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We’ll all George Michael’s used was a Roland Juno-60 and a Lynn drum machine. Wrote the lyrics then recorded them. Less is more. Just my opinion and some food for thought. Great video, can’t wait to see more. Music is life.

You are missing the point of the tape. It's not the nostalgia and not the quality.

make do with what you have. have fun

Your sir are a genius

Back in the days when I was a kid, me and my friend produced our musik with only 2 cassette recorders. Nowadays is too easy and you'll never know how hard it was. Stay save and have a nice day

:D Reminds me of my first playing with my c64 on my boys room in the 80s...

i dont know why people like krk rockets monitors they sound like shit to my ears i had some rocket 5 inch 3g once stay away from rockets folks get hs8 or mackie mr8 or something more high end if you can like adam atc focal my days of doing budget boy monitors are over the low end is always muddy on budget boy monitors freqency are being masked you dont har things as they truly are

thanks for sharing your wise thoughts - nice track and look forward to more

What a refreshing video. Subscribed.

The new track is fantastic!!

oooooo I Like this Rob! This gives me...hope. The new setup is looking nice!

Great stuff! I had a Porta One in the 80s, got it around 86 and I upgraded from a Tensai RCR-332 2-track, which was great with a built in rhythm machine. Still have that. I remember tape hiss being a big problem with the Porta One, but it was probably how I was using it, I was 20 when I got it and pretty naive. We obviously didn't have YT or anything to teach us how to do stuff. Just magazines like Electronics & Music Maker. Anyway, subscribed!

I recently opened up my SK-1 to see if I could fix its tuning. Its been Sharp about 75 cents for years and the fine tuning from underneath with a little screw driver wouldn't bring it down enough. At 2:14 you can see a silver refrigerator box thingy next to a white plastic doohickey with gray cylinder inside of it. The gray cylinder rotates within the plastic housing with a screwdriver from under the SK-1 but was still to sharp so I used a screwdriver on the silver refrigerator box opening on top turning it a few times and now is perfectly tuned.

Hi, i’ve got the same issue. What’s the spec of the resistors you replaced? Thanks

26:58. YEAH. YOUR GETTING INTO IT NOW. YOU DO GET IT. YOU REALLY DO😉

6:48. LET EVERONE KNOW. The Headphone Jack On All Decks Is Amplified By A Basic low power headphone amp And Shouldnt Be Used When Listing To The Decks Output. ITS TO Refrence tapes ONLY.

1:40. YOUR CRYING AT THE BEGINING OF THE VIDEO LIKE YOU REALLY DISLIKE CASSETTES LIKE A 27 YEAR OLD SPOILED BRATT. GROW UP AND QUIT BEING JELOUSE OF OUR TASTE IN MUSIC

Hey there. Good job, Man. You wasn't confident, yet you got on with it and was successful. Love your story. Always good to see when people can help themselves when they can.

I have a JVC, Nakamichi and Yamaha deck. When I record on a Type II tape you cant tell the difference from the source no hiss, source being Tidal or Spotify. And digital files save on drives do degrade over time, as the components degrade like anything else. I have tapes from the early 60's that still play, 60+ yrs old.

The nice thing about the VSS100 is that you get 8 seconds of sampling and tha ability to use and store 4 different samples. As opposed to the VSS200 which has only 2.9 seconds of sample time and use only one sample at a time.

Thank you, I did order the parts. Same problem with my Rokit 5

wow fantastic job

I've been re-sampling my PSS-680 a lot recently. This makes me want to get some more Yamaha gems!

I know this is an old video, but this is the best way to compare tapes- I really haven''t seen anything comparable to date (even with Cassette Comeback or TechMoan). I would look forward to a revisit with properly calibrated recordings (3 head deck or auto calibrate), Dolby B, Dolby C, Digital NR and dbx comparisons, and maybe a spectrum from the very low to the very high (20Hz-20Khz) as a source. In any case, thank you for proving cassette tapes can sound as good as digital!

One of mine simply won’t power up after just sitting for a couple of weeks. It worked fine when last used. I replaced the fuse and it immediately blew so the fuse isn’t the problem. What could have gone wrong when it wasn’t even in use??

