There aren't any quality tape players being made today they are all junk. I looked into that a year ago. Bought myself two good Sony boom boxes with cassette players and a Sony portable cassette player.
MarvelDcImage I bought 2 cassette players at Goodwill in really good condition. One is from 1993 and the other one I have was made in between 1989-90. They are selling cassette players on Amazon.com.
I have lots of cassette players from the 1990s also, I am just asking who is making modern day cassette players of high quality? I am seeing them manufacture new record players.
that's why I trust the old machines only ....modern hifi systems are made to fit the standard..... the cassettes are not the standard for most of the customers anymore, so they are out .....but anyway .. I think I will not trust some new cassette player/recorder so much as I trust to my 30 years old decks and boomboxes ... :) ..those are proper pieces, precisely made in Japan from the era, when cassette tapes were the main media - so the importance of making high quality cassette players/recorders was the top priority .. :) .,and... last but not least, modern-made electronics doesn't last for long.... everything is made for CONSUME society ..so most of the companies make pieces which break after 2-3 years to make you to buy another one.... I have 32 years old ASAHI mini hifi system and 20 or 25 years old JVC double deck recorder ... both of them were repaired only once... and only the failure was the broken rubber band... :D . no other mechanical or electrical issue .... so dont worry to buy older stuff...just make sure the previous owner cared about it (didn't left it in moist areas or didn;t splash anything on it...etc )
@@hifiteen49 im 13 and i have stacks of records, a record player, a radio with a built cassette player, a mini cassette and cassette player, and a cd burned with oldschool rap
Typical hipster phenomenon. I'm 38 and I hated cassettes all the way until they disappeared. I'm glad we now have solid state flash memory that can store hundreds of hours of lossless music on media the size of a thumbnail.
@@deanfarr3249 Nostalgia by definition requires you having had interaction with the "thing" in question - the commenter, 14 years of age, never had to interact with a tape recorder.
What I loved about cassettes was the blank ones. You could let your imagination run wild in a 90 minute time frame making compilations and stuff. As for the pre-recorded tapes. Nah forget it!!
They got better by the mid 80s with XDR and such. I compared an XDR casstte to a CD and they sounded the same. Of course the better the Cassette player the better the sound.
If you use decent tape an decent equipment cassettes sound awesome! But most people are used to poor quality pre-recorded albums whilst listening to them through crappy boom boxes or low end decks. Same story with vinyl...
Everyone has different appreciations and interests man. For some it's the physical aspect, other's the analog "realness" of the sound, and some the actual sound itself, ignoring quality and digital comparisons and simply appreciating how it sounds on this format.
You can get the audio technical at 120 record player for a great price, and it’s actually really good. Vinyl eyezz is a TH-camr who just does vinyl videos and he has had one for year and really likes it. The arm is very adjustable and with a nice needle, is sounds great.
@@shooting4star2023 listening to music from a phone is awesome...until a notification comes through. Lossless files from laptop in airplane mode are a close second to vinyl and cassettes.
You don't have to fork out huge sums of money. £20 my first tape deck cost me in 2019. 40 for the second and 20 for the third. They sound fine because any issue is normally an issue of duplication or ropey pre-recorded tape.
At my local record shop, there’s a shelf of cassettes, half of them were labeled for just 25 cents. 8 years later, most of them are still there. Videos like this have built my interest in cassettes, and I should go buy some of those old cassettes.
From a recording process he's right about records and tapes sounding warmer than other forms of recordings. The lead, rhythm, bass, drums, and vocals sound more organic when recorded on records or tapes. Records and tapes should continue to exist so artists can use them for studio recording. While you wouldn't find a band like One Direction recording on a old style record or tape,l you will find band lie Poets Of The Fall recording on old style records and tapes.
People that say the cliche' "I grew up with them and they sounded terrible," are wrong. I grew up with recording on cassette 4-track and putting out home-dubbed "albums" of my band's music, and remember them sounding great. I still use cassette as part of my recording process today and there's really nothing like it. A good type II tape in a deck with clean heads will blow away most people's recollections of what a cassette sounds like. Harmonic distortion, punchy lows, warm mids, and that classic rolled off highs is the sound that the digital plug-ins are trying to recreate. I love that this company is doing well! I've done business with them many times and they're the best. Long live tape! It aint' easy, it ain't cheap, but it's real.
Yeah, and I had 100's of those. They were great from a commercial point of view, but they don't impart a particular sound on the recordings. All those CD's are pretty useless now that streaming is the norm.
Yes. I think their key use is in recording.... I'm starting to use my four track for base tracks and then use the DAW for overdubs and mixing. I like that smoothness from cassette though...
Cassettes are also useless, unless you like their particular brand of shitty lo-fi sound. The again you can always just record to tape and upload that to a computer, rendering the actual tape useless.
hifi manufactures just need to start making high end tape decks again now - or at least make parts for the older high end models which we now struggle to source parts for
Maybe try contact JJ Electronics, despite fact that they are producing mainly vacuum tubes, they produce some amplifiers as well and might have some of required technology. Heard might not be problem, tapes are still used as permanent backup and this require high-quality heads (beside some CRC).
