🎵 Playing the VERY FIRST music cassette tape 🎵

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  • @BokBarber
    @BokBarber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    This tape is so old that their throwback song to 1925 flapper music, "The Banjo's Back In Town", is chronologically the same as if a modern band made a throwback to early 80s hair metal.

    • @jameslaidler2152
      @jameslaidler2152 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Please stop making me feel old. I was born in 1984. I'm not even 40 yet!

    • @patrykborowczyk4874
      @patrykborowczyk4874 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jameslaidler2152 now you are ;)

    • @jameslaidler2152
      @jameslaidler2152 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@patrykborowczyk4874 "And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."

    • @patrykborowczyk4874
      @patrykborowczyk4874 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jameslaidler2152 that's how it works. P.s. i also love this song :)

    • @jameslaidler2152
      @jameslaidler2152 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@patrykborowczyk4874 "And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older. Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death."

  • @60gregma
    @60gregma 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    I remember those cassettes in the black nylon cases (late 60s). They used to sell them at Target (I'm from MN and that is where Target got its start). They were on a counter top display, and the cases were locked into a carousel that you could spin around to make your selection. There were brass/steel pins that locked the tapes in place. Each tape would pivot on those pins so you could look at the back and front of the tape. (That's what those holes are for at each end of the case.) You'd track down a clerk and they would unlock the mechanism and release the tape you picked. In the 70's they started putting them into those styrene "traps" and putting them into the record bins.

    • @JohnFourtyTwo
      @JohnFourtyTwo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They were still using those black cases in the early ‘70s also because I have the soundtrack to the first Airport movie on one.

  • @albear972
    @albear972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    Whoah man! That really is some excellent stereo separation! And from a 55 year old cassette too. Very impressive indeed!
    It reminds me of the re-released "Space age bachelor pad music" from the 50's and 60's Esquivel music CD's that I bought back in the 1990's. They also have insane stereo separation too.

    • @kaisersoymilk6912
      @kaisersoymilk6912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It reminds me of the Amiga music, that also had high stereo separation. I wish modern music was like that, it's dumb having the stereo capability and using it only very minimally.

    • @negirno
      @negirno 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kaisersoymilk6912 Also the squashed dynamic range. Sadly stuff is optimized for earbuds nowadays.
      And yes, Amiga and also PC tracker music was the shit.

  • @ChadWSmith
    @ChadWSmith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This is awesome. I had never even considered that there must be "a first tape". But it is great to be able to hear it. Thank you for sharing.

  • @xnyph8490
    @xnyph8490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Your channel is pure gold. I am a vintage audio electronics enthusiast myself. Thank-you.

  • @daviatorcustoms3168
    @daviatorcustoms3168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Now this is something I would have expected Techmoan to show on his channel before anyone else. Really happy it was you who got to show this first since mat usually is the one who gets to show off so many other cool things on his channel. Congrats to you on finding one of these 1st cassettes to feature! I hope this video goes over a million views, as it should, with such an iconic item.

    • @DirtyRobot
      @DirtyRobot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Techmoan's $7,346 bid on this cassette tape was outbid by 8 others in the closing 30 seconds. The final winner paid $12,300

    • @kaisersoymilk6912
      @kaisersoymilk6912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DirtyRobot How do you know that? I searched with google and couldn't find any confirmation.
      PS: is Vwestlife the winner?

    • @peacearchwa5103
      @peacearchwa5103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DirtyRobot I love your sense of humour!

    • @peacearchwa5103
      @peacearchwa5103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kaisersoymilk6912 Methinks DR was yanking your chain, so to speak :)

  • @erwinvb70
    @erwinvb70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    That’s absolutely above average stereo quality, almost like being there

  • @DJPenguino51
    @DJPenguino51 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Sounds extremely good for a 55 year old tape (if my math is right)! Very low tape hiss and it was recorded almost on the hot side. Whoever mastered the tape knew what they were doing.

  • @cpta03
    @cpta03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Very nice to see and to hear the first audio cassette. The sound quality is excellent. I didn’t think the tape could be in such good condition after over fifty years. You are fortunate to have the first stereo cassette player and tape. Thank you for sharing!

