefully select the songs to fit the limited amount of tape and put them in a certain order that has meaning to you. You could always make a playlist of mp3s, but it doesn't have the emotional attachment of something tangible that you took the time to make.
There's something about physical media that just feels special. Spending a Friday night listening to music and organizing a collection of tapes, CD's and records all around you. Some of the happiest memories of my younger days.
I just saw the incredible Death Valley Girls in concert and they were selling cassettes of their latest album for just $5 at the merch stand! (CD’s were $10 and vinyl was $15). I saw more people buying their cassettes than either of the other two formats.
Ahh we ALL did back in the 80's and 90's ... Especially on friday and saturday nights when the DJ came on to do his 2 hr special mixing .. Here in Orlando fla we had a station called 102 Jams and they would do their "thunderstorm" mix which included a lot of new songs and they would mix them so good, we used to record that on the cassette to play during the week ... The good times 😀
Today many bands are releasing their albums on a cassette tape because of financial reason. CD`s are not popular, but releasing album on vinyl is very expensive, because the whole process from mastering for a record to cutting master disc is expensive and you need to make a lot of copies, which maybe won`t be sold in the next months. Production of a cassette is very cheap and not risky, you can make also only 30 copies, which is not possible by other formats.
Yep I just installed a brand new old stock Aiwa tape deck in my old truck. I love it and love old tech. I m probably the only one in the past 30_years who is gonna have their wedding recorded on a Sony Betamax camcorder
Yeah comes back after we realize we threw the baby out with the bathwater mostly because some company promised something better and didn't fully deliver rushing it to market
@@imark7777777 Blu-ray, while great, isn't great enough of an improvement over DVD to warrant the higher price of a player and to make you throw your DVD collection out and replace it with Blu-Rays. Not for the average person at least. That's one example
Well id assume the glue has started to wear off. Surely they are making your player dirtier than new ones. However, its still really impressive that they didnt loose any audio quality or get damages in other ways.
My oldest tape I recorded is probably just under 30 years old; still plays fine and sounds good. I didn't buy many "expensive" blank cassettes but I did buy name brands like TDK and Maxell. Most of the problems people had were from car stereos they let get dirty, or buying cheap tapes like Certron.
Cassettes stopped being sold but they never stopped being cool. I do miss the days of walking inside a store and buy music & videogame cassettes. Decades later I still have all my hardware, audio and games. I'd keep buying new stuff if available today.
@@wolfetteplays8894 Remember electronic stores, especially in the 80s and 90s? They are guilty of their own demise for stop selling products people still wanted, going against those consumer bases. I still have an alarm clock, listen to music in vinyl, talk on CB radio, play retro games and make acrobatic stuff with RC cars. I'm 41 with a family and I still feel like a kid who never grew up, a kid nostalgic for those moments we visited electronics and toy stores.
I graduated 2012 and my whole highschool experience, I skated to school with a general electric boom box I found at goodwill for $10 and had my leather jacket lined up with about 5 tapes. Such good memories with my buddies finding old thrash metal tapes, blasting down town or hell, in the main halls to clear a path. If you can't see the picture, I brutally tested vintage tapes ans they still work to this day. Tapes are eternal!!!
#15: Cassettes have automatic memory built into them. You can stop the tape, turn off the player and be right there where you left off when you turn it on again. Even on a different machine. Same works for VHS--instant restart, try that with a DVD. I also made many mix tapes...over a dozen comedy tapes, plenty of pop music tapes, and over 15 Heavyweights (what would now be called Classic Rock, except with more variety) tapes. I had my problems trying to play (digitize) regurgitapes. Cheap tapes that had to be opened, take out the reels and put them into a premium shell so they would play.
The scary thing is that it has been going on for around 3 decades and we're just now starting to break that cycle. I say ban Rick Rubin from producing more records and everything should even itself out in a few years haha.
@Mr. Hellas In my experience --- over 30 years dealing with cassettes --- I never had a cassette break on me --- not one. I had one cassette get eaten by a machine ... in 30 years. CDs and DVDs? In my 20 years of dealing with them, I've dealt with countless scratched ones. Not so much my own personal (although I've certainly had a few), because I generally take very good care of my stuff, but buying used ones is always a crap shoot. And man ... when Netfilx first came out as a DVD service, it was awful! I swear every third DVD I got from them was scratched. We didn't keep our membership for very long.
Except they get chewed sound all wobbly and get wiped when near a magnet. End of the day everyone is sat on RU-vid watching and posting because we've embraced the new technology and forced the old technology out.
