Making Cassette Tapes Cool Again 

there new blank cassettes are fantastic, easily as good as anything I've used in the past thirty years.

I am always wondering if VHS would also make a comeback

@@kylereese5869 At one point perhaps. Some bands or indie film makers may release small batches of VHS copies of their movies. As long as there's blank VHS tape material available and people with working VCRs. If i'd release something on VHS it should rather be S-VHS, Heck, maybe D-VHS even gets niche revival like some folks who do with new music releases on DCC.

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 exactly maybe we could finally give D-Theater a chance.

@@kylereese5869 I doubt it but they do make good audio players if you get a hifi model

Yep, faster than autoreverse. ;)

You should check out Recording the Masters brand. They're based in France and they manufacture brand new tapes on BASF equipment! You can get them in US too.

and put them in all the stores in the country..

They also manufacture CDs? Nice! :)

Perhaps maybe this is your dreamjob then working with them making cassettes

Kevin Höhnisch for records yes. NOT cassettes.

there is nothing new under the sun

@@kevinhoehnisch98 Yes Kevin it is :-)

@@SPAZZOID100 But what if I told you cassettes are good.

@@SPAZZOID100 cassettes sound just as good as CD's all you need is a high end cassette deck with bias and dolby noise reduction and Chromium dioxide tapes. (cro2) which are used for CD quality sound. If calibrated right.

Next time he could try that with reel to reel. ;)

Eliezer Logronio, you got a heart shaped tape.

The same here Eliezer ;-)

I have lots of CD's. But I have never thrown out any of my many cassette tapes. I still have them, and I have two stereo units with cassette recorder/players in them. I won't purchase a stereo system unless it has at least one cassette player in it. And because one is also a recorder, I can still make mix tapes! Among all of the cassette tapes I own, the tapes I treasure the most are those which I recorded myself. Those are the on-air recordings I made back in the late 80's of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, which I recorded off of Denver's KOA-AM 850 kHz. I still have several of them, and they still sound and play just like they did when I originally recorded them!

@@H11X11N he has a heart shaped box :')

Lisa Marsh.. Must be, I’m in PA too and see this as well. I’m in the same boat (sinking boat?).. I still record stuff I don’t have time for but I enjoy Novelty, many ppl today lack this and these are the ppl you can’t talk to about such things before being labeled “stupid weirdo”, aww idnt e so cute 🙄 So here’s my “kit” of goodies I enjoy the novelty of using and abusing (excluding: vhs dvd/br portable, camera, other, tv and gaming).. Hi-Fi Stereo components list: •Living Room Yamaha a/v rec. RX-V661 (with YDS-12 dock) Yamaha tape K-640 Yamaha tape K-540 Yamaha cd5 CDC-655 BSR SE-One (spacial enhance) Sony PS-LX510 phono Yamaha EQ GE-60 Yamaha NS-A1738 tower sp Yamaha RX-V2065 •Other Sansui S-2500X sp (‘74) Sharp Vi AN-2000U JVC tape TD-W718 Audio-Technica AT-PL50 Sony HCD/LBT-G5500 (98) Pioneer a/v rec. VSX-D508 (sp- CT-T5100 (99) Sharp tape RT-W500 JVC tape TD-R441 JVC cd5 XL-FZ158 Technics cd5 SL-PD827 Onkyo a/v rec. HT-R520 (sp- SK 520) Onkyo tape TA-R301 (RI) Onkyo cd6 DX-C380 Sony tape TC-WR531 Realistic STA-64B Coustic ei HEQ-7009 (spectrum display analyzer) Fisher Hi-Fi cab (sp- ST-830) MT-730 CA-273 FM-273 CR-W46 EQ-273 Sharp Optonica RT-1515B Technics cd5 SL-PC10 (1989) Technics tape RS-B54 (dbx deck) Craig tape H221 (1977) Sharp Optonica tape processor RT-3838 Technics a/v rec. SA-GX690 Yamaha a/v rec. RX-V371 Sharp tape RT-160 Yamaha tape KX-W382 Pioneer a/v rec. SX-V200 Sansui S-37 sp Sansui S-3900 sp Ion TTUSB Onkyo tape TA-2060 Yamaha amp A-30 Yamaha tuner T-30 Mixing/recording/instrument amplification & sound processing: Peavey M-3000 Mark V Series (power amplifier rack head) BSR SE-One (spare) Zoom GFX-8 inKel EQ-825 (rack EQ) Russound TMS-1 Casio CT-650 Yamaha PSS-470 Zoom MRS-1608 Yamaha CRW-70 (copier) Community CSX (stage monitor ls) Radio Shack 40w P.A. Radio Shack P.A. ls 75 Realistic P.A.-88 Yamaha MD4 Vox AD100VT Crate GX-15 DOD FX76 Rocktron Midi Mate Yamaha SPX90II (rack effects) Fender BXR Sixty Zoom R16 Peavey AlphaBASS (rack head) Crate GX412R Sunn 115RH Yamaha RX17 (rhythm prog) Yamaha DD-5 (drum pads) Optimus EQ 31-2030 Rocktron Rampage amp Yamaha DJX-IIB Cheers!

buy me a new car then.

