Cassette Tapes - Beginners Guide! 

Despite having a smartphone, a tablet, and many other ways to stream music. I think I want to get into cassettes. It really brings me back to my youth.

That hair! Wow.

I recently started collecting. My dad gave me his GE cassette player. My first cassette is Louder than Bombs album by The Smiths.

I was looking through my mums old stuff from the 80s and found some original Michael Jackson tapes and her Walkman! Never parting with it and it’s so precious

i wish sony used all our modern tech to build one final cassette walkman that is small as possible, hifi, long battery life and anything else they can think of, maybe it could even have 16 gigs of space for digital audio too

Im 13(about to be 14) and i collect a lot of old things. Gameboys, cassette tapes, microcassette tapes, cassette players,VCRs, the old. I'm now 16 and cringing at my past comment.

8:59 is the timestamp on how to put in the tape!

I'm proud to say that, I own the best album of all time on cassette... BAD.

I’m ordering my first and very own cassette player tomorrow. I’m 14 and my parents don’t have one in the house because they’re so obsolete in 2020. I started collecting cassettes because I love the 80s and the 80s music and just ordered some Duran Duran cassettes a few days back. Thanks for the helpful video! Update: my cassette playing should finally be arriving! I really hope it does. I also ordered some vintage t-shirts because I live everyday as it it’s 1987 or something, I love vintage stuff!! It’s been almost a month and I’ve waited TOO long for my cassette player, haha.

Im a teen and i love the old school feels and i want to get a Walkman so my cossettes work

Listening to Cassette tapes are way more better than just listening To your phone in the car

I used to have a Walkman growing up and I also love the Pet Shop Boys. Great and interesting video!

It's funny for us who owned and lived in the era of cassette tapes and Walkmans to see someone giving a tutorial on how to use them or what they are! How times have changed.. 🤦‍♂️😂

You can even make your own paper cover inside the plastic cover to customize your own tape, with your own playlist for special someone.

16 and I’m starting to collect cassettes and I’m planning on buying a tascam portastudio and making music on cassettes so thank for this video!

my first cassette i got for $2. my favorite show is gilmore girls and i found a sam phillips album on cassette and i had to get it!

i use to have a lot of cassette tapes back in the '90s, oh my goodness did I ever. How I wound up with a bunch of them, that's easy. I joined BMG music club, i got a lot of cassette tapes when I join back then. Seeing this video takes me back to a fun time and great memories and when music was great entertainment too. Great video

I have a old walkman.Only thing I'm missing is the original battery cover.Believe it or not,I only paid $5.00 for mine.

I remember having a cassette which sang out the 12 timestable in a variety of ways - jazz, rock pop. I friggin loved that thing, and it ended up helping me learn my timestables off by heart at a very early age. Hey adam, if you read this would you ever consider doing a video on the iPod/mp3 players of the early oughts? That particular brand of retro-tech is quite dear to my heart but it doesn't get nearly enough love.

love this video! my school is cracking down on phones, so as both an effort to be as much of an asshole as possible, and not loose my shit bc i don't have music, i want to start listening to cassettes.

Are u high bro cuz dat hair 🔥

"Back in the day" a lot of people had really poor quality stereo systems/argos all-in-ones. So we kind of remember tapes sounding terrible because of this. Nowadays I have a 1976 cassette deck and a very good amp and every tape I own sounds fantastic.

im 13, and i love the retro music style, maybe the last one in my school, i just got my first casette and have been wondering why nobody from my age respects old music, you a hero dude, thanks! (nice hair my guy ;)

I grew up with cassettes in the late 80's and used them until the early 2000's. I just got back into using them 5 years ago after watching Techmoan videos about them. My advice for you would to get a vintage cassette deck. I got a Nakamichi CR-1A from about 1988-90. I like to make mixtapes by hooking it up to my computer and recording from Spotify. Enjoy Dude.

I grew up using cassette tapes, I'm 26 years old and always used them. Still do! And i record my playlist onto them for fun and the sound quality is amazing. Even got my hands on a sony walkman(sports walkman)

Great vid mate, loved it! Just got into tapes myself recently, having become a bit put off by the price hike of vinyl. Would love to see some more tape vids on your channel - perhaps focusing on the pros & cons of eBay buying/cassette tape and deck maintenance/problems you can encounter with tape collecting. Just some ideas but loved your vid and I think it’s a good intro for anyone getting into tapes. LONG LIVE ANALOG! 📼

Thanks dude! I just ordered my first walkman and hip hop cassettes and really looking forward to getting into the throwback

the only reason i'd want one of these is because an artist i like called The Flowers of St Francis releases his albums exclusively on cassette and on bandcamp. he didn't release them on bandcamp until 2020 even tho he has 3 albums, 1 from 2011, 2012, and 2015, which is just kind of intriguing to me.