Technics Guy I agree. At least I have a choice between new and vintage when it comes to turntables; not so with cassette decks. Also, turntables are much easier to work on; I know that I can change out/upgrade a cart or stylus, because I have done it before. What would I do with a faulty cassette deck? I have no idea.
What, I don't understand why. I'm guessing the rise in production is due to them being the only manufacturer. Well I'm excited for the resurgence of floppy disk's.
From a recording process he's right about records and tapes sounding warmer, more organic, and more leveled than other forms of recordings. The lead, rhythm, bass, drums, and vocals sound more organic when recorded on records or tapes. Records and tapes should continue to exist so artists can use them for studio recording. While you wouldn't find a band like One Direction recording on a old style record or tape,l you will find band lie Poets Of The Fall recording on old style records and tapes.
I totally agree with your statement and would like to add to it. The reason older recordings sounded better is producers and the person that masters the record cared more about the sound quality. Back then records sounded like a band playing in a studio. These days record companies and the mastering guys jack up the volume way too loud in the mastering process, and this squashes the dynamics. I hate this new practice. They also compress the hell out of the songs too so they sound too loud and very brittle with barely any life in them. In other words they don't sound organic. Sad thing is these sound guys have the technology to make older recordings sound better but most of the time they just ruin the sound of classic rock records. Just disgusting practice if you ask me.
Yes to cassettes, because the digital voice recorders cannot edit on the Fly, meaning you can't rewind the recording to where you want to overwrite audio with a new recording and have it play seamlessly as though you never changed it. And this Can be done in an instant with cassette tapes. Example, telling a story and changing it midstream, you can do it digitally but it takes a lot of time to put all the fragmented pieces back together in the right order and name them so that they don't get out of place and play in the right order. Cassette tapes make this process a no-brainer. That's why if you are a writer telling your story using a cassette tape record, it will be natural and a Delight. Because if you have to fiddle around for hours with the voice digital technology you'll forget where you're at in telling your story, and writing is art and when a Magic Moment happens you need the flexibility of tape because you can't recreate that moment. I have tried putting the words to paper, and trying to read them back. Doesn't work the Magic Moment can not be recreated. Thanks for listening
Here are my thoughts on cassettes. 1) Recently I have started to collect old cassette tapes (I buy them mostly on eBay). 2) People who say that cassettes have a bad sound quality do not really know what they're talking about. In the 80s and 90s the recording industry had perfected the sound quality of cassettes (with chrome tapes, diagalog technology, dolby, etc.) - I have albums on cassette that sound exactly the same as the CD. (I have some albums on tape *and* on CD and am able to compare the sound quality). 3) I agree with one of the comments below, saying that "quality cassette players [are not] being made today". Therefore I bought a Bang & Olufsen stereo with a cassette player. Not only does it sound great but I was able to buy a new remote from B&O which also works with the old Ouverture stereo. So even when sitting at my desk, I can forward to the next track, turn up the volume or even turn the cassette - with my remote. I do not need to go to the stereo at all. The Ouverture has a very advanced cassette player where you can forward (or rewind) to the next (or previous) track, and you can turn the cassette with one button. 4) I really cannot understand people's memories of cassettes getting stuck in players. I grew up with cassettes and this really never happened to me. And it hasn't happened on my new stereo. I guess people were just using cheap cassette players or the tape was worn out, overheated or something like that. 5) Tapes that I buy from the 80s and 90s sound great. Newer tapes that I buy do not have a good sound quality. I think that the knowledge that they developed back in the days has gotten lost and these days the few manufacturers do not know how to make quality tapes. I only bought two new tapes (one from the year 2015 and one from 2017) - one sounds okay (not great) and the other just sounds terrible. 6) Many people (and even experts) claim that in order to maintain the sound quality of tapes, you have to rewind them and play them regularly. However, I bought some cassettes as old as 30 years and they were still sealed, which means they had been produced 30 years ago and had *never* been played. Yet, the quality of these tapes is excellent. I assume that keeping them in a dry and cool place is probably more important. Anyway, if there are some other cassette lovers out there, just respond to my comment.
"The twenty- and thirty-somethings have discovered analog audio, and they like it." Uh, I'm 38, and I "discovered" it when I was like 6 or something. We grew up with it. It never went away for many of us =) This channel is like NPR's StoryCorp except most StoryCorp episodes are so tearjerky whereas these are open-ended and largely positive =)
My argument has to do with the specific sentence mentioned, not any other sentence. The people "discovering" analog are closer to teens or just barely out of teens. If you're in your 30s and just discovering analog, you must have been in a coma for the first half of your life.
I have such fond memories of using mixed tapes to get girls. It made letting someone know you liked them so easy and you got to tell them a lot about yourself in the process. I also miss recording live radio.
+patty109109 i did plenty of that too. my problem with cd's is that no matter how well you treat them they still degrade over time. with a cassette you can find one on the side of the road and the damn thing will still play.
You can but with the tape you had a better chance of it being listened through because no easy skip except fast forward. When I switched that was one thing I missed about cassette. And before CD burning making tapes was easier...
Bob Coverston and Steve Stepp and other old experts in this field know everything about the cassette that I think no young people could ever figure out nowadays.
I think there's a place for cassette tapes today. Modernize them, freshen it up make it more convenient and flexible with audio tech today and you'll probably have a solid business. Retro is in right now
These were popular in the 80s and 90s. I was born in the mid 90s and I remember seeing plenty of these as a little kid, before CDs were even a thing. And especially digital downloads.
