I named every song. I can’t remember them all, but I named the first one Graham. Seemed fitting.
@QlueDuPlessis2 жыл бұрын
😂🤣
@themoviedealers2 жыл бұрын
Appropriate, it's a real cracker.
@timothyapplegate28812 жыл бұрын
What about your gram? I hope she's well these days.
@Graham_Rule2 жыл бұрын
Thanks :D
@colinkraus71392 жыл бұрын
@@themoviedealers 😅🤣😂🤣😅
@keirthomas-bryant61162 жыл бұрын
I had work experience in the sound department of the BBC in the late 1980s (I was still at school and considering it as a career). When I arrived the big story was some new metal reels for the 1/4in tape machines. They had arrived from the factory without being filed down, so the edges of them were razor sharp! A spinning disc of razor-sharp metal! The fault was realised quickly but not before one or two sound engineers had ended-up with bloody fingers. Their response was to put a pile of the blood-covered metal reels on the manager's desk with a note saying that they weren't suitable...
@offscreen65782 жыл бұрын
Funny that companies were still trying to make garbage products even back in the 80s! If you have any similar stories I'd love to hear them.
@srijitofficial2 жыл бұрын
Epic story 🤣
@greenanubis2 жыл бұрын
I imagine the reaction from the manager: "Oh great, now i have to do my job...".
@rjy89602 жыл бұрын
I wanted to join the BBC in the late 80's (1986 I think...) as a transmitter technical assistant. I used to work for Tandy's part time while at college and got to talk with a couple of chaps from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter station who came in to buy some bits and pieces. I was studying for my A-levels in electronics, maths and physics and had passed my radio amateur exam, they suggested I did a tour of the facility and had an initial interview which went nicely and then went to London for a formal interview. It was an absolute nightmare! I got dropped off outside central London, had to get my way in by tube for the first time, the heavens opened and I got drenched - I got lost but found Broadcasting House and got barked at by the receptionist because I couldn't find my tube ticket because everything was sticking together. I wasn't that bothered about the expenses but that really set the mood for the whole experience. Total disaster - I was so damn nervous and I didn't perform at the interview and failed. But in retrospect I'm pretty glad I didn't go down that route. I've always had an interest in broadcast and have worked with a consultancy in the DTV testing and conformance sector but have spent most of my career in the semiconductor industry as an applications engineer. With the sell-off of the broadcast infrastructure in the 90's and the commercialisation of services I'm glad I chose the path I chose. Nice to hear from someone else who almost but didn't :)
@mvl712 жыл бұрын
The note was written with their own blood, I presume?
@mallockarcher2 жыл бұрын
A very weird moment for me, I suddenly had a memory of buying shirts and trousers in Marks and Spencers about twenty years ago when I heard the Nikita cover. Weirdly clear I could remember a lot of detail.
@Mandalore062 жыл бұрын
Those are the best memories. It always weirds me out though. Why did I remember THAT?
@Alexander_l3222 жыл бұрын
@@Mandalore06 anything associated with a certain memory can trigger you to remember it. It might be a song, smell, taste or sound that triggers it and it can be very nice indeed.
@jonathaneastwood29272 жыл бұрын
Nikita was a mid 80s track so way more than 20 years ago!
@mallockarcher2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathaneastwood2927 I really hope you're just being a troll and you've not meant that as an insightful response. Unless you are like the person I worked with not long before that point who insisted on not watching or listening to anything more than 5 years old. He took the piss out of the fact I was reading a novel while we worked together so I suspect he wasn't a great reader. He wasn't an unpleasant guy but you'd not want him on your pub quiz team.
@cheaterman492 жыл бұрын
@@mallockarcher I for one think their comment is genuine and a bit funny ; it shouldn't be surprising that shops playing background music can't afford the rights to play the very latest hits :-)
@Kellen67952 жыл бұрын
"Good luck content matching that one youtube" easily my favourite part of the whole video. Sticking it to youtube 🤣
@nvrndingsmmr2 жыл бұрын
I laughed out loud!
@NewfieBulletDodger2 жыл бұрын
You are the Bob Ross of electronics . Great content.
@MarkTheMorose2 жыл бұрын
Happy little tapes; they live right here.
@rjy89602 жыл бұрын
I love this comment :)
@erwintimmerman64662 жыл бұрын
You could call each failed audio format a happy accident. Especially when TM gets his hands on one 😁
@Gigidag772 жыл бұрын
"let's play some happy little tapes"
@philipkern67742 жыл бұрын
Love it! Totally spot on!
