FYI: The equalizer's spectrum display is not that flickery in real life. That's just a camera effect, exaggerated by iMovie's single field de-interlacing.

@johnpossum556

6 жыл бұрын

You know what really makes that worthwhile? A pink noise signal and a calibrated mic and you can equalize out your whole system to sound as close to a studio as you will ever get. It'll change the way you think about music!

@jamesslick4790

6 жыл бұрын

It's like the goofy blinking on traffic lights and other LED signs on dash cam footage. Looks goofy if you're not a digital video nerd and get why it happens, LOL!😉

@stpworld

6 жыл бұрын

can you show us how to find a pioneer like yours an ebay link in description and I recently got back into cassettes 2 years ago I even got a cassette deck put into a 2015 car the kind with a touch screen were you wouldnt normally have one also have you ever repaired a DAT tape so far none of mine have ver had an issue excpet for one and the tape wont move at all im afraid to open it up by the way I subscribed with notifcations on

@siliconinsect

6 жыл бұрын

Whoa... I'm rocking a nearly identical system with the EQA-10 TEAC equalizer and a Pioneer CT-W404R dual deck. Sweet video as usual!

@canturgan

6 жыл бұрын

You might be getting flickering because of the shutter speed and the Hertz. In the UK it should be 1/50th sec (50Hz power supply) and in the US 1/60th sec (60Hz). LEDs are notorious for flicker which sometimes can't be eliminated in camera..

"Cassette tapes last upwards of 30 years" *I turn around to find half my library has turned to dust

@PkmariO64

4 жыл бұрын

“Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.”

@laserkahn5444

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahaha...... So good.... My oldest tape is from 73 and my 8 year old brother listens to it all the time (I copied it onto a newer cassette of course....)

@bloqk16

10 ай бұрын

@@laserkahn5444 That was wise of you to make a copy. Probably the perception of cassettes lasting 30 years is the amount of replays the cassette gets.

My mother recently gave me all of her cassettes that she recorded in 1968 to 1970 they all play perfectly well with no distortion at all!

@thepostalteenager2206

4 жыл бұрын

What types of cassetes your mom has?

@tjs2014

4 жыл бұрын

She must've taken great care of them.

@expgretaillegacy

3 жыл бұрын

Thats cool! You still got them??

@jacobjb

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it seems like tapes can last a lot longer than the popular estimation when kept well.

@mygingercat2002

9 ай бұрын

I've just bought a cheap radio cassette player to see if and how my old tapes will play. They're quite distorted and low volume but I've been ff and rewinding them to see if it helps as some parts don't play.

I got tapes as old as 1968, and they still play and sound fantastic. Been playing my tape collection since I was a kid and they still sound great. Tapes do last a very long time. That's why they still remain my #1 choice for music. Plus over the years I collected so many different types and styles of them. Cassettes are awesome.

@bradleymccreary2223

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent, same with me. Started collecting casette recordings from 1968 as well. My 2004 Rover and 2005 Citroen were equipped with CD and casette players- the CD players dont work but the casette players are fine ( touch wood!)

@Stas922

2 жыл бұрын

I also have a lot cassette tapes in my desk. when I have time I play one by one.

@vHindenburg

Жыл бұрын

For that reason casette tapes are still used at banks to store data.

@georgemueller9681

Жыл бұрын

Cassette tapes from the '60 do not sound very good. Maybe you should have your hearing checked.

I'm curious to the mentality of the 14 people that thumbs down this video. No seriously, why would you thumbs down the video? It was made well, it wasn't rude, it didn't make any outlandish claims. It's just review of old cassette tapes and their cases and also how they still play.

@arifakyuz7673

6 жыл бұрын

I guess they are salty about VWestlife’s other supposedly rash claims regarding turntables.

@CeeStyleDj

6 жыл бұрын

Arif Akyuz I'll have to catch up to that one. You may be right.