  • @clydecrashcup2708
    @clydecrashcup2708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you so much for posting this cassette's audio, Kevin! The last song on the compilation allowed me to solve a mystery that I'd been trying to crack for many years: In the 1960's our family had a budget record by the vocal group The Hi-Lo's which contained 6 tracks that were clearly NOT The Hi-Lo's -- but the artist wasn't listed on the record label or album jacket. There was very little information on the recording available through the usual internet reference sources. As soon as I heard "Banjo Playing" by The Bunker Hillbillies I recognized it as one of the unknown artist cuts from the Hi-Lo's album (I can now identify this group as the artist for all 6 of these songs). Incidentally, the song titled "Banjo Playing" is actually called "The Banjo's Back In Town" (originally recorded by Teresa Brewer in 1955 and probably others in that era). Interesting that the song was misnamed on both this demo cassette and the record our family had.
    I always love your content...brings back many memories of technology I encountered 50+ years ago!

  • @daanherreman8161
    @daanherreman8161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Awesome video! Francis Bay was a famous Belgian conductor leading the national broadcasters orchestra. So weird to see his music ended up in the US … keep up the good work, love your channel!

  • @joseppuig925
    @joseppuig925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You made me open a drawer to look for my Sennheiser earphones to listen to this amazing piece of stereophonic sound history.

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Gotta say, this really is a wonderful addendum to your older video about how a cassette from the 60s would sound 50 years later. The soundquality is really fantastic if played on a really good Tapedeck. I mean by the time THIS video here was made the cassette was 55 years old and apparently played frequently. Thank you so much for sharing the whole music of it in a decidated video!! :) MUCH appreciated. ⏯🎵🎶

  • @matthewlawrenson3628
    @matthewlawrenson3628 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Very good sounding old cassette, though I do suspect it was a "demonstration special" recorded to much higher specs than a mass-market pre-record would have been (the frequency response exceeding what the available equipment was capable of reproducing is a bit of a giveaway). I have a Hollies cassette from either 1968 or 1969 (so old it mentions the 1 7/8ths ips speed on the J-card spine), and it doesn't sound close to this. Though I suppose after 50+ years you never know what kind of hammering a tape's had during its existence.

  • @stevesstuff1450
    @stevesstuff1450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    That is just amazing how good this 55 year old cassette sounds! 👍
    Especially for a type 1 tape!
    Produced with the purpose of acting as a store/event demo tape, it really would have helped to sway the public to the idea of music cassettes..... very few of my 70's/80's pre-recorded music cassettes sound anyway close to being this good now; they seem to have 'faded', in that they're rather muffled in some cases.... possible storage issues over the years - not all my tapes were originally owned be me back then; though some do still sound marvellous.
    I've always loved cassettes, since my first tapes bought for me one Christmas around '74 or '75 - the Beatles Red & Blue album tapes, which I still own! 🙂

  • @gixxerboy555
    @gixxerboy555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's real analog..sounds as if u're in the same room with the music and..you could also hear the instruments in the background..even the lowest sounds..that's what we miss all with digital sound..it's more flat and looses some low background sounds..Thanx man..love your channel also..one of the best for true audio lovers..pure gold.. 😋❤💯😉🥳💖👍

  • @geekwithsocialskills
    @geekwithsocialskills 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Very cool! The cassette sound quality is amazing, especially for how old it is.

  • @matiasgutierrez3680
    @matiasgutierrez3680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i really would like to thank you for this uploading and your channel as a whole, you've introduce me to an unique sensation where i feel i can be with my already gone loved people, and also i've been working on fixing my cassette players! so thank you for your commitment in this channel!

  • @se2702
    @se2702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is fantastic! My mom had the Norelco 'Carry Corder' when I was a kid. I recorded some records and made my own recordings. Good memories! Thanks for providing this - so cool.

  • @joeblow8593
    @joeblow8593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for making this video, the cassette sounds absolutely great. And it's also an important piece of music history as well because it was the first pre-recorded stereo cassette.

