Cassette Tapes - Beginners Guide!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- I've recently gotten back into cassette tapes! So I thought I would share what I learned about collecting cassettes with you guys, incase you want to start collecting too!
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Despite having a smartphone, a tablet, and many other ways to stream music. I think I want to get into cassettes. It really brings me back to my youth.
Did you do it?
DO IT
I’m just getting back into physical music formats. Got a Walkman recently. Going to also get a Walkman cd player as well. Something about actually physically having the music is just special 🔥🔥🔥
Same bro 😮💨, I'm using a cassete rn 😄
Im 10 year back in cassetts 😂 having purchased few beautifull decks from 1980th. Nice toys. PS New old stock cassettes of Chrome Type are still awailable in reasonable prices!
That hair! Wow.
yeah, i know , his hair is super cool!
Lmao he looks like a hair god 😂
Looks a bit like the hairstyle morrissey had in the eighties but turned up to eleven.
Fax
Your so men
I was looking through my mums old stuff from the 80s and found some original Michael Jackson tapes and her Walkman! Never parting with it and it’s so precious
I recently started collecting. My dad gave me his GE cassette player. My first cassette is Louder than Bombs album by The Smiths.
that's cool
I love that album
I love the smiths!
I’m going to start collecting, my first things are probably most or all journey albums, and some boston, E.L.O, zeppelin and Van Halen.
Memento mori my friend! Also, you have great music taste.
i wish sony used all our modern tech to build one final cassette walkman that is small as possible, hifi, long battery life and anything else they can think of, maybe it could even have 16 gigs of space for digital audio too
So you just want a functional walkman with loads of digital audio space?
@@BigKelvPark yeah all in 1 music machine, very impractical though
Kelvin Park naw classic vintage stuff is good enough as it is
@@bbenny9033 fuck might aswell make it Bluetooth 😂
Im 13(about to be 14) and i collect a lot of old things. Gameboys, cassette tapes, microcassette tapes, cassette players,VCRs, the old.
I'm now 16 and cringing at my past comment.
Same here im 14 and I'm listening to the beatles
For me it's just old video games, cds, and vinyls. I'm thinking of doing cassetes
@@Hermit__ cassettes are indeed fun to use.
@@thenewbgamer6416 my personal favorite music format is vinyl
GAMEBOYS ARENT OLD
8:59 is the timestamp on how to put in the tape!
Listening to Cassette tapes are way more better than just listening To your phone in the car
Agreed, usually when I’m out on walks or such I’ll tune into my Walkman and leave the phone for a bit
@@smophie6260 such a great thing to step away from your phone.
I'm a 2010 kid, but I really love all the old stuff, I'm using my cassette player rn lol
I’m ordering my first and very own cassette player tomorrow. I’m 14 and my parents don’t have one in the house because they’re so obsolete in 2020. I started collecting cassettes because I love the 80s and the 80s music and just ordered some Duran Duran cassettes a few days back. Thanks for the helpful video!
Update: my cassette playing should finally be arriving! I really hope it does. I also ordered some vintage t-shirts because I live everyday as it it’s 1987 or something, I love vintage stuff!! It’s been almost a month and I’ve waited TOO long for my cassette player, haha.
Chuck Liddell awesome! I have a Walkman WM-F46 now, and I also just got a rotary dial telephone today. I love vintage stuff so much! Tomorrow is my first day of school so I’m gonna come in with my Walkman and listen to cassette tapes. It’s awesome!
Im a teen and i love the old school feels and i want to get a Walkman so my cossettes work
I got a Walkman, I take it to school every single day
If you haven’t already you probably can find some on on ebay or in goodwill if you’re in North America
I have tapes and a couple of walkmans but they are all broken somehow but I’m gonna fix two of them at least so I’ll have them to use, I used to take a cheap Walkman to school when I didn’t have a phone but now I just have them to collect and reminisce
I'm proud to say that, I own the best album of all time on cassette... BAD.