@stp22

6 жыл бұрын

Because they are bitter ignorant nasty jealous envious beings, I agree with you how could you thumb down this excellent video. People are generally ignorant dumb beings, unless educated they wouldn't understand a video like this

@bojohanconstantlyconfused1386

6 жыл бұрын

CeeStyleDj There are thumbs down because when I looked at the "50 years ago" and realized that I remember some of these and that was the 60's!!! .....50 years ago should be like, 1930 or something.....lol just kidding, people are doody heads, that's why!

@devonnewest7990

6 жыл бұрын

CeeStyle, thank u!!!! I always wonder these things too. But you said it perfectly.

Holy crap, that sounds good from that old cassette at the end.

@brijlal973

5 жыл бұрын

That deck has analog to digital converter. It then processes the sound, removes hiss, corrects tonal balance and much more. Finally it converts digital signal to analog before giving the output. Just check the model details over the net.

@jacobg6528

6 ай бұрын

​@@brijlal973reddit brain at its finest

The greatest thing (as an old guy) about getting back into tapes is going through that box of old cassettes and finding out what you recorded on them 30 years ago when you were young. All those feelings coming back ("oh yes, that was the tape I recorded for that party where I met that one girl" etc.).

@bryanotero123

5 жыл бұрын

freibier XDD

@jamesprivet

5 жыл бұрын

freibier tru dat!

@RogerAxyz

5 жыл бұрын

Yessss!

@philbertchow5425

5 жыл бұрын

I am only 37 years old and I did that today, just sitting in my car listening to tunes from 20 years ago.

@rricci

5 жыл бұрын

Those feelings can go both ways. How about that song that brings up bad memories, like a former love that broke your heart or a former job where you had to hear that song over and over?

Holy crap I remember the snap cases when I was a kid but completely forgot about them!

@qwertykeyboard5901

2 жыл бұрын

They look like crap tbh

I actually loved the music you tested here!

@olliebeak131

6 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@gordonmallinson1236

6 жыл бұрын

Jax Nean we

@rich_edwards79

5 жыл бұрын

Me three!

@neilmansfield8329

5 жыл бұрын

Jax Nean This is good music.These tapes want remastering and re issueing so they save the music and the tapes.

@rricci

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me that liked this music (I even liked when I was a teenager even though it was considered "uncool").

As a lifelong tape collector & aficionado, thank you so much for this insight. I'm getting so sick of the format wars overall, so many people claiming "This or this or THIS is what you should be reaching for if you want to honestly hear music". Well, I've got news for ya, bunko; NOTHING really is indestructable. Everything from the very first Edison cylinder to whatever you're streaming out of your computer can become garbage if you have zero brain matter on learning the twin bugaboos of STORAGE & HANDLING. Like Stevie Wonder once sang; "Do Yourself a Favor....Educate your mind".

Not only the audio quality, but the compositions themselves demonstrated here were beyond fantastic!

Even though this is a relatively old video, I wanted to make a comment about survivability of old cassette tapes. I have a number of cassette tapes I had purchased back in the early 1970s that still play just fine on my deck. Sometimes the leader can break where it joins the tape, but it's quite easy to repair. Just yesterday I was listening to a recorded cassette letter my girlfriend had mailed to me in 1971, while I was serving in the US Navy. My girlfriend and I used to send each other letters on cassettes during my deployments. I decided to digitize that recording onto my Zoom H6 handy recorder, just in case the tape craps out in the future. That tape had been stored for 51 years until yesterday. All my other old cassette tapes from that era play just fine. Of course the really cheap cassettes that people may own would probably not last that long, especially if they are played a lot or stored wrong. By the way, I should have asked that same girlfriend to marry me back then, but life got in the way. I wish I had. She was quite a lovely young lady. It was great to hear her voice again, even if it was only a recording. But I digress.......

@superblindeye1

5 ай бұрын

Your comment is something. My grandparents used to do this with my aunt and uncle in the 1970s and '80s. My aunt recently digitized them, and it has been quite a trip to listen to. It really provides a time capsule of a different time.

The tapes I recorded (from new vinyl) on a three-head Nakamichi nearly 40 years ago still sound top-notch today when played on my current Nak. Even early pre-Dolby commercial tapes sound very good.

