Awesome video man. From what I read in the description, seems like we have similar ambitions. I want to do a fully logical controlled player that I can one touch record a whole playlist with Dolby S noise reduction.
awesome, i really enjoy your video. im in the journey to make my own "frankenstein multiple cassette recorder" so this videos its kind of inspirational
@@jessArcade that's great man, i hope you can achieve it. also im thinking to make it "open hardware" if I achieve it, so anyone can replicate it or improve it.
Do you have a schematic for the playback preamp? Some time ago I made my own cassette recorder that records well, and it's own recordings sound great when played back by another tape deck, but I just can't get the equalization right for playback on my own home made cassette recorder.
A nice assembly just instructive and cute, because using cassettes currently is a bit outdated for me. Watching videos talking about these old technologies brings a certain nostalgia, but it stops there. If I need to record, the quality of a "Zoom H1n" style recorder is incomparably better than the most expensive cassette deck can do. Or even the cheapest or oldest smartphone can record in mono via the cable from the headset. I used to use such a device to record talk shows, but now I will search on the web for the podcast. For the music, I have become too demanding to listen to it on cassette. It is mostly the use of AAC downloaded directly or webradio. Good fun 😉. Hello from Belgium 🙋♂️
Any cheap cassette player made in the past 5 years. They all have the same mechanism as there is only one manufacturer. Even the new Fiio player. Better ones can be salvaged from old boomboxes with an AC erase head (but recording is a whole different problem!)
@@elk3909 This video hasn't made anything, it's wiring up a bunch of PCB's together, this is not how manufacturing works. A hobby project yes, Manufacturing no.
@@slickepinneall systems are made with preexisting parts. ever looked inside any electrical device such as a stereo amplifier? do you really expect sony or any manufacturer to grow their own transistors to use in their devices or only use chips that they produced? i understand your argument as i hate how elon musk is credited for so many things he didnt do personally by himself. but if we use this argument then nobody really makes anything since they have to use parts that already exist.
@@elk3909 manufacturers do not assemble other manufacturer's inventions to reassemble them and then present them as their own product.. Neither did Musk.
There are some shots early in the video showing close-ups of the circuit board, both top and bottom. He was very deliberate at around 2:53 to show the part number stamps on the clear 1.8 nf poly film caps (182J) and at 2:55 to show the stamp on the twin op-amp 8-DIP IC (TL072CP). That shot also shows the blue electrolytic cap values to be 47 uf at 15V. Earlier shots show the orange drops to be .47 uf. Similarly, the resistors can be decoded from their color bands. There ought to be similar pre-amp circuts with the TL072 that can be referenced to get the push-pull transistor pairs and the green film caps figured out. There are some long shots of the circuit path underneath. It can be pieced together. Later edit: Another shot at 2:59 shows the part numbers on the green caps (2A102K) 1nf at 100V, and the transistors (S9018) NPN .1 uA.
