I still see New Tapes On Ebay From Sony and stuff, I wont ever buy another one new tape, but i buy decent second hand cassettes, Recently i picked up the offspring Conspiracy of one 2000 and Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full 2007 and Daft Punk Human After All 2004, All sound great got them new for 3 dollars. I recently bought a 1999 Ford and it has the original Stereo Tape Deck No CD, i use new tape to record my vinyl to, Sounds great has a great sound, If you the machines why waste them???.
I Have got to continue to love cassettes... Dolby or NO Dolby they still can sound like CD quality... I Got me a Onkyo Single Bay Dolby BC Recorder Deck about 6 years ago for 50 Bucks the thing retailed for 500. I still use it every now and then to record a mix tape and play it in my car... The Dolby player in the car makes it sound just as good as playing a CD in my home theater.
I like to use Dolby C and play the tapes without dolby so that the treble really signs. Some of my Dad's early cassettes from 1979-1981 are recorded on a Sansui with no dolby and they sound really good, but I believe the ones with dolby b adds to the spice of the treble.
Wow...I think that is going to have to hit the favorites. That tape sounds astoundingly good (listening on a Sound Blaster Live! with Boston Acoustics 2.1 speakers using SPDIF input.)
Back when I was in high schoo, I bought the same Optimus SCT-86. Considering the price and source, it really is a very good machine. It made a lot of recordings from the tuner in my old (now gone) Pioneer SX-700T. Then I forgot about it for a few years. I use it today for mixtapes from the computer.
quality music i use to have a tape player similar to that when i was think i was about 6 with all the push in chrome botouns nice to see something orignal
@metalicpsp i record my vinyl to cassette to use in my car, And hell cassettes sound good if you look after them, I love vinyl more but cassette have the best bass its so booming.
Do you have another by Lincoln Majorica (?) it is a fast paced instrumental and I can't remember the title. Love to hear it again. We can't get this quality today.
THANK YOU! Been looking for this album for years - I had one of the first sets of Sheffield Labs sets and this was my favourite. Yes, way up here in Montreal!
Someone has, fortunately, posted a couple of videos of Larry playing lately. I always liked what he did back in the 70s. I didn't even know he was still around. Hadn't heard anything about him in years until these YT videos cropped up.
BTW, I still have a 17 or 18 year old NAD 6240. Plays and records as good as the day I bought it. Adjusting heads is a pain though. I don't miss anything about cassette or reel to reel. I miss my old splicing block about as much as I miss my ex-girlfriend. :-)
l never use that Dolby thing,it just makes the sound like it is when the cassette player needs new heads,all muffled.This tape sounds really good!l normally used the TDK tapes too,or Philips,or BASF.
The only thing I ever got with Dolby is less volume. I never understood it. But I gotta say, this sound from your tape, through the camera, and over the internet, is some of the best sound coming through my PC speakers I've ever heard. Pretty cool.
Dolby is only necessary if you are really bothered about tape hiss, I don't like using it, especially when making tapes for boom-boxes which don't have dolby NR, because if you use Dolby C the machines can't decode it and the output sounds terrible!. I have tapes from the early 80's recorded with no Dolby and they still sound great today, especially the BASF and TDK :)
Dolby C only sounds good on the same tape deck you used to record it. That was its main problem and the reason why no (or very few) commercially pre-recorded Dolby C cassettes were ever made. Dolby B also needs exact tape head alignment for good playback, but you can just turn it off and it sounds acceptable. Many newer music tapes (especially from Sony Music Entertainment) don't have the Dolby logo on them anymore but were still recorded with Dolby B.
Very nice. I do lots of recording on Type I with no dolby and they sound very nice. After using a 3-head deck with a fine bias adjustment, I find no need for it... well at least until I heard your Dolby S recording. :D
I have two Shefield Lab direct to disc LPs, and some digitally mastered LPs. I never used or cared for Dolby noise reduction on cassettes, as I always thought it took out the highs with the hiss. I always prefered the full range sound,even if it did have a slight background hiss. I think better quality cassette decks were capable of producting very good sound. with high bias tape. This deck has good sound. I actually still have a DBX expander for increasing or decreasing dynamics
Man! That panasonic sounds nice. I have yet to find a cassette deck that records decently. Every cassette deck I get usually ends up having either recording with a weak channel or distorted highs.
This was really terrific! I'm going to use this video as a reference, thanks for sharing.
gamesDAMNED 1 week ago
super
Press2Spicy 2 months ago
Back in the days they cared!
MrDemilord 4 months ago in playlist Videos from vwestlife
God thats a awesome tapedeck really good quality build!
MrDemilord 4 months ago in playlist Videos from vwestlife
My huge stereos cassette Dolby sounds pretty weird to me, just keep it off and enjoy the analogue!
ThePhoneUpdate 7 months ago
I still see New Tapes On Ebay From Sony and stuff, I wont ever buy another one new tape, but i buy decent second hand cassettes, Recently i picked up the offspring Conspiracy of one 2000 and Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full 2007 and Daft Punk Human After All 2004, All sound great got them new for 3 dollars. I recently bought a 1999 Ford and it has the original Stereo Tape Deck No CD, i use new tape to record my vinyl to, Sounds great has a great sound, If you the machines why waste them???.
hambone9119 8 months ago
I Have got to continue to love cassettes... Dolby or NO Dolby they still can sound like CD quality... I Got me a Onkyo Single Bay Dolby BC Recorder Deck about 6 years ago for 50 Bucks the thing retailed for 500. I still use it every now and then to record a mix tape and play it in my car... The Dolby player in the car makes it sound just as good as playing a CD in my home theater.