  • @MarkPMus
    @MarkPMus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s impressive, especially as they didn’t just make specialist recordings deliberately intended to show off stereo, this is stuff from the regular catalogue. I asked Siri to name some of the songs (I hadn’t read the description, my bad) and they’re still out there on general release. This tape sounds superb, even through the built in iPad Air speakers.

  • @organfairy
    @organfairy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One thing to remember is that analog equipment doesn't have a sharp upper limit for frequency response; it rolls off gradually. When they are stating a 60-10000 Hz frequency range this is just what can be expected within a certain level - usually +/- 3dB - but there are frequencies way above that range, just at a lower level.

  • @peacearchwa5103
    @peacearchwa5103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wonderful sound quality, something I've occasionally noted from the handful of other very early (pre-1970s) pre-recorded cassettes in my collection. I really enjoyed the music, particularly Francis Bay's Big Band. This Belgian band leader was phenomenally gifted and capable. He came to international prominence through his numerous live band concerts at Brussels' Expo '58 world's fair. In the 1958-62 period he and his band made many fine recordings -- some of which unfortunately were released under fake pseudonym names -- but very few of those performances have been reissued on CD, downloads or streaming media.

  • @johnwiiu7005
    @johnwiiu7005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These lovely tracks got me in a good swinging mood! And around the fifth track the quality was already stellar. Thank you and greetings from Germany!

  • @macktheinterloper
    @macktheinterloper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This has better stereo separation and dynamic range than most contemporary tracks. My HD650s aren't particularly known for a wide sound stage, but this sounds amazing even on these cans.

    • @quadruple_negative
      @quadruple_negative 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It sounds pretty damned good on my Apple dirty buds. Modern music is practically mono in comparison.

    • @EfficientTrout
      @EfficientTrout 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is no tape hiss either or does he turn on Dolby NR?

    • @kaisersoymilk6912
      @kaisersoymilk6912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@EfficientTrout I did not hear any tape hiss initially, when I was listening with a pair of Sony MDR-EX 110 LP, then I changed to a pair of KZ ZSN and I started to hear it.

    • @workonesabs
      @workonesabs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and (some) radio stations in 2022 broadcast 32/64 kbps MONO!!! oh, dear...

    • @frankgeeraerts6243
      @frankgeeraerts6243 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@workonesabs Mono has musical qualities that stereo and surround does not have.....................

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A nice tip for sharing earbuds on a phone regardless of the stereo mix is to go into the accessibility options and enable mono mixdown! Works with wired or Bluetooth buds. Even mild stereo effects in a track can have a diminished or unintentionally hilarious effect, so I like ensuring both me and the other person gets the same mono audio (given that scenario is literally _mono-aural_ anyway)!
    I appreciate this may play off like a variant of gadget-guy “why not just use a mono adapter”, but I feel there’s an important distinction since it’s in-software on both smartphone platforms and thus readily available for anyone to turn on and off with far less effort than buying the right adapter and remembering to bring it with you, etc etc.
    Apologies if this is just reading too much into a joke; I just find a surprising number of (even often audio savvy) people don’t realise that option was there because it’s buried in the accessibility menu! (I also think a few other common accessibility options can be useful for a much wider populace if only they knew they were present, but they’re a bit more off-topic…!)

    • @skytheguy0438
      @skytheguy0438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I use it often in Spotify when listening to the Beatles on Spotify as their stereo mixes are awful. Most of the time I'm at home with vinyl and other better media but when I'm out and about it does sound better than regular stereo to my ears.

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Windows 10 and Mac computers also have the option to switch the audio output to mono.

    • @skytheguy0438
      @skytheguy0438 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vwestlife Hey Vwestlife, how's your day going?

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vwestlife that’s true; I’d only shared earbuds on MP3 players and later phones when on the move, so I forgot to mention the setting absolutely exists on desktop OSes.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skytheguy0438 that’s another good use-case, yeah! If you just don’t like a particular stereo mix for any other reason. I’ve seen some people asking Spotify for a mono option but, the setting is there at the system level already.