@owenbutcher2 жыл бұрын
I restore/digitise tapes for a living. The bunching you're talking about at the beginning isn't related to the mould but tends to be caused by the tension of the tape being uneven during storage. As temperature and humidity change over time it pushes and pulls the tape, expanding and contracting it in an uneven fashion until it buckles
@cheater002 жыл бұрын
fascinating! thanks!
@ShyStudios2 жыл бұрын
What's the best way to clean mold off tape? I have a few cassettes that have white mold just like the tape in this video.
@owenbutcher2 жыл бұрын
@@ShyStudios best way? You need to kill the mould. Baking in a scientific oven (don't use your home oven!!) between 45-52 Celcius works best. Don't use chemicals. Then open cassette, brush off excess mould (don't expect to remove much, most will stay on the tape) with very soft brush. FFW and REW tape, open cassette again and clean out with soft brush again.
@filanfyretracker2 жыл бұрын
so that is why companies store their long term backup tapes for the servers in salt mines. constant temp and humidity. Or more accurately constant temp and humidity that does not require mechanical systems which can fail.
@ShyStudios2 жыл бұрын
@@owenbutcher Ill give that a try, I actually have a lil low temp oven I use for evaporating stuff
@solojinglesradio12 жыл бұрын
15:43 Woman In Love's Cover 15:45 Nikita's cover, 15:56 Part Time Lover's Cover, 16:15 Gregory Abbot, 16:36 Happy Together's Cover, 16:45 Liberian Girl's Cover, 16:55 Dolce Vita's Cover
@LasseGreiner2 жыл бұрын
Cheeeeeeesy! Thanks!
@biffboffo2 жыл бұрын
6. Everything I Do - Bryan Adams
@DavidChewYL2 жыл бұрын
4 Loco In Acapulco? Sure sounds like it
@DavidChewYL2 жыл бұрын
5 Shake You Down
@DavidChewYL2 жыл бұрын
7 Cher Love and Understanding
@Bassquake762 жыл бұрын
Probably should have cleaned the tape with a microfibre cloth and isoprophyl while spooling. I do that for mouldy VHS tapes. Works a charm. Dont forget to clean your reel players head and rollers to remove any mould that might have rubbed off!
@chrisphobia2 жыл бұрын
And don't forget to clean behind you ears and under your foreskin at least twice a week. Its also very important to de-ice your freezer once a year and always shave with the grain. Christ (-:
@sickregret2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisphobia I don’t get your response. I clean VHS tapes all the time with 90% alcohol while I spool them. If you put a mouldy tape through the player the spores if active will contaminate the next tape you play and even if they aren’t active it will gunk everything up and audio quality will suffer. Bassquake is giving very good advice.
@dhpbear22 жыл бұрын
Tweaking the head azimuth would help also.
@kevinh962 жыл бұрын
@@chrisphobia Stupid and unnecessary reply. If those mould spores are still active they will contaminate other tapes played on the machine if it hasn't been thoroughly cleaned. Bassquake's advice is good advice to follow.
@cheaterman492 жыл бұрын
@@kevinh96 I don't think anything about chris' advice is bad either hahaha
@VitalLuyten2 жыл бұрын
For name those tracks, those are: #01 : Barbra Streisand - Woman In Love #02 : Elton John - Nikita #03 : Stevie Wonder - Part time lover #04 : The Pasadenas - I'm doing fine now #05 : Gregory Abbott - Shake you down #06 : Bryan Adams - Every thing I do... #07 : Cher - Love and understanding #08 : The Turtles - Happy together #09 : Michael Jackson - Liberian girl #10 : Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita
@CBitsTech2 жыл бұрын
Yep, do it for the fun. It doesn't have to be worth it, nor optimised, just a pleasure. And it's good to see the process, mistakes and all.
@Mitch_Rogoff2 жыл бұрын
Video: uploaded 20min ago Comment: 6d ago
@Segatari2 жыл бұрын
@@Mitch_Rogoff Techmoan releases his videos on Patreon early as an unlisted video.
@jasonhaman46702 жыл бұрын
It was fun to watch, and looks like more fun to do.
@baronvonlimbourgh17162 жыл бұрын
Isn't that what a hobby is?
@PJBonoVox2 жыл бұрын
@@Mitch_Rogoff Read the fucking description.
@TerenceA722 жыл бұрын
I just laughed so hard at myself. I produce music and often use a DAW, when the 'Name that tune' bit came up there was one I wanted to hear again. I was proper spun out when I tried to grab the progress bar in the vid instead of the progress bar for the vid hahahaha
@LaurinLaki2 жыл бұрын
Can relate. I work with train simulators and when watching videos involving them, sometimes try to change the camera angle and wondering why it doesn't work.
