That's awesome you have a Michael Stanley cassette. His stuff is really hard to find. I'm a Michael Stanley fan too along with Queen and Kansas. R.I.P. Michael Stanley.
Holy smokes this actually works. I've destroyed a handful of tapes by accident trying to get them to play right. Just did this on a XDR tape having issues 10 minutes ago and it's playing flawlessly! I'm glad I didn't throw my hair-dryer out when male pattern baldness took my punk spikes away. Haha.
I' ve just tried your hair-dryer method and I can confirm it works. I used to Fast Forward and then Rewind old tapes before playing them but that didn't do the trick for every tape. Your method works. Thanks
so...I conducted the "heat treatment" on a couple of noticeably "lagging" cassettes, and I can attest to the validity of this method. It works! The added trick is to ensure that the cassette is completely "rewound" when engaging in the method, then rewind and fast forward the tape. I had a cassette that was COMPLETELY unlistenable, but once I adopted this method, it miraculously revived it! Trust Timothy's method. Don't resort to lubricant unless it's the last resort.
Holy shit I just did this! I bought Michael Jackson’s dangerous and bad album and I used tweezers to spin the tapes. These cassettes are almost 40 years old and we’re both dragging on multiple tracks so I tried this just now and winded it back and forth completely on both sides and then cooled them off with the hairdryer. Then popped it back in my cassette radio and they both play perfectly. Thank you so much for this tip! I was really upset thinking they wouldn’t ever play right. Now I know how to fix it if I ever get another cassette that drags and sounds distorted like my other two did!
Amazing! Most of 'Now's That What I Call the Music' compilations in the UK released on cassettes are terrible. They have that awful warble sound effect on them, but your tip has saved their lives! Thank you!
Hello Timothy I had just started getting back into cassettes after a long time and found your video intriguing. Im quite sure there's all kinds of oddball techniques to keep cassette albums going that's been lost to time and this fits in with them. I would like to see if there's a more professional grade product thats used to be in circulation to treat this type of issue common in cassettes. Its just refreshing to see people even messing with cassettes at all. Loved the XDR audio technology it really was top pairing with Dolby. Thank you for posting this video it was very insightful.
XDR is just a recording process (which is why these tapes have beeps at the start), it has nothing to do with the physical tape. There's info on wikipedia under "XDR (audio)". Any correlation with the actual tape is likely to just be the manufacturers that used the process & the time period when XDR was more common. I haven't noticed any issues with the XDR tapes I have here in NZ.
What model cassette player are you using in your cabinet? That thing looks sweet!! Also, i just tried your method of fixing my tapes and it worked perfect. Thank you!
I have a Heaven's Sake Kids He Is Exalted cassette. It is not XDR but it is badly distorted around the second half. I've tried lubrication on it 2 times and it's not going away.
I was looking up my Renae Armand Cassette and your video showed up and i lost my coffee somehow 🤔. And that's a good idea you share with us and i had my adam ant tape get ate and all the kings horse's they had the same speed sounds warbling just like yours does i had to take the cassettes out you know stringing the tape out of the cassette then since I'm a teenager from the 80's i even have the clear 1980's bic ink pen the pattern is pretty much exactly as you know it slides right in the cassette and turn and winds the tape back in pretty fast i have two of them i find in old abandoned houses and keep your eye out for them there at second hand old good will store's. They are clear with " wellt the pen and the cassette look different but it fits just like a wrench on a bolt or something alright well see"'ya🚬🚬🚬 I m going find my coffee you say hotter than yhe pits of " geez I'm not brave enough to write🤷✍️📝.
I played a home-made tape in my Camry and several tapes now sound really weird after... but not others. I played the tapes back in my Walkman and the affected tapes still have volume that goes up and down, and it's really disheartening, especially my Takeuchi Mariya import tape that cost me $50. I'll probably try this and a lubricated cleaning to see if it helps. I guess I don't have to fix my car stereo, though.
You'll definitely want to clean the capstans and pinch rollers in your cars stereo. Sounds like they may have folded the edges of the tapes slightly so they aren't aligned with the play head causing the volume to vary. It could also be from magnetic interference. Getting magnets like iPhones mag safe near a tape will instantly erase or make the Volume fluctuate in effected areas.
@@timothyhudson948 All the affected tapes sat in my centre console. I am thinking it might have been my GoPro that has a magnetic clip that may have been the culprit, now that you mention magnets. My own doing! At least I know where NOT to put it next time. I did do a good cleaning of the car stereo though! Thanks for the eureka moment!