@barthonhoff5547

6 жыл бұрын

Moshe ben Asher My first tapes from the late 60’s from a stereo deck still sound great on my Nak’s as well.

The cassette is an example of technology that excels because of it's simplicity. The 1980's and cheapo boomboxes are what stained it's reputation as a serious music format. Despite advancements like Dolby S, DSP like your Pioneer, and simpler and cleaner transports, it's time was up when digital came into widespread use. I do find it amazing how your new VERY OLD STOCK Norelco can sound so good. Let's see how a 20 year old CD-R will be in another 10 years, if there is anything left to play them! that's where cassettes are still viable today: plenty of playback equipment in circulation and cassette players are still in current production. BTW like many I have 30-35 year old cassettes, some pre-recorded but most I've made, and hundreds of plays later they still survive and sound pretty damn good.

@diggydude5229

6 жыл бұрын

Not just boomboxes, but Walkman-style personal stereos. Being able to carry a lightweight audio system on you was a huge boon for cassettes.

@kanalnamn

6 жыл бұрын

My oldest CD-R records (Maxell Gold) still play fine now, after 21 years. But they have been stored out of the light. I stored a printed cd outdoors (but not in the rain or the sunlight) for twenty years here in Sweden, almost nothing was readable with EAC.

@juanfebresc

5 жыл бұрын

My exact thoughts on the Norelco tape. Either the formulation was excellent (assuming it is a normal bias) or the Pioneer Deck auto Bias calibration is that good (or both!). A tape that can go higher than 12 KHz at that time was ridiculously Hi-Fi!

@rricci

5 жыл бұрын

I had a Walkman-type recorder with a built-in radio back in the 90s. I was happy that I got it (especially that I could record off the radio while on the go)...until I realized that the recorder part was garbage. The radio and playback were fine, but recordings made on it sounded like I recorded a transistor radio through a telephone.

@jark9705

4 жыл бұрын

@@rricci dc bias i guess...

I remember that my father used to buy BASF cassettes (early 70's) to record audio diaries for us kids when he was away on deployment. They used to have the first type plastic boxes, but they were clear. Brings back old memories! I think the tapes sounded exactly like I remember. Dr. Demento was my go-to party listening! Can't forget King Biscuit Flower Hours either!

@SilentKnight43

4 жыл бұрын

I used BASF (chrome dioxide) when I was quite young...then as I got older and had a bit more money I started buying TDK SAX in bulk (10-pac boxes). But over the years I tried dozens of different brands...sometimes found some great quality brands that were in the cheapie bin, too.

@bradleymccreary2223

2 жыл бұрын

We did the same when dad was away on TDY etc or isolated tour of duty.

I still have a Philips cassette I recorded as a kid in 1972 - holding a microphone to a speaker at the time. Still works. That's my oldest recording. I still have literally thousands of cassettes I recorded throughout the 1980s. They've been mostly stored in a very dry, cedar-lined room with almost no humidity.

I just remembered that the Black Sabbath - Paranoid tape that I just got is almost 50 years old. Goddamn.

@PassCookie

5 жыл бұрын

only because that album came out in 1970 doesn't mean that the cassette were produced in that year.

@nocturnaldivision

4 жыл бұрын

Paranoid came out on cassette in 1970

@chevycaprice87

4 жыл бұрын

If that cassette in 1970's snap-case, its really first release.

@michaelszczys8316

4 жыл бұрын

I have Black Sabbath Paranoid on 8-track. Plus pretty much all the rest of them. (Master of Reality etc. )

@mhmrules

4 жыл бұрын

My record store has Fireball by Deep Purple in the slip case.

I own cassettes I recorded in 1981! They still sound as good as the day I recorded them!!!!! 37 years old!

@superlink235

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Gil! Good to see you on other channels I enjoy! King of the retro!

when you asked "Okay Google" at the beginning of the video, my google home, my phone, and my tablet proceded to answer! LOL. Great video. Very informative.

@vandalsavage1

6 жыл бұрын

KaidoFujimi I have been known to walk along the train going OK google to screw with peoples phones.