@@KoiYokan That is why you should put them back in cases when you are finished with them. I still have my cassettes in their cases and they all sound great. I also like the fact they were Dolby analog unlike CD's.
Cassette is still my all-time favorite format. I used to collect blank ones when I was in High School and even record my favorite CD albums to play on my Sony Walkman. It was just another level of cool.
RythmBoy Me too. I still enjoyed them on vinyl. I always want to get these on eBay if they still sell blank cassettes both new or new old stock brands from the 1970's through the 1990's along with my recent one, the Superscope C-101A, a variation of "CassetteMaster's" Superscope C-101 that he made a video about it back in 2010. It has full of AC bias. Still a great cassette recorder by Superscope.
Cassette is friendlier then R2R. The music copied from CD players to cassette have the advantage of filtering out the above audio freq noises to produce more pleasant sound.
5 Reasons why papyrus is cool again in 2018. 1. Papyrus is much lighter than clay tablets. 2. It takes a lot of effort to carve letters on clay tablets, while you can use ink on papyrus. 3. You cannot use a printing press on clay tablets. 4. Unlike clay tablets, papyrus can be rolled into a tube. 5. Papyrus plants are abundant and easily grown.
I'm 16 and just made my first cassette mixtape, I bought a Magnavox boombox for $9.99 from value village, put in some blank tapes, and recorded a mixtape from my iPhone using an adapter. I recorded songs from Billie Eilish, pink Floyd, Radiohead, Coldplay, and Queen. All on one 60 minute mixtape. Another great thing about cassettes is that it persuades you to listen to the entire album, not just the popular songs played on the radio. This allows people to better understand their favorite bands and their less popular songs, I appreciate erasure and rem more knowing some of their lesser-known songs.
I remember these so much. When I was about 7, I remember going to Chuck E Cheese for my birthday, and one of my gifts was a cassette tape recorder that I had asked for. I remember recording some of my Dad’s favorite radio stations on to them, and then giving them to him as gifts. I will never forget that.
i just recently came across your channel over the past couple weeks, just wanted to say thanks for all the awesome content. i love classic computers/hardware and all your videos show off some really cool stuff i haven't seen in what feels like ages. keep up the awesome work dude.
It's one of those things from our childhood that gives a sense of nostalgia. They still have a use in many cars since lots have tapedecks and they won't skip like a CD does going over a speed bump or pothole.
Even though I am a long-time tape collector and enthusiast I consider tapes having more hardware related issues than CDs and mp3s when used in cars. For instance, the tape transport mechanism and, above all, the head of a car stereo can become extremely hot during summer, causing damage to the fine tape during playback (especially if significantly worn-out). Tape never skips in a car stereo but vibration sometimes can cause audible wow and flutter. Thus, using cassetes in car stereos requires a more careful approach, if you are a more hifi-oriented enthusiast.
Awesome! What stations did you record? You know there are RU-vid channels dedicated to posting audio of old radio shows. Perhaps you could consider posting some of yours at some point.
@@Dwall44 One of the evening programs I recorded was, "Musical Starstreams", which was an ambient music type program. As for the morning show, it the local morning FM station program by two local DJs.
Compact cassettes are awesome!!! I got over 2,000 of them in my collection. I've been recording and praying my tapes at parties and weddings. I've been recording my favorite dance music shows on radio. I've been buying tapes at the music stores, giving them business. I've been fixing tape decks for friends and people who love cassettes. What I love the most about compact cassettes is that you can fine tune the sound of compact cassettes and make them sound better than CD'S
Yeah, cassettes can sound very CLOSE to as good as a CD, (as long as it's recorded with/on a very high quality, properly and fully calibrated cassette deck, and with properly adjusted recording levels, and (preferably a 3-head cassette deck), using a high quality Type IV Metal tape like TDK, AND utilizing Dolby S noise reduction, (the best noise reduction ever introduced for cassettes)), but cassettes cannot sound any BETTER than a well mastered studio quality CD, that's just not physically possible.
Some theorize that it may actually be the compact disc that finally dies out for good. After all, if you want physical media, might as well go analog. If you want digital, just download or stream. There's really no purpose for the optical disc any more.
I still have ALL my cassettes and VHS video tapes as well. I don't know why people suddenly felt the need to throw them all away just because of mp3's and DVR's were created. I know so many people that say they have some VHS tapes but have no VCR to play them in...I still have 5 VCR's including one still sitting in my TV stand in my room I'm looking at right now! I have put some of that stuff on my hard drives.. But it's too much with to put it all in there so I just left it alone. Tons of memories including some of my mom who bought me several and introduced me to a few special artists I've lived since the 80's precisely because she bought me a specific cassette.
