I came here because spotify too😭😂

Hahaha...spotify brought me here as well...🤣🤣🤣

Hated that advert, it's presuming only young people listen to Spotify.

I have a reel-to-reel tape recorded off of a Quadrophonic Detroit radio station back in the early 1970s. Neat idea, but the signals had bad out of sync issues with a lot of the music that was aired. Quadrophonic radio was probably the first to be abandoned from that format.

@@troykirchhoefel9134 Ithink most of the Philly tests used Sigma Sound Studio's facilities. They'd been doing a series of "live from the studio" broadcasts so they were very familiar with remote hookups and relays. I remember a couple of dropouts, especially during the first broadcast which I think was a nationwide syndicated program, but no sync problems. I wouldn't trust my memory though, it's been almost 50 years.

Our main radio stations were located in Pittsburgh. I recall one Saturday, (1970, or '71) a friend and I set up 2 stereos in his basement rec room. We tuned in and listened. We considered it unremarkable but interesting. The funny bit was when they took a break for commercials, the 2 different stations had 2 different commercials. All of a sudden there's all this jibberish going on until the program returned. Another thing was that if you didn't know which radio station was carrying which part of the QUAD. One was carrying the front, the other the rear. Anyway, I can say I heard FM QUAD... meh. Now, if you have Sony Vegas, you can create your own "Surround Sound" by processing the audio through its effects and rendering them as *.ac3* files, the Dolby Digital standard. Put the files on a USB stick, play it through a Raspberry Pi running "KODI" connected to a surround receiver, and you've got discreet 5.1. How do I know? I've done it, and it's awesome.

@@HammyTechnoid There is a way you can transfer an analog Quadrophonic mix through your computer to a digital file. What you will probably need to use is an old school DJ mixer with multiple slider channels. They're not expensive if you can hunt them down on Ebay. Audacity can do it, but you need to upload your tracks with the "Mono" option.

@@troykirchhoefel9134 Where there's a will.. there's a way! 2 digital recorders in tandem would do as well.

I love it too!

Franko Walker my friend Jon has been repairing 8T carts as a side gig for a long number of years and his prices are very fair IMO. Check him out at 8TrackAvenue.com

Yay! Very happy!

Thank you Dan.

Sleep is so overrated! lol.

@@jackallen6261 and tiring If you oversleep

We can sleep when we die.

Glad it was helpful!

I remember seeing a few of them around in the late 70s. But "few" means probably about 4 cartridges, ever.

Great to hear! Let me know if I can assist further.

Q tip and denatured rubbing alcohol is probably the best.

The heads are super easy to clean. I use the cotton swabs on a stick that are sold as medical supplies and denatured alcohol.

I would think that virtually every car made after 1990 that had more than just an AM-only radio probably has 4 speakers. It would take some soldering, but you would get true no-lag discrete Q8 tape quadraphonic sound. I am also wondering when was the last time you could get a car that had just an AM-only mono radio...my mothers 1982 Plymouth Horizon had only a mono AM radio, but in 1987 it wasn't too bad because a lot of AM stations still broadcasted RIAA music.

Sounds like another fun project Brent!

Brent Fisher there’s a really good oldies station where I live on AM. I listen to it a lot when I’m out at my storage units.

P.S. I don't think I ever owned any quad tapes, LOL.

The earlier home theater receivers had 5.1 channel RCA input jacks, try to find one of those and it should work just fine.

grassulo that’s how I do my vintage quad. It works great!

Interesting! BSR originated from your neck of the woods. Birmingham Sound Reproducers was a private company started in 1932 in the West Midlands of England.

Sounds like a really fun project!

CD-4 aka QuadraDisc gives the best results, but is a pain in the ass to get to work and requires very expensive cartridges and styli

@@danieldaniels7571 Yes.. I recall that the cartridge had to have some ridiculous freq. resp. like flat to 45Khz.