What I love about cassettes is I can record what I want.I can make mix tapes and play them for hours.I can put the cassette in my pocket,it's portable.It's all about choice!
Being 14, I'm still fixing old cassette players for free for those who need a quick fix like a belt replacement, I love cassettes because of how interesting of a format it is to me, I have sony Walkman and a Cassatte recorder, this video makes me smile and happy :>
We still have vinyl, turntables, cassettes and players, CD and players, VHS and players along with all the current forms of media. As you move forward through all the media formats, it loses warmth. Yes, digital is clean and crispy, exact. You can manipulate it in ways that you couldn't in former formats giving more creativity for certain genres, particularly the broad spectrum of the electronica realm. In the former formats, it also forced a creativity as well, during the early vinyl era, bands had to be a cohesive unit and great from the start. There was no room for unlimited do-overs. Then there came reel to reel, divided tracks, they didn't have an unlimited number of tracks to play with. Although the number of tracks slowly expanded, there was still a limitation as to what they did and how they did it. "Hi-Fi" "Hi-Fidelity" "Sterophonic" (not the band), "Stereo" "360° Stereo Sound" were all labels on vinyl records that were marketing tools. I hope they do carve out a niche again.
I went forward in the late 80's, but a couple of years ago i went back! Now i am using cassettes, minidisc and vinyl again, but still cd and other digital formats too. I LOVE GOOD MUSIC. I totally understand what is meant by that feeling of touching the audion carrier and looking at the art!
Cassettes can handle rough treatment better than CDs and take less space. The human ear is designed to hear analog audio. Be it a digital CD or MP3, they both end up going through an analog speaker before getting to ones ears.
Well you shouldn't be handling your cds or cassettes roughly to begin with, it's not hard to handle things with care. Also cds don't degrade in sound like tapes so I disagree.
Cd's also degrade after the time. But not in quality. Many cd's I had recorded more than 10 years ago are hardly playable even they are unscratched. Probably cd layer has damaged in time
I've had some CD's in my collection since the mid 1990's, and they still sound as good as the day I bought them. I can't say that about my cassettes though, which I ended up parting with several months ago. I had a collection of about 200 cassettes that I sold to a mom-and-pop record store for about $100, which isn't bad for an outdated piece of technology.
Exactly. In fact if you take care of your cd / cassette / vinyl equally, asumming you constantly play those 3 formats, then cd will prevail since the player does not make any physical contact with the medium while vinyl and cassette will deteriorate overtime regardless how you take care of it.
i have a collection of cds from the 1980s to early 2000s and most of my friends think cds are a waste i dont i think vinyl,dvd,blueray,4k blu ray,cd,and cassette tape are worth collecting
I know with social media and our modern culture is changing, please bring audio cassettes back because some people in their generation don't know the meaning of Records, cassettes, eight tracks, reel recorders before CDs, DVD, Blue Ray and digital technology ever come to mind. It's up to us to teach the new world of old school music technology.
To be honest, cassettes are slightly more reliable than DVDs, i mean, once you drop a cassette, the audio is still fine, but a DVD, once scratched, it's dead
I think the last cause he mentioned of why cassette still in need . yes it is the nostalgia of older people.I am in my 40s everytime I go to our cassette player I see my father ,when I use my transistor radio I see my mother .those were the days when all my loved ones were alive.
Same here I my dad have old cassette tapes that refuses throw away. My grandmother she still have vinyls records and heard they are making a comeback too and surpassed CD and cassette tapes.
I do prefer records, but I also love cassettes as well, and want to get more. I just love analog and physical music more. Even CDs, but on a lesser scale. I mostly get those for car rides, or if I find the CD but not the record and I just happen to have the money. Records are very expensive!
I mean it's one thing to have those digitised softcopy audios/videos. Example: Environmentally friendly and no space constraints whatsoever but it is prone to being hacked or stolen. On the other hand cassettes are something with nostalgic love and sentiments with a couple more downsides. You'll definitely have audio/video in a physical copy that is more tougher to steal but it might require you to have a cassette player nearby for a quick use. Overall, I think I'll use a cassette for my most memorable recordings just to share the story down to younger generations but keep a softcopy in check.
Cassette players should be manufactured again. Without it, it's more likely people (especially teenagers) nowadays won't be able to play cassettes since old players have aged (usually also degraded in performance) and digital media is much more practical to maintain and easier to play. I would like the portable one. That should be nice :)
Usually cassettes don’t sound all that great given the usual mechanical limitations. With that said if you could get you hands on a high quality prerecorded tape and paired it with a high-end Nakamichi deck, its audiophile ear candy. No not going back, I think what we have now is better for my needs.
and the thing with analog sound, when you buy it.. its yours to do what you want with it... there is no stupid digital rights management to worry about and other crap
Unless you aim to release your own material containing someone else's intellectual property. Now that I think about it, in almost every way it hasn't changed at all..
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I am building a fresh collection of audio tapes from old stores across the country. So far I have been very lucky. Only difficulty is finding some working cassette players.
