Dragon Slayer Castle on Dolby C Type II Cassette

This is the bad sound quality of a Sega song on a Dolby C Type II cassette using the JVC TD-V66 three head cassette deck. There's no compu-calibration or HX pro, so the high end sounds like you're listening through an analog cell phone at the bottom of a well which is low on batteries, or it could be a finger-oiled 45 RPM record played with a worn needle on a kiddie cardboard suitcase record player. This is what most people think cassettes sound like. The selective fading on everything above 6 kHz is atrocious. The sync is off because my camera and my IC recorder are in different clock domains. EDIT: Yes I did record the tape with Dolby C, but the deck was out of calibration, the purpose of this video is to show how badly most cassette decks sound.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dragon
• slayer
• castle
• Dolby
• CrO2
• analog
• cassette

[JohnnyX50]

lol sounds ok to me, but you do realise dolby c was designed to reduce noise by adding noise to a recording then filtering it out again during playback right? to get the best from dolby a,b,or c the recording should have been made with dolby switched on and then played back with it switched on. try recording in dolby c, then switching it off during playback you will hear a lot of hiss in the background :)

[Amishman35]

@JohnnyX50 The deck was out of calibration, I took it apart and changed some screws inside and used tones from Audacity and an oscilloscope program on my PSP to get it right for this particular tape brand. I'll put up the other song "Dragon Slayer Field" soon, with much better quality.

[GOREG4SM]

Gotta love that tape man.

[JohnnyX50]

@Amishman35 still has great clarity for tape =] i miss all these old school tunes, il have to dig out my Amiga 1200 lol , im sure i still have disk boxes full of old stuff =]