Was negotiating my way around junk out in the shed when I spotted a box with tapes and found these:
Haven’t listened to a tape in at least 10 years I’d say. Recently picked up a machine that plays vinyl, CD & tapes so I’ll have to get back to playing the little ones.
I know some artists (the bandcamp types) are releasing the odd album on tape (in some cases, exclusively on tape), but do any of ye still listen to tapes?
My wife had a '99 Accord that had a cassette deck and I would sometimes use it to run errands just so I could listen to my old tapes. Then 3 yrs ago the car got totalled because an illegal alien crashed into it . . . And I haven’t listened to a tape (or have any way to play one) since.
I have a tape deck on my stereo. Meh. It was a dead end format 15 years ago, it’s a dead end format now.
My wife had a '99 Accord that had a cassette deck and I would sometimes use it to run errands just so I could listen to my old tapes. Then 3 yrs ago the car got totalled because an illegal alien crashed into it . . . And I haven’t listened to a tape (or have any way to play one) since.
I hope you didn’t have any Creedence tapes in the car when it got totalled… that would have been just too much
i was brought up on tapes my earliest childhood years but i have no desire to ever try listening to one again, not even for nostalgia purposes. tapes were a pain in the ass. but i did like recording songs from the radio or recording my own talk radio show.
though as a kid me and my family came across a big box full of rock tapes just sitting in the dumpster one time. that kicked ass. they were in perfect condition too. must’ve been like 50 of them.
the first album i ever got for myself i got my mom to buy me a tape. i picked some van halen one. i couldn’t have been older than 8.
[reply]My wife had a '99 Accord that had a cassette deck and I would sometimes use it to run errands just so I could listen to my old tapes. Then 3 yrs ago the car got totalled because an illegal alien crashed into it . . . And I haven’t listened to a tape (or have any way to play one) since.
I hope you didn’t have any Creedence tapes in the car when it got totalled… that would have been just too much[/reply]
That’s just like your opinion,man…
I still own a 4 track recorder, but I spend more time using the built in effects when I’m recording to my 8 track. My best experience I had with tapes was when I found out how to overdub with my dual cassette player that had a microphone input on the back.
I would hook up a mic and record myself playing the drums. As I later dubbed the drum track to another tape, I would hold the mic in front of the keyboard and play a bass track. I would keep doing this until I had a full song put together. Unfortunately, I only played drums at that time and I didn’t understand music theory so the songs suffered. I was also twelve at the time so my voice would crack when I sang. Some of those recordings survived through the 90s and ended up on my hard drive.
i was brought up on tapes my earliest childhood years but i have no desire to ever try listening to one again, not even for nostalgia purposes. tapes were a pain in the ass.
Completely accurate.
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grmpysmrf
Yeah, I don’t see any reason to listen to cassette tapes. It’s not as if they sound better or have a uniquely desired sound like vinyl does.
Have a bunch of cassettes…will never listen to them again…dead format,end of story…
No tape revival festival at prongs anytime soon so
I have a small cassette collection. They serve no purpose whatsoever other than to say that I have X album on Vinyl, CD and cassette.
Vinyl and CDs still have advantages as physical formats, but cassettes are otherwise useless.
Tapes would stretch out and drag too. That sucked.
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grmpysmrf
Yeah, tapes were awesome. I love trying to unkink them and respool them with my #2 pencil. And tape decks just loved eating them for snacks.
And it was so convenient skipping to the next song. [Click] buzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzz [click] “Nope, keep going.” [Click] buzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzz [click] “Nope, keep going.” [Click] buzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzzbuzz [click] “DAMMIT, too far!”
This became practically impossible if you were cursed with one of those auto-reverse players that would continue playing from side A to side B, as you never knew which direction the thing was actually going.
Any dumbass hipster that thinks putting his album out on a cassette needs to have a brick thrown into his teeth. But, hey, at least I won’t have to hear his garbage music since no one will be able to play it.
Yeah, I remember the pencil trick. Sometimes the tape would break, but elmers glue usually held the tape back together. You would lose 5 second of playtime on each side, but whatever.
The most annoying thing with the pencil trick was those unintentional twists that would make you go “God damnit!”, then you would have to pull the tape out from the top and start all over.
Yeah, I remember the pencil trick. Sometimes the tape would break, but elmers glue usually held the tape back together. You would lose 5 second of playtime on each side, but whatever.
A smidge of clear tape (the kind you wrap presents with) would have you lose no seconds.
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grmpysmrf
A tape went in my butt once. [laugh]
[reply]Yeah, I remember the pencil trick. Sometimes the tape would break, but elmers glue usually held the tape back together. You would lose 5 second of playtime on each side, but whatever.
A smidge of clear tape (the kind you wrap presents with) would have you lose no seconds.
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grmpysmrf[/reply]
I’ve never had a broken cassette (the fuck were you guys doing to your tapes?) but I can imagine the clear tape getting hot or starting to peel and fucking up an already fussy tape deck.
Then again I might be wrong. I wasn’t around when tapes were popular or the way people would commonly listen to music. But I’ve had quite a few and mainly used them so I could record my friends CDs on to them or for recording stuff in different bands I’ve been in. Always were a pain in the ass.