You can't delete or corrupt analog formats. I have been getting into cassettes and vinyl for audio, as well as polaroid and film for photos because if my computer crashes and burns, I want to be able to continue enjoying my media library. I am working on duplicating my entire digital library into analog formats, whether it be getting custom vinyl pressings or recording my mp3s onto cassette, as well as getting physical prints of every photo I take. That way, if I have to get a new computer, I still have my music and photos and can transfer them onto the new computer easily.
why? whats the point? cds are so much better they have better audio, longer run time, high quality, more modern, reliable, cheap, no hiss, and so much more! cds just do the job wayy better!!!
I grown up in an analog tape cassette world. My mom had dr hook greatest hits and it sounded like a dirty vinyl and found it on cassette again in good will 2016 summer it was. Analog has all waves clearest can understand sounds and words, digital doesn't have balance only analog has balance.
It's great that cassettes are back. I'm 22 and I have Yamaha KX 930 and a Sona walkman. I use Nokia 7110 (from 99). Digital audio is just not the thing!
I heard the boombox, vcr, gameboys, nintendo 64, playstation 1, cd players, giant phones, dial up internet, windows 95, floppy disks, ibm one, game cube, pager/beeper, tape recorders, cr television, tv sets, car phones and brief case phones are making a comback
Cassette tapes were not too significant to my life in the 90s but I would always feel lucky if I saw or bought the clear one. But then I noticed it became a cheap way to cut down cost of colored cases. Last cassette tapes I purchased were Christina Aguilera's Back To Basic, love song compilation stuff including then newly released Michael Buble's Home, and a movie soundtrack.
My grandma gave me a cassette player/recorder for my birthday when I was like 5 or 6. Since I didn’t have a phone at the time we’d record our voices into the tapes and then mail them in those bis yellow envelopes. It was like a really shitty version of voicemail combined with snail mail but I really loved it and I’m super sad that I can’t find the player anymore :(
The problem is I don't see any quality cassette players being made today.
There aren't any quality tape players being made today they are all junk. I looked into that a year ago. Bought myself two good Sony boom boxes with cassette players and a Sony portable cassette player.
MarvelDcImage I bought 2 cassette players at Goodwill in really good condition. One is from 1993 and the other one I have was made in between 1989-90. They are selling cassette players on Amazon.com.
I have lots of cassette players from the 1990s also, I am just asking who is making modern day cassette players of high quality? I am seeing them manufacture new record players.
MarvelDcImage
As far as i know no companies are making quality cassette players anymore. I could be wrong though.
that's why I trust the old machines only ....modern hifi systems are made to fit the standard..... the cassettes are not the standard for most of the customers anymore, so they are out .....but anyway .. I think I will not trust some new cassette player/recorder so much as I trust to my 30 years old decks and boomboxes ... :) ..those are proper pieces, precisely made in Japan from the era, when cassette tapes were the main media - so the importance of making high quality cassette players/recorders was the top priority .. :) .,and... last but not least, modern-made electronics doesn't last for long.... everything is made for CONSUME society ..so most of the companies make pieces which break after 2-3 years to make you to buy another one.... I have 32 years old ASAHI mini hifi system and 20 or 25 years old JVC double deck recorder ... both of them were repaired only once... and only the failure was the broken rubber band... :D . no other mechanical or electrical issue .... so dont worry to buy older stuff...just make sure the previous owner cared about it (didn't left it in moist areas or didn;t splash anything on it...etc )
please, dont let the cassette's desapear!!! i am 17 and i f...ing love then!!!!
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I'm 12 and have a Hi-Fi set.
@@hifiteen49 im 13 and i have stacks of records, a record player, a radio with a built cassette player, a mini cassette and cassette player, and a cd burned with oldschool rap
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I am 14 and I love looking at old cassettes! They are very underrated in my humble opinion.
bryce hall im 12
Typical hipster phenomenon. I'm 38 and I hated cassettes all the way until they disappeared. I'm glad we now have solid state flash memory that can store hundreds of hours of lossless music on media the size of a thumbnail.
@@graealex its some nostalgia that we miss now but took forgranted in the past
@@deanfarr3249 Nostalgia by definition requires you having had interaction with the "thing" in question - the commenter, 14 years of age, never had to interact with a tape recorder.
@@graealex im 21 myself and when i was a teenager i was playing tapes on a tape deck
What I loved about cassettes was the blank ones. You could let your imagination run wild in a 90 minute time frame making compilations and stuff. As for the pre-recorded tapes. Nah forget it!!
They got better by the mid 80s with XDR and such. I compared an XDR casstte to a CD and they sounded the same. Of course the better the Cassette player the better the sound.
the great thing about pre recorded tho is you could still record over them
If you use decent tape an decent equipment cassettes sound awesome! But most people are used to poor quality pre-recorded albums whilst listening to them through crappy boom boxes or low end decks. Same story with vinyl...
Everyone has different appreciations and interests man. For some it's the physical aspect, other's the analog "realness" of the sound, and some the actual sound itself, ignoring quality and digital comparisons and simply appreciating how it sounds on this format.
You can get the audio technical at 120 record player for a great price, and it’s actually really good. Vinyl eyezz is a TH-camr who just does vinyl videos and he has had one for year and really likes it. The arm is very adjustable and with a nice needle, is sounds great.
@@shooting4star2023 listening to music from a phone is awesome...until a notification comes through. Lossless files from laptop in airplane mode are a close second to vinyl and cassettes.
