One aspect I loved about audio cassettes in the 1980s was capturing music radio on tape, known as 'airchecking.' Here it is, some 40 years later, with well-preserved audio cassettes, being able to relive the sound of contemporary music radio (US) as it was in 1984. Many of the commercials in those airchecks were with retailers; products, and services that no longer exist. It makes those radio airchecks a _time capsule_ of the era.
I have my grandfather's old car (1989) with the original cassette radio. At some point as a teenager I got The Cure's "Wish" album stuck in there and it's the only thing that can play in the car, lol.
I still have about 100 cassette tapes. I remember some of my best tapes were recorded from borrowed CDs to type lV metal tape with Dolby C….. to me They sounded even better than a CD because of the analog aspect of the cassette tape.
I am listening my old cassettes right now. Mostly stuff Recorded off of the radio. It's great to go back in time. The old disc jockeys, and station call letter changes through the years. And other stuff. I have over 100. You couldn't very easily record digitally off of the radio . And hit record on demand, and stop or pause during commercials. I loved CD's .(And Vinyl an 8-tracks) But I have personal tapes I made that I enjoy still
I still have a high quality cassette tape player from the mid 90's and some mixes I did back in those day along with a small collection of store bought cassettes.
if you have a good deck even the lower quality tapes produced good recordings. it is just a matter of how your deck is calibrated as long as the tapes are according to the IEC standart. having a 3-head deck where you can on the fly adjust the calibration helps. with normal decks people had to stick to the brand and model of tape the deck has been calibrated to
Still have them. Love them . And still playing even the 8 track tapes. My opinion as long as you have a great stereo system receiver. You have no problem playing these tapes unless you’re really old and they’re worn out.
I remember my dad having a early cassette recorder in 1968 . It was a DANSETTE ,that was based on an AIWA JAPANESE MODEL. I still have some of the mix tapes I made for my friends. I still have a cassette deck as part of my HIFI system. The model I have is a AIWA ADWX909 from 1985 . It has an adjustable tape bias function enabling you to get the best sound quality from all tape brands.
I have quite a few cassette tapes. I would say about half are Type I and the other Type II. Then quite a few prerecorded ones and of course a few mixtapes. I have a few decks, portable cassette recorders and a Walkman. I playback on each on a regular basis. 😊
Amazing how the LP record has outlived the Compact Cassette, 8 Track, Compact disc, and Mini disc. My Yamaha cassette deck was my last tape deck that disappeared in the early 2000's. Interesting how amplifiers still have a "tape" input on them?
I had 100s of tapes.... when I got my first computer back in the 1990s.....I recorded all my cassettes to CD ...I still have them 45 years later.... you can't beat mixes 😊
In CC I admire constantly seeing without move of hand which side I play and more less location of played track by lookng on perportions on spules, and time of all CC. . It gives me feeling of orientation which CD does not provide for me because it shows only number of track
Analog audio cassettes were a relatively expensive format when compared to the 21st century digital age. How was that? In the 1980s a twin-pack of 90 minute blank cassettes would equate to an hour's wages (US). The two cassettes offering a maximum of three hours of record/playback time of music. Compare that to the modern era with digital: With a half-hour worker's wage (US), a USB flash drive can store hundreds of hours of record/playback time of music.
Except, the cassette tape is making a comeback. Some new albums have been issued on cassette tapes. Component cassette decks are being made available by more manufacturers. Personal cassette players are also becoming increasingly available. Vintage cassette decks are very popular. Blank quality cassette tapes are available again.
Component tape decks can't no longer be manufactured because the finer technical parts within the decks are no longer being made, like the heads and other circuitry. I'd love to be wrong. I've got thousands of tapes, plus hundreds of new blanks that I'd love to make new mixtapes on, but buying a "NEW" working tape deck is not possible at this stage.
Newly manufactured tape decks are low quality and none have dolby noise reduction. Because, there is only 1 chinese manufacturer for tape deck mechanisms.
In my experience, tapes being "eaten" was a lot less common than you see pictured in nostalgic movies and videos. The intentional creation of a mix tape for purely aesthetic purposes has also been elevated quite a bit by nostalgia. You were more likely to "order the mix" for utilitarian reasons such as recording a song from the radio when you heard it or when you had access to a friend's album. But the custom mix became a lot more common and easier when CDs came around.
