The basics of cassette recording 

I wasn't a fan of recording to tapes but one time just for fun I recorded myself practicing (synthesizer) and upon reviewing the tape, the tonal quality of the sound from the tape was far superior to anything I've recorded digitally. I'm well aware you can edit your recorded digital track to match the tonal qualities of tape, but for a hobbyist, I think cassette tape is a great way of achieving a very excellent quality recording without spending hours fidgeting with vsts or spending a small fortune on gear. Great video thanks for sharing!

I own an electronic repair business. I do not recommend you clean the rubber pinch roller with alcohol. They will dry up, stop feeding the tape, and will need replacing. It’s best to leave the rubber alone.

Finally a video that accurately explains recording volumes and how each way results in its sound. Thanks for the video!

Great video! Hard to come by these days, everyone is always oversimplifying and giving just a part of the information that is needed for you to understand the whole process.

What a great video, for me it was a blast from the past. I remember there were some noise reduction settings (for instance Dolby NR) on my cassette player, that I used to fiddle with too. Man I miss the 80's sometimes 🤪 I remember that special smell some new tapes had after removing the foil wrapping 😊

What a charming video exactly what I needed I just got a Tape Deck and this is really a great start for me nothing too complicated

Recorded one chrome cassete yesterday.l on a nak 150. Good sound quality.

Beautiful CD player and Tape Recorder.

Thanks for the tip about recording above 0, getting better results now

Tengo el deck Yamaha KX-360, es una verdadera máquina, tiene un sonido muy cálido, saludos.

Very helpful video & tutorial. Very helpful. thank you kindly. greetings from Trinidad

Every deck is different , if you can monitor the recording you can listen and adjust the settings and level to get the best sound. I made great dubs using Dolby C and Chrome tapes by SONY TEAC Memorex Maxell Fuji TDK , even Radio Shack Realistic had good chrome tapes.

Out of the box, this is an awesome video!

Great video! Did not know that those eq buttons were a Nakamichi specific thing.

The first thing you actually need to do when putting a blank tape in his press play for a few seconds so you can hear a little bit of his noise then stop it and then start recording and you will never miss the starting of a song

Nice and informative video about recording on tape, interesting to hear the effects of setting wrong tape types during recording. I have recently started recording on my NAD 613 deck and enjoying it a lot. For calibration with the Bias adjustment I recording a 315Hz and 10kHz sine wave, separated in the left and right channel, and find a position that on playback gives equal levels on the left and right channel. Any other tips on setting Bias? Your part on the notches in the different tape types got me thinking. My NAD 613 does not have a tape type selector, thereby I assume that will auto adjust with the notches, as you explained. But what if I have a type 2 tape with the record protection notches removed, and I cover the complete notches in order to be able to record? Will my deck see this type 2 cassette as being a type 1? Also, what is the purpose of the 70/120 microsecond switch on your Nakamichi? I though the difference between type 1 and type 2 is the either 70 or 120 microseconds? (and is that termed bias, or EQ? what does EQ mean anyway?) Hopefully you are able to respond to my question. Keep up the nice work with your channel, cool content also with the speaker demo and reviews!

Much of the business that I had in the 80's and 90's was real time cassette duplication. I used Nakamichi MR2 decks. The best fidelity for Type I Playback was to use Type II (chromium) tape in Type I shells. On recording, I would use Type II bias but 120micro second (Type I) eq. This gave extra headroom for the high frequencies and allowed recording at about 4dB hotter. These tapes played back properly on a Type I machine as they didn't have Type II sensor holes.

I had a dual cassette player, with black and white TV and a record player.

Auto reverse deck with a 4 track head. They do exist and don't depend on an unreliable mechanism.

This video really helped me a lot thanks ever so very much. 👍🏿😄😀

Thanks so much

I have an 80s Panasonic 635 deck hooked up to a 70s Sansui 221 receiver. I listen to tapes all the time on it with no issue. I finally tried recording from vinyl the other day thinking it would be easy enough (I also listen to vinyl with no issue).. It’s recording but I can barely hear the music on the tape, I have to crank it and even then it’s mostly tape hiss. I tried adjusting the input levels, the tape select and input select with little to no change. What am I doing wrong? Do I just need to clean the deck? Thanks 🙏

this video is very usefull thx dude

great vid, thanks!

think about buying a used cassette deck, hooking it up to my digital audio interface, then sending the cassette recordings to my DAW. might even get a portable cassette recorder to mess with some really lo-fi stuff, lol. has anyone here tried this??!

