Cassette Tapes: A Worthy Comeback? Use, repair and cleaning...
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**time stamps below**The cassette tape
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The cassette tape was invented in 1963. This era still saw the use of steam trains, horrible underpowered cars, and some homes still had no internal bathroom.
This was the future of music sharing and convenience: a tough package and a cheap way of consuming music without the bulk of a record player, and the ability to record. You could record anything, from bootlegging concerts to the local church service. Music could be smuggled into countries where pop was banned, and secret agents could send messages using them..
We had hundreds of tapes when we were kids, and I still have a few of jam sessions I recorded over 30 years ago. The tapes still play perfectly...
0:00 introduction
0:44 a brief explanation of cassette history and versus other formats
3:28 the cassette and the machine
4:35 recording a WAV file onto a cassette, and playback. A normal recording level set.
6:47 recording onto the cassette with a level that is too high. Distortion, fuzziness. Lovely!
7:46 recording onto the cassette with a level that is too low. Hiss....
8:44 Dolby NR - noise reduction, types B and C. Recording lower levels with Dolby C. Play back with and without Dolby.
10:12 the different types of tape: Normal (Type I), Chrome (Type II) and Metal (Type IV)
11:20 A broken tape, and taking the cassette apart and fixing the tape.
17:56 Playing the broken (and now fixed) cassette
18:40 The Machine and its parts. Cleaning the heads and pinch roller.
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The cassette tape was invented in 1963. This era still saw the use of steam trains, horrible underpowered cars, and some homes still had no internal bathroom.
This was the future of music sharing and convenience: a tough package and a cheap way of consuming music without the bulk of a record player, and the ability to record. You could record anything, from bootlegging concerts to the local church service. Music could be smuggled into countries where pop was banned, and secret agents could send messages using them..
We had hundreds of tapes when we were kids, and I still have a few of jam sessions I recorded over 30 years ago. The tapes still play perfectly...
0:00 introduction
0:44 a brief explanation of cassette history and versus other formats
3:28 the cassette and the machine
4:35 recording a WAV file onto a cassette, and playback. A normal recording level set.
6:47 recording onto the cassette with a level that is too high. Distortion, fuzziness. Lovely!
7:46 recording onto the cassette with a level that is too low. Hiss....
8:44 Dolby NR - noise reduction, types B and C. Recording lower levels with Dolby C. Play back with and without Dolby.
10:12 the different types of tape: Normal (Type I), Chrome (Type II) and Metal (Type IV)
11:20 A broken tape, and taking the cassette apart and fixing the tape.
17:56 Playing the broken (and now fixed) cassette
18:40 The Machine and its parts. Cleaning the heads and pinch roller.
Enjoy and Share!
Subscribe to my channel....
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