@evilgrows

6 жыл бұрын

My Amazon Echo (Alexia) does that whenever she hears her name or similar sounding phrase from TV, etc...

@elonmust7470

3 жыл бұрын

I'd be terrified with that much google I'm my life!

It’s 2:25am and I have to be up at 8am to go to work. BUT I CAN’T STOP WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS!!! So many memories (101 Strings!!! OMG) .... so little time to watch more!!! I’m from the generation that made cassette tapes by recording radio shows - so many Saturday nights spent making yet another cassette that was labelled in biro “Best Songs”. So long ago, yet all locked away in my memory ❤️❤️❤️

Oldest cassette I own is from 1968 and I still play it regularly in my car. Sounds great, not as good as cassettes from the 80s and 90s but still very decent quality.

If anyone cares to know, the reason that there are many Cassette Tapes from the mid to late 1970's and early 80's that will not play and "severely slow down, screech & squeal" and are UNplayable is because they started using a certain inferior binder in the tape oxide that absorbed moisture over the years (which it is not supposed to do) and now renders the tapes completely unplayable. This also caused the named "Sticky Tape Shedd Syndrome". This does not usually affect prerecorded Cassettes from 1966 (when they first were issued by Philips/Mercury) till about 1978 or so... Then around 1984 they seem to still play right, as they discovered this "bad binder" and corrected the problem of it absorbing moisture... This problem may have given Cassette Tapes a bad rap and people saying that they won't last or only play for 30 years? (lol) But as shown in this great video presentation, Yes the real old early cassettes still can play fine - as well as later 1980's and 1990's ones! If they had not used that bad binder, most ALL pre-recorded Cassettes would still play fine to this day.

That Norelco cassette blew me away! How sweet and mellow it sounds!

The recording of Anders song on that 50 year old tape was flawless! Amazing

@katho8472

2 жыл бұрын

The 8-Bit-Guy theme song (extended version) ;)

I'm always so impressed by your methodology.

I was blown away by your demo of recording onto the blank 50-yr-old tape at the end. Great choice of music with ample high-frequency energy and detail. I did not expect such crisp reproduction! It really goes to show that the characteristic "dull tape sound" has less to do with the tape itself and more to do with the source signal, the equipment used to record and play it back, and of course, azimuth alignment! The main bottleneck in fidelity for those 1960s/70s pre-recorded tapes was the practice of many overdubs in production (because 32-track machines weren't available at the time) and of course multi-generation dubs from the master down to the cassette release. Today we take for granted the ability to make endless digital copies with no fidelity loss!

I bought a Who cassette tape in one of those weird cases. I assumed it was a bootleg of some type, but now I know that it's just an older cassette. Amazing!

Very impressive, they seem to have held up almost perfectly in terms of playability and holding the recordings. That blank tape at the end as well, extremely good! The fact that even though little bits broke off but you were able to repair them so easily is just one of the things that makes me love this format. And hey, I see you picked up a smartphone too. You'll be posting all the great thrift store finds on Instagram before you know it ;)

I can hear all these cassettes, the wormth of the tapes just feels like home. Great video, 8Bit Guy intro music detected.

Wow, and I thought I had an old cassette... full of radio recordings made in 1978 that still plays perfectly today. This collection puts it to shame though!

@genericfirstnamegenericlas6490

6 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend digitizing a back-up. Just in case the tape gets damaged.

@jeromeglick

2 жыл бұрын

At a record shop once I picked up a bunch of radio recordings made on cheap cassettes. When trying to play one, the leader immediately broke off at the splice point. Since the cassette shell didn't even have screws, I had to carefully break it open with a screwdriver then re-splice the tape back to the leader before transplanting the reels to a spare shell! But in the end I was rewarded by being able to hear WMAL's "Music Free Hour", an hour-long compilation of back-to-back commercials (some dating to the 1930s) voted in by listeners. As of this writing Google only pulls up two results regarding this rare 1981 stunt.

I'll tell you what. That 50 year old Norelco blank cassette sounded great on that tape deck you used in the video. I am so impressed.