I own bad on cassette and Now 30 on cassette
King of pop
Year ago i found a vinyl copy of bad first pressing for just a few cents
@@theone3776LOL Whoever it was, ripped themselves off... A LOT!
Probably people think that if an album is very common its not worth much.
my first cassette i got for $2. my favorite show is gilmore girls and i found a sam phillips album on cassette and i had to get it!
You can even make your own paper cover inside the plastic cover to customize your own tape, with your own playlist for special someone.
It's funny for us who owned and lived in the era of cassette tapes and Walkmans to see someone giving a tutorial on how to use them or what they are! How times have changed.. 🤦♂️😂
SLR Vids I’m 14 and mine is coming in the mail soon, I love records and cassettes!!
I'm 28 and grew up with cassettes and still use cassettes - this video just makes me cringe.
Im 20 i had to get my mom to help me when i bought mine 😂
I’m 15 and I’ve been collecting cassettes and Walkmans for a couple of years now and I learned all this on my own, I wish I had this when I first started but yeah I can agree some of the stuff here made me cringe even though most of the stuff here was pretty accurate and helpful to those who are starting off
@@MrWolfSnack you'd be surprised to know about the big amount of people that don't know how to use cassettes (let alone owning it) especially among the young people
I used to have a Walkman growing up and I also love the Pet Shop Boys. Great and interesting video!
16 and I’m starting to collect cassettes and I’m planning on buying a tascam portastudio and making music on cassettes so thank for this video!
i use to have a lot of cassette tapes back in the '90s, oh my goodness did I ever.
How I wound up with a bunch of them, that's easy. I joined BMG music club, i got a lot of cassette tapes when I join back then.
Seeing this video takes me back to a fun time and great memories and when music was great entertainment too. Great video
"Back in the day" a lot of people had really poor quality stereo systems/argos all-in-ones. So we kind of remember tapes sounding terrible because of this.
Nowadays I have a 1976 cassette deck and a very good amp and every tape I own sounds fantastic.
Rare to find a decent boombox in Argos. Usually their cassette decks lacks manual record level knobs.
I have a Fisher Studio Standard dual deck (1985) with a 100W amp and 50W speakers. Cassettes sound incredible and can rattle the walls with high bass.
I grew up using cassette tapes, I'm 26 years old and always used them. Still do! And i record my playlist onto them for fun and the sound quality is amazing. Even got my hands on a sony walkman(sports walkman)
the only reason i'd want one of these is because an artist i like called The Flowers of St Francis releases his albums exclusively on cassette and on bandcamp. he didn't release them on bandcamp until 2020 even tho he has 3 albums, 1 from 2011, 2012, and 2015, which is just kind of intriguing to me.
I have a old walkman.Only thing I'm missing is the original battery cover.Believe it or not,I only paid $5.00 for mine.
Same I got mine at a garage sale
do you know what model it is?
I remember having a cassette which sang out the 12 timestable in a variety of ways - jazz, rock pop. I friggin loved that thing, and it ended up helping me learn my timestables off by heart at a very early age.
Hey adam, if you read this would you ever consider doing a video on the iPod/mp3 players of the early oughts? That particular brand of retro-tech is quite dear to my heart but it doesn't get nearly enough love.
I grew up with cassettes in the late 80's and used them until the early 2000's. I just got back into using them 5 years ago after watching Techmoan videos about them. My advice for you would to get a vintage cassette deck. I got a Nakamichi CR-1A from about 1988-90. I like to make mixtapes by hooking it up to my computer and recording from Spotify. Enjoy Dude.
Interesting idea.
Holy shit that's amazing! I got into tapes from Aphex Twin and Techmoan and my first deck was also the CR-1A!! That's so cool!!
Are u high bro cuz dat hair 🔥
Thank u for that comment like brother
@@dustinstidham7639 replying to your own coment lol
@@antonsworkshopco He said thank you for the comment like or the comment heart. No need to be an asshole about it.