@sgtsquank2 жыл бұрын
Your level of self-deprecation is admirable. You're intelligent and entertaining regardless of if you know how to properly splice tape. Enjoyed the watch, thank you.
@peanutismint2 жыл бұрын
I feel like it’s only an attempt to get ahead of know-it-alls in the comments…!
@Bydesign7772 жыл бұрын
Eh he could've done far worse. I started splicing 8 tracks in 2010 at 13 years old and I can make them and Muntz 4's work again to this day. Not trying to say I'm any better or worse, merely an observation
@-IE_it_yourself2 жыл бұрын
"was that it!?!"
@Mister-Tentakel2 жыл бұрын
11:23 Congratulations you have just rescued a rare Chipmunks special 😅
@dantevortex2 жыл бұрын
I would personally just have tried to loosen up the tape. You can use sewing machine oil, or any of the purest and smoothest oils and just soak a few drops into the spool, let it all sit for a while, and then wind the tape fully while using some old cotton strips to take off any excess oil as the tape spools around for a few cycles. The lubrication will make everything nice and smooth again, and you get to keep everything in the cartridge. Also the mould is technically "alive". having it run through your TEAC machine deposited spores everywhere on it. Those spores can infect other tapes. Be sure to disinfect the TEAC machine sooner rather than later. I suggest just using pure alcohol in a spray bottle and hose it off like a madman. After the alcohol evaporates and the spores are dead, you'll be good to go.
@zorktxandnand37742 жыл бұрын
Oil and tape are not friends.
@BryanTorok2 жыл бұрын
@@zorktxandnand3774 Those tapes were lubricated with something, maybe a silicone lube.
@theonl11282 жыл бұрын
@@BryanTorok All cartridges like these or 8track or jinglemachine cartridges have a coating of gravite on it. Never oil or silicone. Old knowlidge... 😇
@linuxstreamer89102 жыл бұрын
but because if the molt are they not about to die
@AndyMarsh2 жыл бұрын
I do video tape conversions... on mouldy tapes I add a few drops of isopropyl alcohol to loosen the mould.
@pinkace2 жыл бұрын
“Good luck content-matching that one KZfaq” HAHAHAHAHA that was awesome
@RetroGameStream2 жыл бұрын
Figuring out how to extract music off old tapes like this seems like a lot of fun. I had fun watching at least. I really liked the synth sound they used for the vocal melody in the Bryan Adams song.
@jonothanthrace15302 жыл бұрын
At first I thought that one was "I Want To Know What Love Is," because the synth was so Foreigner-y.
@ericsills64842 жыл бұрын
I have wanted to rescue a friend's broken 8-track cartridge copy of her wedding by using a reel to reel machine, but I'd imagine I'd have to mask a section of the r2r machine's head to isolate tracks. I haven't figured out how to do that effectively :-(
@SmilyTheMare2 жыл бұрын
i knew it right away lol
@erwintimmerman64662 жыл бұрын
@@ericsills6484 With broken you mean that the splicer tape has come off? Because that's easily fixed. There are some 8-track enthusiast groups on FB, they will be happy to help, or point you to someone in your area who can do it for you if you're not confident doing it yourself. Doing it on your r2r won't work at best, and will ruin your r2r head *and* the tape at worst.
@ericsills64842 жыл бұрын
The tape broke somewhere in the middle. I got a splicing kit, but was not successful with it. I just had to scrap it.
@billmyke7462 жыл бұрын
For one who is still learning, you have displayed a certain proficiency in preserving these recordings. Nice work.
@sparkyprojects2 жыл бұрын
Your splicing has improved since the last time :D But seriously, even if this tape isn't that valuable, it's practice for when you get asked to conserve something priceless ;)
@johnmh10002 жыл бұрын
I think your splicing was pretty good Mat! 👍
@SupaPhly02 жыл бұрын
glad you were able to restore those chipmunk song covers
@fredbloggs59022 жыл бұрын
If you analyse how the (original) Chipmunks achieved their results pre-digital, it was actually quite impressive. They had to sing at half speed!
@FeroVlkolinsky2 жыл бұрын
Auto generated subtitles "Stevie Wonder cover" = "stevie undercover". That just lifted the video a whole level.
@Electronics-Rocks2 жыл бұрын
Having a pixel 6pro on your lock screen it lists songs it hears and it nailed all of them frightening new technology. Splicing tapes takes me back. Once I had to recover a tape which had been in the wreckage of a boat at sea then washing and spooling it just like you did hear but I then had to produce multiple copies to compact cassette tape for evidence.
