8 track guitar amp (or how to make tape players rock)

In this video i show how I made a 8 track tape player (car style) to work as a guitar amp, i think it would work with any kind of tape player though

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Howto & Style

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• tape
• player
• track
• guitar
• amp
• amplifier
• audio
• music
• technology
• lo
• fi
• low

[LeviMan2001]

Had an idea, why bother with this when you could do the same thing with a regular cassette deck and one of those headphone jack to cassette converter thingys.

[HTSamurai]

first to say how cool it is

id like to do this, i have an old record/cassete/8track player i dont use much.

im thinkin maybe i could just take out the 8tracks and casette guts and keep the vinyl player.

you're an inspiration ;)

[LeviMan2001]

you just have to be extremely careful not to burn the circuit board or fry things in general, otherwise it's pretty easy (if everything works perfect, which it usually doesn't)

[interweboscar]

@dustYCartridge Because everyone still uses tapes...

[dustYCartridge]

Or you could play tapes on like it was fucking ment for maybe?? 

[themadhacker2]

just bypass the switch, or take a tape you don't care about and gut it so you have a tape with no ribbon. would be pretty sweet to stick this in a classic muscle car and put a line in jack on the bottom so your friends could be jamming while you drive.

[myspaceuser567]

how did you do that

[white9pawn]

Awesome

[CassetteMaster]

That sounds good on the guitar, but please don't take the head out, it's unnesessary. There should be a switch that turns the unit on when a 8-track is inserted. Just stick something in the hold the switch and wire the input like it is in the vid. I'd recommend you take good care of the player, it works well and is a very neat, nice unit!