You would need 'fake' quadraphonic sound such as a matrix format like QS or SQ or 2-4.

Good point!

You could if they used AC3 or DTS. Both can easily do 4.0 multichannel sound.

And they are constantly telling us the ‘you could be listening to a k7, to a 8 track tape... if only you knew what that was...’ (at least so they do in Portuguese, in the non-Brazilian version)

Endless tapes like the 8-track have a graphite coating on one layer that prevents crinkling and also acts as a lubricant. Pulling out the tape is not a problem.

@@Bob-1802 oh so high tech

Thank you for being a fan!

Very cool!

Thanks Mike...I appreciate your long time fan-ship!

No sir, it’s stereo. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the comment Jack! Those Quad tapes are few are far between! I too would love to get a Quad LP decoder, I've never had one. Congrats on your finds!

@@databits Thanks! I hope to one day find a decoder in a thrift store...you never know!! I never thought I would find a quad amp in a thrift store so...

There are different types of quad encoding used on vinyl. The worst but most common is SQ, which uses matrixing. It can be fairly accurately decoded with any modern home theater receiver that has a Dolby PLII Music setting.

I do have 4 ears. Muhahaha!

Also that Ford tape reminded me of Electric Light Orchestra and their Roll over Beethoven

Look for the tapes on ebay, the listings should include song titles. Thanks for watching!

@@databits Good idea, just tried that. I could find tape 4000GE, but can't find your 3000GE. Google told me it should be all recordings by Enoch Light, but it seems like he recoded a lot of things.

Yeah we just bought a 2019 Hyundai.same setup.

Because the tip of each minijack only has 2 signals - right and left. It would only amplify 2 of the 4 tracks.

Magnetic head

@@isaacposselt7089 ok so when the head is attracted to the tape it closes a circuit to the speaker causing a voltage change resulting in a static click, but since this happens very rapidly and quickly, the changes in voltage cause the speaker to make sounds

@@TheWASHINGMACHINEBOY yes and if your stereo 8 track without quadraphonic is misaligned it will play part of another track making dissonance, which is the problem I have with my 8 track player: and I'm not sure how to align the head. I'll try cleaning the head with a Q-tip, rubbing alcohol and see if that helps at all. I've heard of terrible things happening to the 8 track tapes getting tape pulled out of the cartridge and making a big mess, and so perhaps the dirty head caused the tape to get stuck because I'm sure that NO ONE CLEANED their 8 track machine, it is even simpler than the cassette player, and yet cleaning it would have lengthened the life span of the machine and cartridge. My 8 track head is pretty dirty and scumbed up, so we'll see and i will clean any other moving parts in the 8 track. If there's really anything else, just the head, switching contact and tape guide. thing

@@isaacposselt7089 ok

Isaac Posselt aligning the head is simple and needs to be done regularly. There’s a screw that goes to the housing that holds the head, and you just adjust that until the sound is perfect.

Hopefully!!

Any and all 8-track cartridges can be recorded on. No special tape needed.

I used it pretty regularly and love it. I can’t record Q8 tapes, but I have an Akai quadrophonic reel to reel and I’m able to copy Q8 tapes to it in quad.

Too young!

I listened to two this morning. I have a nice little collection.

Record on two qaudraphonic tapes!!!!!!😆💩🤪 make a true 8 track sound!

The Original Gamer they’re not too terribly hard to come by. I picked up a Zenith Allegro AIO stereo that had both a cassette recorder and an 8T recorder in it, so you could copy from its radio, cassette, or record player onto an 8T tape. I have a couple/few blanks that have material on them and I think I still have a sealed blank as well.

Yes, I have a video about them!

I think I know that guy! I've bought quite a few stereo carts off him but I can't afford any like Pink Floyd DSOTM, ELO 1, Deep Purple Machine Head, or other EMI UK Q8 carts I'd like. He had multiple copies of them all!

You’re right. Using it in the car totally ruined the entire video. I have guilt.

Wrong.