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I (and I assume most who this forum) just fuckin' love the sound of cassette tapes, I like Type IIs the most for that stark treble. I noticed stereo audio sounds wider on them in general because the channels slightly bleed into each other from the magnetic energy leaving a slight aura between the left and right pickups on the head so it sounds like a forcefield of audio rather than two sterile digital channels, sure some detail's lost, but that also just glues all those tracks together.
Recording slightly too hot isn't always a bad thing as long as it's not unlistenable, it makes the sound kind of distorted and crunchy in a way that just has really satisfying frisson to listen to and that slight compression they have just makes everything pop out which goes really well with the spread-out stereo.
Guitars sound particularly good on tape and the flutter adds some unnatural but also organic vibrato to it I think is underrated in audio recording, it's good on any of them but especially on Type II cassettes where the treble really lets you hear the strings being picked as someone plays it.
Print-through is obviously a flaw that can be annoying if it's too noticeable, but I like it because one, it makes the audio sound like it's floating and echoing and gives the noise in between songs or quiet moments some dynamic, and two, it just reminds me of band demos where a lot of them either just to aging or being recorded too loud have the effect pretty noticably.
Dropouts and degradation are interesting because it's either a consistent wobbling to the EQ or just random cuts in the waveform and if you're listening on a stereo tape, this can either sound really dynamic with the saturation but on mono, I find it pretty annoying because it's sounds less like a subtle messup and it actually cuts out a lot of the audio with it.
Saturation's my favourite tape artefact. It can be headache-inducing if there's too much, but when it's in the perfect amount, it softens the audio in a way that makes it sound more like you're listening through a piece of paper with surprisingly high fidelity. It also oddly satisfying when the saturation drifts in the stereo field and it just feels like the sound signal is a breeze going through your headphones.
Nothing at the moment because my old recorder died, but I'm currently looking any model that supports all 3 types of tapes, Do you have any recommendations at the moment because I don't know any brands (except for Nakamichi or Panasonic.)
For now, I just use a plugins, sampled mechanical humming, and a DC offset in Audacity for the effect which sounds pretty much exactly the same as the real thing but I still want a real machine to have a physical collection.
cassettes are nice!!!! small and compact and pretty nice for portability. they sound totally fine too, i think the low-fidelity aspect of it is a bit overblown. neat little format :)
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cassettes are nice!!!! small and compact and pretty nice for portability. they sound totally fine too, i think the low-fidelity aspect of it is a bit overblown. neat little format :)
yeah, it's best when they're high quality but still have some of the dirt and wobbly pitch, as long as it's not overpowering the whole recording, it's a cool analogue edge
Nothing at the moment because my old recorder died, but I'm currently looking any model that supports all 3 types of tapes, Do you have any recommendations at the moment because I don't know any brands (except for Nakamichi or Panasonic.)
For now, I just use a plugins, sampled mechanical humming, and a DC offset in Audacity for the effect which sounds pretty much exactly the same as the real thing but I still want a real machine to have a physical collection.
I don't have much recommendations (besides the fact that most new machines arent great). I would recommend VWestlife who's somewhat into cassettes, but I imagine you already watch him.
Nothing at the moment because my old recorder died, but I'm currently looking any model that supports all 3 types of tapes, Do you have any recommendations at the moment because I don't know any brands (except for Nakamichi or Panasonic.)
For now, I just use a plugins, sampled mechanical humming, and a DC offset in Audacity for the effect which sounds pretty much exactly the same as the real thing but I still want a real machine to have a physical collection.
I don't have much recommendations (besides the fact that most new machines arent great). I would recommend VWestlife who's somewhat into cassettes, but I imagine you already watch him.
you'd be right; I liked the video about that weird tape-based reminder thing people had in their homes. I forget what it was called but it was like a little device you'd leave on the wall and put in a small tape and leave a voice memo. it's pretty mundane, but interesting to see what's simple now being complicated at the time, but seen as simple because it was a breakthrough
okay, I just realised in my post, even though I wrote it from scratch, it sounds like ChatGPT wrote it. like, I swear, reading that whole thing made me cringe so hard and I didn't even write it that long ago!
anyway, I don't really have more to say, I just wanted to get that off my chest real quick. I'll try not to be so... paragraphic next time I guess? I dunno, just thought it was odd, 'kay bye!
okay, I just realised in my post, even though I wrote it from scratch, it sounds like ChatGPT wrote it. like, I swear, reading that whole thing made me cringe so hard and I didn't even write it that long ago!
anyway, I don't really have more to say, I just wanted to get that off my chest real quick. I'll try not to be so... paragraphic next time I guess? I dunno, just thought it was odd, 'kay bye!
AI would not use subjective terms like "I think" and "interesting". You're being way too hard on yourself.
I don't have a recorder, BUT I do actually have an FM Transmitter and a boom box. If I had some blank cassettes I could record music off of my Transmitter much like how people used to record stuff off the radio.
