🅲🅰🆂🆂🅴🆃🆃🅴 🆃🅷🆁🅴🅰🅳 🆂🅸🅳🅴 🅰: The other vintage noise maker. - Film, Television and Music

Welcome to the Cassette thread: Sometimes the wow and flutter makes it better. Oh and don't worry, we won't tell your parents you're a total hipster. https://media1.tenor.com/images/6a0fd56ee4f21df3bc2f2cb2b64a4de3/tenor.gif?itemid=5997668 Think they sounded bad? Watch these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA https://youtu.be/H5m6zs1UIVg Want to experience ｐｅａｋ　ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ? Read this: Cassettes and their sound, like many other analog formats, are the sum of what you put into them. If you dig up some 90's dollar store brand type 1 iron tapes and throw them in grandma's answering machine then don't be surprised when they sound like tv static. On the flip side though if you combine modern hardware like computers and their sound output with a proper enthusiast tape deck you'd be surprised at the quality you can squeeze out of even average quality iron tapes. Either way though one of the most important aspects of cassettes you need to understand is that just like vinyl, they aren't flawless and at the end of the day they will never be the same as digital. Good news is though that they don't need to be, because their warm nostalgic feel and the experience you get from making them is the real appeal (and because some songs just sound better on tape). My personal recommendations for blank new old stock / actually new tapes: Maxell Type 1 90 minute tapes (New Old Stock): 45 minutes each side, really nice quality actually for what they are and somewhat cheap to boot! Also, Amazon prime is a plus. I don't know how long these will be available for but Amazon seems to have a never ending supply of them because they've been available for eons. https://www.amazon.com/Maxell-108562-PacksMaxell-Recording-Protective/dp/B00006IAAL/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1544488917&sr=8-4&keywords=cassette National Audio Company Tapes: Brand new tape from NAC made in Springfield USA. These dudes are super cool and are great if you need either bulk blanks or to get a mass amount of your work put onto tape! (Note: They only make Type 1 Irons.) National Audio Company Oh and hey if you don't know, don't buy modern tape players like this one! (They suck and don't have Dolby Noise Reduction.) (Seriously though these things are the Crosley turn tables of cassettes.)

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Can we share our favourite cassettes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45pBDP3QRE

rip emojis or w/e got broke. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109874/d62f50f7-3d47-49a8-974a-02f986a27467/image.png

Has anyone ever ran into a Type III Cassette? If so, is it as bad as everyone says it is or is it just meh?

niiiiiiice gonna snap pix of whatever's not in my car rn brb

The best I've seen personally in the wild or on the net is chrome. I'm willing to bet it was mainly a case of "the same or only marginally better than chrome" and that's why they were dropped. Also, eurobeat is best listened to on cassette in the car and I'm willing to fight for that opinion.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/466/43b7b53d-0b2a-4b12-b457-cdc01d6be2a1/20180818_004417.jpg Prob the only cassette I have worth sharing (Jeff Rosenstock - POST-) Got to see him live and he and his bandmates were nice enough to sign my cassette copy Really chill dude too

Growing up the only tape we had was Marty Robbin's Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, so it was really weird when I learned that Big Iron was a meme outside of my immediate family

McCartney II not featuring the post-Beatle song of all time, Temporary Secretary? What a disgrace https://youtu.be/hdCH7ZewAfY

it's on the other side of the tape buddy

Okay, but how would I go about making a mix tape with modern computer shit?

Mix tape as in just playlist?