So glad i came across this video! i've recently gotten into vinyl records and am hoping to get a cassette player soon enough. Thanks Adam for the very helpful video!

Great video. Great tip about taking a Walkman with you when looking for used tapes.

I grew up in 2009 to 2012 when I was 9 to 12 and I only had cassettes and vhs tapes with bunny ear antenna tv

A very informative video mate, I'm currently rocking the WM-4 which looks very similar to the F1

I watched your video even if I'm not a beginner and I really liked it. I'm glad to see that a good young man like you appreciates audio cassettes. You don't see that very often among today's young people. It's a common sense movie for beginners. A big like from me. I liked the hairstyle though. Greetings from Romania.

Great vid! Definitely sparked some nostalgia! A hassle to open up the case insert? That's one of the first things I did after purchase. Many of them would have some cool extra info on the artist or band. Not to mention the producers, writers, cool photos, and sometimes lyrics to the songs. Before internet was around it was a way to "get to know" the artist or band on a more personal level.

I've just bought a car from 1997 it has a tape deck in it so I'm buying some cassettes at the moment this video helped alot thanks

I’m just getting into them I’ve never heard cassettes until yesterday but I love them then went out and got 3 Elvis tapes and 1 bob marley

This is great! I have just purchased an old 80s portable cassette player similar to the one you have now and this video really helps. I am very excited to listen to music on a 4 decade old device! Also, you sound like DANTDM and thats amazing

You can place the battery tag back over the batteries and place the slip cover on to keep the tag inside and not hanging out.

Hello there. It's a good video, and thank you for the instruction. I used to have cassettes when I was a teenager, and I got rid of them all. But now, I started collecting them again.

This is a fascinating idea for a 'doc', albeit terrifying in how ancient it makes me feel. Most of the time tape was a pretty stable medium, but the ground-up tape was something that definitely happened every now and again, and that meant at best a section of distorted sound on the tape (and an increased likelihood of further grind-ups when playing that bit of the tape) and at very worst a ruined, even snapped, tape. I had to learn to splice tape a couple of times in my teenage years... They were also vulnerable to being left near electromagnetic fields, or to changes in temperature - especially if you left it in a car over time. However, cassettes were also the medium that gave birth to personal 'mix tapes', to the extent that by the late 1990s some blank cassettes were on the market with a running time of 74 minutes - the maximum length of a CD, ie they were specifically being sold for the pirating of CDs onto tape. From what I recall the early personal CD players were sensitive and inclined to skip like fits if you were running (not to mention expensive - whereas you could get an adequate tape player for about a tenner in the early 90s), so personal cassette players remained the favoured medium for listening while travelling. Certainly, for years I bought music on CD and listened to it all after transferring it to tape. Frankly, while I don't miss the need to fast-forward through songs on an album, the fact is that when you couldn't just skip to the next track, you were much, much more likely to listen to, and discover, a song that was unfamiliar and between you and the one you wanted to hear - definitely something lost with the tape medium. I suspect the reason Vinyl is such a strong medium these days is more of an aesthetic thing - vinyl has always been fetishized as a precious object, where CDs and Cassettes were always felt to be more disposable. All of which said, I've kept a single unopened TDK C90, just because of the sound it makes when I shake it - it's the sound of a time long gone when I always had a cassette in one jacket pocket and some spare AA cells in the other...

Learned a couple things, thanks!

I, by no means, grew up with a cassette or anything vintage like that - but with a new school that I go to, people think phones are the devil or something. So I plan on using a cassette with earbuds or something to get my music in through the day:)

I just started collecting cassette tapes Moms car had a tape player and I always wanted to make my own mix tapes and stuff

Just got a boots walkman as my first one and managed to get my favourite album on it (blue oyster cult - fire of unknown origin). Just wondering if the boots walkmans are any good

I'm 16 and I brought a sanyo M-1119 and when I was like 6 I listened to nursery rhymes in my car using the cassette player also my bday was recently and my friend got me a billy joel tabe

When I was a kid I just thought the Metal function was for if you were listening to Metal.