  • @Q-.-Q
    @Q-.-Q 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you so much for archiving this part of history! I had a blast listening to the swinging tunes and the quality of your capture was fantastic 🎶🎶

  • @rubenphonecollector2533
    @rubenphonecollector2533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The stereo separation truly blew my mind for its age! Your videos just.... Man their just so well thought out I absolutely love your videos especially the pc and audio ones!

  • @NightimeDemon
    @NightimeDemon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can see why the previous owner enjoyed this tape so much. What a fantastic sounding recording. Even moreso considering it's from the late 60's. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us.

  • @kirkmooneyham
    @kirkmooneyham 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Amazing playback considering the age of the cassette. Of course, "cassette tapes suck"...I wonder how much of that was actually hype designed to get rid of the format. The record companies never really liked it because of people making copies of tapes. With the CD, they thought they had found a way to make people buy the albums again...until personal computers and software rendered that thought obsolete, too. I still like cassettes, have quite a few, and even make my own from various sources like vinyl, CD, and digital downloads. Too bad there aren't enough companies making decent quality blank cassettes anymore. Nice to know that, despite the detractors, well-cared-for cassettes will continue to play for a long, long time.

    • @vasopel
      @vasopel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hm..you needed a good cassette deck to get the full potential of a cassette, 85% of the people just had a cheap cassette deck. with CDs..well you don't need a very good player to get the most of the CD...even a cheap CD player is equivalent to a very good cassette deck.

    • @PurushNahiMahaPurush
      @PurushNahiMahaPurush 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love cassettes. There is something about having a rectangular cartridge like format that appeals to me. It’s why I don’t like CDs and it’s offshoots and modern memory card style cartridges for Nintendo Switch. Video game cartridges were actually called game cassettes in my country because of their similarity in shape to music cassettes. I really miss this format

  • @senilyDeluxe
    @senilyDeluxe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have the Philips version of this machine. The preamp is tricky, it uses capacitors to make the transistors kinda bias themselves, but that also means the tiniest leakage current in the capacitor will yank the signal out of the transistor's comfort zone. And old caps are known for leaking. I only had to replace a few caps in the preamp section to get my machine going. (I didn't try recording though - it runs a bit fast and has no speed adjustment)
    (and I had to change the belt, not saying remove what was left of the old one...)

  • @reverendtos4271
    @reverendtos4271 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What makes this especially interesting is the use of the word "rock" as a genre. In 63' it was still called Rock n Roll. The shortened Rock didn't become a thing until the later part of the decade. It may even be a first lol

  • @osgrov
    @osgrov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Very interesting. Somehow that question never popped into my head - what tape was the first!? Great tape, too, I enjoyed all of it!
    You have this rare ability to conjure something out of the blue that makes me all happy, and this video was one of those moments. Love your channel. :)

  • @andrewdemetrius8090
    @andrewdemetrius8090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Stunning quality! I love the fuzzyness on the last track too

  • @sinewaymusic
    @sinewaymusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how nerdy you get with these things. It's a joy to watch. Thanks for making your passion available on TH-cam!

  • @thegrayshaws
    @thegrayshaws 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow so cool to hear such good stereo. It sounds amazing in my headphones

  • @ShawnTewes
    @ShawnTewes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This sounds exceptionally good through my 5.1 home theatre setup, especially due to the nature of the wide stereo image.

    • @theminicooper
      @theminicooper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow! I'm going to test that out now!! Great idea!!! Loll

  • @MarvelDcImage
    @MarvelDcImage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You were not kidding about stereo seperation! I went deaf in one ear so thank goodness I am listening to this on the 2E1 headphones where it has left and right drivers in one ear-can so we single sided deaf people can listen in stereo!

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also Windows 10, Mac OS, and smartphones have an option to switch the audio output to mono, which combines the left and right channels. It's in the accessibility options.

    • @MarvelDcImage
      @MarvelDcImage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@vwestlifeYes, those accesibilty functions are helpful and better than nothing but downmixing stereo to mono produces a flat sound. With the 2E1 I can listen to the stereo panning effect of songs. I find 60s and 70s songs had much more extreme stereo mixing than songs from the 80s and onward.

