The largest 8 track collection!

[Dude111]

www.youtube.com/v/RYi1i02CrvY

I had tears in my eyes watching the vid.... I WOULD LOVE TO MEET THIS GUY;GIVE HIM A BIG HUG!!!!!!!!

He knows how beautiful analog is

 

[stargazr]

I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, but I do not miss 8-track tapes. Sticking a match book under the tape to adjust tracking, songs interrupted etc.....

 

[twinrider1]

ka-chunk.

As bad as they were, and we knew they were bad at the time, I'm still thankful for them. They gave you the ability to choose your music when nothing else did.
All the way to Myrtle Beach in my sister's '77 Camaro, Kraco 8-track and Kricket 6x9s, Little Queen, Foreigner's first album, and Peter Frampton.

But yea, glad we've moved on too.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I never touched 8 tracks but that still gave me a nostalgic feeling of my childhood when regular cassette tapes were in. I had this odd fascination with the idea of recording stuff from music to sounds using a tape recorder, stereo etc. I used to tape songs off the radio, or off other cassettes etc. Making mix tapes for friends etc.... ahhh the good ol days. Now they send you 25 years in jail for that and you owe millions to the copyright companies.

 

[CZroe]

I could not figure out how the 8-track player worked on our cassette, record, radio, and 8-track stereo when I was growing up. Despite having several 8-tracks, I only realized that it worked in the mid '90s shortly before we replaced it. We replaced it with a cassette and radio-only Sony boom-box style stereo with separable speakers (we only lost formats; still no CD). Like the previous stereo, it had an aux input that I used for cool stereo effects in A Link to the Past.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh wow I totally remember those boom boxes. I remember my friend got one and I was so jealous. The speakers freaking come off, how cool is that! I think his even had a dual tape deck!

I had a small stereo that had a dual tape deck though. That's how I made mix tapes. Though sometimes I'd also just hook up the tape recorder to the earphone jack.

Speaking of tape recorders anyone remember the Talk Boy? You could speed up or slow down your voice and stuff. You could totally check into a luxery hotel suite in the middle of NYC with that thing even if you were just a little kid with a stolen credit card.

 

[Spydermag68]

My first stereo had a record player, 8-track and a radio. I only had a few 8-tracks tapes but one of them I really liked one of the songs but in the middle of the song was the ka-chunk track change. It sucked.

 

[MongGrel]

Some songs I still listen to on the radio etc and remember where a certain part of the song would fade out and would be a "clunk" and fade back in.

My first stereo had a record player, 8-track and a radio. I only had a few 8-tracks tapes but one of them I really liked one of the songs but in the middle of the song was the ka-chunk track change. It sucked.

Yeah, that, he he.

Even had a Quad 8-track at one time, weren't many made for it, it used 4 tracks.

I think it was this one.

The suckers had half the room for songs.

 

[Dude111]

I have heard recently QUAD didnt sound as good as reg 8 tracks.....

 

[sandorski]

Impressive collection. 8 Tracks sucked though, tapes had a habit of tightening up after many uses causing worbling and drag. Had a portable 8 Track player as a kid, it was cool and all, but once cassettes became popular the 8 Track no longer made sense.

 

[Dude111]

But the difference with cassette is: YOU CANT BE SURE WHAT YOUR GETTING IS ANALOG TRANSFER ON THE TAPE!!!! (I have had some cassettes that were digital crap (The who 'WHOS NEXT' (1971) was thin and gross (Digital)) The 8 track of that album is georgeous!!!! (True analog) Just about as good as the record!

I personally WANT ANALOGUE on my analog media

 

[Rubycon]

K-Tel...now that brings back memories!

And no 8-track discussion would be complete without 2XL!

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

 

[Ichinisan]

K-Tel...now that brings back memories!

And no 8-track discussion would be complete without 2XL!

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

I didn't know there was an 8-track version

 

[Ichinisan]

But the difference with cassette is: YOU CANT BE SURE WHAT YOUR GETTING IS ANALOG TRANSFER ON THE TAPE!!!! (I have had some cassettes that were digital crap (The who 'WHOS NEXT' (1971) was thin and gross (Digital)) The 8 track of that album is georgeous!!!! (True analog) Just about as good as the record!

I personally WANT ANALOGUE on my analog media

Why would the cassette tape use a different source than the 8-track for the same album?

 

[Thump553]

I was enough of an audiophile back then not to go near them. Expensive and quality sucked big time, and the cartridges wore out real fast. Cassettes were out at the same time, and I had a little tape recorder with roughly 3" reels in the late sixties for my mixing habit.

 

[Dude111]

Why would the cassette tape use a different source than the 8-track for the same album?

Because most cassettes are newer (Unless you get one from the 70s which is hard to come by) and by the time the 80s came around,there were many DIGITAL BINS to get the stuff from instead of the original analog material..... (The world had started to become blindly brainwashed into thinking that was better and its really quite sad)

 

[CZroe]

Because most cassettes are newer (Unless you get one from the 70s which is hard to come by) and by the time the 80s came around,there were many DIGITAL BINS to get the stuff from instead of the original analog material..... (The world had started to become blindly brainwashed into thinking that was better and its really quite sad)

Just so you know, analog source isn't automatically better either. Range and spatial resolution are what matters.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Classic OCD Hoarder. 8 track tapes were mediocre to begin with, yeah you got random access but they were poor.

If you want to collect older analog recordings, Vinyl is better than 8 track.

Of course now everything is processed through heavy compressor/limiter crushing the dynamic range but I guess thats what people like now.

 

[lxskllr]

Classic OCD Hoarder. 8 track tapes were mediocre to begin with, yeah you got random access but they were poor.

If you want to collect older analog recordings, Vinyl is better than 8 track.

Of course now everything is processed through heavy compressor/limiter crushing the dynamic range but I guess thats what people like now.

Vinyl has /some/ appeal, and it isn't its "hifi" quality. The scratches and pops give it a nostalgic feel, as opposed to tape which just sounded like shit fresh from the package. I'll still take digital every time.

I wonder if anyone's created a filter that reduces dynamic range, and adds pops, skips, and sticks to recreate the "vinyl experience". Show the kiddies the joy they're missing. I'd maybe use it occasionally for kicks, but afaic, the bad old days can stay in the old days. I'd be pissed if everything went back to vinyl, and fuck everything about tapes.

 

[Dude111]

Of course now everything is processed through heavy compressor/limiter crushing the dynamic range but I guess thats what people like now.

Yea isnt it sad??????

Sounds like crap!!