@tuxysmagicaljukebox54312 жыл бұрын
First sample is "Woman In Love" by Barbara Streisand. #6 is "Everything I Do" by Bryan Adams. 8 is "Happy Together" by The Turtles. #9 is "Liberian Girl" by Michael Jackson.
@Balthazare692 жыл бұрын
1) Barbra Streisand - Woman in love 2) Elton John - Nikita 3) Its on tip of my tongue, but u can kill me, I cant remember 4) Dont know 5) Never heard of it 6) Bryan Adams - Everything I do (I do it for Robin Hood) 7) Love and understanding, but its not Cher 8) The (teenage mutant ninja) Turtles - Happy together 9) Very familiar 10) Little less familiar
@NewFalconerRecords2 жыл бұрын
3) Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover Well done on the Barbara Streisand one, I didn't get that but you're right. Can't get 4, 9 & 10. I keep thinking that #10 is something like Bucks Fizz or something, it's super poppy. Hope someone can help us.
@solojinglesradio12 жыл бұрын
@@NewFalconerRecords It's a cover from Ryan Paris biggest hit "Dolce Vita".
@NewFalconerRecords2 жыл бұрын
@@solojinglesradio1 Yes, I've seen a few people say that. I'm not familiar with the song myself. And #4 is 'I'm Doing Fine Now' by New York City (never heard that one) and #9 is 'Liberian Girl' by Michael Jackson (don't know that one either). Cheers!
@killercarpcatcher2 жыл бұрын
You look pretty damn proficient at using Audacity to me...
@Techmoan2 жыл бұрын
That’ll mostly be down to the video editing.
@pietpaaltjes74192 жыл бұрын
@@Techmoan So you are also proficient in that! :-)
@VidweII2 жыл бұрын
The taunt at 11:16 cracked me tf up.
@awo1fman2 жыл бұрын
This is a really great primer on how to rescue audio from a tape. Not even the specific techniques you use, but all the detail of things to watch out for and work around. Like the tape loop not being at the end and it being flipped and some of the tracks being reversed. Always entertaining and informative and often instructional! 👍👍
@chazw19642 жыл бұрын
Very evocative....of trudging around behind my parents in now long gone department stores, usually in the department with net curtains, plastic woven floor mats etc! Wedge shaped double sided speakers hanging off the ceiling on chains wafting the music overhead at an appropriate volume.
@nicwilson65872 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this, love it when you rescue recordings.
@preferredimage2 жыл бұрын
Interesting video (as usual). Now you've saved the audio, I'd be tempted to give the reel a wash and transfer it back into the cartridge. See if you can get it playing again in its original form. If you knacker it up, no big shakes as you've already done the salvaging.
@seanjarnigan89782 жыл бұрын
Ive never messed with audio file so this was all friggin magic to watch. Its nice you save some auditory history, even if its only as a warning from the past.
@video99couk2 жыл бұрын
You could now quite readily put the tape back onto its own reel and have it available to run in its intended machine. I have to deal with a lot of mouldy tapes. Video8 are particularly time consuming because the mould is stronger than the tape and will cause it to snap. I've built a de-moulding rig for this purpose.
@timehunter94672 жыл бұрын
That’s gross but cool 🤣
@carlr2592 жыл бұрын
i dont know if you have any grandchildren but man as a kid, you're the grandfather i would have loved to visit! always been fascinated in gadgets since young. love your channel and how real and down to earth you are. Christchurch NZ 🙂
@collinhunter97922 жыл бұрын
love watching him aswell. Auckland, NZ
@dhpbear22 жыл бұрын
1: Woman in Love 3: Part-Time Lover 5: Shake You Down 7: Love and Understanding 8: Happy Together
@boardsort2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for continuing to produce content on a weekly basis. I love waking up on a Saturday morning with my cup of Dunkin coffee and watching the new release from Techmoan!
@mpersad2 жыл бұрын
For me, any recovery or repair video is a draw. Thanks Mat, really enjoyed that.
@patjackmanesq2 жыл бұрын
Audacity is absolutely fine. I've used it professionally for years. The spyware thing was a complete overreaction. Keep doing you, buddy!
@Thanatos29962 жыл бұрын
Audacity was absolutely fine, but the spyware thing is down to whether you think that the telemetry data they're collecting now constitutes spyware. Personally, the way audacity is being handled leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but it's far from the worst bit of spyware on most users' systems (Windows itself is much worse for example).
@richardbrobeck23842 жыл бұрын
for sure there is so much of those types of stories on the net .
@FaultyStreams2 жыл бұрын
@@richardbrobeck2384 I loved that movie!
@unduloid2 жыл бұрын
@@FaultyStreams What, there's a movie about Audacity?