Yeh
I used original cassete and panasonic boombox and great sound quality i got
You don't have to fork out huge sums of money.
£20 my first tape deck cost me in 2019. 40 for the second and 20 for the third.
They sound fine because any issue is normally an issue of duplication or ropey pre-recorded tape.
At my local record shop, there’s a shelf of cassettes, half of them were labeled for just 25 cents. 8 years later, most of them are still there. Videos like this have built my interest in cassettes, and I should go buy some of those old cassettes.
I seriously love this guy's attitude
He wants to retire. Lol
@@deanfarr3249 because he's old enough he needs to rest and let the younger continue his legacy.
@@DeeJayLovehunter Right on! He may not even work there anymore I don't know
From a recording process he's right about records and tapes sounding warmer than other forms of recordings. The lead, rhythm, bass, drums, and vocals sound more organic when recorded on records or tapes. Records and tapes should continue to exist so artists can use them for studio recording. While you wouldn't find a band like One Direction recording on a old style record or tape,l you will find band lie Poets Of The Fall recording on old style records and tapes.
I'm 32. it took a few years myself to realize how awesome tapes sound. analog warmth is superb.
People that say the cliche' "I grew up with them and they sounded terrible," are wrong. I grew up with recording on cassette 4-track and putting out home-dubbed "albums" of my band's music, and remember them sounding great. I still use cassette as part of my recording process today and there's really nothing like it. A good type II tape in a deck with clean heads will blow away most people's recollections of what a cassette sounds like. Harmonic distortion, punchy lows, warm mids, and that classic rolled off highs is the sound that the digital plug-ins are trying to recreate. I love that this company is doing well! I've done business with them many times and they're the best. Long live tape! It aint' easy, it ain't cheap, but it's real.
Actually the best thing about CD when 99.99999999% of us switched to CD permanently is that now you can go to the track you want instantly.
Yeah, and I had 100's of those. They were great from a commercial point of view, but they don't impart a particular sound on the recordings. All those CD's are pretty useless now that streaming is the norm.
Yes. I think their key use is in recording.... I'm starting to use my four track for base tracks and then use the DAW for overdubs and mixing. I like that smoothness from cassette though...
Cassettes are also useless, unless you like their particular brand of shitty lo-fi sound. The again you can always just record to tape and upload that to a computer, rendering the actual tape useless.
I disagree with “cheap.” They’re cheap enough .
Robert’s message warms my heart like an analog tape ❤️ 📼
Audio tapes is the best thing mankind has invented. I want the revival of cassette tapes at a new level.
hifi manufactures just need to start making high end tape decks again now - or at least make parts for the older high end models which we now struggle to source parts for
Maybe try contact JJ Electronics, despite fact that they are producing mainly vacuum tubes, they produce some amplifiers as well and might have some of required technology. Heard might not be problem, tapes are still used as permanent backup and this require high-quality heads (beside some CRC).
Technics Guy I agree. At least I have a choice between new and vintage when it comes to turntables; not so with cassette decks. Also, turntables are much easier to work on; I know that I can change out/upgrade a cart or stylus, because I have done it before. What would I do with a faulty cassette deck? I have no idea.
@@jamesallen5591 i'm 26 and learned how to fix cassette decks and they work like new.
@@UrOpinionsSucc good for you you're actually keeping the cassette players alive
@@kylereese5869 yes sir!
Does anyone else love the clicking sounds of the equipment and cassette tapes? I love the sound of this video - makes me happy.
Yes it does me too
This would be a dream job honestly, I’ll move & this guy could teach me how to do this. I love having music in a physical form Cassette, vinyl, CD.
Same here I know its my dream job that's for sure
I love cassettes. Thanks for helping keep them alive.
i dont think cassettes are really for like old people, im 16 and i just like walkmans for how cool the cassette mechanisms are
This entire video sounds like Hotline Miami.
Love that game
That game was the shit
What, I don't understand why. I'm guessing the rise in production is due to them being the only manufacturer. Well I'm excited for the resurgence of floppy disk's.
Hahaha! I have samplers that still use floppies... One of them I put a USB floppy emulator though...
From a recording process he's right about records and tapes sounding warmer, more organic, and more leveled than other forms of recordings. The lead, rhythm, bass, drums, and vocals sound more organic when recorded on records or tapes. Records and tapes should continue to exist so artists can use them for studio recording. While you wouldn't find a band like One Direction recording on a old style record or tape,l you will find band lie Poets Of The Fall recording on old style records and tapes.
One Direction is available on vinyl records fyi
I totally agree with your statement and would like to add to it. The reason older recordings sounded better is producers and the person that masters the record cared more about the sound quality. Back then records sounded like a band playing in a studio. These days record companies and the mastering guys jack up the volume way too loud in the mastering process, and this squashes the dynamics. I hate this new practice. They also compress the hell out of the songs too so they sound too loud and very brittle with barely any life in them. In other words they don't sound organic. Sad thing is these sound guys have the technology to make older recordings sound better but most of the time they just ruin the sound of classic rock records. Just disgusting practice if you ask me.