I can attest to cassette durability. I recently digitized all of my old recordings from different formats. Most of my old DAT tapes had become sticky and snapped when played, splicing them was a pain and ultimately did not work because the tape is soooo thin. Reel to reel holds up mostly but my old reel to reel player didn't work anymore and the machines are expensive. My minidiscs held up ok but again my old player didn't work anymore (despite being high end when it came out). Same with my old miniDV camera, had to borrow a standalone deck. DVCPro? Good luck finding one of those decks. Ditto with broadcast carts. VCR's are easy enough to find but for some reason the old vhs tapes seem to degrade over time. The ONLY format I had no problems with was cassette. I was surprised at how good they sounded. To think they were the cheapest format at the time I recorded them.
Omg so I was told I have a cameo in this video and, sure enough, there I am! Thanks for the credit. And a great video too (yours I mean). Cassettes are indeed making a bit of a comeback and it's nice to see. They can sound fantastic with a good tape, good source, and good deck.
i have discovered my parents cassette collection while looking for vhs in our basement a week ago. Told my dad and he told me our players were busted (mid 80 sanyo boombox and a 2004 craig radio) so i worked on them and eventually repaired the 2004 radio. I am so glad! Cassette is now my favorite medium to work while listening to music since im not disturbed by constant phone or computer notifications and advertisements from youtube or spotify. (im an 18 year old that love old stuff)
@@Blackadder75 I ain't making reasons???? I just prefer those mediums to listen to my stuff. It's not being quirky I just want to disconnect a bit from smart phones and computers 😭 Adblock ain't blocking shit nowadays
I bought my first CD player around 1987. IIRC, my first two albums were Joshua Tree and an assortment of baroque music. I was blown away by the quality difference then and the ability to play selected tracks instantly was mind-blowing. To this day, CD is still my preferred purchase format. That is, if I am going to spend money to buy an album, I'll buy it on CD, rip it lossless and play it from a USB drive. The ability to subscribe to a music service and have millions of songs wherever I go is pretty hard to beat most of the time. But for enjoying music or background to a family gathering, CD's (or lossless copies) played on a proper receiver with floor standing speakers is still the way to go for me.
Fantastic video! Those of us who never abandoned cassettes have known this all along, even when everyone else would bash the format simply because they're "old." This is just one of the many reasons why it's not a good idea to toss out your media when society deems the format it's on "obsolete." It's really cool that cassettes are coming back, but when you think about it, they really haven't been gone very long. You could still get new releases on tape until the mid '00s, tape players were still in stores well into the '10s, and blank tapes never left some stores at all. This whole cassette resurgence is really just caused by the current retro fad, but whatever the reason, it's still awesome to see cassettes make a comeback.
you guys are delusional, it's ok to love old things, I do to or I would never have found a yt channel like this, but you all only see a few cool features of cassettes and forget the massive DISADVANTAGES, which are the reason they stopped being relevant in most of the world decades ago....
Ok they are different channels and have different opinions on things but just cause you don’t agree on some things he said doesn’t mean you go hating on him.
Interesting video. The image is my wife and son. I am not Hannah, I am her husband Paul. Anyway, I had hundreds of self help tapes from the 80s and I still retain a few of the best. I also have tapes my parents exchanged with me by mail when I was in the army. I went into basic training in June of 1980 and I had received a compact tape recorder for my HS graduation so I took it to basic with me and when I was busy polishing my boots or cleaning my rifle I could make a tape when I had no time to write. I have about 10 tapes that survived. My dad was smart enough to make copies because my original plan was for them to tape over my tape with new messages to send me and reuse the same tapes but my dad had the foresight to save many of them by making copies and I am so glad he did. My mom died in 1982 and I can still listen to her voice on the tapes. My dad died a few years ago but I can let my kids here what he was like before he got old. They all came along after 2000 so they never knew him very well at all. Cassette tapes played a big part of my life. My cassette collection of self help tapes, army tapes, and a few music tapes, were one of my most important possessions in my life.
I was going thru some of my hundreds of cassettes and found many from the 70's. There are even a few demo recordings I had made using the magical editing of two cassette decks. Please make more cassette videos.
I can understand the feeling.... I work at a charity shop and the boss got sick of the cassettes not selling well and told me to throw them out. I did, straight into the back seat of my car... lots of tapes in excellent condition, including boxed sets of 60's and 70's classics.