Tom Jones was always underrated.

@rricci

5 жыл бұрын

One of my mom's favorite songs was "Delila". I wsent on Wikipedia to read about that song. If you like that song, I don't recommend reading the Wikipedia article.

@dm95422

4 жыл бұрын

@@rricci I think you meant "DELILAH".

@rricci

4 жыл бұрын

@@dm95422 I knew Imisspelled that title. TY, dm9542

@petrisalonen4893

4 жыл бұрын

Tom was never underrated here in Europe where he's regarded a true Legend (even in my Finland) And he's still touring... nothing's stopping him👍His voice is in a class of its own.

For comparison I listened to a digital Amazon music copy of the Hank Williams song you played. And apart from the warm thick bass you usually get on a type 1 cassette, I don’t think it was any better or worse. In fact I think whoever mixed this for the cassette did a very good job doing the EQ.

Wow, dude... I was born in the 70s and still had no idea such cases ever existed...

@larrymagee8758

6 жыл бұрын

I do remember the old plastic snap cases, but not the cardboard slipcases, with the tray

@olliecrow3547

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

why would anyone fall asleep listening to 101 strings? honestly they sound good

@rricci

5 жыл бұрын

People fell asleep NOT because the music is "boring", but because it was relaxing.

@jacobbellwood6184

5 жыл бұрын

I have a couple of these tapes and haven't fallen asleep yet

@bumblesby

4 жыл бұрын

Love 101 Strings. I have collected several LP releases!

@christianjohnson7228

4 жыл бұрын

I have one of those tapes. Was it a series?

@deanfarr3249

4 жыл бұрын

Those tapes that he is reviewing is older than both my parents 😂

Very well done video on the history of cassette tapes. Thanks for taking the time to make and share this.

I never expect that an old tape can record this much good sound quality. Thanks for sharing!

Those pioneer decks are great. I was given an Elite model to fix. I'm keeping it. Best sounding cassette deck I have heard.

@dm95422

6 жыл бұрын

The Kenwood decks from the early 90's were great as well.

@Siri_Sathdamma_Sewhela

4 жыл бұрын

Very true . They are 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks for the video. Tape really doesn't get the respect it deserves. I have (almost) the same tape deck, the Pioneer CT-W606DR. I love it. It changed my whole opinion of tapes. My favorite thrift store find is a $0.50 copy of the 1969 tape "The Moog Strikes Bach." I didn't expect much, but I was shocked by how good it still sounds.

Cassettes came out the decade I was born. I didn’t play cassettes tapes until I got in my teen years in the 80’s. I remember riding in vehicles that had 8 track player in it. I’m glad to see videos of people bringing back all these old things like records, cassettes, vhs. Some are selling for big bucks on ebay. I found a bunch of these old things at a local Restore Habitat Humanity store.

As long as they've been kept in dry conditions at a relatively stable temperature, audio cassettes (and reel-to-reel tapes) will last indefinitely. In fact the older the tape, the more likely it is to be of a higher-quality formulation that will last longer. I've got cassettes from the late 60s that still work just fine, and reel-to-reel tapes from the 1950s that still sound perfect.

@HazeAnderson

6 жыл бұрын

"I've got cassettes from the late 60s that still work just fine" but they sound like wooOOOOOoooo woooOOOOooo

@pauljs75

6 жыл бұрын

Natural Mystic: If your tape player has a working counter it's easy enough to find a song using the card that comes with a tape. Most usually show the start times for each song.

@jackfetter

6 жыл бұрын

They won't last indefinitely, the magnetic particles on the tape are continually fighting to return to their natural state of alignment, which is dictated by the magnetic properties of the tape and field around the tape (Earth). That combined with the fact the tape touches the head each time it's played, the medium itself is also slowly degrading. Never play it, it will certainly last longer but those magnetic particles are on the move no matter what! Time is the enemy!

Just playing Hank Williams is enough to get a thumbs up from me 😀.

@exileonfanninst

6 жыл бұрын

I've never heard that version of Why Don't You Love Me

@banjoplayingbison2275

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!!!

