guardians of the galaxy restarted cassette culture! and as a gen z, I'm proud to say I'm in love with the 70s-90s tech! we make up about a third of the cassette tape market buying right now and it might grow passed the numbers it sold and guardians of the galaxy isn't the only thing that's restarted cassette culture

Vinyl Eyezz make more cassette vids 😩

but you are vinyleyezz where is cassetteeyezz?

Why?

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Try again. 🙂👍👍👍

I hear cd "pointy" and the sound equivalent of having a white light lamp pointing to your face.

well of course older generations listened to tape. no one is saying only millennials have been the only people ever to listen to tape. people listened to tapes from the 60's-90s. its just that the millennials are the only "younger" generation to bring back tapes after they died out in the 90s.

I personally use a few different formats (Vinyl, digital, Cassette). There are different things I like about each format. There are also things that annoy me about each format. Audio is subjective. What I prefer may not be another persons choice. I just find it sad when someone makes a blanket statement such as "Digital can do everything better". Really? By what I have just stated I must infer that they mean "Digital can do everything better.. for them" since they do not speak for me. Forums are about opinions and people love to be right. Consider this: maybe it is okay for another person to like something for their own particular reasoning. It's okay to like stuff. As I get older I am learning to respect the choices of other people and I may even listen to them for a while until they attempt to force feed their views to me. BTW, welcome to Tapeheads Noel.

@Çerastes that's what they said about Vinyl and now it's so popular that even in my town 2 record stores have popped up when a few years ago we had none. Eventually cassette will gain alot more popularity just like Vinyl

Çerastes I do a lot of recordings in above 44khz at 32 bit so I'm aware of how digital audio can sound. You must have missed the part where I said I go digital because of the lower shelf noise and higher frequency response.That's why I stated that I make my master recordings using digital formats. I use tape strictly for fun afterwards . I'm sorry but you compared a MP3 to tape as sounding warm because of the lower high freq response and I've never heard anyone say that before. Lmao!! MP3s sound hollow and lack depth because of the low bit rates. I'm gonna respect your option but it's sounds like you don't really have any experience using quality digital or analog equipment. Maybe you just don't understand what I'm talking about because you've never heard a quality tape recording before. If you had than you would know what I'm taking about. Plus when I say tape I'm referring to open reel tape and not cassettes. Sorry I was not specific with that part.

It does. Credits.

lizichell2 I cringed when I saw them playing on a crappy Aiwa "Walkman". That's when you realize that they don't really care about sound, but about the novelty of tape.

Exactly. It reminds me of vinyl. Like cassette, it takes some knowledge and some effort to get as much out of the format as possible. Somebody playing a record off of a Crosley with a ceramic pickup won't get as much out of it in terms of sound quality compared to playing it off of a Thorens with a decent and properly configured magnetic cartridge.

Watcher3223 Ahh, the cassette snobs arrived, with a trimmed moustache on their fixed gear.

Nah, a real snob wouldn't be using cassettes _at all._

Sounds better than an MP3. Do you think the digitlal agenda cares about sound quality with cheap ipods or listening to the music on a cell phone ?

Do you feel the same way about vintage cars or a Monet? How about a 62 Stratocaster? Old shit ya know? 😆✌🏽

GENIUS

This deck is being made new in 2018: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m8ugZM59yce5gnU.html Quality looks pretty alright. Could be better but the only way that's happening is if the subculture grows significantly. There is still a saturation of old machines that cost a small fortune when they were new, so the quality will naturally be higher. Why buy a new machine for $700 (theoretically for new high quality deck?) when they can just get an old one in perfect condition for $2-300? If people were willing to pay remotely close to the inflation-adjusted price for a new deck they could certainly make new ones to quality standards, better even with modern manufacturing and tech, but everything is based on demand. The best chance we have of seeing really great machines returning is spreading the love of cassettes to more new people.

damn your subscribed to a lot of youtubers

It's 'Inbalance' by Best Available Technology. Says it in the credits.

Is there a reason why someone should store them vertically?

@@tsarbombacrazy88tsarbomba47 I think it would have to do with how the tape settles.

@@chrisfrancis3826 oh that is true, I was also thinking because of the chromium oxide on the tape itself.

Vanessa Louzon after some research, I found the Yamaha MT3X

That's a 4 Track homestudio recorder, used by many folks to record their demos on. There were also versions that had 8 tracks you could record on one cassette. The Tascam Portastudio machines were the most famous known ones for that. However they all require Type II tapes to work properly.

You don't really need Dolby System to sound good on Compact Cassette (and, if you don't know how to record with it correctly, then the playback with it won't sound good because the Dolby circuit wouldn't be able to track it properly). But the use of good quality tape is a must along with the use of good quality equipment and recordings done by people who know what they're doing with the format. Although metal tape is great, using chromium dioxide tape is probably the most ideal way to go as it's a good compromise between performance and economy. That said, you're better off with a high quality normal bias tape than a crummy quality CrO2 tape. That said, online distribution is the most economic way for an independent to get itself out to listeners as the cost of distribution is going to be the lowest because you don't have to concern yourself with an inventory of physical copies. That said, it should be easy to fulfill special orders on Compact Cassette as well as Compact Disc (burning your copies on CD-R as opposed to hiring a manufacturer to do a replication run, of course) whereas it will certainly be an investment if you want to distribute your music on vinyl.

Who said anything about licensing?

Uh, when recording, turn the Dolby switch on?

Well, obviously when we're talking about a record company, they did have to pay Dolby for the use of their system and their logos. But what does that have to do with just using Dolby for personal use? And, if you're an independent who's recording cassettes as a band rather than as a record company and especially if you're only recording a very small run of copies for fans with your own equipment rather than placing an order with a duplication company, I don't think Dolby would care if you use their NR with your stuff as that's small potatoes.

Ferric hiss. Lo-fi music on a lo-fi medium really just makes sense.

I think DVCAM is still in use...