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MarvelDcImage Yes, I looked it up and read the description of it. It's like the quadraphonic headphones that were around in the 1970s, with two drivers in each ear cup, allowing you to hear both the front and rear channels independently.

    • @MarvelDcImage
      @MarvelDcImage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vwestlife Yes! Exactly! Aside from stereo music listening the 2E1 helps with identifying left and right sounds in gaming but as someone who went single side deaf I could tell the difference in how music originally mixed in stereo sounded flat when downmixed to mono so the 2E1 allows me to hear music fuller and deeper in stereo with one ear as opposed to mono. PS: I love my cassettes for stuff I recorded off radio and mix tapes I made and was given and because some cassette albums I have are no longer in print and cost a pretty penny to get in vinyl or CD.

  • @jamesslick4790
    @jamesslick4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    By the mid 1970s, Cassettes were decent for music with "chrome" tape and Dolby becoming available. A lot of younger people think they sound bad due to the crap tape transports of today and the lack of options in tape formulations now.

    • @IAmNeomic
      @IAmNeomic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Even in the 90s, you could still get great sounding blank tapes for cheap. I remember specifically, Sony made "CD-IT" tapes that were relatively cheap, and were actually really well made. For like $1 more, you could even get the "CD-IT Pro" tapes which were crazy good, especially given they were maybe $2.50 a tape at the time.

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@IAmNeomic Yes the 1990s probably was the last decade where one could find good tape and decent decks too.

    • @CedarPark604
      @CedarPark604 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jamesslick4790 The last blank cassette I purchased for 'good sound' was a Sony Metal Master tape some time in the early 90's. It had a ceramic composite shell (not plastic).

    • @JohnFourtyTwo
      @JohnFourtyTwo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember the Sony, Maxwell, and TDK tapes for quality recordings and every department store had their own brand as well that was dirt cheap but the quality was hit and miss.

    • @kaisersoymilk6912
      @kaisersoymilk6912 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@IAmNeomic I bought my first audio equipment in the 80s (as a kid) and everything tape related sounded like crap, probably not entirely because of the tape, but due to the devices I used to play them back: first a cheap Philips mono tape recorder, then the cheapest Philips "boombox" available.
      The sound quality wasn't great to say the least, and I think most people had that kind of experience.

  • @boxman139
    @boxman139 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I always tend to forget that type I tapes can sound great if you record onto them properly. This definitely would've had me sold on these "newfangled" tapes!

  • @OldProVidios
    @OldProVidios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I purchased Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band when it came out. The cassette came with an advertisement for the other EIGHT titles available in Cassette.

  • @jimmymelendez1836
    @jimmymelendez1836 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, I love that wide stereo effect.

  • @blindlemon9
    @blindlemon9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a super-cool video. I love your little time capsules!

  • @StackOverflow80
    @StackOverflow80 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To me CC cassettes always felt as something for young generation, but it was in 80's/90's. But from music genres chosen in this demonstration tape, it's obvious how this new music format was in the beginning aimed at mid-age generation. How things changed during the years.

  • @debbie09090
    @debbie09090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So that’s how it was done!
    I remember my first cassette radio by ‘Silver’ came with an amazing sounding Latin music track on one side back in the 70s and I never found another tape that sounded so good

  • @Narayan_1996
    @Narayan_1996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much for this precious video! This is pure gold 😍

  • @JamesE707
    @JamesE707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great upload VWestlife. Many 1960s recordings were like that - very wide stereo!

  • @AMDRADEONRUBY
    @AMDRADEONRUBY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nice find Kevin and glad to see it's an cassette related Video. Good old blank B side cassette lol

  • @HostiaRecords
    @HostiaRecords 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for upload this piece of history of pre-recorded music, and sounds great for an old tape

  • @albinklein7680
    @albinklein7680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have an old "disco fever 1976"-Cassette since I was a kid (I was born in 1970). It's in a plain black case/chassis with a very cheap looking light brown tape inside. No Dolby sign on this bad boy. I abused that cassette in every way imaginable in my childhood/youth. It baked in my dad's car during numerous summer vacation trips, I played it six million times in my cheap ass fisher price tape recorder, it was eaten numerous times by my first car stereo.
    And, except for some dropouts in the first/last minutes of every side; that tape still sounds totally fine. When I play it back on a good deck like a CT-959, it blasts the meter way over +2dB.
    Some tapes are survivors!

