What song do you remember

[Rubycon]

Cassettes were a lot easier to handle than these!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GYg-5AdRw

:biggrin:

You kids and your new fangled cassettes, bah!
Beach Boys Pet Sounds on reel to reel.

 

[lxskllr]

Cassettes were a lot easier to handle than these!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GYg-5AdRw

:biggrin:

Yea, that's a bitch. I bet he's sorry he spent so many years drinking :^D

 

[MotF Bane]

Free Falling by Tom Petty was the first.

 

[IronWing]

This

 

[dennilfloss]

Oh yes Revox were nice. (Japanese) Pioneer stuff was very nice. Tandberg and TDK made nice decks too.
The NAK's head gap was unique in that tapes made on the Dragon sounded best on Dragons or the flagship car head unit (TD1200 IIRC).

Teac made nice 10" r-t-r too. 🙂 Ever used a Tascam?

 

[schneiderguy]

I vaguely remember using cassette players when I was little. Guess I'm not old enough to participate in this thread.

 

[Rubycon]

Teac made nice 10" r-t-r too. 🙂 Ever used a Tascam?

Haha I meant Teac. :$
Seen plenty of Tascam reels up close.
The stuff we did to get "effects" on the sound. Today everything is done on the DAW. I miss the old way even if it was harder and screwed up a lot.

 

[dwell]

Classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DP89iMe0BY

Heh. I remember they changed them in the 90's to these boring grey ones:

Tape hiss was to my generation what compression artifacts are to this one 🙂

 

[Fingolfin269]

Pump Up The Volume

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y

 

[Perknose]

Haha I meant Teac. :$
Seen plenty of Tascam reels up close.
The stuff we did to get "effects" on the sound. Today everything is done on the DAW. I miss the old way even if it was harder and screwed up a lot.

Akai made some pretty fine rtr tape recorders. They were sold in America under the Roberts name long before they were known here as Akai.

Back when I wanted a recording "walkman" in the 80's Akai made the highest spec'ed consumer grade one by far, and it was built like a tank, too.

A few years back some conglomerate bought the Akai brand so the crap that came out in later years under the Akai name is just that . . . crap.

 

[Rubycon]

AKAI for reels yes.

Never cared for their receivers though.

How many of you remember tape print through? After listening to tapes with heavy print through for years one can still "hear" drums before they are played on print through free transfers and CDs. :biggrin:

Print through is also present on many older motion pictures that use magnetic soundtracks.

 

[dennilfloss]

Akai & Sansui receivers were so damn ugly with their green tuner display. Blech... Pioneer blue FTW!!!

 

[dennilfloss]

AKAI for reels yes.

Never cared for their receivers though.

How many of you remember tape print through? After listening to tapes with heavy print through for years one can still "hear" drums before they are played on print through free transfers and CDs. :biggrin:

Print through is also present on many older motion pictures that use magnetic soundtracks.

Is that like when we heard a faint ghost of the music just before it really started on some LPs?

 

[Rubycon]

Is that like when we heard a faint ghost of the music just before it really started on some LPs?

Yes exactly!

 

[Judgement]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FPimCmbX8

WOOMP THERE IT IS

 

[dennilfloss]

Can't remember the exact model number of my old Sony but it looked like this TC-280, except with a black vinyl exterior instead of wood and it also had a handle. Definitely low end but it was given to me and did a decent job.

http://img517.imageshack.us/i/dsc00617d.jpg/

This Revox A700 gave me the father of all wood. I so wanted one... What a beautiful beautiful machine! A work of art.

http://www.klaus-pohlig.de/kp/audiohistory/minidisk+tape/revox%20a700/a700frt.jpg

 

[dennilfloss]

Yes exactly!

Maybe it was because magnetic tape was used extensively during the production and editing of a LP.:hmm:

 

[Loop2kil]

96.1 Atlanta, GA in 1987-88-ish
'Album on the Darkside'
Side 1 of 'Master of Puppets'

 

[Rubycon]

Otari goodness! We rolled with BASF tape most of the time. 🙂

Harvey and Alien Craft probably remember those tubed out Ampex decks used in the studios too. 😉

 

[dennilfloss]

We had tubes in the McIntosh amp we used to power our discomobile's modified Electrovoice Eliminator 2 speakers circa 1975-77.

We too added a row of tweeters on top like this guy did.

http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/storage/4/820557/100_0795.jpg

I used to put my head in the bottom part and listen to Zappa's Bongo Fury, Over-Nite Sensation or One Size Fits All after having hotknifed some black you-know-what.^_^

Those are unmodified.

http://www.musical-ads.com/forsale/springfield/864775800/vintage-electro-voice-elimators.html

 

[Judgement]

I had this on at least 2 different cassettes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22R5tPvp7aE

CHORUS:
Come on baby... Kick them daisies
Look at them girls with the daisy dukes on...
(I want cha to)
Look at them girls with the daisy dukes on...
(Everybody)
Look at them girls with the daisy dukes on...
(I want cha to)
Look at them girls with the daisy dukes on...

 

[ComputerWizKid]

I was born in 1984 so I have had my fair share of taping songs of of the FM Radio. The first song that I can remember is in 1994 "Gabrielle - Dreams" or in 1995 Des'ree - You Gotta Be"
I probably recorded it on my boombox with a broken antenna and dirty tape heads (Sounded like Crap and to make it worse the station was "Just out of range" with the hiss from the crappy tape and the noisy FM Stereo signal

Now I have a question what was the Last song you taped and what year
For me that would be in 2005 (LOL I know) and that would be Jenifer Lopez - On The 6 I had a CD writer too but my first crappy car only had a cassette deck that did not work correctly with the "Wired" cassette (Delco Theftlock radio in a 1995 Olds Cutlass Supreme SL)

EDIT it just came to me
1992 Stevie B - One more Try (Don't Judge Me or else...:ninja🙂

The compact Cassette was what I used Maxell also the grey ones with the clear window
I am now into Vintage stuff So I have a Turntable and a Mediocre cassette recorder/player (Which I mostly use for playing my old cassettes to copy to my computer)

 

[manimal]

I used to share Grateful Dead concert tapes. Probably did about 100 so maybe 1500 songs. Now all digitized.

Never recorded studio stuff. Cassettes were cheap living at home working part time in HS.

I had my ENTIRE dead cassette collection stolen in an apt burglary...I had first gen board copies.....OMGF it still hurts.....



First dead show I taped was oct 28 Radio City Music hall 1980.....so godman epic it was that Franklin's tower ended up on dead set....

 

[Squisher]

I was never a big fan of recording off the radio (too lo-fi). Probably a simulcast of a TV concert, maybe Alice Cooper.

I do remember the first thing I recorded though. It was off the TV and was Walter Cronkite's broadcast of the blast off of Apollo I with a Craig reel-to-reel. The same recorder that was used in the TV show Mission Impossible. The one with the stick shift selector that went in a T pattern.

 

[IronWing]

Heh. I remember they changed them in the 90's to these boring grey ones:

Tape hiss was to my generation what compression artifacts are to this one 🙂

I laugh at brand awareness now but I was once an XLII-S fanboi. They felt so solid in your hand compared to that TDK garbage. I just knew I could tell the difference without even seeing the cassette. I also sort of miss the ritual of buying a new record and transferring it to tape on the first play, writing down the track list while the tape was being recorded, placing the labels on the cassette. So much more satisfying than cussing out the stupid plastic seal on the top of crystal cases.