I recently threw myself down the rabbit hole of cassette tapes Currently using an off-the-shelf cassette deck mechanism with the magnetic heads connected direc

I recently threw myself down the rabbit hole of cassette tapes Currently using an off-the-shelf cassette deck mechanism with the magnetic heads connected directly to an op-amp and a Dayton Audio DSP so I can tune all those Dolby B/C / Noise Reduction / Biases / equalizations myself in software while watching / listening to the results live it's awesome how many hobbies you can tease out of music