My Pioneer CT-W604RS handles true chrome tapes very well for playback. I've never been able to test recording, since I don't have any type 2 tapes that have such a formulation (aside from my factory recorded ones, which I'm not going to erase). That Pioneer deck is a real champ at faking hifi performance from what's really a budget player under the hood. It's a testament to how a bit of late 90s computerization made some lower end tape decks outperform very high end ones from a few decades ago (as far as playback goes, at least). That deck blew my mind at how good a prerecorded cheapo type 1 from the 80s can sound.

A great deck with a good Type IV cassette will give a DAT a run for its money.

Well done comparison!

Great video!🎉

I had a belt melt in a cassette deck of mine and replaced it with some random ones off Amazon, could either the belt melting or the belt I’m using lead to wow and flutter? Cause I’m getting a lot of it.

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hi you can't do that tape change over from deck to deck as the head track lay out are not the same there's a small space in the head of a home decks with the 4 tracks they pack in the channels

YES very good points in your video here note i don't buy makes of cassette's i buy pancake and body's note it's now alot easyer to buy cassettes to the size you need now and color of them as well i have a otari DP2700 x 2 and i can take the 1/8 tape out and move the tape on to basf 1/8 reels alot of the used tapes on ebay are not that great i love to say i was working on a betacam sp sony 75p decks yes 12 of them at once saved from a skip WOW they sound ace 45min of audio no hiss at all it was liner audio because the audio tape speed is so fast 6x of betamax liner and no drop out's ADAT is good as well

I think you're more liable to hear the slight differences in the music than the average listener since it's your creation. I was honestly pretty satisfied with all of the tapes.

in everyway but.....analog is the best why? let me hear what you think.........

On paper? No. In real life: You'll have a very hard time telling the difference if you do everything right.

Very good work, especially comparing the hiss. I always wanted to conduct such test. Could you perform the test of single frequencies recording, and during playback to see harmonics? Believe me there they are, and they are significant. For monitoring, you could use "Sound analyzer basic" for android.

I'm subscribing right now! I love my little Casio SK1, and like you I did everything in my power to use to create my own bedroom music right up until my mid 20s. It wasn't my first keyboard - that was a Casio VL-Tone, followed by a Casio MT-45, followed by a Jen SX-100 mono synth, then came the SK1 and finally a Casio SA-10 - and my drum machine was a Movement Sequence Memory Rhythm which was actually stolen from the boot of a friend's car and I've never been able to find a replacement in all these years. The instrument set was rounded off by a cheapo electric guitar and bass guitar. Sadly, being broke in that period I had no access to a portastudio, so used to just manually overdub everything using two tape decks and a cheap Tandy 4-track microphone mixer. Results were hissy, ultra-lo-fi and mono, but I loved every moment. I actually miss those 'hungry' lo-fi days where I had to make every sound count and push every instrument to it's maximum potential. This era of DAWs and digital recording almost seems too effortless. Great watch, thank you!

That's because they're cool, the nostalgic factor is 💯 % and sound fantastic with the bias and equalization set correctly. Tape hiss can be completely eliminated with dbx and there's no longer digital ultra high definition ear fatigue to wreck the 🥳 party.

Great vid! I have just acquired one of these in good condition. The tape transport however is completely dead. Everything else at first glance appears ok.

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Looks like a pretty mint example on the surface apart from the stuff inside not working when you got it. By the way, I'm envious of your electronic/ repair skills. Very nice.

Sub'd. Your attention to detail regarding the repair of the Tascam porta one is wonderful. Get all those caps replace, that will be an amazing video. Cheers.

Great tutorial my brother… I believe the same has happened to my Yorkville Studio powered monitors! Heck I didn’t even know they had a fuse in them! Thanks a mil for sharing your knowledge my brother!

Great review using a great deck! One small note, the SA isn't a "true chrome", as it uses a ferro-cobalt, or "super avilyn" coating.

That harp sounds gorgeous. 🤘

Well done video. I also had a SK1 in my early teens and actually never fully utilized its ‘ synth’ controls most likely because manual reading was not on the forefront of a 13 yr old 80s kid. I used to ‘sample’ everything around the house and figured out to make music with it. Flash forward…. I actually gave it to my nephew a few years ago in perfect working condition. Hmmm…. am I wrong to want it back? 😮