I’m still waiting for 8 tracks dammit
Yes to cassettes, because the digital voice recorders cannot edit on the Fly, meaning you can't rewind the recording to where you want to overwrite audio with a new recording and have it play seamlessly as though you never changed it. And this Can be done in an instant with cassette tapes. Example, telling a story and changing it midstream, you can do it digitally but it takes a lot of time to put all the fragmented pieces back together in the right order and name them so that they don't get out of place and play in the right order. Cassette tapes make this process a no-brainer. That's why if you are a writer telling your story using a cassette tape record, it will be natural and a Delight. Because if you have to fiddle around for hours with the voice digital technology you'll forget where you're at in telling your story, and writing is art and when a Magic Moment happens you need the flexibility of tape because you can't recreate that moment. I have tried putting the words to paper, and trying to read them back. Doesn't work the Magic Moment can not be recreated. Thanks for listening
Here i am a 17 year old fella just loving the simplicity and freedom of an cassette tape :)
#MakeTapesGreatAgain
They were never not great
Here are my thoughts on cassettes.
1) Recently I have started to collect old cassette tapes (I buy them mostly on eBay).
2) People who say that cassettes have a bad sound quality do not really know what they're talking about. In the 80s and 90s the recording industry had perfected the sound quality of cassettes (with chrome tapes, diagalog technology, dolby, etc.) - I have albums on cassette that sound exactly the same as the CD. (I have some albums on tape *and* on CD and am able to compare the sound quality).
3) I agree with one of the comments below, saying that "quality cassette players [are not] being made today". Therefore I bought a Bang & Olufsen stereo with a cassette player. Not only does it sound great but I was able to buy a new remote from B&O which also works with the old Ouverture stereo. So even when sitting at my desk, I can forward to the next track, turn up the volume or even turn the cassette - with my remote. I do not need to go to the stereo at all. The Ouverture has a very advanced cassette player where you can forward (or rewind) to the next (or previous) track, and you can turn the cassette with one button.
4) I really cannot understand people's memories of cassettes getting stuck in players. I grew up with cassettes and this really never happened to me. And it hasn't happened on my new stereo. I guess people were just using cheap cassette players or the tape was worn out, overheated or something like that.
5) Tapes that I buy from the 80s and 90s sound great. Newer tapes that I buy do not have a good sound quality. I think that the knowledge that they developed back in the days has gotten lost and these days the few manufacturers do not know how to make quality tapes. I only bought two new tapes (one from the year 2015 and one from 2017) - one sounds okay (not great) and the other just sounds terrible.
6) Many people (and even experts) claim that in order to maintain the sound quality of tapes, you have to rewind them and play them regularly. However, I bought some cassettes as old as 30 years and they were still sealed, which means they had been produced 30 years ago and had *never* been played. Yet, the quality of these tapes is excellent. I assume that keeping them in a dry and cool place is probably more important.
Anyway, if there are some other cassette lovers out there, just respond to my comment.
I grew up when cassettes were the biggest thing and now I'm going back to them. Gotta get my thrash metal cassette collection back. Lol
I'm all for it! I just dug up my Tascam four tracks a couple of months ago! I think more for recording they're better...
"The twenty- and thirty-somethings have discovered analog audio, and they like it." Uh, I'm 38, and I "discovered" it when I was like 6 or something. We grew up with it. It never went away for many of us =)
This channel is like NPR's StoryCorp except most StoryCorp episodes are so tearjerky whereas these are open-ended and largely positive =)
ablestmage He also brought up the nostalgia for the older individuals lol That was aimed towards you good sir haha
My argument has to do with the specific sentence mentioned, not any other sentence. The people "discovering" analog are closer to teens or just barely out of teens. If you're in your 30s and just discovering analog, you must have been in a coma for the first half of your life.
@games world - "will have grown up" you mean. Not "will of" ._.
ablestmage Im 15 and even I grew up with casettes! Just like five years ago they were still quite common.
I'm 36. Me too, I discovered it around that age haha.
I have such fond memories of using mixed tapes to get girls. It made letting someone know you liked them so easy and you got to tell them a lot about yourself in the process. I also miss recording live radio.
I feel like I've seen/heard this before
You can still mix CDs if you want.
+patty109109 i did plenty of that too. my problem with cd's is that no matter how well you treat them they still degrade over time. with a cassette you can find one on the side of the road and the damn thing will still play.
You can but with the tape you had a better chance of it being listened through because no easy skip except fast forward. When I switched that was one thing I missed about cassette. And before CD burning making tapes was easier...
I still love listening music with cassette
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agreed!
can't argue with that!
I am a great fan of audio cassettes and a restorer of cassette tape decks . I am with you ALWAYS 😊😊😊
I noticed the comback when The Slim Shady LP was re-release on cassete
BRING BACK CASSETTES
Hipster heaven
These people are awesome. Just got my order of blanks from them for use in mixtapes.
Bob Coverston and Steve Stepp and other old experts in this field know everything about the cassette that I think no young people could ever figure out nowadays.
Hallelujah, analogue forever
I think there's a place for cassette tapes today. Modernize them, freshen it up make it more convenient and flexible with audio tech today and you'll probably have a solid business. Retro is in right now
These were popular in the 80s and 90s. I was born in the mid 90s and I remember seeing plenty of these as a little kid, before CDs were even a thing. And especially digital downloads.
