God's chosen cassette tapes - Kingdom Professional Premium 

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God in heaven above points his hand down upon the hills of New Jersey and says...check out my mixtape bruh

That actually sounded fantastic on the 3 head deck. I love that there's still companies selling cassettes. I was surprised to find new Maxell tapes at a store here in town in 2019, so I bought a few. I went back in 2020 to buy more and they didn't have any. I asked the clerk if they were getting more, and she looked at me like I was crazy - "it's 2020!" she says.

"The people only had one copy of the Christmas album by the band Low. But then a miracle happened, the lord and saviour VWESTLIFE; used his twin tape deck to turn the one tape, into 82 tapes"

in the mid 70s my parents use to have Christian sermon tapes that would get passed around and mailed. We had tape duplicator! Parents would type up the labels and we kids would load the tapes in the duplicator. When I saw the box I knew exactly what kind of tapes they were!

When I was in high school (mid ‘90s), I did the sound at church, and we used these to record services. They really are good quality tapes. The New Jersey song is a good choice. The arrangement and vocals almost sound like gospel music!

You discovered Kingdom (blessed be)! Their 100 Cassette Wooden Racks are a little-known cassette collectors' gem. They are one of the only places to still buy new, large wooden racks like that. With vintage Napa Valley ones going for $50-$70 plus shipping the high-quality Kingdom ones at under $40 are a bargain. I discovered those from finding one initially at a thrift as well. Thanks again for the great and very entertaining content!

As a guy born and raised in NJ, I really appreciate that incredibly inspirational piece of music. 😂

My university's bookstore sold duplicator cassettes back in the 80s. The price was right and they were better than the three-to-a-sleeve junk at Kmart.

About five years ago I picked up a high-speed dubbing machine I believe it holds six cassettes and a box of those cassette tapes out of a dumpster at my church.

I remember those tapes.... Back in the 90s I volunteered to help at the church to do recordings and tape copies. The sermon gets recorded through the mics and a small mixer board into a recorder, and afterwards we use a bulk tape copier to make up to three copies at a time. They're for people who want to hear the sermons again or if anyone missed the previous services. The tape duplicators were so fast and easy I didn't need to be there watching so I could chat with my friends till they were done. Good times...

A lot of cassette, good for making mixtapes as a gift for Christmas!!!

I used to love going to Phar-Mor. Their video/game rental "store" inside, was one of the most disorganized I've ever seen, but I remember finding some awesome SNES and Gameboy games back then mixed with some random movies.

I once bought a JVC DAT deck that came with some matching JVC blank tapes, some of which had been used. Turns out it had been owned by a church of some sort and the tapes were full of sermons and "testimonies" of things the church members had overcome (such as the pastor's former drug addictions, etc). Needless to say the tapes were subsequently recorded over with the devil's music.

"Let's see how many tapes I have left in this box of a hundred" *Turns into a chipmunk*

As entertaining and informative as Kevin’s videos are there is also a fun factor with each one. This one was great! Happy Holidays sir! Thanks for the hard work!

As others have said, I have used these tapes for many years, too. I have thought that they look very similar to TDK tapes of that era. So, I don't know if TDK manufactured them for Kingdom or not. While going through things in my garage during quarantine, I discovered boxes of church service recordings on these tapes. About 30 years later, the recordings hold up very well on them. No "sticky tape syndrome," or drops in sound quality. After tapes, we went to CD-R recording and duplication. Now, I send an audio signal back to someone else who is running a video switcher connected to a Macintosh laptop running e-cam software streaming to RU-vid. Oh my, how far we have come! As always, thanks so much for these videos! Have a happy holiday, VWestlife!

I have a few cassettes, and I did used custom labels for brands that doesn’t exists since I printed out myself using a printer. It’s also available for C60, and C120 lengths, and these are white cassettes which were made for the church. I remember visiting my grandmother’s house where she had a handful of white cassettes that she got the church, along with the blank ones. That was a long time ago.