Nice little video but you forgot to mention that the cassette was very popular in the 80s as a data storage format for domestic computers like the Commodore Vic 20, 64, 128, Sinclair Spectrum, BBC B and many others. Hundreds of millions of cassettes were made for these devices.
I still use tapes I have boxes full of them some going way back to elementary school reading groups, along those lines the microcassette, the only thing I'm hunting down are the complete tape housing and replacement reels.
I once had thousands of cassettes, many of them self produced mix tapes and others recordings off the radio or other sources. About 10 years ago I had to downsize my music collection and many of those tapes went. Today I have about 250 tapes left with no working deck at this time. 😟
With a good tape deck, and using premium ferrics and type IIs, you could get very good recordings. Despite having thousands of tapes, both blank and heaps of old mixtapes made off the radio during the 80s, the one thing that keeps me from going back into tape is a:) the lack of new tape decks being manufactured, and b:) the constant hassle of keeping heads clean. I was very perdantic about such. Using good tapes like maxell, TDK, Hitachi, Scotch/3M, and Sony however would keep your heads clean. BASF were the ones to avoid with a 40 foot pole.
On ebay once a seller wanted $800 for two Sony Metal ES 46 minute tapes. I bought a new box that had 10 90 min tapes for $25.00 at a value village store. Same brand and tape type position 4.
Ah! The pre-recorded cassettes fostered the growth of music piracy with counterfeit pre-recorded tape. There were also the dual deck units, too, with the pre-recorded cassettes not possessing copyright protection, duplicate music cassettes could be made, albeit with a slight downgrade with audio quality.
Tangled tapes were actually much more rare than memes suggest today. It just didn't normally happen, and if it did, then something was very wrong with your player. The far bigger problem was gradual tape wear, especially on budget or poorly serviced tape players, which could ruin sound quality after as few as ten playbacks.
The Jamaican ( sound system ) culture is responsele for large amount of cassette sales up to the late 90s early 2000s. Every single time a sound system plays it was recorded and the cassette duplicate and sold all over.
I still have tapes I recorded 40 or even 50 years ago that still sound perfect. I also have CDs I bought 20 to 30 years ago that are unplayable now because of pinholes (discrot) on them. So the Tape and Vinyl Record won the Physical Media wars. Not CDs.
Being rejected is not equal to failing expectations . I use without brake CCs since I could afford stereo with HI FI quality in 80 ties.. After 2000 users were offered other soultions which required less care and attention and for younger generation also knowledge. Abandoning CC mostly wasnt decision of users because producers decided not to keep service for them. This way CC were used untill broken and replaced with solutions which weren't even compatible and even more used untill broken. . Obviously having decied so producers removed even best and comforatble for users CCs like Bang & Olufsen from production
Perfection in sound appeared with HIgh End consumer market..Most customers thirving to buy them put all attention on quality in sense of perfection in perception - theyt push for it and do not accept any wavings. They want it to justify paying lot of money I realised why I loved my music played from tapes in 70 ties - because they were sounding not the same, each was unique so I could recognize no only by music but also by type of sound. It was entertaining to discover hidden adventages of dark bright, crispy, concert quality , studio quality, smotetime even accidentaly distorted sounding tracks. May be many users accounted variations to CC technic but I confirmed to myself that these variations were in recordings and were deliberate made by competing producers while CC is able to reproduct all. All is needed is excellent system Now industry set up like one standard for all discs on reason to make equal competition. It may be observed in remasterings of old discs. It sounds perfect but the same, specialy when playing complete disc, so part of enetertainment is gone - it its predictable .
Still have them,still listening to them,and they are in very good quality and in very good shape!
One aspect I loved about audio cassettes in the 1980s was capturing music radio on tape, known as 'airchecking.'
Here it is, some 40 years later, with well-preserved audio cassettes, being able to relive the sound of contemporary music radio (US) as it was in 1984. Many of the commercials in those airchecks were with retailers; products, and services that no longer exist. It makes those radio airchecks a _time capsule_ of the era.
Yes, I still have one or two cassettes around. All recorded off the radio. Nostalgia is great!
