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What you heard is probably the xdr test tone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR_(audio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR_(audio)
by onionisafruit 6y ago
What you heard is probably the xdr test tone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR_(audio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR_(audio)
- mwcampbell 6y agoYeah, I think that's it. I guess it wasn't strictly octaves after all. Hey, I was 10 or 11 when I heard it. My guess at the time was that the tones were a tuning reference for anyone who wanted to play along with the tape. I now realize they would have been really bad for that. How common was it for cassettes released by major labels to have those test tones? I should clarify that at home we mostly listened to religious albums; many were released on small labels, but some were distributed by A&M. So maybe the test tones were more common in mainstream music than I realized.
- itsoktocry 6y ago>How common was it for cassettes released by major labels to have those test tones? Anecdotal: I think it was common. I knew what you were asking about as soon as I read your comment. I used to add it my own mixtapes as a kid.