I worked at a Time Brokered AM gospel radio station in the late 90's/early 2000's in High School, we had several preachers that brought in their sermons to play on cassette tape, by the time I left some had moved to CD, I recently visited them in the summer of 2021 and still saw they had a cassette deck in the studio for "holdouts" that had not fully went digital.

I'm familiar with that company. Our church gets their catalog. They also have house branded electronics such as microphones and wireless transmitters. Overall, their stuff does an acceptable job.

I have a big box of similar tapes, except mine are ex-Police stock (Neal branded - Techmoan did a video about their tape recorder a while back). They're apparently filled with AGFA Ferrocolor tape. You'd never mistake them for a TDK AR, but at 49p a tape I can't complain.

My grandfather was a deacon for his church from about 1989 to 2016, he has loads of these blanks around. They're rather good quality for ferric tapes, I use them often for recording classical music from the radio when I'm away.

I'm curious how much of an exclusive those cassettes truly are. The packaging is identical to that used by National Audio Company, whose 731 normal bias tape is also an excellent performer. Theirs don't have the text on the leader, though. Kingdom's been on the web for a while. The Wayback Machine has a capture from 1996, with a nice graphic showing all the services they offered at the time.

I found a box of those at a church sale, with a mono duper. They're great tapes. I recorded slayer albums onto them.

"Heavenly voices or hellish rackets" sounds like some lyrics to a Black Sabbath track ;) Maybe that's why the tapes are white and black, for recording the album Heaven and Hell.

We had CLOUD tapes here in Scotland back in the 80's. What you recorded on side A could be heard on the blank side B!!

Thnx for the video. It's Julafton here in Sweden so thnx for the gift.

I’ve been relatively shocked, when I was doing a tour of a local AM station, preachers were still sending their sermons on tape as late as 2018. Mostly Maxell UR tapes. Cassette tapes just never seem to die… Just got 2 of my decks serviced, and they sound as good as they can. Merry Christmas.

My church used these tapes. Knowing that they just sold their building, these tapes might have actually come from there! The older shells had the Kingdom logo molded into them.

This tape really sounded good on my cellphone speaker.

My personal experience with these Kingdom cassette tapes has been pretty good… in fact, I actually used one of these to record various episodes of Car Talk from my local NPR station (91.5 WUNC, to be exact)…. and this was before I actually made my first mixtape on a Maxell UR120 tape which featured nothing but hits from the 1960s. Thanks for such an excellent video!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and each of this channel's flock of followers :)

My God! I had no idea New Jersey was worthy of such fidelity. Who knew?

I'm still enjoying 'Positively New Jersey!'.

The black tapes on that box are the ones they use to record sermons about Satan 👹.

Definitely buying these for my future black metal demos.

A company specializing in cassette tapes for... preachers. And still alive even today... what else will we see in this world. 🤣 The cassette counting was hilarious, and the comments all over the video ridiculously funny. Just another quality video from the usual suspect, VWestlife.

nice score brutha VW, in my old indie band we used to buy similar bulk blank cassettes & laser printer labels to DIY our music back in the early 90s. Now that you've spread the word, I bet Kingdom will sell out quickly.

That first tape "normal bais"... that was way funnier than it should have been

And he strikes again with another wonderful video about tapes, which I love! and when you started counting the tapes and used my favorite song from that Wurlitzer record at 1:34 I just opened a big smile from one ear to another ♥ ♥ ♥😁

Wishing You Kevin & Your Family A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year 🎄🎅🎁⛄

@2:20 - Mansfield, PA - I used to frequent a bar there quite heavily as well as The Gaslight in Wellsboro. I also used to date the old Mansfield school board president years ago. My father and I owned a restaurant in Tioga which is only a couple of miles up the road from Mansfield. That brought back memories.

In some alternate universe, there was no "Horizons" at EPCOT Center, but rather New Jersey--and this was its song

Blessed with Premium® sound. Amen.