Great vid mate, loved it! Just got into tapes myself recently, having become a bit put off by the price hike of vinyl. Would love to see some more tape vids on your channel - perhaps focusing on the pros & cons of eBay buying/cassette tape and deck maintenance/problems you can encounter with tape collecting. Just some ideas but loved your vid and I think it’s a good intro for anyone getting into tapes. LONG LIVE ANALOG! 📼
im 13, and i love the retro music style, maybe the last one in my school, i just got my first casette and have been wondering why nobody from my age respects old music, you a hero dude, thanks! (nice hair my guy ;)
and i love the background music
Pro tip: you are not rare for liking old things, stop acting like you're an endangered breed, it's what gets you bullied
@@codrinmicusan446 nobody asked for you negativity cordin.🫡
@@codrinmicusan446 Screw your whole question, just let people what they like and want. It's cool
@@danprocessor7458 which part of any of that was a question bruh
Thanks dude! I just ordered my first walkman and hip hop cassettes and really looking forward to getting into the throwback
love this video! my school is cracking down on phones, so as both an effort to be as much of an asshole as possible, and not loose my shit bc i don't have music, i want to start listening to cassettes.
I grew up in 2009 to 2012 when I was 9 to 12 and I only had cassettes and vhs tapes with bunny ear antenna tv
I watched your video even if I'm not a beginner and I really liked it. I'm glad to see that a good young man like you appreciates audio cassettes. You don't see that very often among today's young people. It's a common sense movie for beginners. A big like from me.
I liked the hairstyle though. Greetings from Romania.
So glad i came across this video! i've recently gotten into vinyl records and am hoping to get a cassette player soon enough. Thanks Adam for the very helpful video!
Glad to hear it wad helpful Elyse! 😊
This is great! I have just purchased an old 80s portable cassette player similar to the one you have now and this video really helps. I am very excited to listen to music on a 4 decade old device! Also, you sound like DANTDM and thats amazing
Great vid! Definitely sparked some nostalgia!
A hassle to open up the case insert? That's one of the first things I did after purchase. Many of them would have some cool extra info on the artist or band. Not to mention the producers, writers, cool photos, and sometimes lyrics to the songs. Before internet was around it was a way to "get to know" the artist or band on a more personal level.
I've just bought a car from 1997 it has a tape deck in it so I'm buying some cassettes at the moment this video helped alot thanks
A very informative video mate, I'm currently rocking the WM-4 which looks very similar to the F1
Great video. Great tip about taking a Walkman with you when looking for used tapes.
This is a fascinating idea for a 'doc', albeit terrifying in how ancient it makes me feel. Most of the time tape was a pretty stable medium, but the ground-up tape was something that definitely happened every now and again, and that meant at best a section of distorted sound on the tape (and an increased likelihood of further grind-ups when playing that bit of the tape) and at very worst a ruined, even snapped, tape. I had to learn to splice tape a couple of times in my teenage years... They were also vulnerable to being left near electromagnetic fields, or to changes in temperature - especially if you left it in a car over time.
However, cassettes were also the medium that gave birth to personal 'mix tapes', to the extent that by the late 1990s some blank cassettes were on the market with a running time of 74 minutes - the maximum length of a CD, ie they were specifically being sold for the pirating of CDs onto tape. From what I recall the early personal CD players were sensitive and inclined to skip like fits if you were running (not to mention expensive - whereas you could get an adequate tape player for about a tenner in the early 90s), so personal cassette players remained the favoured medium for listening while travelling.
Certainly, for years I bought music on CD and listened to it all after transferring it to tape. Frankly, while I don't miss the need to fast-forward through songs on an album, the fact is that when you couldn't just skip to the next track, you were much, much more likely to listen to, and discover, a song that was unfamiliar and between you and the one you wanted to hear - definitely something lost with the tape medium.
