8/ I put the tape recorder back together enough for it be safe until I got a proper workspace cleared off, and on a whim tried a tape in it. It's working again, but now it's got a sort of buzzy, noisy sound to it. It's a pretty simple design, and whoever assembled the thing did so in such a messy way that I wonder if I should just replace/resolder everything.

#retrotech #vintagehifi (sort of) #tape #cassette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing (maybe?) #diy

7/ I'm not seeing anything obviously wrong. I sort of expected to open this up and see that a cap had popped or was leaking (the yellow crust on a couple of the caps is dead adhesive from some decades old tape I peeled off) or something else that'd be a giveaway. Guess it's time to get out the multimeter.

#retrotech #vintagehifi (sort of) #tape #cassette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing (maybe?) #diy

6/ Four easily accessible phillips screws and you're right there at the audio i/o board, belts and speaker. What a convenient, simple design! From the sounds of the screws coming loose, I thought I must be the first to open the shell since it left manufacturing, but there appear to be bodges on the audio circuitry and witness marks on the screws that secure it to the cassette player mechanism.

#retrotech #vintagehifi (sort of) #tape #cassette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing (maybe?) #diy

3/ The recording seems relatively clean, so my first thought was that this was recorded from a computer directly - perhaps something like one of the old Atari 8-bit machines, that would play an audio recording while reading the program data? I am pretty sure though that I heard a chair scoot on the second third loop of the song. So now I'm curious if anyone recognizes the tune?

#retrotech #vintagehifi (sort of) #tape #cassette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing (maybe?)

2/ After 5 mins or so I started using the Fast Forward to jump around and see if there was anything recorded, with no hints of anything. So I let it spool up all the way around the other reel, and tried the other side. There was an abrupt sort of noise preceding a recording of a simple song being played on repeat, which to me sounds like maybe MIDI music.

#retrotech #vintagehifi (sort of) #tape #cassette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing (maybe?)

1/Got a cassette tape recorder from the thrift store today. I didn't notice until I got it home it had a cassette in it, entirely spooled to side B. After I pulled the batteries out (labeled 'Best if installed by Jan 1997') I plugged in a figure-8 cable and hit play. Surprisingly, the tape reels started spinning and the speaker output the kind of quiet white noise you'd expect from a blank tape.

#retrotech #vintagehifi (sort of) #tape #cassette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing (maybe?)

I’m waiting on the pressing plant before proceeding with a few things, but I do need to line up more #CassettesForMe releases. It’s the #cassette subscription brought to you by #AnalogRevolution. It’s neat! Do you make #music ? You should send me a link if you’d like to have a little bit of extra distribution and some extra change in the pocket

New tapes / downloads fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com

Fantôme Josepha - Dramarama
🎭Josépha Mougenot & Mr Marcaille from Metz deliver croaking ballads, macabre flirtations & insidious earworms. RIYL Broadcast, Comus, Crevice, Thinguma*jigsaw
(art: Lucio Girondo)

The Cube of Unknowing - Ghost Circuits Menlo
👨‍💻A typically kaleidoscopic speculative meditation on clandestine links between the Gaeltacht & Silicon Valley
(art: Maeve O'Neill)

#BandcampFriday #cassette #electronic #psychedelic #prog

Sixty years of sound: The cassette’s past, present and future in Egypt.

#Cassette #CassetteCulture #WorldMusic #Egypt

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/8/30/sixty-years-of-sound-the-cassettes-past-present-and-future-in-egypt

El 30 de agosto de 1963 Phillips presenta el Compact Cassette en el Berlin Radio Show (Exposición Internacional de Radio de Berlín).

On August 30, 1963, Phillips presented the Compact Cassette at the Berlin Radio Show.

#StarWars #CompactCassette #Cassette #AudioCassette

#Tape #Cassette
Analyse de pannes d'une chaîne #Hifi #Pioneer XR-P670F : changeur 25 CD hésitant + double lecteur #K7 inopérant.

Après ouverture : 9 CD du changeur sont tombés partout dans le mécanisme et ça bloque le chariot de lecture (les CD sont rangés verticalement et donc il faut vider le changeur avant de déplacer la machine …)
Accès pas trop compliqué à la mécanique K7 : 4 courroies à changer (3 courroies fondues ...).
Ça va être du sport de les replacer correctement 😅

Bon, il va falloir faire une #Cassette cet aprem 🤨
#Tape #TapeRecorder

One of the things I'm most proud of finding is an #OhMyGoddess #AnimeV cassette tape featuring VERY rare archived recordings of the cast and creator talking about songs from the Tokuten-Ou album! I snatched it up the second I saw it, and looking into its history was a lot of fun!

More details in the description -- please check it out!

https://archive.org/details/oh-my-goddess-mystery-midnight-talk

#ああっ女神さまっ #AhMyGoddess #cassette #InternetArchive #archiving #anime #manga #RetroAnime #audio

Also, spent some free time in 2020 rebuilding my #electronics tinkering skills and ended up down a rabbit hole of fixing #cassette decks (and the odd #minidisc player)!

Head Cleaner - best death metal band EVER!!! 🤘 :pentagram:

"Play Both Sides"!!!

#Cassette #CleanMyHeads #DeathMetal #Metal #HeavyMetal #INeedHelp

Virtual cassette PlayUEF v2 is a side project I only get brief moments to work on. Luckily you can already use v1 here http://playuef.8bitkick.cc #retrocomputing #acorn #80s #cassette

New post from A Head Full of Wishes
My record collection: #061: Galaxie 500 - unreleased sessions and live at The Rat
This is a cassette sent to me in the mid 90s by someone from The Galaxie 500 Mailing List in, I’d guess, 1995 since it has some of the tracks that later turned up on the box set… as well...
#Cassette #Galaxie500 #MyRecordCollection

https://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2023/08/17/my-record-collection-061-galaxie-500-unreleased-sessions-and-live-at-the-rat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=ahfow&utm_campaign=website?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ifttt

🎧 Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the #Cassette Tape During the 1980s, and #Punk Bands Fought Back

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/home-taping-is-killing-music-when-the-music-industry-waged-war-on-the-cassette-tape.html

^ via @openculture

4$ total. I get to clean some used #cassettes when I get home!

#cassette #tape #audio #audiophiles #thrifting

Buenos días Mastodontes!! Hace mucho que no me compro un cassette, tengo mono.

#cassette