@buckfiden6227

5 жыл бұрын

The only good tape in the bunch.

@joelake7986

4 жыл бұрын

Very impressed by that. I knew these overdubbed recordings existed, but the entire idea seemed completely sacrilegious to me, but now that I've heard some of it, wow, it's like Hank lived on and 10 years later went into a studio to re-record some of his classics with Nashville's best. Now I have to try and track down a copy.

That is impressive. I've been watching your vids for the past couple of years now, and it is amazing what you come up with for topics. Those tapes sound extraordinary for their age.

Sweet nod to The 8-Bit Guy at the end there with that song choice!

That's fantastic, I had no idea about the other styles or varieties of cassette cases. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! Amazing sound from those...appreciate the demonstration

Impressive. I've been trying to convince folks for years that my old tapes (70's) Maxell,TDK,are still good enough to enjoy. well done.

I love cassettes so much. Definitely my favorite format. So easy to record on. Has that organic analog feel. If you're on tour super convenient to share with other bands. God I love casettes.

I have the cassette soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Original 60s release. The media still retains a signal. Late 1950s color videotape is also still playable!

A most interesting video. Much of the music reminds me of what I played when I worked at an "easy Listening" FM station in the late 60's. Also was very impressed at frequency response when recording the old tape on the modern machine. Great job VWestlife.

You are so knowledgable about stuff . I love your channel

Hey vwestlife. Wonderful demonstration. I have a Phillips demo musicassette from 1965(it isn't in the best shape, but I kept it as it has a booklet and info). I 100% agree, cassettes can last 50+ years and more.

The Tom Jones Proud Mary is enough to make me thumbs up for the video. I still keep coming back watching this montage and inspired me to make a Tom Jones Mixtape I love it. Its got that warm fuzzy feeling. Gives me goosebumps.

My parents have a huge collection of old tapes I think 30-50 plus years. Its amazing how good they really sound when played on one of those machines!

OMG! THIS bring me back to the late 60's when I had I had amassed quite a few pre-recorded Ampex cassettes for my mono machine. Thanks for putting this video together!

I am a casette collector and got quite a bunch of cassettes from the late sixties and early seventies. Let e tell you: they play just great, and will probably do so in the next couple of decades or even longer. Of course, provided they were not played too often at the time they were purchased.

What an amazing theme music you chose for the test recording ;-) (y) Definitely approve of 8-bit guy stuff!

VWestlife The quality of the sound on the 1964-65 Philips Norelco cassette is amazing! Also shows that the media can hold up nearly perfectly if stored correctly.

@peterlamont647

6 жыл бұрын

watershed44 I think that 30 year guideline is worst case. Like say if you live in a desert and store them in wild swinging temperatures. I have seen cases of digital data being pulled from cassettes that are 40 years old with no issues. I have also seen tapes that became sticky due to bad storage, like excessively hot climates with no temperature control. These same people say disks last about 7 years...but i myself have read disks over 30 years old which work just fine. In fact, i make use of writing on them as well, and they store the data just fine. Even magnetized media can be degaussed and used again. The storage density is so low on those that i would be amazed if they didn't work 100 years later and beyond.

I'm going back to physical media and a lot of my tapes are 25+ years old. They play really well and there are no problems. The sound quality is fantastic. Some of my tapes are 40 years old and they still play great.

I salute you, Sir, I have been hollering that cassettes are not dead and you proved it. Simply awesome and the pains you took to make this video on youtube

Hank Williams' Greatest Hits would have been at the earliest 1968. I don't know if you're familiar with him beyond the basics, but in 1968 MGM started overdubbing albums that had previously been in mono so as to tout them as being in stereo. The mono LP would have been issued in 1963. That sounds amazingly good. I enjoyed the Dean Martin as well-Jim Reeves did an excellent version of that song.

Great Video!!!! I have over 150 of these snapcase / slipcase cassettes from 1967-1976 when they were made, most were bought by my me when they were first sold.. All play just fine as well. I also use the Pioneer deck you have with the Digital NR which really brings out the sound without the hiss. Love your electronic reviews!!!