I suspect the reason Vinyl is such a strong medium these days is more of an aesthetic thing - vinyl has always been fetishized as a precious object, where CDs and Cassettes were always felt to be more disposable. All of which said, I've kept a single unopened TDK C90, just because of the sound it makes when I shake it - it's the sound of a time long gone when I always had a cassette in one jacket pocket and some spare AA cells in the other...
Hello there. It's a good video, and thank you for the instruction. I used to have cassettes when I was a teenager, and I got rid of them all. But now, I started collecting them again.
I’m just getting into them I’ve never heard cassettes until yesterday but I love them then went out and got 3 Elvis tapes and 1 bob marley
You can place the battery tag back over the batteries and place the slip cover on to keep the tag inside and not hanging out.
I just started collecting cassette tapes
Moms car had a tape player and I always wanted to make my own mix tapes and stuff
I, by no means, grew up with a cassette or anything vintage like that - but with a new school that I go to, people think phones are the devil or something.
So I plan on using a cassette with earbuds or something to get my music in through the day:)
i'm looking into cassette tapes because a lot of music i like is on tapes and my new car (which is also my first car!) has a cassette player and i think it would nice to have a couple albums in a physical copy
I love listening to Cassettes in the car , especially 90s club dance in my 90s car
I loved this video! You really convinced me to start my own collection. Question: what do you think is a reasonable price for walkmans? I want to buy a Sony wm-fx244, but it’s 65 dollars. Is the price worth it?
Learned a couple things, thanks!
I'm 16 and I brought a sanyo M-1119 and when I was like 6 I listened to nursery rhymes in my car using the cassette player also my bday was recently and my friend got me a billy joel tabe
Bro your hair is the definition of “the higher the hair the closer to God”
This is cool,im buying one of these rn
When I was a kid I just thought the Metal function was for if you were listening to Metal.
Just got a boots walkman as my first one and managed to get my favourite album on it (blue oyster cult - fire of unknown origin). Just wondering if the boots walkmans are any good
Hey Adam. What would you recommend as I cheep one. But a good sounding one that works well.
I have a Sony Cassette-Recorder TCM 155V what cassette tapes do I need to buy????
Wow, I feel like a martian 😲 even though I grew up on cassettes it's so strange seeing this being explained. #cool
Very great video man!!!
Hi how would you improve the sound of the blank tapes that you can record on let me know thanks so much.
My dad used to have a car with a cassette player instead of a cd player and that was still in like 2008-2011
We' have over 200 cassette tapes including soundtracks and artists.
found a cassette deck that can play but cant foward or rewind. is it worth it to buy ? owning a cd player and turntable, i dont usually skips or rewind songs.
So what other cassettes do u own
My mom has a casset player in her 2004 camry and we have old cassets but they don't seem to work how do I use them lol
You're awesome bro, I like classic style
I have both of the Now That’s What I Call Music cassettes in the intro (4 and 11)
So I recently bought a cassette for a recent release. Is it supposed to sound mono or do different sounds come out of each speaker?
Where are you when you were recording the video? New home? Different part of the white wall house? Back in the 2017-18 flat?
this video was very useful thank you
Question 🙋♂️ why does cd 💿 show the runtime but vinyl or cassette tape don’t show the runtime but all three format like cd 💿 vinyl and cassette tape all have a runtime?
When shopping for cassettes check the pressure pads, an easy fix with glue they even sell replacements now.
The viewers of a younger age probably know of cassettes because of the guardians of the galaxy films
Scrambled 59 and Hannah Baker
Unless they are poor
Scrambled 59 I actually discovered cassetes through vaporwace and the city pop revival. And man they are so cool! There’s a sort of warmth and charm that you don’t get from normal streaming
Ok b o o m e r
What’s the problem with that? The tracks in guardians of the galaxy are classics, you can’t deny.
What instrument do you play?
What happens if i play a virgin cassette?? What will i listen?? Will the cassette player keep looking for data??
Adam your kallax shelf is upside down, the one in the bottom at least. The continuous piece of wood should be the vinyl support if bot the shelf can bend and even break.