9:40 "This ends the broadcast day at NJN. Operated by the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, WNJN operates at an assigned carrier frequency of...."

Missed opportunity in the New Jersey song is singing about the turnpike

Let's hear it for the Garden State! You have a good holiday season.

it's always something weird that keeps old formats around. either its tapes for jesus stuff, or floppy disk for old computers that run the nuclear weapons around the world.

Today I learned new jersey has a theme song.

Very interesting. I am from Northern Ireland and I used to go to a Baptist Church as a child. They had the exact same white coloured tapes which they used to record their services. I also remember even back in 2004 going to a Christian event and I bought one of the tapes of the services that were recorded and guess what, the exact same white tape. I’ve been listening to a few of your videos of late and they are very interesting and very good. I love audio equipment myself. I am a person who is legally blind therefore I enjoy listening to a lot of audio dialogue and I love your narration of describing things. Keep up the good work.

I used to do the cassette duplication at my Dad's church, and yup, that's what I used.

Your videos are always so informative and entertaining. I had a box of 100 "duplicator" cassettes - came from a church - but these had shell warping issues and some of my early cassette recorders weren't strong enough to play them. Your tapes seem much better and sound great! But the BEST part of your video was that song "New Jersey" at the end. I have never heard the like - it sounded like a hymn or anthem to a state! I've visited New Jersey many times, but never got the urge to move there like the folks singing this song! Advertising gone over the top - Amazing. Thanks for the fun video. I always look forward to your postings.

Exactly what I would expect for the audio quality from a new old stock (NOS) blank cassette tape! I have a similar experience with a Maxell UE Type I Tape that I bought 2 boxes of it, ALL SEALED, old new stock for around $20 or around 1000php. Good thing I have my 3 head tape deck and I got a similar output as yours, very decent sound quality. I didn't need to playback with Dolby NR after recording. Good video VWestlife! More videos like this please... :) Always informative and entertaining as usual :)

Glossy blank cassette labels are currently on sale for a penny each. J-Cards are also affordable. Unfortunately, they are sold out of hard cassette cases. They only have the soft plastic ones that J-Cards don't fit in. Shipping charges are pretty high, even for basic ground service, so keep that in mind if placing an order from Kingdom.

Another great video, Kevin. Ignore the trolling asshats - there’s many of us who really look forward to a new video from you. And I hope you have a great Christmas. 🥰🎄

Impressive sound quality. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Awesome find, it's nice to see there are companies still selling good quality standard cassette tapes, however my church live streams their Sunday service, funerals(if the family allows), and special events on YT with a simple 720p webcam/mic setup that captures the majority of the sanctuary in one shot, and has long since stopped recording it onto cassette tapes, VHS, or burning to DVD, however if you bring them a clean 32GB or 64GB flash drive they will put it on there for ya, as they back everything up on an offsite file storage server.

The Forgotten Chipmunk: VWestlife... I kid though. XD

The New Jersey song was so dramatic. 💕

Counting tapes feat. Alvin the chipmunk Also, miss the obligatory “Radio gets results” jingle

Hi Tony! 🙂There's an other church tape brand, called ProGamma 2000, they also came with 92 minutes long tape, I don't know why churches liked that odd lenght. I bought a few of these tapes here in Hungary in a local online auction a few years ago. They're meh. Sounds OK, but there are some dropouts. This Kingdom tape is seemingly better.

Please explain what bias is and what adjusting it does. I really enjoy your videos, thank you and have a happy new year.

I laughed at "although it is screwed, which is good".

Tony at Cassette Comeback will love this. I wonder if these cassettes are still being made or if they just have a stack in warehouse somewhere. p.s. I love the New Jersey song. We need the writers to write our next Eurovision entry :-)

That key change in the New Jersey song 🙌

Leader tape arrows look same as Maxell leader tape has. So maybe this is MAXELL UR ??. Merry Christmas!

It’s dramatic how the hiss just totally disappears with Dolby noise reduction

They are still on the website. Nice.

