Sad how the newer generations will never experience such things. Noiseless, feedback free, distortion free perfection is truly not perfect. It lacks the human touch of a spinning disc or tape.
I am a teenager and look back fondly on playing my Pet Shop Boys tape in my car stereo system, and I am looking into getting tapes and putting my songs I write, custom mixtapes, and my favorite albums onto blank cassettes.
@@disectormusicwhat do you plug this into? Like, which port? On the side of mine, it has a volume nob, a headphone jack, a microphone jack. And then there is one that says Dist next to it. I have no idea what that one is for.
When I was a kid, when we actually had to used cassettes, I discovered that you could talk or sing into headphones plugged into an input jack and they would act like a microphone.
I think that Mic input is just mono, so all recordings are just going to be in mono, not stereo (left + right) and will sound like a single speaker (not wide stereo sound) no matter what. Have to use a big tape recording deck to record left & right RCA to get a stereo recording, if that's what someone is looking for.
@@tapeskeeper Well, you cannot "split" mono into stereo, you can only join mono to stereo, because stereo is separate left and right channels, whereas mono is the sound mixed of both left & right channels together, and it is impossible to separate. To record stereo music onto tape as stereo, the recorder needs to be a stereo recorder.
Quick question Does it convert everything into mono Or does it only record what's in mono, like mid/side, and only records mid If it converts everything to mono I'm fine with it cuz I can re transfer into my daw and stereo image etc.
@@ITRiBUTEI quel registratore converte la sorgente automaticamente in mono,ci pensa la configurazione del connettore del registratore e la sua circuiteria
I've been making mix tapes like this for years! I do it on my Sony xpod Boombox.It works great ! 👍 As long as you have aux ur always good to go.Keep cassettes Alive !!! Heck Yeah !!! Cassettes need more love.❤Great short video.🙂
Do you plug the aux into the microphone jack? Also. I have a jack on mine that say "Dist" next to it. And I have no idea what it's for. I've tried looking it up. But I have found no answers.
I just bought one from ebay for about $20 for the same purpose you are doing. I got a boom box trying to go all retro. Its a realistic brand from radio shack 1980. The guy says he tested it all functional. It’s amazing these capacitors have not leaked. I have a Atari junior 1986 and it also works. These things were made to last. At worst it possible to fix them.
I have a GPX tape recorder that I bought from the Salvation army for 1.99 and my Uncle told me that he could hear me playing Prince - Emancipation triple album on cassette way across the ENTIRE store. I just had to get it and I'd been looking for one for YEARS NOW.
@metromodernism Tip: Yes, but alternatively, you can manually wind past the leader until the tape is just past the middle foam piece, and then you don't even have to worry about guesstimating the 5-7 seconds.
Tapes can sound a lot better than this! For starters that's a type II tape in a type I designed recorder/player and it definitely sounds like the belt(s) need to be replaced due to the wow and flutter. Still, recording tapes is fun and rewarding, especially when you get it indistinguishable from the source with a proper cassette deck.
@@deeznutsmynamejeffnot really cassette decks are just more solid pieces of equipment and if you're looking into purchasing one I'd recommend a single deck recorder not a dual
@@deeznutsmynamejeff it's kind of like mobile gaming vs Pc gaming, compromises have to be made to fitit in a smaller package and as such the quality is lower.
@@deeznutsmynamejeffNo because it’s a mono recorder (and mono player). It will record only the left channel. You will have to switch the music playback to mono on your phone so you don’t lose specific sounds from a song that is being recorded (it combines left and right channels into one). But the recordings will sound flat just like in this video. You would also need to get the mono male to stereo female adapter to enjoy recorded songs with your stereo headphones(dual mono).
This is kinda deceiving because those shoebox tape recorders can only record in mono, no stereo. To record in stereo you need a special audio cable connected to your phone or digital device that has two outputs (left and right sound) and a compatible recorder that has two line-in ports to record in stereo.
When I was a teen, I recorded some of my tapes off the air. The only bad part was the DJ talking through the intro. Otherwise, I recorded from records for the purpose of making the music portable, preserving the records, and playing in my car off the tape deck.
Not sure, but the cassette in the video appears to be type 2 or 4. Better results will occur if type 1 is used.The voice activation feature on this unit can be used during line in recording too.
youre supposed to do this with type 1 tapes type 2 is much higher quality meant for layering different instruments and taking lots of mic signals and rewrites
I dint have a cassete or a player yet , but i bought a aux , i went ti a place where its stuff from the 20s and 90s and saw a cassete , u cant but anything tho , just shiwcase
I have that exact tape player! I used to use it to record interviews. I haven't used it in years. I hoped it would be fine. It's not dead, but it's not working either.😢
Pretty sure you won’t need to since the cable connected to your phone/PC/etc is acting like a headphone cable, but instead of going to the earbuds it goes into the recorder
I wouldn’t use one of these types of tape recorder for mixtapes. The shoebox type cassette recorders were meant for voice so it will not sound very good. They also only record in mono not stereo.
Sounds really good. This today I was trying to make a mixed tape using aux but I have one of those ONN brand ones and the audio is terrible. Maybe I need to get one of these?
Thanks! Honestly, I can’t tell you what to buy. I’m not familiar with the ONN brand, but if the audio quality is poor you may need to buy a different recorder.