  • @Mattfromthepast
    @Mattfromthepast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, as someone who has been into cassettes for as long as I can remember this was really interesting, thanks for posting it.
    Also, a lot of this music sounds like it should be part of a Better off Ted episode.

  • @Time4Technology
    @Time4Technology 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was really good! Thank you for uploading this!

  • @FLH3official
    @FLH3official 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A piece of history. Thank you

  • @losbanos999
    @losbanos999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing video. This is important music history right here! Thanks.

  • @CarlosPerezChavez
    @CarlosPerezChavez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What an amazing sound!

  • @shakcmusic
    @shakcmusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the W-I-D-E stereo mix

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great selection of music and it sounded wonderful through my stereo.

  • @johnnyedify
    @johnnyedify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I haven't heard real stereo since the 1960's . This is what my father and his audiofile friends equipment sounded like. Sounds as good as the reel to reel tapes at 7&1/2 speed.

    • @Daijyobanai
      @Daijyobanai 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Only place I *ever* heard it is on live jazz CDs (reissues of course from the 50s & 60s), where the mic for a particular instrument was definitely >>> over there, and was kept on a right or left channel to preserve the live sound.

  • @bentbilliard
    @bentbilliard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks, that's great stuff! Music was something back in those days...

  • @Paul_Wetor
    @Paul_Wetor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just bought "The Francis Bay Big Band - Pradomania" from Amazon and downloaded it. Swingin' stuff!

  • @johntammaro
    @johntammaro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a great selection of music. Thanks for sharing

  • @hardrivethrutown
    @hardrivethrutown 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    for a tape that's probably been used since the 60s, I'm very surprised how well it's held up!
    Puts to rest the belief that they would stretch or break after a few years of use.

  • @ErikJohnsonFMA
    @ErikJohnsonFMA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't plan on staying and listening to the whole thing but I did. thanks for sharing

  • @MikeBracewell
    @MikeBracewell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating video, thank you! What's also interesting, apart from the amazing sound quality, is the choice of music, much being from the late 50s, & clearly it not intended for the contemporary youth market who wouldn't have had a hope of affording such a thing. It's also from an era when Stereo LPs & reel to reels were first being introduced so all this stuff on here was recorded with the utmost care in order to showcase what would have been extortionately expensive equipment at the time.

  • @fosterb247
    @fosterb247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Splendid upload Mr VWestlife. I have the exact same Graphic Equaliser form the 80"s here in the UK, although it's banded 'Realistic'. We had Tandy stores here at the time but they are long gone now. My EQ is still working well like yours and it was nice to see another one... 🤓

  • @glennk1931
    @glennk1931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Norelco has always had my respect over the years. A fantastic company. Very innovative. A friend had the Stereo Continental tape deck from around 1960. It sounded great too. I have the demo tape that came with the machine.

  • @squirrelarch
    @squirrelarch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great stuff. Interesting to see the side left blank. This idea returned in the 80s with the
    “+1” series of cassette releases which I remember buying when allegedly young.

  • @charbokh
    @charbokh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bass sounds awesome. All the frequencies really sound great!
    If this is how 1964 sounded like then we have lost a lot!
    The fuzzy bass sounding on this song 28:32 I love it! It brings memories from the old sound system we had at home, a National Panasonic Ledsonic 2800 with big speakers. They sounded just like this song. I guess that is the Loudness filter right?
    I think on the recorder that was used to make this tape. It must have been a really nice one. Do you have any information which recorder this tape was recorded with?
    Phenomenal video. Thanks for sharing.

