@@AudioThrift Hell yeah, love that film. It's a real time capsule of that period of the mid 90s. Hey if you love Hackers you may also like 'eXistenZ' from '99 - different vibe but just as good in other ways. I always think of those two films together... :)
Oh rad. I'll have to watch that. My favorite thing about Hackers is how so much of it is shot like a music video... and the names... and Penn Jillette. My wife and I determined our Hackers names would be Hyper Activate (hers) and Gin And Tronic (mine).
@@AudioThrift That is very cool, the names are spot on ! Yes that movie is so unique in so many ways - it's very underrated but has become a cult classic thankfully.
Explaining tape bias is a good idea since magnetic media is gaining interest these days. The Yamaha K-340 is a good example too. Natural sound was trademark of Yamaha musical instruments and audio equipment at the time. The deck has the same design language seen on audio racks and professional instruments. Metal tapes and Dolby C were reaching the pinnacle of cassette tape technology. Then poof, it all disappeared.
Nice explanation of bias. It was definitely not something I have looked into before. I had a Technics RS-B608R that could have taught a toddler the alphabet. Listed across the front was Class AA, Dolby B and C, HX Pro and the incredibly hiss free dbx. dbx was amazing noise reduction but any tapes recorded in this setting could only be played on my deck because nobody had dbx capable decks.
I still use dbx today on all my decks with a 224x unit. Technics were one of the few mainstream manufacturers to support it (along with the likes of Aiwa and Teac etc). A pity it was not more common. Someone will likely pop up and comment that "pumping or breathing" sounds were an issue. Never had a problem with either, at very high or low recording levels. Do what you want today with a fun fading format and enjoy!
@@AudioThrift It was @JohnSmith-pq7vn who made that comment. My understanding from my experience studio recording is enough to know what he means but not enough to explain it. Basically the dbx noise reduction (NR) was slightly behind the music (signal) meaning when there is silence the NR turns down the signal to eliminate hiss but is a bit slow turning it back up when the signal returns. What you get is a brief cut off of the initial loud signal and a hint of hiss when the signal ends. Now, the dbx noise reduction is so aggressive that you couldn't hear hiss between songs, which is great, but it would aggressively kick in during songs. It worked perfectly fine for my kind of music but I seem to recall the magazine Stereo Review saying it was annoying with Classical music. I'm sure I explained that entirely wrong. It was 40 years ago and I was paying more attention to girls than how dbx worked. If only there was someone who could do a video on dbx and have a great click bait title....
YUP, what you said! :) Long ago a coworker recorded some albums for me on his tape deck that had DBX, sounded horrible of course on anything without it and I didn't have a deck with DBX at the time. At one point in the early 1990's I did have an aftermarket stereo in my car that had DBX, it also could receive AM stereo! Now some 35 years later I've gotten a nice Technics RS-M245X to play around with and it also has the ability to decode DBX disc, but looking around finding any vinyl that was mastered with DBX is very hard to find and very expensive, but I'd like to get a few albums to see how it does with it!
8:30 "8 shall be the number thou shalt count and the number of the counting shall be 8. 9 shall thou NOT count. Neither count thou 7, excepting that thou then proceed to 8. 10 is right out." ;)
I would imagine the 8 repeats would be the closest number to 10 that can be represented fully in binary (by half a byte, 3 bits for the number and one to then switch it off). 16 repeats would just be ridiculous! 😆
Very similar to my KX 300U I bought brand new and still have (needs cassette light), lubrication of motors only issue. Rob Halford, in my opinion the greatest Metal singer to Date. Enjoying this lovely weather, I Live in Orange County, 109 everyday last 3 days and looks like another day of Heat. Sorry, I know this is nothing new to PS area.
Back in the day I had a suspicion that Dolby-C was really intended as a way of compensating for/offsetting the almost inevitable mis-tracking/muddying with Dolby-B when tapes were played on decks with slightly different head alignment to the one they were recorded on (if so no-one, least of all Dolby themselves, were going to admit to it), i.e. you record with C and use (ETA >> the far more ubiquitous) B on other decks/players.
Have a K-340 (Euro version) since the 1980s. Very robust for an entry-level deck, only needed a counter belt in almost 40 years. But expect no wonders, it won't sound like a Studer or a Tandberg.
Complimenti un bel video,adoro la yamaha e ho ascoltato il K-340,buon registratore mi piace come suona,unica cosa mancante e il potenziometro per la calibrazione manuale del bias,K-340 si basa solo sulla calibrazione dei trimmer interni,quindi e' a calibrazione fissa,per il resto tutto ok
I feel old to know all those references, from when they were first relevant. Any case, glad you went back to the 1930s with your research. Did you catch that business about Jack Mullen with the Signal Corps of the US Army and him bringing back a couple Magnetophon tape machines from Frankfurt in 1944 and teaming up with Bing Crosby to found Ampex? I'm kinda annoyed our modern world is built on the basis of Nazi Germany technology. An honest to God Nazi built NASA. But at least Les Paul developed multitrack recording and tape punch in. Still, gotta admit those Germans are damn good engineers. Damn good. Any case enjoy the deck.