Watching videos like these make me want to buy a cassette Player and a cassette tape to recording all 2018 music 😍😍😍😍😍😍 i was born in 1997 and i love the music in that format
When I was about 9 or 10 years old (in 2005-2006), I used to play with audio cassette tapes a lot, even if they were obsolete. And I still have a crappy mix tape I made with random children's songs and pop songs. Cassettes were certainly a lot of fun.
same thing I was doing in 2005, I was about 13 tho, I started rapping by playing beats off soundclick.com and recording them into my portable tape recorder. Cassettes were more fun than cd's for the fact that they were reusable, it took a lot to break them, and you could record yourself or other sources of music on them. Happy you got to experience cassettes tho!
I'm glad I never threw away my cassette tapes! I still have most of the tapes I've purchased or made back in the 80's and 90's, especially those I made of just recording the radio stations, which includes my copies of "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre" which I recorded off of Denver's KOA-AM 850 kHz back in the early 90's. Who hears those on the radio anymore? And all of my compact stereo cubes still have a cassette player/recorder. Hey, thanks for this brief trip back on the Wayback Machine! Gonna go listen to some of those tapes right now! 🎧📻
The cassette was magical. It was the first portable media , aside from the 8 Track which was a bit clunky. You could pop one into a Sony Walkman, and have your own personalized listening experience, a mix that you created.
This really bring back memories. I have deeply regretted many times that I threw all my cassette tapes out, back in the mid 90s. I bought my first CD-player in mid 80s, and more or less retired my Cassette Player, although I waited almost a decade before I finally pulled myself together and dumped the tapes - I wish I had never done that - so many great tapes, lost forever! 😕😕😕
I have a recent story to tell about mix tapes. They are like books and tell a lasting story. Back in 2007 I bought my Uncles home and he left a few things in the basement, including 3 cassette mix tapes. Now about 1.5 years ago he passed away and a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to buy his old but very nice truck. I had to replace the speakers in it and wanted to test the tape deck, because it's been a long time since I used one. For some reason I couldn't find any of my cassette tapes right away, but instead found these 3 dirty old tapes. Talk about emotional listing to them. Since he passed I've been listening to "Wish you were here" a lot thinking about him. I got goosebumps when on the second tape I heard it. It's the only Pink Floyd song on any of the tapes. I'd like to think it's him speaking beyond the grave. I also want to point out how good Chrysler car stereos sound from the mid 2000's with the combined CD and tape deck. I'm always into aftermarket car stereos and speakers, but I wanted to keep this truck as my Uncle had it.
An excellent video of cassette tapes. Growing up in the 70's I used both reel to reel and cassette tapes for recording music. I recorded the very last Radio Luxembourg show, consisting of six tapes and 6 hours recording time. I still have all my tapes from earliest 1975 and edited with splicing and joining recorded top 20 shows to eliminate disc jockey interfering through talk. Many, many happy memories and I agree that recording quality is better. I hope they make a come back.
Do you still have all your stuff? Some people would love to hear that radio show and any others you may have. They’re actually RU-vid channels dedicated to posting that type of stuff.
I discovered my mum and dad's tapes. Some are unfortunately worn because they were either taped from the radio or recorded from a vinyl record and are over 30 years old, but some of the 20 year old tapes have a lot of great 90s rave music and sound great. Even discovered a recording of my 16 year old mum playing about with the CB. They are truly wonderful time capsules.
So glad I still have my DCC player laying around! Just found it in my storagecabinet a while back. Still works perfect. And the beautiful thing is that, besides being able to play digital DCC cassettes, they can play the "original" analog tapes as wel! :-) time to dig up my tapebox!! :-D
I think this is an underrated format, for many years I was under the impression that cassettes were a crappy format, but when I got a Hifi system I decided to get a cassette deck just for the novelty of it and it sounded really good, I would say it sounds better than vinyl and I like vinyl. I just love the mechanism involved in playing a cassette tape, it is really an engineering achievement, so to me it's special listening to music that way instead of listening to some lifeless digital file.
La verdad es que si, el cassette es un formato muy subestimado, pero por una sencilla razón, la gente compraba equipos económicos todo en uno, tocadiscos, cassette, radio, cd, esos aparatos ofrecían una calidad de sonido muy justo en los cassettes, luego se escuchaba horriblemente mal. Cuando grabas con Dolby S, bien ecualizado, en una cinta de metal, con un deck con un buen wow and flutter (de 0.05 para abajo (los ultimos decks de gama media tenían un wow and flutter terribles, y si eres audofilio se nota)), podía equipararlo a un FLAC de 24 bits de 26khz. Yo tengo un deck Pioneer CT-F500 bastante antiguo del 79, con dolby b, con las cintas de cromo se oye de mil maravillas. Eso si, un reel to reel multipistas con Dolby S, eso era canela fina.