    • @brigganthewolf1461
      @brigganthewolf1461 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The fuzzy bass is actually mic or preamp clipping from the fact that these tracks were recorded towards the "hot" side. You can see the VU meter go past 0 and into the red several times throughout the tape.

  • @TSC-Detroit
    @TSC-Detroit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice find
    Great music

  • @ralphreinhardt6020
    @ralphreinhardt6020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very cool video Kevin . I enjoyed it very much. 😎👍

  • @creato938
    @creato938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's a really good recording.

  • @basicforge
    @basicforge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I didn’t realize that cassettes were so late to the scene. I was born in 1967. By the time I was ten years old they were everywhere!
    I wonder how much of the music on this tape was recorded in the old single take method or using multitrack recording.

    • @albear972
      @albear972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have had an old LIFE magazine since I was a teen since 1988 or so from December 1963 and it has an advertisement for a Norelco cassette player.

    • @basicforge
      @basicforge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@albear972 Yeah? That would make 1967 the wrong date for the introduction of cassette tapes.

    • @albear972
      @albear972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@basicforge VWestlife refers to pre-recorded Compact Cassettes. And crap! I have to look for that friggin' magazine now to see if it really was the Philips Cassette recorder or maybe I misremembered, and it was another format. I do remember that old magazine with an tape/cassette player ad from 1963. Please disregard me saying it was a Norelco branded one.
      *EDIT : SORRY, I DID MISREMEMBER, THE MAGAZINE IS LIFE Magazine Nov. 29, 1963 P.53 THE TAPE PLAYER ADVERTISED IS NOT A NORELCO/COMPACT CASSETTE BUT AN RCA BRANDED TAPE CARTRIDGE PLAYER RECORDER. THEY SORT OF LOOKED ALIKE AND ITS BEEN ABOUT 20 YEARS SINCE THE LAST TIME I SAW THAT MAGAZINE*

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@basicforge The cassette format itself dates to 1963. It was originally just a MONO format only intended for voice dictation. This video is about the first STEREO cassette intented for music.

    • @jamesslick4790
      @jamesslick4790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@albear972 "Philips" and "Norelco" are the same company. The "Norelco" name was used in the US, Philips was used in Europe. The difference was to ensure that North Americans would not confuse "Philips" with then popular electronics brand "Philco" Philips later bought "Philco" ending any issues.

  • @veb92168
    @veb92168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What an awesome video thanks!

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didnt know that Norelco was Philips, thanks for learning me that

  • @audioreparaciones8956
    @audioreparaciones8956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! This thing is STE----------REO! It has very good high frequency content.
    Thanks for the video!

  • @Lethgar_Smith
    @Lethgar_Smith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can remember in the early 80s when buying a record album cost about $10.00 and a cassette or 8-track cost around 12 to 15 dollars. I remember hearing that the record companies were ripping us off because the tapes were actually cheaper to produce than the vinyl. I also remember the 70s and early 80s when the sound quality on a pre-recorded cassette tape was horrible and worse than 8-track. We would buy blank cassettes, borrow our friend's albums and record awesome "mix tapes" that sounded way better than anything the record companies were offering.

  • @CoolDudeClem
    @CoolDudeClem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I know it's off topic, but I used to have the same Graphic EQ! Although mine was branded as Realistic.

  • @rayo631
    @rayo631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Superb sound through headphones

  • @robfriedrich2822
    @robfriedrich2822 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They did a mastering to match with the limitation. Sometimes it helps to boost high mids a bit, that it may sound brilliant.
    By the way, the time of shellac wasn't so far and they still knew how to get a brilliant sound, when the highest possible frequency is limited to 10 kHz (above there is some distortion)

  • @Space_Reptile
    @Space_Reptile 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    watching this w/ my TV plugged into my Aiwa MX-Z92 hifi system and its possibly the best sounding tape ive heard in a long time, they really went all in w/ that first impression
    and yea its VERY stereo , you can hear the difference just walking from one side of the room to the other

  • @bolek158
    @bolek158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was the same when they started making digital copies of old recordings especialy the mono ones.... Like they were screeming - Hey, we can make stereo out of everything, just listen!! The stereo separation was just crazy :) and the tape actually souds pretty good :)

  • @FBAV
    @FBAV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sounds pretty good to listen to as well. Fun music as well. Well worth it to preserve!