The stolen tape machines were an interesting story I remember reading about when I was doing the research for the video about Scotch Tape. It's wild how everything is so interconnected.
@@AudioThrift WNYC, a kind of PBS for the radio out of New York did an interesting series called Mixtape. One of them details Jack Mullen, and Bing Crosby wanting things to go better with family number 2, as things with the first didn't go great. So his desire to record his radio shows so he can be a father and husband too drove most of it. Those guys do good work with their podcasts and stories. One of the Mixtape episodes details a psyops operation in Vietnam about scaring people with fake wandering spirits. Spooky stuff. You won't regret the 4 or so hours for the miniseries.
ALL. EVERY SINGLE COMPONENT OF YAMAHA. SAYS NATURAL SOUND. DUDE. EVERY AMP TUNER PREAMP RECIVER CD PLAYER EVERYTHING YAMAHA MAKES SAYS NATURAL SOUND. THATS THIER MONACRE
I absolutely love your videos! Thank you so much for spending your time to make them. I’m an old man and you make things easy to understand. And that allows me to learn even at my age!
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😂😂 loved the _Hackers_ reference!! A great pick up as these decks are actually very desirable, nice ones. (respect for the dedication at the end😔).
Thank you. And isn't Hackers great? 😁
@@AudioThrift Hell yeah, love that film. It's a real time capsule of that period of the mid 90s. Hey if you love Hackers you may also like 'eXistenZ' from '99 - different vibe but just as good in other ways. I always think of those two films together... :)
Oh rad. I'll have to watch that. My favorite thing about Hackers is how so much of it is shot like a music video... and the names... and Penn Jillette. My wife and I determined our Hackers names would be Hyper Activate (hers) and Gin And Tronic (mine).
@@AudioThrift That is very cool, the names are spot on ! Yes that movie is so unique in so many ways - it's very underrated but has become a cult classic thankfully.
Explaining tape bias is a good idea since magnetic media is gaining interest these days. The Yamaha K-340 is a good example too. Natural sound was trademark of Yamaha musical instruments and audio equipment at the time. The deck has the same design language seen on audio racks and professional instruments. Metal tapes and Dolby C were reaching the pinnacle of cassette tape technology. Then poof, it all disappeared.
That should be Metal tapes and Dolby S👌👍
I am kind of surprised this channel doesn't have more subs!
Thank you. 😊
It will
Yamaha is very underrated and even the entry level decks perform fantastic! And YES ! Bring back farscape !! 😂
Nice explanation of bias. It was definitely not something I have looked into before.
I had a Technics RS-B608R that could have taught a toddler the alphabet. Listed across the front was Class AA, Dolby B and C, HX Pro and the incredibly hiss free dbx. dbx was amazing noise reduction but any tapes recorded in this setting could only be played on my deck because nobody had dbx capable decks.
I still use dbx today on all my decks with a 224x unit. Technics were one of the few mainstream manufacturers to support it (along with the likes of Aiwa and Teac etc). A pity it was not more common. Someone will likely pop up and comment that "pumping or breathing" sounds were an issue. Never had a problem with either, at very high or low recording levels. Do what you want today with a fun fading format and enjoy!
I would love to do a video on dbx deck at some point. I've never run across one in my travels.
I'm curious, what are pumping and breathing sounds?
@@AudioThrift It was
@JohnSmith-pq7vn
who made that comment. My understanding from my experience studio recording is enough to know what he means but not enough to explain it.
Basically the dbx noise reduction (NR) was slightly behind the music (signal) meaning when there is silence the NR turns down the signal to eliminate hiss but is a bit slow turning it back up when the signal returns. What you get is a brief cut off of the initial loud signal and a hint of hiss when the signal ends. Now, the dbx noise reduction is so aggressive that you couldn't hear hiss between songs, which is great, but it would aggressively kick in during songs. It worked perfectly fine for my kind of music but I seem to recall the magazine Stereo Review saying it was annoying with Classical music.
I'm sure I explained that entirely wrong. It was 40 years ago and I was paying more attention to girls than how dbx worked.
If only there was someone who could do a video on dbx and have a great click bait title....