I just bought a Sony Walkman and I can’t wait for my cassettes to arrive to try it out!! >
I still use these cassettes and minidisc for recording music...why? I don’t know...it’s like a hobby like playing retro games.
I just got recently obsessed with cassette!!
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Yes cassettes are awesome!!! They are coming back!!!! Keep collecting cassettes.It's all about choice!
Yup! The audio cassete is indeed a classic!
The nakamichi Dragon on my desk blows me away every tine i use it. Thank you national for your specialist feric coatings and cool shells
What I love about cassettes is I can record what I want.I can make mix tapes and play them for hours.I can put the cassette in my pocket,it's portable.It's all about choice!
Being 14, I'm still fixing old cassette players for free for those who need a quick fix like a belt replacement, I love cassettes because of how interesting of a format it is to me, I have sony Walkman and a Cassatte recorder, this video makes me smile and happy :>
I like tapes, to me they are convenient and I can use them anywhere any time. My own opinion.
I agree but records are great too
@@austinleonard8551 records are great but not as portable.
We still have vinyl, turntables, cassettes and players, CD and players, VHS and players along with all the current forms of media.
As you move forward through all the media formats, it loses warmth. Yes, digital is clean and crispy, exact. You can manipulate it in ways that you couldn't in former formats giving more creativity for certain genres, particularly the broad spectrum of the electronica realm.
In the former formats, it also forced a creativity as well, during the early vinyl era, bands had to be a cohesive unit and great from the start. There was no room for unlimited do-overs. Then there came reel to reel, divided tracks, they didn't have an unlimited number of tracks to play with. Although the number of tracks slowly expanded, there was still a limitation as to what they did and how they did it.
"Hi-Fi" "Hi-Fidelity" "Sterophonic" (not the band), "Stereo" "360° Stereo Sound" were all labels on vinyl records that were marketing tools.
I hope they do carve out a niche again.
I went forward in the late 80's, but a couple of years ago i went back! Now i am using cassettes, minidisc and vinyl again, but still cd and other digital formats too. I LOVE GOOD MUSIC. I totally understand what is meant by that feeling of touching the audion carrier and looking at the art!
Cassettes can handle rough treatment better than CDs and take less space. The human ear is designed to hear analog audio. Be it a digital CD or MP3, they both end up going through an analog speaker before getting to ones ears.
Well you shouldn't be handling your cds or cassettes roughly to begin with, it's not hard to handle things with care. Also cds don't degrade in sound like tapes so I disagree.
+robinzhooded tapes may degrade more than CDs but a scratch or even removing some of the oxide layer doesn't make them unplayable, unlike CDs.
Cd's also degrade after the time. But not in quality. Many cd's I had recorded more than 10 years ago are hardly playable even they are unscratched. Probably cd layer has damaged in time
I've had some CD's in my collection since the mid 1990's, and they still sound as good as the day I bought them. I can't say that about my cassettes though, which I ended up parting with several months ago. I had a collection of about 200 cassettes that I sold to a mom-and-pop record store for about $100, which isn't bad for an outdated piece of technology.
Exactly. In fact if you take care of your cd / cassette / vinyl equally, asumming you constantly play those 3 formats, then cd will prevail since the player does not make any physical contact with the medium while vinyl and cassette will deteriorate overtime regardless how you take care of it.
You had me at “cassette tapes”
i have a collection of cds from the 1980s to early 2000s and most of my friends think cds are a waste i dont i think vinyl,dvd,blueray,4k blu ray,cd,and cassette tape are worth collecting
seriously please just tell me the songs used
Tried Shazaming it but old man speak bugged it out.
***** woah there buddy, don't cut yourself on that edge
I also have been wondering where they get their audio selection. Perhaps from The Music Bed webpage.
0:02 : The waves-Powell Beats / 1:47 : Sorry, couldn't find it. / 2:21 : You and i-Powell Beats
Hope it'll help.
Drefore Asrael 9 months later :P I found it shortly after but thanks anyways
hope they would last for another 50 or so years...
Cassettes have definity risen again (with people from the more Indi scene hoping on like from needlejuice my walkman is getting alot of use.
I know with social media and our modern culture is changing, please bring audio cassettes back because some people in their generation don't know the meaning of Records, cassettes, eight tracks, reel recorders before CDs, DVD, Blue Ray and digital technology ever come to mind. It's up to us to teach the new world of old school music technology.
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Some of us 20-30-something-year-olds grew up with cassettes, ch'yeh know?
...great cinematography.
cool, but now I get to find a cute radio to play my cassette tape.
To be honest, cassettes are slightly more reliable than DVDs, i mean, once you drop a cassette, the audio is still fine, but a DVD, once scratched, it's dead
I think the last cause he mentioned of why cassette still in need . yes it is the nostalgia of older people.I am in my 40s everytime I go to our cassette player I see my father ,when I use my transistor radio I see my mother .those were the days when all my loved ones were alive.
Right in the feels man
I’m 21 love cassettes. I’ve been using them since I was a kid
I’m more of a vinyl guy but I’m glad this business is doing better. I still prefer this over digital.
I need to work here.
Same here I my dad have old cassette tapes that refuses throw away. My grandmother she still have vinyls records and heard they are making a comeback too and surpassed CD and cassette tapes.