@SolitaryBro2 жыл бұрын
@@unduloid From what I can tell, the last two words of his comment were "The Net".
@Seiskid2 жыл бұрын
Great work. Although its a little bit MUFFLED. There's two reasons (both fixable) - the handheld recorder will have an upper frequency limit of 20khz. Halving the speed means you halve the upper frequencies to 10khz. Everything higher is lost. Rerecording with a high res recorder capable of 40khz should fix this problem. - The 90/3180uS IEC/NAB playback curve on your R2R doesn't match the tape which has a different curve to suit its slower playback speed. If I had to guess it you should be applying the cassette eq of 120/3180us. Only it should have been halved because the tape speed was doubled (60/1590us). You can apply an eq correction in audacity (the difference of what the deck applied vs what it SHOULD have applied) which is tedious to calculate but will yield near perfect results. Or you can just take an educated guess and boost the high frequencies by around 10-12db and start to apply them somewhere around 2-4khz and everything above. The lowest frequencies have the same problem but you can probably safely ignore this unless bass thump is overpowering. Most likely this music doesn't have much of that so it won't really matter.
@LasseGreiner2 жыл бұрын
Cutting off the higher frequencies may also happen in any sort of prior compression. Good for pointing that out! 👍
@LasseGreiner2 жыл бұрын
@Kent Teffeteller but at twice the speed as it was transferred there may be cut offs, I understand.
@ZGryphon2 жыл бұрын
The tape might have been moldy and jammed up in the cartridge, but given its age, I'm impressed that it hadn't gone all sticky.
@Techmoan2 жыл бұрын
I suspect the carbon backing helped out.
@Susie_Floozie2 жыл бұрын
For years, I used the cart machine at a radio station to play my show disclaimer every episode. When the station finally went digital, they mothballed the machine--but I kept my old disclaimer cart as a souvenir. I share your fancy for damnable old technologies, and the cart machine certainly fits that theme.
@HappyMinds12 жыл бұрын
Matt's videos are so well produced, he really is top tier youtube, absolute legend.
@markbrum2 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Love watching them. He is fascinating and so precise. I can only dream of being like that :)
@phixi0n2 жыл бұрын
Presto is Italian for "quick tempo", it's used a lot in classical music to describe faster movements.
@svenjansen21342 жыл бұрын
Facts Hercule, facts..
@Ai-dz7ys2 жыл бұрын
The WD-40 lid is the best bit. I laughed my tits off. Brilliant Matt.
@mav67712 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love the back and forth with those reels!
@charlesjmouse2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Quite apart from the always excellent content on a personal, um, note I appreciate your preserving this kind of thing - every one of those tracks will have been the result of a group of musicians hard work and creativity, along with that of studio engineers. It would be a shame to discard the fruits of their labour that may exist nowhere else, especially as recordings take up no actual space these days.
@markr90692 жыл бұрын
Only tangentially related to this video... Thank-you so much for resolving a 30-odd year mystery for me: It's "Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita". Amazing! Also, your outro is one of the best in the business IMO
@thehamstercreo68902 жыл бұрын
i would have never thought of putting it on a reel to reel, genius
@jorgepais28762 жыл бұрын
I recovered several VHS camcorder recordings from the mould using demake-up cotton discs embedded with isoprophyl alchool, slicing then by the widht of the tape, placing them at the two sides of the tape, closing carefully the VHS tape protection on top of it and putting the cassete inside a VHS rewinder.
@scottramjoue51132 жыл бұрын
I think you used the audio software absolutely fantastic you could teach me a lot in fact you do teach me a lot and I appreciate you and watch your content every time it comes out you're awesome dude
@Kalvinjj2 жыл бұрын
Also all the deal about Audacity being crap now is mostly limited to _now_ specifically, using an older version solves all problems and I don't even know if there's any advantage between versions a few years old.
@kaitlyn__L2 жыл бұрын
@@Kalvinjj honestly, it didn’t look much different from the versions I used heavily circa 2009-2012! I’d certainly not be inclined to install every single update Just Cos.
@monkeytennis74772 жыл бұрын
Your persistence and tenacity is inspiring.
@MewtwoExMasterMusic2 жыл бұрын
“Good luck content matching that one Yourube” - made me chuckle.
@keiiko2 жыл бұрын
"why are you doing it?" "because i can" :D
@koira1632 жыл бұрын
as a history lover, especially towards anything and everything "mundane", i appreciate when people keep these old records alive and restore them as best as they can. It a way to remember what life was back in the day. It might seem useless waste of time for some, but not for me personally
@erwintimmerman64662 жыл бұрын
I agree. When I'm listening to original tapes or records on the original equipment, I'm listening to history. If a tape or a record is beat up, it only means it has a story. Maybe a little daughter of the record owner scratched the record. Maybe that muffled 8-track sat in a hot car for years and has traveled 100k miles. I find that more interesting than "hey Google, play music".