Through your video I feel like creating mix tapes again and giving them to my friends. How good that I never gave away my tape recorder. Now all I have to do is find good cassettes. : D
It’s funny you released this video today, I was just at a flea market today and the one guy that sells music and he was saying cassettes are making a comeback. I was a bit surprised, but it does make sense when I think about it. I personally loved cassettes. They were so durable and could play anywhere and would always work. CDs were terrible for me, I wouldn’t be good about taking care of them and they’d get scratched and skip. It was nice being able to go right to a track but otherwise cassettes were the most robust. I’ve never had a machine eat a tape either, worst case a little bit pulls out and you wind it back in, no big deal.
We used to find cassette tapes, walking along the road. I guess people would be driving, decide they hated that tape, and throw it out the window! LOL, I remember riding with a buddy now and then when it would happen. Always a good laugh.
CDs are great for digital music but the biggest disadvantage is that they can scratch very easily by putting them on a table or other surfaces. The new M disc format is much better and it can last 1 millennium.
I hated CDs. If you aren’t a super responsible sob they just don’t last. I know of a few CDs I ended up buying several times. I was very happy when iPods became a thing.
I `m 74 and I`ve been transfering my LPs and 45s on to cassette since the early 1970s .I could record only my most favorite songs and play back in my car .Some of those high grade cassettes are still working fine . Brand names like Maxell, Scotch High Lander , Memorx , and Sony . I have that same recorder that your using SONY model TC--W411. Friends love my taste in music , so I generate copies for them only to find that they have no playbacks . YOUR`s is a fantastic sight , thank you .
Thanks! Even though I was born in 2001, you, Cassette Comeback, and Techmoan have gotten me into the wonderful world of cassettes! I've managed to win an auction for a JVC PC-X200 boombox from 1989-1990 and I am now big into them. I am actually thinking of starting my very own cassette collection of as of me writing! 😄
Update: I am currently in the process of trying to repair my JVC PC-X200. However, I recently got my very first cassette tape: Voyage by ABBA (yes, the same ABBA that sung Dancing Queen and Gimme a Man after Midnight).
@@lawline4508 Sadly, I foolishy disassembled it in hopes of getting it fixed seeing that the cassette deck couldn't rewind and fast forward. And now I am in search of a new (working) vintage cassette boombox now. The JVC PC-RV2J from 1987 seems like the best option right now so I am currently eyeing that model the most as it has a CD player, Dolby B NR, an aux input, and a mic input.
@@Astolfo2001 I’ve seen a jvc cassette deck and a tuner the full things name is jvc k7 it’s for 30 dollars but I will not be buying it because I have nowhere to put it sadly
Awesome Video!! Last month I bought a JVC dual dubbing deck at Goodwill for 19 dollars. All it needed was a cleanup and it's working great. I plan to get some new belts for it soon. I still have several boxes of tapes since childhood so I dont plan to get rid of them anytime soon. The cassette never died as a format, despite record companies, blank tape manufacturers and home electronics companies trying to kill it off.
8:27 Welp, that commercial made me look at used cars for a solid two hours. Wow, that takes me back.. And 300ZX's are hella cheap these days, holy crap! Tempting.. Sooo tempting..
Reason #14: record players usually don't come with VU meters, but every decent cassette deck will have one. Some, like the Alpine AL-80 will have a more interesting one, than the regular needle- or LED/VFD based. Isn't it fun to watch the needles bouncing or the LEDs blinking to the rhythm of the music you're listening to? :) Oh, and that 1.9 TDI sound at 11:40 is just lovely :) Greetings from a fellow 2.5 TDI driver (it's the same engine, but with a cylinder more - most likely it never got to the U.S., here in Europe it was popular in the Audi 100/A6 (C4), the Volvo S70, V70, S80, S60 and V70 II, while Volvo didn't have its own diesel engine, and with the VW Transporter T4 and T5)
VU meters are most useful while recording, so you can avoid clipping. In fact I have some old reel to reel tape recorders where the VU meters only work while recording.