I do prefer records, but I also love cassettes as well, and want to get more. I just love analog and physical music more. Even CDs, but on a lesser scale. I mostly get those for car rides, or if I find the CD but not the record and I just happen to have the money. Records are very expensive!
I mean it's one thing to have those digitised softcopy audios/videos. Example: Environmentally friendly and no space constraints whatsoever but it is prone to being hacked or stolen.
On the other hand cassettes are something with nostalgic love and sentiments with a couple more downsides. You'll definitely have audio/video in a physical copy that is more tougher to steal but it might require you to have a cassette player nearby for a quick use.
Overall, I think I'll use a cassette for my most memorable recordings just to share the story down to younger generations but keep a softcopy in check.
Cassette players should be manufactured again. Without it, it's more likely people (especially teenagers) nowadays won't be able to play cassettes since old players have aged (usually also degraded in performance) and digital media is much more practical to maintain and easier to play.
I would like the portable one.
That should be nice :)
Tascam have been making new tape players and recorders for years they make tape cassetes as well
Try eBay for refurbished cassette decks.
What a cool job you had Robert!
Usually cassettes don’t sound all that great given the usual mechanical limitations. With that said if you could get you hands on a high quality prerecorded tape and paired it with a high-end Nakamichi deck, its audiophile ear candy. No not going back, I think what we have now is better for my needs.
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There are so many wild inventor types in the heart of Missouri no wonder this guy is there.
I just bought a portable cassete player by Jensen!
You need to get something that isnt made by jensen or ion to get better sound.
Jenson junk. .no bass or treble knob s. ..duh.
I will put it in my members only jacket. It seems I am not the last member after all.
and the thing with analog sound, when you buy it.. its yours to do what you want with it... there is no stupid digital rights management to worry about and other crap
Unless you aim to release your own material containing someone else's intellectual property. Now that I think about it, in almost every way it hasn't changed at all..
i just copied a 120 min RadioShack "Concertape" that was used to record fm radio in 1976. awesome sound!
Nice to know they’re making a comeback, although I haven’t seen a video about them like this in years.
Are they still selling these days?
I got a cassette deck for my hifi this year they probably are making a comeback.
Thanks Hipsters!
I hear VHS is making a come back......................
I vote for betamax.
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Sure why not. I have some beta tapes and player.
Don’t laugh, it is.
I am building a fresh collection of audio tapes from old stores across the country. So far I have been very lucky.
Only difficulty is finding some working cassette players.
Cassette is my legend friend
Agreed. Glad to see it.
Me only 11 and i live in 2021 but i already love to listen audiocasets
You can't delete or corrupt analog formats. I have been getting into cassettes and vinyl for audio, as well as polaroid and film for photos because if my computer crashes and burns, I want to be able to continue enjoying my media library. I am working on duplicating my entire digital library into analog formats, whether it be getting custom vinyl pressings or recording my mp3s onto cassette, as well as getting physical prints of every photo I take. That way, if I have to get a new computer, I still have my music and photos and can transfer them onto the new computer easily.
I still have some of the bigger cassette music tapes before they went to the smaller format somewhere in storage.
I just bought my first Sony Walkman, I have placed bids on four others already.
Star Lord brought them back
I think you're right!
It’s possible
Its entirely possible
They still sell them at a store near my house
Even though I was born in 2003 i like 90s electronics I love audio cassetts the most
Cassettes existed (not sure about invented) in the 1960s. And the first CD may have been made in the late 1970s.
I want cassette tapes come back
why?
whats the point?
cds are so much better they have better audio, longer run time, high quality, more modern, reliable, cheap, no hiss, and so much more!
cds just do the job wayy better!!!
I grown up in an analog tape cassette world. My mom had dr hook greatest hits and it sounded like a dirty vinyl and found it on cassette again in good will 2016 summer it was. Analog has all waves clearest can understand sounds and words, digital doesn't have balance only analog has balance.
I love tapes. I have many cassets and reels and LPs. But dead is will never be alive.
If I lived in that area, I would love to work there.
It's great that cassettes are back. I'm 22 and I have Yamaha KX 930 and a Sona walkman. I use Nokia 7110 (from 99). Digital audio is just not the thing!
I heard the boombox, vcr, gameboys, nintendo 64, playstation 1, cd players, giant phones, dial up internet, windows 95, floppy disks, ibm one, game cube, pager/beeper, tape recorders, cr television, tv sets, car phones and brief case phones are making a comback
i was born in 1998. i remember as a toddler pulling cassette band until it wraps around my body and I was stuck in it.
Cassette tapes were not too significant to my life in the 90s but I would always feel lucky if I saw or bought the clear one. But then I noticed it became a cheap way to cut down cost of colored cases. Last cassette tapes I purchased were Christina Aguilera's Back To Basic, love song compilation stuff including then newly released Michael Buble's Home, and a movie soundtrack.
What's the music used in this video?
The last song is Powell - You and I.
cool cassettes will never die :)
My grandma gave me a cassette player/recorder for my birthday when I was like 5 or 6. Since I didn’t have a phone at the time we’d record our voices into the tapes and then mail them in those bis yellow envelopes. It was like a really shitty version of voicemail combined with snail mail but I really loved it and I’m super sad that I can’t find the player anymore :(
The ending gave me goosebumps