Whow, I'm completely blown away! Very nice. I'm a believer in cassettes again.

THx for the collection old cassette tapes ! Very engaging !

that recording at the end sounded awesome. it gets an audiophile approval from me ;)

That recording at the end blew me away!

@moviebod

6 жыл бұрын

We all love Anders Jensen. I have one of his 2017 tapes

I was genuinely falling asleep to those tracks because I’m fairly tired. Very soothing.

Always find your videos interesting and your voice has a relaxing quality to it. Good Job

I have a 50 year old 8 track tape still plays.

@12voltvids

6 жыл бұрын

Bryant Floyd It's a loop tape cartridge. Predates prerecorded cassettes. You can see one on my channel and I will be doing a test of an 8track recorder soon.

@DrFruikenstein

6 жыл бұрын

12voltvids Next he'll ask what an LP is. I once had a lot of fun explaining cassettes, and my rotary dial desk phone to my niece. The phone rang, and she jumped back, asking "Why'd it do that?" Explaining a cassette to someone, who's life is all digital devices, turned out to be easier than I thought. I wish I could've showed her the first computer I ever used, with a cassette drive.

@DelilahThePig

6 жыл бұрын

I had a Sam & Dave 8-track which had differently stylized finger grips and the label was very wrinkled. I think it may have been from around 1968.

@12voltvids

6 жыл бұрын

I have a computer that uses cassette tape. It is a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A probably still works if I can find all the cables for it.

@DrFruikenstein

6 жыл бұрын

12voltvids The first computer I used was a Tandy 4K Color computer.

The recording sounds brilliant.

WOW! I didn't realize how good tapes can still sound. Great video.

That pioneer deck is something else! Really brings out the music in those old tapes :)

That's why I love this channel 😃

8 Bit Guy theme!

@andrewdunn4344

6 жыл бұрын

ikr

@2dfx

6 жыл бұрын

They're all in cahoots with each other. It's one giant KZread orgy. VWestLife, 8bit, LGR, uxwbill, etc etc

@imrustyokay

6 жыл бұрын

2dfx don't forget OddityArchive and TechMoan

@Rouxenator

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome from that old tape.

@rarbiart

6 жыл бұрын

16:35 Anders Enger Jonson's "Morning Dew" (just for the people in a hurry)

I've got a cassette tape of the singer Manolo Otero made in 1975 and it sounds nice even after 40 years. Good video.

As soon as the playback started I could sense that old familiar feeling of how music sounded back them. I felt like I was back there playing them myself. I'm 70 now so I have had the opportunity to listen to many, many everything.

@jeromeglick

2 жыл бұрын

That's what nostalgia sounds like.

I have many very, very old, 1960's/1970's/1980's cassettes. They're rarely played, but when they are, they play well. Just make sure they're stored in the proper environment. If you leave them in a box in your garage, you can forget about them. VHS tapes are another story. I have a ton of those that are a combination of purchased movies, stuff recorded off the air, and a bunch of movie studio screeners. I don't even bother pulling them out to watch, because more often than not, they're unwatchable, especially the stuff recorded off the air.

I didn’t snooze. Very interesting video.

It's difficult enough to get a CD-R to last 5 years, let alone 50 years! Great vid, thanks for this.

Great! The cassettes sound wonderful, really punchy and atmospheric. Bravo, sir.

Despite the stereo overdub, Hank was definitely my favorite part of the video.

I find the leader tape comes off with age with some old tapes too, ended up having to splice it back together, definitely a delicate bond with age

When vwestlife spoke of fast-forwarding the Lawrence Welk cassette to loosen up the reel, it reminded me that with the home-recorded cassettes I have [mainly of music radio airchecks], if they've been unplayed for years, I always run them through the cassette deck at a fast-forward and reverse to _relax_ the tape prior to playing. I use an old beat-up cassette deck as the 'mule' to strictly do fast-forward and reverse the cassette tapes prior to playing them on a better quality cassette deck.