The problem is with lubricity! Sure you have relieved the friction by slightly modifying the shell but the problem isn't actually fixed. The real problem is that audio tape has a film of lubricant, over time some tapes lose this after many years of storage. The biggest example is tapes made by Capital/EMI with XDR almost every one I come across has this problem. A sign your tape needs lubrication is when trying to play the tape on a known good working tape deck the tape will wow and flutter, slow down or even stop playing. ANA[DIA]LOG's channel has a video on how to relubricate a cassette.
I was going to try your approach with some old tapes that slowed and stopped but it turns out that now they are playing the music just fine. After looking at your approach by using a hairdryer I think humidity on the wheels increases the resistance which causes the tapes to malfunction and by using the hairdryer the damp gets evaporated and hence restores the functionality of the tape (so no toothpick is needed)?
I would like to ask, is that most of xdr tapes have such characteristics? Like they easily dry up and quite often to use lubricants to oiling them. I am trying to fix such problem on one of my xdr cassette, if you have any tips on how to lubricate them can you leave your comments? Big thanks !!!
see none of my jammed tapes are hard to turn with a pen in the spool. however they seem to all jam only when in the player and being played. Some even RW/FF fine its only playing that doesn't work.
Tried your heat method and lubricant method side by side on nearly identical tapes and here's what happened: th-cam.com/video/GuNsnV2YDiI/w-d-xo.html Thanks Timothy!
I own multiple XDR cassettes one of them is squealing its pissing me off because it's by Death a Death Metal band from Florida which is a legendary band that started the whole entire genre of Death Metal.
That's awesome you have a Michael Stanley cassette. His stuff is really hard to find. I'm a Michael Stanley fan too along with Queen and Kansas. R.I.P. Michael Stanley.
Holy smokes this actually works. I've destroyed a handful of tapes by accident trying to get them to play right. Just did this on a XDR tape having issues 10 minutes ago and it's playing flawlessly! I'm glad I didn't throw my hair-dryer out when male pattern baldness took my punk spikes away. Haha.
Thats terrific! Glad it worked well! All my tapes are still going strong
I' ve just tried your hair-dryer method and I can confirm it works. I used to Fast Forward and then Rewind old tapes before playing them but that didn't do the trick for every tape. Your method works. Thanks
so...I conducted the "heat treatment" on a couple of noticeably "lagging" cassettes, and I can attest to the validity of this method. It works! The added trick is to ensure that the cassette is completely "rewound" when engaging in the method, then rewind and fast forward the tape. I had a cassette that was COMPLETELY unlistenable, but once I adopted this method, it miraculously revived it! Trust Timothy's method. Don't resort to lubricant unless it's the last resort.
I tried this on a tape that played fine but had a lot of flutter. It fixed it!
Holy shit I just did this! I bought Michael Jackson’s dangerous and bad album and I used tweezers to spin the tapes. These cassettes are almost 40 years old and we’re both dragging on multiple tracks so I tried this just now and winded it back and forth completely on both sides and then cooled them off with the hairdryer. Then popped it back in my cassette radio and they both play perfectly. Thank you so much for this tip! I was really upset thinking they wouldn’t ever play right. Now I know how to fix it if I ever get another cassette that drags and sounds distorted like my other two did!
Amazing! Most of 'Now's That What I Call the Music' compilations in the UK released on cassettes are terrible. They have that awful warble sound effect on them, but your tip has saved their lives! Thank you!
Hello Timothy I had just started getting back into cassettes after a long time and found your video intriguing. Im quite sure there's all kinds of oddball techniques to keep cassette albums going that's been lost to time and this fits in with them.
I would like to see if there's a more professional grade product thats used to be in circulation to treat this type of issue common in cassettes. Its just refreshing to see people even messing with cassettes at all.
Loved the XDR audio technology it really was top pairing with Dolby.
Thank you for posting this video it was very insightful.
XDR is just a recording process (which is why these tapes have beeps at the start), it has nothing to do with the physical tape. There's info on wikipedia under "XDR (audio)". Any correlation with the actual tape is likely to just be the manufacturers that used the process & the time period when XDR was more common.
I haven't noticed any issues with the XDR tapes I have here in NZ.
What model cassette player are you using in your cabinet? That thing looks sweet!! Also, i just tried your method of fixing my tapes and it worked perfect. Thank you!
