Cassettes

I am going out right now to buy blank micro-cassettes to release new album on.

This was my rig when I was 12:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/169305913_89ad027265.jpg

I guess I'm a nerd because I always thought cassette computer things were so tremendously exciting.

is there a good place to get cheap cassettes either online or in los angeles? we just got a second car that has a cassette player and i'd like to stock up on some good old school shit.

1. Thrift stores
2. Garage/yard sales
3. eBay lot auctions (I got rid of most of mine years ago by selling them in parcels of 100)

that's what i was thinking...i went to amoeba and i'm kinda surprised at how expensive some of the cassettes they're selling are. $4-$6 bucks in a lot of cases.

you really only need one case per cassette

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DAD JOKE!

You'd be surprised at what people are dumping off at thrifts and yard sales. 50 cents for a cassette of some old rap or pop or something. They don't sound too bad on mp3 if you have decent equipment, better than the vinyl sometimes. I wouldn't put it on a mixtape but just for listening around the house or blasting at a party or in the car they are fine.

"Yeah, cassettes are definitely the new vinyl these days."

cassette tapes are the new vinyl

good old thread from 2003...

:-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCQnSc0fO4

it actually does exist.

After all, Jahnle said, "Mp3s sound terrible anyways, so why not have something that sounds terrible that you can hold?"

Cassette tapes are back in the mix!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-cassette-revival-20100801,0,714127.story

They still make cassettes?!?!

posting to ilx exclusively via cassette now fyi hsssssssss

http://www.hypnovision.com/images/cassette.gif

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1181

buildin' a spliff alllright

This must be the week for the newspapers to discover this trend. The Chicago Tribune had a very similar piece the other day.

in regards to cassettes being the new vinyl, I thought the whole "vinyl craze" was due to many people preferring the sonic quality of vinyl to compact disc. But the cassette craze is more a length thing? Is there a sonic element? I always hated tapes not just for the getting clogged in the spools, but the fact that everyone of mine got 'dropout effect' after I played them enough.

I have a truckload of cassettes from the 90s but I've done replaced em all.

he's great in Rosemary's Baby!!

i used to be so obsessed w/ my tape player when i was young, i still kindof am, i tried making a frippertonics machine out of two cassette players once. .it only kinda worked

thanks again everyone

Old news

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/05/1241289170487.html?page=fullpage

i've been getting a lot of OOP hip-hop stuff on cassette recently. A lot of CDs that go for $80 are like $10 for an unopened cassette copy that sounds better than a 192kbps rip

http://noise-arch.net/

A collection of underground cassette releases.

80s - early 90s

Very cool to be able to listen to all of them in their entirety.

This is awesome

Anyone who checks it out, post your favorites if you can.

This is awesome

just curious, in what way is this more awesome than, say, bandcamp?

I couldn't tell you, I'm just glad I can listen.
this is awesome like Ubu web is awesome, I guess.

Digging the hell out of F/i "The circle is the square" right now.

Listening to that now

You're right, pretty great! Especially starting at the 8 minute mark for me.

oh my god I have wanted to hear those F/i cassettes for like 25 years!

I've really liked most of the rock or pop stuff I've heard so far here.

Guess it wasn't a hit!

Does anyone have any suggestions of where I might find a cassette storage case? Thrift shops don't seem to carry cassettes anymore - or even accept them for donation - and I haven't had a ton of luck looking around eBay (which I don't really use). Just trying to think if I'm missing something obvious.

I used to have about 10 big Case Logic cases, and they all vanished over the years...

My ebay search, for cassette storage cases, turned up everything I could think of that would fit the bill, including case logic cases. I guess it would depend on how many cassettes you were looking to store

Related searches for cassette storage cases : battle ball radio shack david lee roth cassette cassette cases audio cassette storage cases

Pre-CD days I actually used to use cassettes to DJ wedding receptions; they didn't bounce/skip like turntables/LPs. (Plus I could tape stuff from friends.) I still have a bunch of well-beaten cassette suitcases filled with tapes in my garage.

A friend of mine sent a link to a recent article on the persistence of cassettes in prison. Every few years (going back at least a decade, maybe more) someone does an article on this. I wonder how many years will pass while journalists get an easy pitch every, say, three years. Like in 2046 will SFJ have an article on the subject. Anyway:

http://www.fortressaudio.com/index.php?l=product_list&c=17

your mom was extremely persistent in prison. i wrote an article about it here:

goatse.info

sorry, wrong url. www.goatse.info

It's an old joke, Katherine. Anyway, I searched ILM and it seems to be an overlooked aspect of cassettes, though I might have missed something.

No you're right, it's a totally novel topic. Thanks Francine.

I'm going to make 10 copies of a mixtape I put on Soundcloud last year - have bought clean new tapes and covers and I need advice on recording

I could find a 2nd hand cassette deck, connect it to my stereo's tape out or my external sound card, and then make 10 separate recordings (not too much of a hassle) - but what cassette deck should I use? I seem to recall that a tape plays back best on the same deck used to record it - are some decks more 'neutral' than others?

I realize the sound quality won't be stellar either way, but I want to do this as well as I can

PS I bought the clean tapes via https://tapeline.info/v2/ which seems like a really cool shop, and if I release a proper album at some point I might use their duplication service

graphic designer Art Chantry on FB:

"back in the 1980's, there was a HUGE cassette tape underground that emerged. entire careers of superstar acts started in that scene, but the bulk was produced by DIY weirdoes with no money trying to get attention.
the result was some of the most amazing and bizarre and downright brilliant packaging design I've ever encountered. basically a cassette tape is small (tiny) and crummy - cheap! that's the point of it. how do you make it interesting?
up steps geeks and oddballs and weirdoes with their amazing imagination and a lot of time on their hands. at The Rocket we saw all sorts of amazing items get delivered. this can is a fine example what I'm talking about...
one favorite that arrived at The Rocket was a weird sort of starburst package made out of pieces of 2x4 nailed together in a modernist random pattern. there was one that wedged and not nailed. if you managed to wiggle it out, it revealed a cassette tape perfected entombed inside for your listening pleasure.
another was a blob of that spraycan insulation goop that continues to expand until it hardens. it was painted dayglo pink. it was on top of a green cloth box-shaped pouch. it looked like an ice cream cone (the tape was in the pouch).
but my all time favorite was a shaped box of chicken wire with dirt inside about an inch deep. growing in that dirt was a fresh crop of beautiful green grass a couple of inches tall (the roots held the dirt in place).
at one end was a little tombstone with name, title and band info - and also a little miniature shovel. the idea was you had to literally disinter (dig up) the cassette to play it. back from the grave!
brilliant stuff with no budget. that's always been where it's at."

otm

that's great, a cut well above the most extreme CD packaging I've seen (e.g. Spiritualized's blister packs, Spectrum's oil pouch)