@pickledkool-aid2 жыл бұрын
@@erwintimmerman6466 I have an old vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper (the label on it indicates it was pressed between 1969-1972, so not a first pressing but still quite old) that has a lot of minor surface-level scratches around the edges. I like to imagine that the original owner was someone with really long nails lol
@w7777777s2 жыл бұрын
I agree with the other comment(s) about having done the hard work. Now, clean the tape after you remove the leader you spliced on, re-join as you said at the place you cut it, wind it back onto its original spool, oxide out and put back a new foil like an 8 Track repair, where it was and reassemble your now working cartridge. If you didn’t waste any of the tape where the audio was, you have now restored it more or less. But you might want to clean the tape path on your reel to reel deck !
@profmoustache52172 жыл бұрын
Another great video! As I was born in 1988, I've never really got to use tape recordings other than some Disney's VHS lol. But I have to say that watching you playing around with all those amazing cassette and reel-to-reel players kinda hooked me up to audio tape recordings. Thanks for what you do and for putting that much into it! Cheers, Yoann
@markb40712 жыл бұрын
as a fellow technological necromancer I quite enjoy these one's where you rescue stuff. Inspired me to do more :)
@cs1212872 жыл бұрын
Just want to share a funny story... i live in the usa, so your new videos come out at like 5/6am for me. The sound and your voice have trained me to go to bed because your videos are the last ones i watch before i go to sleep for the night
@tcfween2 жыл бұрын
In a very real (reel?) way you're an archivist so that alone makes what you do worthwhile. Thanks for another great video.
@josephbennett42362 жыл бұрын
One of your best titles for a while. Nice.
@bwagner232 жыл бұрын
I collect VHS, and tape mold is the bane of my collecting existence. Getting a tape clean is so satisfying, though. Awesome job saving this audio!
@scottsimpkins22002 жыл бұрын
Your a genius with figuring out difficult audio puzzles!
@fredbloggs59022 жыл бұрын
Given that you have over 1.2 million subscribers, you don’t have to justify anything, it’s clearly working.
@rremington39832 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt, thanks for another superb vid. If you intend keeping the tape, unspool it, put it in a bowl of water and fairy liquid, shake it a bit then dry it thoroughly. The mould should then go. After all you don’t want any unnecessary mould in your house…yuk!
@hermanmunster33582 жыл бұрын
#1 Woman in love #2 Nikita #3 Part time lover #4 I'm doing fine now #5 Shake you down #6 Every thing I do... #7 Love and understanding #8 Happy together #9 Liberian girl #10 Dolce Vita
@OldProVidios2 жыл бұрын
Nothing I like better than watching cart videos. When copying analog, higher speed allows for better quality, less hiss. I'm thinking that if you slow speed by half in digital, wouldn't you be decreasing the bit rate? Decrease quality? You have the magnetic thing that allows you to see the tracks. Using that would have shown you the end of a song...
@nvrndingsmmr2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant, always a pleasure to accompany you on these journeys. Also, I looked up what you said about Audacity, what a shame!
@richardbanks26692 жыл бұрын
Interesting how much bass there is, but then, if you're running it at double speed, if the correct speed playback circuitry has the bottom end of the frequency curve drop off at 50Hz to cut mains hum, running it at double speed means you're recording down to 25Hz off the tape, or half whatever the previous low end cut-off was on the tape head and preamplifier circuitry was. As other commenters have pointed out, it of course doubles your highest frequency through the analogue path, so needs to be sampled at twice the maximum frequency reproducible by the player. Thank you for making your videos, they are a treat to look forward to :)
@Nostaljack2 жыл бұрын
That clip of Mint Condition's "Pretty Brown Eyes" indicates 90s. Wow. Wouldn't have thought this would have been in existence that late.
@pipiferry2 жыл бұрын
Thank you techmoan for making jet another guess the song game - and I think it is worth recording these covers ...
@baronvonlimbourgh17162 жыл бұрын
Ofcourse it is worth it. This is exactly what the hobby is for. A hobby is just doing things for the sake of doing them. It doesn't always have to make sense or be the easiest or most efficient way of doing things.