I have a Heaven's Sake Kids He Is Exalted cassette. It is not XDR but it is badly distorted around the second half. I've tried lubrication on it 2 times and it's not going away.
I was looking up my Renae Armand Cassette and your video showed up and i lost my coffee somehow 🤔. And that's a good idea you share with us and i had my adam ant tape get ate and all the kings horse's they had the same speed sounds warbling just like yours does i had to take the cassettes out you know stringing the tape out of the cassette then since I'm a teenager from the 80's i even have the clear 1980's bic ink pen the pattern is pretty much exactly as you know it slides right in the cassette and turn and winds the tape back in pretty fast i have two of them i find in old abandoned houses and keep your eye out for them there at second hand old good will store's. They are clear with " wellt the pen and the cassette look different but it fits just like a wrench on a bolt or something alright well see"'ya🚬🚬🚬 I m going find my coffee you say hotter than yhe pits of " geez I'm not brave enough to write🤷✍️📝.
I played a home-made tape in my Camry and several tapes now sound really weird after... but not others. I played the tapes back in my Walkman and the affected tapes still have volume that goes up and down, and it's really disheartening, especially my Takeuchi Mariya import tape that cost me $50. I'll probably try this and a lubricated cleaning to see if it helps. I guess I don't have to fix my car stereo, though.
You'll definitely want to clean the capstans and pinch rollers in your cars stereo. Sounds like they may have folded the edges of the tapes slightly so they aren't aligned with the play head causing the volume to vary. It could also be from magnetic interference. Getting magnets like iPhones mag safe near a tape will instantly erase or make the Volume fluctuate in effected areas.
@@timothyhudson948 All the affected tapes sat in my centre console. I am thinking it might have been my GoPro that has a magnetic clip that may have been the culprit, now that you mention magnets. My own doing! At least I know where NOT to put it next time. I did do a good cleaning of the car stereo though! Thanks for the eureka moment!
I have a KISS Creatures of the Night cassette im gonna try this on!
I got the same cassette and same problem!
1:49😂👍" sorry it was funny till a little further
The problem is with lubricity! Sure you have relieved the friction by slightly modifying the shell but the problem isn't actually fixed. The real problem is that audio tape has a film of lubricant, over time some tapes lose this after many years of storage. The biggest example is tapes made by Capital/EMI with XDR almost every one I come across has this problem. A sign your tape needs lubrication is when trying to play the tape on a known good working tape deck the tape will wow and flutter, slow down or even stop playing. ANA[DIA]LOG's channel has a video on how to relubricate a cassette.
Simply put some Permatex extra fine graphite lubricant on the felt pad and run it fast forward and reverse a few times. Works well on all tapes.
I was going to try your approach with some old tapes that slowed and stopped but it turns out that now they are playing the music just fine. After looking at your approach by using a hairdryer I think humidity on the wheels increases the resistance which causes the tapes to malfunction and by using the hairdryer the damp gets evaporated and hence restores the functionality of the tape (so no toothpick is needed)?
I would like to ask, is that most of xdr tapes have such characteristics? Like they easily dry up and quite often to use lubricants to oiling them. I am trying to fix such problem on one of my xdr cassette, if you have any tips on how to lubricate them can you leave your comments? Big thanks !!!
you play cassettes with bad equipment and in the car, you keep them without a case on the floor and then you wonder if they don't work anymore.
Has nothing to do with this problem.
see none of my jammed tapes are hard to turn with a pen in the spool. however they seem to all jam only when in the player and being played. Some even RW/FF fine its only playing that doesn't work.
Dawg the hairdryer gives life to plastic, it works. :D
Done this, and it worked. But when I play my cassette the next day it plays slow again… any suggestions?
Maybe me is still a little slow. Any suggestions
Tried your heat method and lubricant method side by side on nearly identical tapes and here's what happened: th-cam.com/video/GuNsnV2YDiI/w-d-xo.html Thanks Timothy!
Amazing! It worked! Thank you!
L'aria dell'asciugacapelli era calda o fredda?
calda
Awesome video!
Bake at 250 for 20 min. Just kidding. Funny you know MSB. Glad you could save it.
you should have a good optometrist check out your red eyes or a priest maybe
Thanks
I own multiple XDR cassettes one of them is squealing its pissing me off because it's by Death a Death Metal band from Florida which is a legendary band that started the whole entire genre of Death Metal.
Im a filthy glam metal fan but I sold a mate all my Death tapes cause he loves them.
Yo encontré otra manera de solucionar este problema
cool method tho
Hes cute