ChiefLeftenant 1 year ago
Nice example of a recording without Dolby. I am using an old Nakamichi LX-3 connected to an Intel Dual Core iMac to dub tapes. Still sounds good.
KRF888HEI 1 year ago
Sounds good!! I've never been bothered by tape hiss, myself...
DangerousBastard 1 year ago
The darker the tape strip, the better quality recording I was told as a youngster.
bgggbb 1 year ago
I like to use Dolby C and play the tapes without dolby so that the treble really signs. Some of my Dad's early cassettes from 1979-1981 are recorded on a Sansui with no dolby and they sound really good, but I believe the ones with dolby b adds to the spice of the treble.
VinylLad 1 year ago
Wow...I think that is going to have to hit the favorites. That tape sounds astoundingly good (listening on a Sound Blaster Live! with Boston Acoustics 2.1 speakers using SPDIF input.)
Back when I was in high schoo, I bought the same Optimus SCT-86. Considering the price and source, it really is a very good machine. It made a lot of recordings from the tuner in my old (now gone) Pioneer SX-700T. Then I forgot about it for a few years. I use it today for mixtapes from the computer.
uxwbill 1 year ago
quality music i use to have a tape player similar to that when i was think i was about 6 with all the push in chrome botouns nice to see something orignal
Tommy12352 2 years ago
love the warm sound. Its so full and clear without making the listener feel tired. Tape was and still is amazing compared to Mp3's.
metalicpsp 2 years ago
@metalicpsp i record my vinyl to cassette to use in my car, And hell cassettes sound good if you look after them, I love vinyl more but cassette have the best bass its so booming.
hambone9119 8 months ago
very nice warm tape sound!
m134mr 2 years ago 2
Do you have another by Lincoln Majorica (?) it is a fast paced instrumental and I can't remember the title. Love to hear it again. We can't get this quality today.
Shyianca 2 years ago
THANK YOU! Been looking for this album for years - I had one of the first sets of Sheffield Labs sets and this was my favourite. Yes, way up here in Montreal!
Shyianca 2 years ago
Got any more Larry McNeely?
EADGBE54 2 years ago
No, unfortunately that is the only song I have by him.
vwestlife 2 years ago
Okay, thanks. I think that some of Larry's stuff is on the Bela Fleck level, only Larry was there 10 years earlier.
EADGBE54 2 years ago
Someone has, fortunately, posted a couple of videos of Larry playing lately. I always liked what he did back in the 70s. I didn't even know he was still around. Hadn't heard anything about him in years until these YT videos cropped up.
BTW, I still have a 17 or 18 year old NAD 6240. Plays and records as good as the day I bought it. Adjusting heads is a pain though. I don't miss anything about cassette or reel to reel. I miss my old splicing block about as much as I miss my ex-girlfriend. :-)
gmdinformation 1 year ago
God i miss the mixtape days
prisonson 2 years ago
That's amazing quality
AccordionManiac 2 years ago 4
Good Ol' days......
FranKut1981 2 years ago
l never use that Dolby thing,it just makes the sound like it is when the cassette player needs new heads,all muffled.This tape sounds really good!l normally used the TDK tapes too,or Philips,or BASF.
AG3304 2 years ago 2
WoW ! How do you get such nice sound from a cassette ? That's just terrific !
Thanks, Nice Song, never heard it before.
bythebytheway 2 years ago 2
The only thing I ever got with Dolby is less volume. I never understood it. But I gotta say, this sound from your tape, through the camera, and over the internet, is some of the best sound coming through my PC speakers I've ever heard. Pretty cool.
maskedmillionaire 2 years ago
Dolby is only necessary if you are really bothered about tape hiss, I don't like using it, especially when making tapes for boom-boxes which don't have dolby NR, because if you use Dolby C the machines can't decode it and the output sounds terrible!. I have tapes from the early 80's recorded with no Dolby and they still sound great today, especially the BASF and TDK :)
AnalogueJosh 2 years ago
Dolby C only sounds good on the same tape deck you used to record it. That was its main problem and the reason why no (or very few) commercially pre-recorded Dolby C cassettes were ever made. Dolby B also needs exact tape head alignment for good playback, but you can just turn it off and it sounds acceptable. Many newer music tapes (especially from Sony Music Entertainment) don't have the Dolby logo on them anymore but were still recorded with Dolby B.
vwestlife 2 years ago
Very nice. I do lots of recording on Type I with no dolby and they sound very nice. After using a 3-head deck with a fine bias adjustment, I find no need for it... well at least until I heard your Dolby S recording. :D
Organgrinder010 2 years ago
I have two Shefield Lab direct to disc LPs, and some digitally mastered LPs. I never used or cared for Dolby noise reduction on cassettes, as I always thought it took out the highs with the hiss. I always prefered the full range sound,even if it did have a slight background hiss. I think better quality cassette decks were capable of producting very good sound. with high bias tape. This deck has good sound. I actually still have a DBX expander for increasing or decreasing dynamics
maynardcat 2 years ago
Man! That panasonic sounds nice. I have yet to find a cassette deck that records decently. Every cassette deck I get usually ends up having either recording with a weak channel or distorted highs.
Trance88 2 years ago
Now I feel a little nostalgic for recording on cassettes now. Great sound.
traxonwax 2 years ago
wow thats good
Mycatisbigfoot 2 years ago