I have a user manual for my HK TD-392 which reads: “ When using ‘Low Noise’ Tapes, Momentary illumination up to +3dB is allowable." Then Come: +1dB , Metal +5dB . I assume this is just an industry standard. I hate the fear I get when I see the redline hitting, 😂

ALL my decks are type VI capable, I have them, but rarely use them except if I'm recording classical, other than that, type I gives me EXCELLENT results, I have MANY type II tapes, and rarely use them!

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Dolby? Please don't tell me you're one of those who thinks it doesn't work. It does - and really well if you understand it, especially S although that's quite rare - even your Naka there only has B & C.

How do you tell the difference between Type I Fe LowNoise (LN) & Type I Fe LowNoise_HighOutput (LH) tapes?

Did you ever try putting a cassette on fast record and it would always play back in slow motion I used to do that

Nice work.

I had an auto reverse deck. Never had a problem with the rotating head. The tape drive motors became worn out, rotating head never failed. Don't know why they are hated so much, Wish they still manufactured them.

Mijn cassette opnames, van Hilversum 3, met popmuziek uit de jaren zeventig lijken nog steeds in goede(?) staat en de stemmen van mijzelf en mijn broertje uit die tijd heb ik een paar jaar geleden gedigitaliseerd. Maar ik denk dat ik tot in de jaren tachtig het niet zo nauw nam met de verschillende cassette types. Daarna gebruikte ik de hifi stereo video recorder en toen kwam bij mij pas het besef van een goede geluidskwaliteit, uiteraard tegelijk met de opkomst van de cd.

My record button wont push in... dont know if im doing something wrong or the tapedeck is broke, im frustrated... Its a marantz sd-155

Great video. Question: if i have a tape recorder without any type settings to change, how can I record type II properly?

Hey, so I have a pre recorded tape that has the notches removed on the top. My friend accidentally recorded from the beginning and the end of the tape with a 1980 something General Electric recorder. Do you know what’s wrong here?

Ammmazing! tnx!

im just about to buy a denon dr-m11 the cost is 25 dollars it is a good deal ?

This wants me to fix the play motor on my Technics M85 MK 2

Great basic info….milk last always ;0)

Can I record direct from the outputs on my audio interface? Or is it recommended to use an amplifier for all applications

Former record to cd in casette

How do you segment tracks when recording to a cassette instead of having just one long track composed of different songs?

Great video for cassette recording. Is it advisable to record from my Desktop PC (with external DAC) or a pure audio CD player? Please advise. :)

Hi Asking here because don't know where to ask I make new tape recording from dsd512 sources i would like to know a which level do i must set the bias of the tape recorder of the sweep test signal? thanks in advance, have a good day, rgds,

I'm in the process of recording a cassette with sound coming from my PC's audio interface (scarlet focusrite), and I was wondering if I needed to use the Dolby NR during recording ?

hi buy tape line cassette tapes don't have any makes all over them and the heads that turn be ok if they are service alot note never use turning heads to record just in case the heads out of line i am a tec all the decks i work on i check moving parts for wear i am lucky i talked to alot over the years there are alot of poor looking decks out there my sister had a cassette radio dad got her it hell it was junk of a deck heads were to soft mate had a low end cassette hi-fi the head dead very fast i had a 4 track mono in the 80's still working the case has had it i know the fox tapes they something to do with tapeline i have the 1/8 tape pancakes for my otari dp2700 cassette loader i have been asked to show the deck on the net bob

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Spent years in 80-90 even in 2000s with tapes. What is the reason to perform this today ? I also wonder why this casette decks still cost money. Ok for Marantz, Denon some hi-end tech, but also tape-players that cost 100 $ from 30y ago are in trend too ! Wtf :?! ("Old days come to life. Old morning dawn... ?") 2 days ago i woke up and fixed that i want to buy a tape recorder too !!!))) i feel myself not myself !) Obviously - all this staff sounds quite poor and have many complexities. Seems like just some magic rite today, is not for listening).

My wife likes a good single deck, but she leaves the cleaning up to me.

I mean that was very well done but to be honest for me cassettes can rest in peace

this is a great video but i have one question. does the volume amount also apply to other recorders such as a stereo and thing like that. i also do not have a db meter on my deck is that fine?

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