I’m 16, almost 17 hears old. And i have alot of Michael Jackson and Queen Vinyl. But i remember when i was youger that i had this cassette tape and i know i loved playing them but i cant remeber what was on them. And i dont have them annymore.
That is not the cover and that is the box. The plastic thing the cassette is in is called the case and the paper thing inside is called the insert or j card (for blanks).
Idk why but I prefer cassette cases to cd or vinyl I like how small they are and they look really cool so far I have Vince Gill When Love Finds You,Garth Brooks In Pieces,and Garth Brooks Ropin’ The Wind I plan on getting The Chase and No Fences
I had one of those same brand back in the day
You said you are one of the last generations to grow up with cassettes, I was born in 2006 and I've grown up with them and have a collection of them
I started collecting last year
But how do you know when you put the tape in what side of the tape is going to play first
The playing side is the one facing outwards
Can I record my kids favorites by just playing the music trough a laptop and pressing record? Or does it have to be what streams from AMFM
Look into the walkman wm-f46. They’re pretty cheap and plentiful right now. It also records tapes through an analogue line in input, so you’d just have to plug an aux cable into your computer and into the walkmans line in jack.
What is a drive belt?
I have 2 The Jacksons tapes and I got a little cassette player that I can clip to my pants and it doesn’t work and I think it’s because I don’t know how to play it
Does anyone know where i can buy casettes? Preferably international and not too expensive
Ebay would be your best bet for availability- however, yard/garage sales would be one of the absolute best ways to get them.
Where did you purchase this?
do you have fourscore on record or children's cassettes
I've got a few children's cassette tapes, all of them are from Haven. :)
I recently got the WM-4 sony walkman
Aren’t you from nsync? Haha, this video was helpful thank you :)
Bit windy outside?
the intro got me already
Cassettes are on the way back for sure...just watch the prices of decks and blank tapes....nice video thanks...from New York............
Deluded, only for collectors and a few hardcore users.
"Deluded, only for collectors and a few hardcore users."
Not at all. I have been looking for cassette lots on eBay of just average lots of cassettes to blind buy and listen to, and millenials have been paying $45-$50 for maybe 30 tape lots of just common multi-million selling albums that you can get in Goodwill for 15 cents. There is an up trend in cassette collecting due to RUclips influencers and Gen Z or whatever the hell letter it's at now of people from 2005+ that never known what a cassette is and just buying them because a guy on RUclips tells them to.
@@BigKelvPark Deluded???
That guys hair looks like the fighter Guile from Street fighter very retro
It is very hard to find WM-F1 in the market. Nice condition!
Actually - the best album in your video....
Bros majestic
Lol those Walkman now aren’t found for under 250 in Australia!!
Amazing hair and outfit man
I get nostalgic for cassette
I bought some cassettes and I have a Walkman for cassettes
Hey there. Is there still a chance of being able to find jewel cases for double cassette sets on say ebay? :) Thank you! :)
Hi Mark! There should be a chance of finding jewel cases for double cassettes on second hand sites like ebay yes! Not sure how sellers would price them however
Who else is 12 and into vintage stuff so much so that ur parents question your sanity?
Bruh im 15 and my whole family is like why in the actual fuck do you want vynils/cassettes?? "tHeY'rE oBsOlEtE"
And im over in my room just enjoying my music in the most impractical ways possible :)
Victor Eboli some people say that cds are stoneage. I love vintage stuff, i dont have much but im happy
@@clipmarkscartoonandtvarchi7590 lol they do, btw what do you have? I have a few vynil albums (mostly rock like dire straits, 38 special, eagles, styx, BTO, and other random stuff like Michael Jackson, star wars soundtrack, a 1980s top hits and alan jackson)
Victor Eboli I have mostly cds, one vinly and a few cassettes (mostly for my Teddy Ruxpin) and some VHS tapes (8)
@@clipmarkscartoonandtvarchi7590 thats pretty cool
Thanks bart