@richclips2 жыл бұрын
Definitely worth doing! A, you find out what's on the tape and B, it's fun and entertaining:) thank you as always
@LeftoverBeefcake2 жыл бұрын
As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the best channels on KZfaq. Whether it's checking out 100-year-old wax cylinders, reviewing dishwashers, sorting through 100+ minidisc players, or whatever the case may be, I know the content here will be humorous, well produced, and interesting. Thank you, sir!
@markmarkofkane81673 ай бұрын
I picked up unspooled 8 track tape from the side of the road years ago. I was curious what was on it. So took a junk cartridge with bad music on it, unspooled it, carefully wound the tape back on the spool using a record player turntable. Spliced it together. No secret messages. Just some music from a band I can't remember who it was. I used to repair 8 track tapes and cassettes.
@enownowe2 жыл бұрын
Worth it? Absolutely!! I can't believe how "recent" the tunes were-!
@fossil95592 жыл бұрын
No excuses necessary, your films are fantastic and informative .
@lonesomecowboygurt2 жыл бұрын
i wish we could get this recording, cheesy 80’s covers are great especially in that quality
@jasonhaman46702 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I had so many thoughts while watching that I had to make notes not to forget them by the end: 1 - Makes you realize that mold is a much bigger challenge in endless-loop cartridges (8-track, 4-track, broadcast carts, etc.) than in open-reel or the various 2-spool cassette formats. 2 - putting the cart spool on the R2R, my first thought would be to try to tuck the inner end back in the inside, but I expect you tried that and couldn't. Then you brought out the WD40 lid with a hole drilled in it - absolutely brilliant, that would never have occurred to me. 3 - metal reels needing a spacer - here in the US, all the metal reels I've seen from the 80s on had an extra metal layer screwed on in the hub area to bring them to the same thickness as plastic reels. Some decks with wider reel turntables that were concave instead of flat required a spacer from the outside of the hub to the outside of the turntable, but if the turntable was flat, the metal reels were fully interchangeable with plastic reels. Very weird to me that the hub area of yours is thinner than a plastic reel, and isn't properly held by the deck's spindle. 4 - your youtube content match comment - I literally laughed out loud and clapped. 5 - Audacity being spyware? 1st I've heard that, but I certainly wouldn't be 'in the know'. I really hope not... I've never heard of any open-source software being spyware/malware.
@d2factotum2 жыл бұрын
It's only a recent thing with Audacity 3.0 and later--it was acquired by Muse Group who say in their Ts&Cs that they will collect limited personal information to "improve the app", and that this can both be sold and given to law enforcement. Obviously there's no user account or anything like that in Audacity so you'd assume what they can harvest is limited, but the fact they're doing it at all in what's nominally an open source application is what has people's backs up.
@TheJamesM2 жыл бұрын
@@d2factotum Indeed, though I believe that in light of the outcry they've reversed the policy. Before then there were a couple of forks, but since the policy change those have been abandoned as unnecessary. If the people motivated enough to make a fork are satisfied with the about-face, that's good enough for me.
@d2factotum2 жыл бұрын
@@TheJamesM I hadn't heard that, thanks!
@jasonhaman46702 жыл бұрын
@@d2factotum Thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind and check the status before whenever the next time is that I have occasion to use it. Severely disappointed that an open-source app would pull this crap, especially one as otherwise/previously excellent as Audacity.
@_comment2 жыл бұрын
@@d2factotum You appear to be trapped in the past. Specifically May 2021. Have you read the privacy policy since then? It was updated to say "telemetry is strictly optional and disabled by default". It's very easy to see if a program is phoning home, and no-one has found Audacity to be phoning home unless you allow it to.
@JamesOKeefe-US2 жыл бұрын
This was mesmerizing. Your step by step process was really enjoyable to watch and seriously the work you did in audacity would have been impossible at the time these were recorded :) particularly how quickly it was done. Amazing how audacity works. Thank you Mat!
@SmokeyStubbs2 жыл бұрын
I love it when you play the clips at the end, it's like playing an old school Heardle. I got 10 out of 10 so I am unduly pleased with myself.
@michelvanbriemen34592 жыл бұрын
oooo, i'll play. 1. Barbara Streisand - Woman In Love 2. Elton John - Nikita 3. no clue 4. no clue 5. no idea 6. Bryan Adams - Everything I do, I do it for you 7. hmm, maybe a Madonna song, no clue 8. The Turtles - Happy Together (but had to look this one up through the lyrics, despite hearing it for weeks on end at my parents's place over the last two years) 9. Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl 10. Dolce Vita (had to look up the artist's name, Ryan Paris)
@jafizzle952 жыл бұрын
That audio is delightfully lofi. Sounds pretty awesome on Koss's retro-style KPH40s.