I have my grandfather's old car (1989) with the original cassette radio. At some point as a teenager I got The Cure's "Wish" album stuck in there and it's the only thing that can play in the car, lol.
I adore cassette technology. I also fully embraced Minidisc sound as well, and I continuously use both today for all my music listening.
I still have about 100 cassette tapes. I remember some of my best tapes were recorded from borrowed CDs to type lV metal tape with Dolby C….. to me They sounded even better than a CD because of the analog aspect of the cassette tape.
I am listening my old cassettes right now. Mostly stuff Recorded off of the radio. It's great to go back in time. The old disc jockeys, and station call letter changes through the years. And other stuff. I have over 100. You couldn't very easily record digitally off of the radio . And hit record on demand, and stop or pause during commercials. I loved CD's .(And Vinyl an 8-tracks) But I have personal tapes I made that I enjoy still
I still have plenty of Cassettes and even 8 tracks they all still get love and played weekly
I still have a high quality cassette tape player from the mid 90's and some mixes I did back in those day along with a small collection of store bought cassettes.
The best quality tapes were actually quite good, I used to record my vinyl records into them. They still work quite well.
if you have a good deck even the lower quality tapes produced good recordings. it is just a matter of how your deck is calibrated as long as the tapes are according to the IEC standart. having a 3-head deck where you can on the fly adjust the calibration helps. with normal decks people had to stick to the brand and model of tape the deck has been calibrated to
Still have them. Love them . And still playing even the 8 track tapes. My opinion as long as you have a great stereo system receiver. You have no problem playing these tapes unless you’re really old and they’re worn out.
I remember my dad having a early cassette recorder in 1968 . It was a DANSETTE ,that was based on an AIWA JAPANESE MODEL. I still have some of the mix tapes I made for my friends. I still have a cassette deck as part of my HIFI system. The model I have is a AIWA ADWX909 from 1985 . It has an adjustable tape bias function enabling you to get the best sound quality from all tape brands.
I have quite a few cassette tapes. I would say about half are Type I and the other Type II. Then quite a few prerecorded ones and of course a few mixtapes. I have a few decks, portable cassette recorders and a Walkman. I playback on each on a regular basis. 😊
cassettes are great and misunderstood.
I had a Walkman. I just about wore it out. But I still have my cassette tapes.
Amazing how the LP record has outlived the Compact Cassette, 8 Track, Compact disc, and Mini disc. My Yamaha cassette deck was my last tape deck that disappeared in the early 2000's. Interesting how amplifiers still have a "tape" input on them?
I had 100s of tapes.... when I got my first computer back in the 1990s.....I recorded all my cassettes to CD ...I still have them 45 years later.... you can't beat mixes 😊
In CC I admire constantly seeing without move of hand which side I play and more less location of played track by lookng on perportions on spules, and time of all CC. . It gives me feeling of orientation which CD does not provide for me because it shows only number of track
Posso considerarmi a mani basse il piu grande appassionato della cassetta esistente.mito e leggenda indiscusso a livello mondiale!
Analog audio cassettes were a relatively expensive format when compared to the 21st century digital age. How was that?
In the 1980s a twin-pack of 90 minute blank cassettes would equate to an hour's wages (US). The two cassettes offering a maximum of three hours of record/playback time of music.
Compare that to the modern era with digital: With a half-hour worker's wage (US), a USB flash drive can store hundreds of hours of record/playback time of music.
Except, the cassette tape is making a comeback. Some new albums have been issued on cassette tapes. Component cassette decks are being made available by more manufacturers. Personal cassette players are also becoming increasingly available. Vintage cassette decks are very popular. Blank quality cassette tapes are available again.
Component tape decks can't no longer be manufactured because the finer technical parts within the decks are no longer being made, like the heads and other circuitry. I'd love to be wrong. I've got thousands of tapes, plus hundreds of new blanks that I'd love to make new mixtapes on, but buying a "NEW" working tape deck is not possible at this stage.
Newly manufactured tape decks are low quality and none have dolby noise reduction. Because, there is only 1 chinese manufacturer for tape deck mechanisms.
I remember getting an RCA cassette tape recorder for Christmas back in the 60's I was one happy teenager at the time.
