TASCAM MAN
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I know, good score huh 
A Reel Person
It's Too Funky in Here!!!
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That's a pretty good deal.
That's a pretty good deal.
Chili
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Gawd, I remember those things. I might even have a few laying around somewhere. Love how it says "Ideal for CD's". Last desperate attempt at staying as a viable product.
TASCAM MAN
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Honestly,I still think that cassette was one of the most stable mediums for the money.I have cassette mixes from as far back as 1976 that still sounds great and tape still in tact. Specially when TDK and MAXELL started putting out type II (chrome) tape. I have stereo mixdowns dubbed from my 15 IPS half track reels to cassette with hot levels no noise reduction that you (and anybody) would "drool" at
fritsthegirl
Taste of home
Are you talking about normal cassette tapes, like the ones I used in my ghetto blaster?
TASCAM MAN
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fritsthegirl
Taste of home
Oh yeh I wasn't sure, thought maybe they were DAT or something, hard to gauge the size of things from a pic. Your experience with tapes has obviously been different to mine. 
Maybe I'm going to blasted for this but I kind of hated them quite a lot. They deteriorated in quality each and every playback, they weren't cheap considering they only lasted only a month or two of usage (if you were lucky). But I must be missing something major, if you say yours are perfect. Why is that, not been played often?
Maybe I'm going to blasted for this but I kind of hated them quite a lot. They deteriorated in quality each and every playback, they weren't cheap considering they only lasted only a month or two of usage (if you were lucky). But I must be missing something major, if you say yours are perfect. Why is that, not been played often?
famous beagle
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Oh yeh I wasn't sure, thought maybe they were DAT or something, hard to gauge the size of things from a pic. Your experience with tapes has obviously been different to mine.
Well your experience was certainly different from mine. I simply wore some tapes out back in the day. I specifically remember listening to U2's Joshua Tree every night as I fell asleep for months on end. I'd have my Walkman on continuous play, so it would play both sides. And if I hadn't fallen asleep by the end of the album, I would play it again. So it got played at least once if not twice every day for months and months. I used the expression "wore it out," but that was only figurative. The cassette held up perfectly and never had an issue. I did the same thing with several other cassettes throughout my high school years.
I never had a problem with them at all. I can say the same of VHS tapes. They were extremely durable! DVDs? Not so much. I mean, if you're very careful with them, I suppose they'll last (I think), but you didn't really have to be very careful with VHS at all, and they'd last. I'm thinking specifically of the Netflix model business, where they'd send you DVDs in the mail. Thankfully, that's starting to go by the wayside a bit. We did that for a few months (now we have a Roku box, but we didn't then), and it was terrible. I would say that, literally, one in three DVDs would skip badly, if not more. That's what made me cancel the service.
famous beagle
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Oh, and yes, good score! 
fritsthegirl
Taste of home
Fair dos, maybe it isn't actually inherently the fault of the cassette or tape but rather my players. I guess with a mail service DVD you're going to get a lot of people abusing the product before it gets to you. I'm not sure videos were that much better, I remember returning a fair few of those to the video shop because they didn't play. I don't know much about it to be honest, only that (as you say) my experiences with cassettes & video tapes were not as smooth sailing as yours were.
TASCAM MAN
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Oh, and yes, good score!
yeah thanks famous beagle and Ive been "stockpiling" XLII's and TDK SA's for quite a while now and expecting to use the 4 TK portastudios that I have (about 6) again!! Just pulled out my Tascam 424 and still astounded how good it functions and sounds !! Matter a fact Im gonna post some short drum solos on a big kit I built (of me) from about 8 yrs ago tracked on the 424 in (using 4 mics/4 TKS) "one pass" and then mixed down to CD. You and everyone here will be impressed here Im pretty sure !!
DM60
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yeah thanks famous beagle and Ive been "stockpiling" XLII's and TDK SA's for quite a while now and expecting to use the 4 TK portastudios that I have (about 6) again!! Just pulled out my Tascam 424 and still astounded how good it functions and sounds !! Matter a fact Im gonna post some short drum solos on a big kit I built (of me) from about 8 yrs ago tracked on the 424 in (using 4 mics/4 TKS) "one pass" and then mixed down to CD. You and everyone here will be impressed here Im pretty sure !!
Not sure if they can be found, but the Betamax tapes were pretty high quality and they make a very nice tape for mix down. A lot of people forget about those. I had a reel to reel that I replaced with a Betamax as there was less hiss and higher quality sound.
Just random contribution to a thread.
TASCAM MAN
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Yes they were, and it was weird how the VHS won the market because I always thought that Betamax tapes had surperior audio and video quality over VHS. So later I took the plunge with Tascam Da-38s with Hi-8 tapes.....sounded great but disaster when it came to "eating" tapes so.....I have 3 of them that I don't even want to stick a tape into because of that reason and they sounded wonderful !!! But Like I said originally about the cassette format here,for the money and along with good quality tape and tape machines they cant be beat(my opinion again) but also in all the years that Ive used them,multitrack and stereo decks alike....Ive very rarely had them eat tapes and they have outlasted every format that I own so far
famous beagle
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I look forward to checking out the drum tracks. I too think cassettes get a bad rap, and I love them. There's nothing like working with the 4-track cassette medium.
Telegram Sam
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I replaced my old cassette player last month, it was 20 years old and near dead.
I have several cassettes that are "one off" copies of irreplaceable material,
and am working on getting them transferred to digital in order to have them be securely archived.
As media goes, they have held up over the years in storage quite admirably.
I have several cassettes that are "one off" copies of irreplaceable material,
and am working on getting them transferred to digital in order to have them be securely archived.
As media goes, they have held up over the years in storage quite admirably.
TASCAM MAN
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I look forward to checking out the drum tracks. I too think cassettes get a bad rap, and I love them. There's nothing like working with the 4-track cassette medium.
Ok I got one up, go and check it out
TASCAM MAN
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Good deal Telegram Sam and I need to do the same 
M
moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Tape is best!
I have some CDR's that are about 5 years old that just simply woun't play any more.
I have some CDR's that are about 5 years old that just simply woun't play any more.
TASCAM MAN
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Yep same here man,I have cassettes that Ive been playing for 30+ yrs still sounds as good and works just as good as they did when I created them !!!