I know, but it's still fun to look at them during playback, especially the mirror based ones in the AL-80. In fact, the VU meters in my Revox G36 do work only during recording, and my Otari MX55 doesn't have any, because (like most of R2Rs designed for studio use) it has a fixed gain, matched to the output of a mixing console, so the meters of the console are showing the actual recording levels.
some cassette tape recorder decks of old times have a special function added to their VU meters, which is truly useful indeed: there's a 'peak capture' button you press and then you let a vinyl record or other sound source play its entire length ... in the end, you check out the peak capture setting, where the needle stays fixed on a certain spot in the range ... it shows what the peak value of the source sound is ... now, after you actually test-record on the tape at that peak moment of the original sound source and play it back to check the peak capture setting again, you'll find out how much loss in sound input/output has occured so as to readjust recording volume accordingly ... i'm sure it's possible to do something like that using digital LED and other tools too, but this particular method just mentioned, i saw on a very high quality cassette tape recorder deck decades ago, which i have never seen anywhere else ... can't remember what brand it was ... was a famous one anyway ...
Yep, I have a large collection of vacuum fluorescent display VU meters, kind of a fetish/addiction of mine. Ever since I was a tiny kid and saw the VFD VU meter on my moms technics cassette deck, I fell in love. lol.
Nearly 10.000 NEW cassette releases (also re-eleases, obviously, but still new) have been added to Discogs this year. That's how much they are coming back.
Same, I am surprised that they are coming back considering how undesired they were for years by most people. Just wait until CDs from the 1980s and early 90s begin making a comeback.
PR Fo Thing is that CD are digital and the main reason why people like vinyl and CC is because they are analog and the sound quality is more smooth to the human ear.
In the early/mid 80's, my parents got me a Colecovision Adam computer for x-mas, and it played games on 2 formats -- standard cartridges and special cassette tapes. Normal cassette tapes wouldn't fit in the drive, but these special tapes held a lot of data and the detail in the graphics was quite remarkable. I also made a lot of mix tapes in the 80's and 90's by dubbing over from records, CD's and other cassettes. I came up with some great music compilations that way. I also found this old recording my dad made back in 1972 on a Norelco cassette tape of my sister at 2 years old talking. So yes, the cassette tape was the format that introduced me to a lot of great music and captured a lot of memorable occasions. I'll always have a special place in my heart for the cassette tape, and nothing would please me more than to see it make a major comeback in 2018 and beyond.
1 more feature: if you are listening to something (like books on tape), when you take it out of your player and at any later time want to continue, it starts up where you left off. The tape "remembers" where you were. No digital source will do that.
True, but that doesn't solve the problem at all because that memory is lost when you take the CD out. You can keep multiple cassettes going and when you put it back in you are at the point you left off on that individual cassette. Each cassette has its own natural, physical memory of where you left off. If you have several books on cassette (or music albums), this is extremely valuable.
When I go back to my cassettes the most interesting ones are the ones with radio stations and interviews. I used to use the most crappy cassettes for it and now I enyoy it so much. The most precious like UX-pro I saved for cd recording, I was so wrong.
I Recently brought a Walkman off eBay to listen to my cassette audio tapes it feels good being able to hold a physical form of the music that's nice and compact BTW hearing the hiss and boxiness of your tape recording in this video is orgasmic
A very well done video! When I'm making mixtapes, I find myself thinking more about what song should come next. I'd add a 14th reason, too: cassettes having a longer runtime than compact discs are readily available and most machines work perfectly well with them. I still have many of the tapes I recorded during my childhood, from the radio and the microphones built into most of the recorders. Anyone who's looking for some very good normal and high bias tape would do well to get in touch with National Audio Company.
If you take the tape stock out of the MC-90 Ninety Minute microcassette dictation tapes and splice and wind them into a C-Zero standard cassette shell you can get a standard cassette that gives you 192 minutes or 96 minutes on each side in stereo at normal speed. That way you can record a whole 1800 foot 3-3/4 ips stereo dual side reel to reel tape on a single cassette. It takes about 3 hours to capture the sound of a whole era of music...
Fun (and clever) video! S'funny... I just pulled out three plastic bins packed with cassettes from my childhood, teens, and 20s and I'm really looking forward to revisiting them! They include recorded albums, radio, TV shows, air-checks from my time on the air, and silly childhood comedy sketches, etc. Should be a lot of fun going through them!!!
The key to never having your cassette tapes "eaten" by your tape decks, (including if you have one in your old car), is to regularly clean and maintain your cassette deck, both in the cleaning of the heads and pinch rollers and tape path guides, and also in replacing worn out or rotten belts inside the machines every few decades or so.
