Jump to content
IGNORED

Favourite YouTube Videos


Joyrex

Recommended Posts

Guest zaphod

what utter nonsense. sad that people have to force themselves to a limited format just to quell their own inability to sit and concentrate on one thing for an hour.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

what utter nonsense. sad that people have to force themselves to a limited format just to quell their own inability to sit and concentrate on one thing for an hour.

 

A lot of backlash seems oriented toward the superficial fans of cassette tapes. It's not a magical format and people are mistaken to think it's inherently better sounding than mp3 - a badly recorded tape will sound far worse, but at the same time a well-dubbed cassette even playing through a mediocre deck can be as sonically rich as a well-pressed vinyl record.

 

I've become a cassette tape collector in the last couple years, but I take all aspects of the "appealing" nature of cassette tapes with a grain of salt. I discover a lot of novelty cassettes and foreign pop tapes at thrift stores. I like listening to the bandcamp and soundcloud accounts of tape labels and then buying the albums I really like. Recording and sampling onto and off of cassettes is a lot fun for me as well.

 

And personally, I grew up at the tale end of cassettes as a dominant format, mostly listening to CDs as a teen and mp3s in college. Now most kids don't even spend time downloading or ripping CDs - it's all streaming youtube videos and skipping through playlists on spotify and grooveshark. If it takes the novelty of a tape to push younger listeners back to appreciating full-length albums and long tracks, then I'm all for the fad.

 

 

what utter nonsense. sad that people have to force themselves to a limited format just to quell their own inability to sit and concentrate on one thing for an hour.

 

A lot of backlash seems oriented toward the superficial fans of cassette tapes. It's not a magical format and people are mistaken to think it's inherently better sounding than mp3 - a badly recorded tape will sound far worse, but at the same time a well-dubbed cassette even playing through a mediocre deck can be as sonically rich as a well-pressed vinyl record.

 

I've become a cassette tape collector in the last couple years, but I take all aspects of the "appealing" nature of cassette tapes with a grain of salt. I discover a lot of novelty cassettes and foreign pop tapes at thrift stores. I like listening to the bandcamp and soundcloud accounts of tape labels and then buying the albums I really like. Recording and sampling onto and off of cassettes is a lot fun for me as well.

 

And personally, I grew up at the tale end of cassettes as a dominant format, mostly listening to CDs as a teen and mp3s in college. Now most kids don't even spend time downloading or ripping CDs - it's all streaming youtube videos and skipping through playlists on spotify and grooveshark. If it takes the novelty of a tape to push younger listeners back to appreciating full-length albums and long tracks, then I'm all for the fad.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

man i want one of those so bad

 

me too at some point way down the line, though all the wow and flutter is from it using old and degraded tape - from what I've read and then actually heard IRL the El Capistan guitar pedal is better for the tape warble effect (and it's a hell of delay emulator beyond that). a properly running re-201 or re-301 won't go into "instant BoC" mode lol, it's a lot cheaper to buy old cassettes, mangle the tape, and record off of that

Edited by joshuatx
Link to comment
Share on other sites

 

 

 

 

man i want one of those so bad

me too at some point way down the line, though all the wow and flutter is from it using old and degraded tape - from what I've read and then actually heard IRL the El Capistan guitar pedal is better for the tape warble effect (and it's a hell of delay emulator beyond that). a properly running re-201 or re-301 won't go into "instant BoC" mode lol, it's a lot cheaper to buy old cassettes, mangle the tape, and record off of that

word. the roland tape delays are absurdy overpriced but fuck me are they beautiful.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.