  • @none8680
    @none8680 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow this was amazing. I enjoyed that more than I thought I would.
    Keep up the great content mate.

  • @thevacdude
    @thevacdude 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video, Kevin.

  • @EfficientTrout
    @EfficientTrout 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is my new fav playlist. thanks vwestlife

  • @dant4802
    @dant4802 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the awesome stereo separation

  • @mr.grumpygrumpy2035
    @mr.grumpygrumpy2035 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It shows what the cassette could do, even in the 1960s.

  • @yanks1fan09
    @yanks1fan09 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool. My first cassette player from Sony in 1969 came with a demonstration tape. I also have one from National Panasonic. No shaver included with the Norelco.

  • @TheDeeplyCynical
    @TheDeeplyCynical 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Surprisingly low noise-floor for a non Dolby early Ferric.

  • @mcramp20
    @mcramp20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Had an Ampex player when I was a kid I loved that deck!
    Love that version of the EQ

  • @Complextro93kg
    @Complextro93kg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sounds great!

  • @jcxtra
    @jcxtra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's a very nice tape. Thanks for sharing! Beautiful stereo separation. I kinda wish there was more surround sound music. The Doors have a 'Perception' box set that's in surround sound that sounds very nice on a system that's been well setup. :)

  • @amayadori77
    @amayadori77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think that wide stereo sound is associated with the mixers used in that era (1960s) in which they only had Left, Center, and Right (LCR) panning buttons. It was only in the 70s when stereo was perfected through the integration of panning knobs in mixers lel

  • @rippspeck
    @rippspeck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Whoa, those tunes are *very* stereo indeed!

  • @bradfordaudio
    @bradfordaudio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Super cool! Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @Eliotime3000
    @Eliotime3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The first pre-recorded cassette that I listened was the Rubén Blades album "Buscando a América", and I was mind-blown because it was the first time that I listened an album that reaches easily the high fidelity in a degree that rivalizes with the CD.
    Now, I'm still amazed about that discovery that you did it.

  • @markanderson350
    @markanderson350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing for a medium meant for voice only. I couldn't even hear the hiss. I always liked cassettes. I had many from the 70s on

    • @Knaeckebrotsaege
      @Knaeckebrotsaege ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's plenty of hiss around the 25:20 mark when fat stuff starts playing with its quiet sections. Weirdly enough most of the first half doesn't have anywhere near as much though

  • @JohnFourtyTwo
    @JohnFourtyTwo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds very good for such an old recording. I remember NPR had a news segment about how the quality of those tapes degrade over the years and used their own archive copies from about 15 years before the news show they were on. The archive tapes sounded all muddy and not crisp like they were in the beginning.
    They also talked about video tape having the same problem and recommended putting both in an oven for about thirty minutes at 125F and then have new copies made. The temperature of the oven was enough to restore the sound and video quality for a few more plays but not hot enough to damage the tape.

    • @dhpbear2
      @dhpbear2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That muddiness many be due to the azimuth being out of adjustment.

    • @Knaeckebrotsaege
      @Knaeckebrotsaege ปีที่แล้ว

      The baking stuff is for tapes suffering from sticky shed syndrome, where the glue holding the particles to the plastic tape degrades, turns sticky and jams up the machine. Baking the tape at ~50C for several hours can make them stable enough to be played again and archived. This has nothing to do with "restoring the sound/video quality" at all. That's straight up horsesh*t...

  • @tunepro71
    @tunepro71 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice find

  • @azuranit8702
    @azuranit8702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Cassettes...better then you don't remember!" - Thank You for sharing - Guess only a handful of ppl got the chance to enjoy this on their own Equipment now adays. Want to see a CD-R that will plays that well after 55 years! ;) Cheers from Germany.

    •  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      An M-Disc should be able to manage it, if you can still find a working player after 55 years.