@@pentium4guy639 Record labels this year are putting out Cassette's left and right. Rise Records is one big one doing it as well. Alice N chains also is along with Marlyn Manson and plenty more.

Robert Polanco CDs are still used for demos and software, would be a shame if they did but I don't think they'll be discontinued any time soon

Hello Sar casset ke Factory fir se chalni chahie

Is Jamane Mein cassette player Chalna chahie

Metal tape is not suitable for pre-recorded tapes though. For that they would want a high bias cobalt formula, which was used on some pre-recorded cassette releases in the past.

@@video99couk You mean the darker Type 1 kind of tapes that are Ferric Oxide with Cobalt? Yeah those are great.

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 They were type 2 but for pre-recorded tapes, made so that you didn't need type 2 playback equalisation.

Is this some kind of replacement stock for what Quantegy used to sell? Never heard of it. Hard to get some proper Multitrack / Portastudio tapes here in Europe. Even thou i managed to successfully use the current generation of Maxel UR90 tapes on them as well, dispite being Type1 Tapes.

KRAFTWERK2K6 I’m not sure. Email them! I think they ship to Europe. Nice workaround btw

Thanks. Yeah, I'll check them out and see if it's worth the shipping costs. Yeah, the Type1 tapes work too but of course since they get the wrong premagnetisation the sound will still be a bit more dull than Type II tapes. But if you compensate that with the EQ and only use DBX noise reduction, it should be fine. I have no other choice xD TDK SA tapes were the last Type II stock i could get before all of it was suddenly gone from stores everywhere.

KRAFTWERK2K6 oh interesting... I’ll have to try that out... Type IIs are apparently disappearing now too

I did a digital recording of an album cut on a tape (store bought copy) and spent a lot of time doing so only to find the full album on you tube cut from a CD and could not match the quality no matter what. Tape is DEAD. Face the facts: digital RULES.

Then why the resurgence of vinyl? Don't get me wrong, I have a LOT of digital music but people are rediscovering the beauty and richness of analog.

you probably bought a normal bias cassette album, I have people fooled all the time when i play high bias tapes on my denon drm-710, they always think its a cd... you have to know more then the basics when it comes down to audio...

Vinyl doesn't have the same drawbacks as tape in that the recording can retain at least most of the dynamic range of the recording, whereas tape will always have that annoying hiss at lower recording levels. On vinyl, if your record is clean and free of scratches, it comes super close to CD. The plus side of vinyl IS the analog reproduction which has no interpolations to the original sound. On digital, you have various (yet indiscernible to most of people's hearing) multitude points of data that get interpolated back to analog that only to the audiophile can one tell the difference. Also on a record I can put that needle at any point in the recording and hear what I want to hear rather than having to REWIND or FASTFORWARD to those same points on a tape. This is why vinyl is making the better comeback than tape can ever accomplish.

I find that over time the magnetic imprint from one overlay of the reel imprints itself onto the other so that you hear seems to be some sort of overlook into what is to come next or worse, what you just heard repeated a few milliseconds later. So something that long ago would have a bigger imprint and cause more of that unwanted type of cross-talk not to mention the things that invariably occur with tapes that old which is momentary sound drop-outs. Those are issues that tape introduces that becomes problematic when trying to make them sound like CD quality when if fact, as hard as you may try to, you really can't.

You youngster. Me know that real music die when they invent instrument. Real music is when me bang stick on rock. Only Paleolithic kids understand

Tobin Mummert thanks for the story, but no. Digital all the way!!! Its portable anywhere in the world and doesnt need a physical storage. If you like to travel. Flac is the way to go

All they have to do is get a popular movie and have the main charactor using VHS and VCR'S ... Just like star lord did in guardians of the galaxy.

as someone who has been in the tape business for over 30 years and who works for the largest producer of lto in the world ill have to agree with you dan. tape is forever.

The video cameras used in broadcast TV use a special type of Betamax tape.

But data archiving tapes have absolutely nothing to do with audio tapes. No machinery used in either field has anything in common with each other.

Yes, video and audio are two different things, that's true.

One pass of a bulk eraser will destroy your lame backward tape past world.

wildbilltexas where to buy?

I guess from NAC's website: www.nationalaudiocompany.com/product-category/products/audio-cassette-tapes/

wildbilltexas splendid! I'm off to lose all my savings!

No problem. You can still get Maxell UR tape here in the USA at drug stores like CVS and Walgreens, but its basic normal bias tape made in Indonesia. Hopefully NAC's new tape will be better.

There were good ones, Maxell and BASF to name two really good brands. But both are not produced anymore

They may sound as good as you recorded them, but do they sound as good as their digital counterparts??? Hmmm??? Sorry NOT.

@@sc0tchlvr who asked?

Wow cool

I saw somewhere these recent releases like the Guardians of The Galaxy tape didn't use Dolby on it at all, so I don't think they even put that on anymore (let alone if newer machines even use it).

They're just being kinda lazy about not going with the materials/techniques that kept these around for a bit.