Kingdom Inc gonna be surprised with a sudden increase in orders for their tape. Also, no RU-vid, I’m not interested in Elevation Church.

Thank you Man , These are very very good Tapes for every day general recording onto with most of the Players I have .

I`ve bought a couple Napa Valley style storage cases from them. Found them by accident. Was nicely surprised they still were in the cassette business

I got that "NEW JERSEY" song stuck in my head now.

Very good find. In a junk shop I found some 80s TDKs with church services recorded onto them and awful organ playing. But these are really mint. The sermons sound much more exciting than mundane Presbyterians.

Another cassette video- happy days. I love picking up sealed blank tapes in charity shops and used high- end ones as well ,( not all charity shops will sell used ones though). Tapes rock. Mind you, picking up Dat tapes or DCC tapes is rarer than rocking horse droppings. Keep up the great videos.

I find your videos so fascinating as an audio and computer guy... also someone who drove vws much of his life :) keep doing great work!

that song about New Jersey, lol. you always have the lost media treat

You just brought this company lots of customers. Amen to that.

Love how that first cassette that appears in the video has "Normal Bais" :)

I read that Tascam is doing a new limited production run of their 424 cassettes. Are you going to get one to test?

Finally a positive view of NJ. NJ isn't just Newark and dirty crowded cities. I'm proud to live in NJ. There are many beautiful places in NJ that get overlooked because everyone sees Newark if they fly in.

I lived in Mansfield from 1992 to 2006 and worked and went too school with the son of the founder of the company, they also got into computer manufacturing and sales quite a bit in the mid to late 90 through the early 2000s

The New Jersey song changed my life. Also, 🎶 we’re sorry that we made the world deal with Paulie D 🎶

Nostalgia made me click the thumbnail just for the PharMor tape lol

I remember that Jersey song playing at the Port Authority Bus Terminal back in the day.

With the Dolby turned on those sound pretty good. A good price to order 100 straight from the manufacturer as well. Cassette prices have gone nuts so it's good to have another option.

I just found a used TDK MA-110 type 4 in a thrift store for 25 cents. Hopefully the tape itself is in good condition. I only have 2 type 4’s, one has permanent recordings that I don’t want to touch and the other has mold and sounds worse than a type 1. So I’m hoping this TDK is in good shape for me to experiment with :)

That was actually some really good sound! I miss the days of recording radio songs on my tape player

My record store has a box of blank unlabeled cassettes. Those were probably from the same company that produces those tapes for duplication and indie music. Especially that vinyl is more expensive to make copies for the small and independent record labels.

I've never been more excited about New Jersey!

Great video! I appreciate your sense of humor and delivery.

Thanks, I know what I want for Christmas now ... A box of tapes and a new jersey.

I passed up about 500 of those duplicator tapes a while back under the assumption they were complete and total garbage. I only use TDK D Series for my basic recordings, such a nice balanced tape. EDIT: Shit, wanna sell me say 30 of those?..... JFC those sound good

The New Jersey anthem was the best laugh I've had in weeks!

1:35 was brilliant! Haha! These look somewhat familiar, I'm sure I've come across one or two somewhere along the way.

I am a full time youth minister. My previous church used tapes until 2005. My current church just steams to RU-vid and a HDD as backup. Fun times. God Bless.

Those three blue arriws on the leader used to be indicative of Maxell tape. This might have UR tape in it. Also, your Bias setting is rather inaccurate since the level meter's resolution is too coarse. I always find it useful to use a pink noise test tone recorded at ~ -20dB and then adjust the bias by ear between source and tape. It's the second best thing if your deck lacks internal calibration tones.

I came for the tapes, left enjoying that New Jersey song

Todays episode of Sesame Street was brought to you by the number 82. 82 blank tapes. Ah ah ah.

I know Audio Technica rebranded some of their ewuipment (like wireless mics) Kingdom.

Thats awesome! Im always in search of quality blanks at the thrift store!