Hey Adam. What would you recommend as I cheep one. But a good sounding one that works well.

We' have over 200 cassette tapes including soundtracks and artists.

Where are you when you were recording the video? New home? Different part of the white wall house? Back in the 2017-18 flat?

I loved this video! You really convinced me to start my own collection. Question: what do you think is a reasonable price for walkmans? I want to buy a Sony wm-fx244, but it’s 65 dollars. Is the price worth it?

Hi how would you improve the sound of the blank tapes that you can record on let me know thanks so much.

found a cassette deck that can play but cant foward or rewind. is it worth it to buy ? owning a cd player and turntable, i dont usually skips or rewind songs.

Very great video man!!!

This is cool,im buying one of these rn

So I recently bought a cassette for a recent release. Is it supposed to sound mono or do different sounds come out of each speaker?

this video was very useful thank you

Bro your hair is the definition of “the higher the hair the closer to God”

Wow, I feel like a martian 😲 even though I grew up on cassettes it's so strange seeing this being explained. #cool

i'm looking into cassette tapes because a lot of music i like is on tapes and my new car (which is also my first car!) has a cassette player and i think it would nice to have a couple albums in a physical copy

My mom has a casset player in her 2004 camry and we have old cassets but they don't seem to work how do I use them lol

I have a Sony Cassette-Recorder TCM 155V what cassette tapes do I need to buy????

do you have fourscore on record or children's cassettes

Question 🙋‍♂️ why does cd 💿 show the runtime but vinyl or cassette tape don’t show the runtime but all three format like cd 💿 vinyl and cassette tape all have a runtime?

You're awesome bro, I like classic style

I have both of the Now That’s What I Call Music cassettes in the intro (4 and 11)

So what other cassettes do u own

My dad used to have a car with a cassette player instead of a cd player and that was still in like 2008-2011

That guys hair looks like the fighter Guile from Street fighter very retro

I love listening to Cassettes in the car , especially 90s club dance in my 90s car

Can I record my kids favorites by just playing the music trough a laptop and pressing record? Or does it have to be what streams from AMFM

Amazing hair and outfit man

The viewers of a younger age probably know of cassettes because of the guardians of the galaxy films

When shopping for cassettes check the pressure pads, an easy fix with glue they even sell replacements now.

That is not the cover and that is the box. The plastic thing the cassette is in is called the case and the paper thing inside is called the insert or j card (for blanks).

the intro got me already

I had one of those same brand back in the day

But how do you know when you put the tape in what side of the tape is going to play first

Cassettes are on the way back for sure...just watch the prices of decks and blank tapes....nice video thanks...from New York............

Does anyone know where i can buy casettes? Preferably international and not too expensive

Idk why but I prefer cassette cases to cd or vinyl I like how small they are and they look really cool so far I have Vince Gill When Love Finds You,Garth Brooks In Pieces,and Garth Brooks Ropin’ The Wind I plan on getting The Chase and No Fences

I'm here bc I found some cassettes and a cassette player

What happens if i play a virgin cassette?? What will i listen?? Will the cassette player keep looking for data??

Adam your kallax shelf is upside down, the one in the bottom at least. The continuous piece of wood should be the vinyl support if bot the shelf can bend and even break.

What instrument do you play?

Where did you purchase this?

Aren’t you from nsync? Haha, this video was helpful thank you :)

I have 2 The Jacksons tapes and I got a little cassette player that I can clip to my pants and it doesn’t work and I think it’s because I don’t know how to play it

Lol those Walkman now aren’t found for under 250 in Australia!!

9:51 before the sliders

I'm just a simple person. I saw Michael Jackson. I clicked.

Bros majestic

I’m 16, almost 17 hears old. And i have alot of Michael Jackson and Queen Vinyl. But i remember when i was youger that i had this cassette tape and i know i loved playing them but i cant remeber what was on them. And i dont have them annymore.

I recently got the WM-4 sony walkman

The Pet Shop Boys Very album sleeve is such a bad design, always thought so. Shame.

What is a drive belt?

You said you are one of the last generations to grow up with cassettes, I was born in 2006 and I've grown up with them and have a collection of them

Hey there. Is there still a chance of being able to find jewel cases for double cassette sets on say ebay? :) Thank you! :)

Does anyone else think Tape and all analog sounds better then Digital aswell as CDs even tho CDs are technically analog I’ve never got that feel

It is very hard to find WM-F1 in the market. Nice condition!

Thanks bart