I have over 300 cassettes, some prerecorded and many of which I recorded from vinyl. They still play fine, and I could NEVER fall asleep to the 101 Strings Orchestra.

holy... those sound amazing!

What surprised me most was the perfect azimuth alignment on almost all the tapes played in the video. Treble energy sound open and unrestrained, without phase anomalies too. Good, good, good.!

@jeromeglick

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that the stereo imaging was a bit right-leaning for the Burl Ives (9:27), Tom Jones (11:28), and Dean Martin (12:11) examples, unlike the first two tracks in which vocals are spot-on in the center. I also find it interesting and idiosyncratic how stereo was approached in the '60s. Often instruments were panned hard-left or hard-right (even the bass) and mono reverb panned center, which seems weird! Even on the more natural-sounding stereo classical recordings of the era, I sometimes come across center-panned mono reverb. But I guess if all you had was a mono reverb, where would you put it?

@teensuicide9103

Жыл бұрын

@@jeromeglick maybe they wanted it to sound like a live performance (sitting in front or maybe even off center to the band) instead of being inside or very close to the instruments.

I bought a Panasonic RX-C36 boombox yesterday at Sunrise with a cassette player, and then I bought ten cassettes at another Sunrise. I'm genuinely impressed with the audio quality--the boombox sounds great for its size and the sound quality of the cassettes is crisp. There's also the benefit that ten cassettes cost $1. Thanks for making me look into cassettes, I'm going to have to build myself a collection.

Im so impressed by the quality of those 50 year old tapes. i have CD' s that sound crappy compare to these tapes. Great video.

Great video as usual many thanks 👍👍

i forget that 1970 is 50 years ago, my mind still thinks 2000's never moved

Enjoyed the great journey back, thanks.

Straight to my favs, Thank you!

I like that little nod to The 8-Bit Guy there. Also, it's as much for the dry humor as it is for the content that I watch these videos.

The result of that last test with the Norelco cassette was amazing! Great sound quality for such an old tape! The oldest cassettes that we had at both my family's house and my own place must be not older than 45 years, but those have unfortunately degraded a bit in quality... Actually, I have a batch of cassettes which I got at a thrift store a few years back (at a very cheap price, of course), and I got some Beatles and other rock 'n roll tapes which must be from the mid 70's, but I'm not really sure...

The good thing about playing my old tapes on my Nakamichi...no pressure pad required. Enjoying your videos, keep it up.

Finally a video that proves what I was thinking for a lot of time. I have some pretty old tapes myself and they still sound good. I tried to record on them on my Yamaha KX-10 with auto calibration and they all sound quite great even without dolby B or C. Keep up the good work :)

Fantastic video,I own the same tape deck, it needs servicing though, for anyone who reads my comment looking into buying a cassette deck you also need an equalizer to have true hi-fidelity comparable to today's digital sound. I have cassettes that are 30 years old and still sound brand new and recording digital streams sounds as good as open reel machines, happy recordings to all:-)

You are educating me on stuff I should have known about 40 years ago. I never knew it was called a J card. Please could you, if you have the time of course, do something on VHS stuff. There are a lot of VHS releases of concerts and they are disappearing fast. If you alert people to how awesome they are people might start saving them.Thank you.

@vwestlife

6 жыл бұрын

I already did a video about VHS.

@taketimeout2share

6 жыл бұрын

Sorted.

Astonishing video!!! What a great job, gentleman!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

In the 80's,I bought a Loretta Lynn cassette at T,G & Y [when they were discontinuing selling music releases] ("Don't Come Home A Drinkin'" was the tape) and it sounded great!

@georgeprice7922

6 жыл бұрын

Oh......if you want "Squealing" when rewinding,play ANY 80's CBS Records cassette (especially the Loverboy tapes!)

@flyingkillerrobots877

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeremy Bond Shepherd TG&Y was a chain of variety stores (primarily in the southern US) that operated from 1935-2001.

@flyingkillerrobots877

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeremy Bond Shepherd So happy to oblige. :) If only I'd watched this video two years ago, I could have saved you all that agony! xD