@springbay12 жыл бұрын
I just got a sudden urge to listen to Dolce Vita for the first time in at least 30 years. 💃
@robertlandrum19712 жыл бұрын
That was a “reely” interesting and entertaining program. Well in the “mold” of the rest of your work.
@nutsnproud69322 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mat. Thanks for preserving history. I enjoyed the quiz.
Completetly off topic, as a young teenage something in the early 80's my mates dad gave us a Sony FM transmitter / DJ mixer, with line input, built in popup mic and telescopic aerial. It had a cross fade slide poteniometer so we could mix ourselves in and out of the music, We played around with it for a while tuning into each others show as we lived closeby, until someone told us we could go to jail, so my mate smashed it up, as the fear of a custodial sentence was to much for him to bear. I've since looked on the Internet for such a device from that era with no avail. I was wondering if anyone else had seen, heard or played with similar and wanted to remind myself of it purely for sentimental reasons as my mates dad sadly passed, and he instilled in me my love for everythng electronic. Any offers of a description or model number would be greatly recieved. Thank you for the time and effort that you put into making these short clips, they are greatly recieved and it's great to watch a conservator at work.
@ryanaccount35912 жыл бұрын
I look forward to a new techmaon video every Saturday morning the same way I looked forward to saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid
@hatmeow2 жыл бұрын
Its crazy people like us that enjoy watching what you are doing... Love it!
@MVVblog2 жыл бұрын
I really liked this video, in fact I felt like doing it too
@MarcoZ1ITA12 жыл бұрын
Domani video su nastri lezzi e sudici?
@shanestewart48142 жыл бұрын
It’s just like when I used to pick up unspooled tapes on the side of the road. The fun and joy of finding out what’s on them. And I spliced them all together without using a fancy splicing tool. But I sure wished I could’ve gotten proper splicing tape instead of using scotch tape. Had no idea where or how to get it during the 80’s, 90’s, and 2000’s when I was finding those broken tapes.
@highpath47762 жыл бұрын
That Nikita track - on every music on hold I ever had to endure when ringing some kind of call centre
@DeetexSeraphine2 жыл бұрын
Goodness, I remember my dad playing around with reels like that, he had similar kit for fixing tape. Been some 25 years now but I think I finally found the proper respect for that stuff.
@misamsung61912 жыл бұрын
As I remember from my military days recording and playback on the substrate side was done to reduce wear and tear on the record/playback heads. The magnetic side of the tape particularly in applications such as background music would wear down the heads.
@PabloBD2 жыл бұрын
I had moldy audio CDs once, I cleaned them with isopropyl alcohol and never a problem again
@davidline24542 жыл бұрын
Another fantastic video I didn’t know I wanted to see! You actually save me a small fortune in playing with stuff I wish I had. Watching it is enough these days!
@GameHammerCG2 жыл бұрын
It was definitely worth the effort, Mr Techmoan. After all, who else is storing this old music?
@geebsterswats2 жыл бұрын
#6 is Bryan Adams. Made popular in a music video tie-in for the Kevin Costner movie Robin Hood: Prince of thieves
@705johnnyboy2 жыл бұрын
repaired a sanyo walkman m4430 ,belts ,general head roller clean while playing your videos ,sounding nice now,why do i get uptight and ratty fixing this stuff lol,thanks for your videos mate,i have covid at last ,was beginning to feel left out...
@GaryKeepItSimple2 жыл бұрын
I had to play a videotape ( reel to reel tape) that had been dumped into a canal in N Ireland, The Soldiers Dumped it and ran. It was recording as it hit the water. It is amazing what you can do to a tape. Unless it is more important than just looking at it funny it will destroy the contents. Sod's Law
@leebee11002 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed. Thank you for your continued dedication to producing entertaining and enjoyable and informative (and calming) content!
@JohnnyX502 жыл бұрын
I like to call it historic preservation, something so very few people are interested in these days. Someone went to a lot of trouble to produce those titles and you respect them by preserving them in your own way. I really commend you for it and I hope it would encourage others to do the same. I have old cassettes I would love to copy over to my PC before the worst happens to them. I bought new belts for my old twin deck, it plays beautifully and I will be 'backing up' the tapes in due course. Thank you for your inspiration :) I know you can buy digital versions of 99% of my tapes but it's not the same. The dynamics are not the same, the listening experience is not the same. It's easy to hit 'Play' with a mouse button and go off and do something else but it is an entirely different thing hitting play on a relay tape deck, hearing the clunk click and waiting for the track to start, first complete silence, then (depending on the tape/deck) that warm muffled noise before your music starts and watching the counter tick away and the VU dancing up and down... simply beautiful.