In my experience, tapes being "eaten" was a lot less common than you see pictured in nostalgic movies and videos. The intentional creation of a mix tape for purely aesthetic purposes has also been elevated quite a bit by nostalgia. You were more likely to "order the mix" for utilitarian reasons such as recording a song from the radio when you heard it or when you had access to a friend's album. But the custom mix became a lot more common and easier when CDs came around.
Casette is nostalgia
caSSeTTe.
Nice little video but you forgot to mention that the cassette was very popular in the 80s as a data storage format for domestic computers like the Commodore Vic 20, 64, 128, Sinclair Spectrum, BBC B and many others. Hundreds of millions of cassettes were made for these devices.
I still use tapes I have boxes full of them some going way back to elementary school reading groups, along those lines the microcassette, the only thing I'm hunting down are the complete tape housing and replacement reels.
I once had thousands of cassettes, many of them self produced mix tapes and others recordings off the radio or other sources. About 10 years ago I had to downsize my music collection and many of those tapes went. Today I have about 250 tapes left with no working deck at this time. 😟
Is this live or is this Memorex ? 😅
With a good tape deck, and using premium ferrics and type IIs, you could get very good recordings. Despite having thousands of tapes, both blank and heaps of old mixtapes made off the radio during the 80s, the one thing that keeps me from going back into tape is a:) the lack of new tape decks being manufactured, and b:) the constant hassle of keeping heads clean. I was very perdantic about such. Using good tapes like maxell, TDK, Hitachi, Scotch/3M, and Sony however would keep your heads clean. BASF were the ones to avoid with a 40 foot pole.
On ebay once a seller wanted $800 for two Sony Metal ES 46 minute tapes. I bought a new box that had 10 90 min tapes for $25.00 at a value village store. Same brand and tape type position 4.
the rise & fall ..and now rise again...
Ah! The pre-recorded cassettes fostered the growth of music piracy with counterfeit pre-recorded tape.
There were also the dual deck units, too, with the pre-recorded cassettes not possessing copyright protection, duplicate music cassettes could be made, albeit with a slight downgrade with audio quality.
Tangled tapes were actually much more rare than memes suggest today. It just didn't normally happen, and if it did, then something was very wrong with your player.
The far bigger problem was gradual tape wear, especially on budget or poorly serviced tape players, which could ruin sound quality after as few as ten playbacks.
The Jamaican ( sound system ) culture is responsele for large amount of cassette sales up to the late 90s early 2000s.
Every single time a sound system plays it was recorded and the cassette duplicate and sold all over.
Did you know that tapes are coming back could you tapes coming back
I still have tapes I recorded 40 or even 50 years ago that still sound perfect. I also have CDs I bought 20 to 30 years ago that are unplayable now because of pinholes (discrot) on them. So the Tape and Vinyl Record won the Physical Media wars. Not CDs.
Did you make a video about 8 track tapes?
We have it on the list! :)
Being rejected is not equal to failing expectations . I use without brake CCs since I could afford stereo with HI FI quality in 80 ties.. After 2000 users were offered other soultions which required less care and attention and for younger generation also knowledge. Abandoning CC mostly wasnt decision of users because producers decided not to keep service for them. This way CC were used untill broken and replaced with solutions which weren't even compatible and even more used untill broken. . Obviously having decied so producers removed even best and comforatble for users CCs like Bang & Olufsen from production
I had one with auto reverse
Interesting
They were better than 8 track tapes I guess, but they were far from perfect.
Perfection in sound appeared with HIgh End consumer market..Most customers thirving to buy them put all attention on quality in sense of perfection in perception - theyt push for it and do not accept any wavings. They want it to justify paying lot of money
I realised why I loved my music played from tapes in 70 ties - because they were sounding not the same, each was unique so I could recognize no only by music but also by type of sound. It was entertaining to discover hidden adventages of dark bright, crispy, concert quality , studio quality, smotetime even accidentaly distorted sounding tracks. May be many users accounted variations to CC technic but I confirmed to myself that these variations were in recordings and were deliberate made by competing producers while CC is able to reproduct all. All is needed is excellent system
Now industry set up like one standard for all discs on reason to make equal competition. It may be observed in remasterings of old discs. It sounds perfect but the same, specialy when playing complete disc, so part of enetertainment is gone - it its predictable .
I’ll stick with my sd cards flash drives more compact more reliable
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