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I still have my Technics 646 I bought new as a student, but do I use it? Barely. Chrome tapes seem to be a thing of the past, forget Type IV, and I don’t think
by vr46 2y ago
I still have my Technics 646 I bought new as a student, but do I use it? Barely. Chrome tapes seem to be a thing of the past, forget Type IV, and I don’t think I could spare the time anymore for anything less! Lol.
A lovely medium, but my favourite memory of them isn’t a Nakamichi-scented one. It’s a Sony Walkman-centred world that I miss! If only I still had that Sony DC2, I could retire.
Edit: my mate tells me to STFU, he can bring me some new Type IIs from Greece or Turkey. Result! Back in business!
- roywashere 2y agoThe world of cassette tape is weird. You can still buy new Maxell UR60/90 type 1 tape but the tape you get in Europe or the US is made in China or Thailand or such and is packaged in red wrappers. The same UR60 if you buy it in Japan is in purple wrappers and in different shells (screws versus glued) and is manufactured in Indonesia and apparently much better quality
- vr46 2y agoI think Type I tape has a fairly low ceiling, my old TDK AR-X were as good as they got, and I can’t imagine these Maxells are any good these days regardless of where they come from. Any other tips?
- tmountain 2y agoI buy NOS chrome tapes on eBay. They sound pretty darn good.
- junga 2y agoI recently started using RTM C90 type I cassettes for recording mix tapes for my kids on my Denon deck. Quite like them. No need for Dolby C and +5 dB are easily possible. All the NOS tapes I have used sounded awful. I guess this is due to chemical degradation over time (IANAC)
- atoav 2y agoI work in an art university and a surprising amount of new (underground/experimental) musicians release their music on casettes. If you wanna sell music on concerts vinyl is too expensive/you would have to upfront too much money, CDs are dead, casettes however had some sort of revival. Vinyl is still king in those circles, but it requres you to be able to realistically finance and sell a run of 250 pieces to be economical. I saw people buy casettes (with a download code) while not having a player — it is a neat physical artifact for some.
- badgersnake 2y agoCDRs just make more sense here in every way. Higher quality, cheaper to produce and les degradation. Fucking hipsters.
- aspenmayer 2y agoMost of the artists I'm familiar with that release on cassette tapes are vaporwave or adjacent and sell their work as DRM-free lossless FLAC files on Bandcamp as well, so there's really no downside for the artist or the audience.
- jareklupinski 2y agoi love vaporwave on cassettes, because the medium lends itself to the art you never know if that flutter / wow effect was originally in the song or coming from the deck
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- badgersnake 2y agoArt has to be deliberate surely? What you’re describing is just noise I would say. But we’re getting philosophocal.
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