YUP, what you said! :) Long ago a coworker recorded some albums for me on his tape deck that had DBX, sounded horrible of course on anything without it and I didn't have a deck with DBX at the time. At one point in the early 1990's I did have an aftermarket stereo in my car that had DBX, it also could receive AM stereo! Now some 35 years later I've gotten a nice Technics RS-M245X to play around with and it also has the ability to decode DBX disc, but looking around finding any vinyl that was mastered with DBX is very hard to find and very expensive, but I'd like to get a few albums to see how it does with it!
8:30
"8 shall be the number thou shalt count and the number of the counting shall be 8.
9 shall thou NOT count. Neither count thou 7, excepting that thou then proceed to 8.
10 is right out." ;)
That movie makes me happy.😆
@@AudioThrift, haha! That's my favourite Monty Python movie. :)
Nice video! You explain things in a clear way.
Fantastic!! Another interesting and informative video 👍
Thank You for oversimplifying your explanations - Always Appreciated :-)
Yamaha Audio ❤
I'm Highly Biased, just like an MA-X.
I own the silver version. Bought it because I loved the way it looked.
How has worked for you so far?
@@AudioThrift great only the counter belt was broken plays fine
It's a good introduction in bias.
... a BIASED one. *ba dam, tiss*
I would imagine the 8 repeats would be the closest number to 10 that can be represented fully in binary (by half a byte, 3 bits for the number and one to then switch it off). 16 repeats would just be ridiculous! 😆
That makes sense. I hadn't thought of it being connected with binary.
'Everything You Wanted to Know About Cassette Tape Bias (But Were Afraid to Ask)' directed by Woody Allen. :)
😆
Very similar to my KX 300U I bought brand new and still have (needs cassette light), lubrication of motors only issue. Rob Halford, in my opinion the greatest Metal singer to Date. Enjoying this lovely weather, I Live in Orange County, 109 everyday last 3 days and looks like another day of Heat. Sorry, I know this is nothing new to PS area.
We call him the metal god for a reason! And that's super cool you're getting nice weather. It's been smokey here.
Back in the day I had a suspicion that Dolby-C was really intended as a way of compensating for/offsetting the almost inevitable mis-tracking/muddying with Dolby-B when tapes were played on decks with slightly different head alignment to the one they were recorded on (if so no-one, least of all Dolby themselves, were going to admit to it), i.e. you record with C and use (ETA >> the far more ubiquitous) B on other decks/players.
Have a K-340 (Euro version) since the 1980s. Very robust for an entry-level deck, only needed a counter belt in almost 40 years. But expect no wonders, it won't sound like a Studer or a Tandberg.
Complimenti un bel video,adoro la yamaha e ho ascoltato il K-340,buon registratore mi piace come suona,unica cosa mancante e il potenziometro per la calibrazione manuale del bias,K-340 si basa solo sulla calibrazione dei trimmer interni,quindi e' a calibrazione fissa,per il resto tutto ok
Loved the He Man & Max references. U forgot the Quintessa one😊
Transformers... yesss... 😁
@@AudioThrift bravo my friend. So glad u caught that, 🙂🫠
I feel old to know all those references, from when they were first relevant. Any case, glad you went back to the 1930s with your research. Did you catch that business about Jack Mullen with the Signal Corps of the US Army and him bringing back a couple Magnetophon tape machines from Frankfurt in 1944 and teaming up with Bing Crosby to found Ampex? I'm kinda annoyed our modern world is built on the basis of Nazi Germany technology. An honest to God Nazi built NASA. But at least Les Paul developed multitrack recording and tape punch in. Still, gotta admit those Germans are damn good engineers. Damn good. Any case enjoy the deck.
The stolen tape machines were an interesting story I remember reading about when I was doing the research for the video about Scotch Tape. It's wild how everything is so interconnected.
@@AudioThrift WNYC, a kind of PBS for the radio out of New York did an interesting series called Mixtape. One of them details Jack Mullen, and Bing Crosby wanting things to go better with family number 2, as things with the first didn't go great. So his desire to record his radio shows so he can be a father and husband too drove most of it. Those guys do good work with their podcasts and stories. One of the Mixtape episodes details a psyops operation in Vietnam about scaring people with fake wandering spirits. Spooky stuff. You won't regret the 4 or so hours for the miniseries.
Hey welcome
Eight is just a lucky number in asian cultures.
Yup I know what it is
8:50 BECAUSE THIERS 8 HOURS IN A NORMAL ACTIVE DAY
ALL. EVERY SINGLE COMPONENT OF YAMAHA. SAYS NATURAL SOUND. DUDE. EVERY AMP TUNER PREAMP RECIVER CD PLAYER EVERYTHING YAMAHA MAKES SAYS NATURAL SOUND. THATS THIER MONACRE
Okay
Caps lock 😊😅
I absolutely love your videos! Thank you so much for spending your time to make them. I’m an old man and you make things easy to understand. And that allows me to learn even at my age!