I have what is the start of an amazing collection of audio cassettes. I am quite a fan of 90s music.. :sifone: Green River-- Dry As a Bone/Rehab Dolll Weezer-- Weezer Stone Temple Pilots-- Purple Mudhoney-- Superfuzz Bigmuff plus Early Singles Soundgarden-- Ultramega OK Soundgarden-- Superunknown Alice in Chains-- Facelift Alice in Chains-- Dirt Nirvana-- Nevermind Skin Yard-- 1000 Smiling Knuckles Smashing Pumpkins-- Siamese Dream
I love cassettes. I wish I still had a player in my car. I have a cassette deck in my house but it lacks speakers...I still have several tapes that I used to like, particularly audiobooks I used to like...If I had a tape player I would definitely listen to them again.
You don't want to know how many cassettes I lost in the flood.... Rare 60's and 70's stuff that would never come out on CD. Original music I did and could never replicate, all kinds of stuff. Damn.... Thanks for reminding me!
Terrible medium for professional released music. I have no use for cassette tapes anymore. They wear off too fast when played a lot and my cassette players used to rape a tape every once in a while too. It was good back then though, but now there are much better and more handy ways to collect music. I can imagine home recordings or music that was not released on cd etc. is a different story... especially if you lost the stuff before copying it onto something else. Bummer man!
some of my most treasured memories are on cassette tape, nothing to play them on so theyre lurking in the attic to be brought out one day in the future when theyre all but forgotten. was the only way to record stuff back then for me. heard that they degrade though, is that true? shame about you losing your music tyonswood, am sure that a lot was irreplaceable, really gutting for you.
Yes they do, especially in hot storage like an attic. They would fair better down stairs where you control the heat/cooling for your own comfort.... Thanks, shame that I lost those tapes but it could have been worse... I try to count my blessings when I can. Ten days after that flood here, Japan got hit with that tsunami... I was like, "Hell, what am I worried about...."
In the 80s I had hundreds of tapes, including about 300 live bootlegs and about 200 of my own music (solo and bands). Got rid of them all in 1989, and then built up a second collection, which I got rid of in 1996. Now I have about 500 tapes, mostly of my own stuff. Tapes are the best format.
cheers for the info, luckily the attic is quite cool insulated both floor and roof so hoping that theyre ok, probably best to think about getting them transferred onto cd or summat, not sure how to do that? ah, that dreadful day with the tsunami, kinda puts things into perspective dont it, at least you have your memories and your life, sometimes we need reminding to count our blessings.
I wouldn't transfer them.. Cassette speed is faster than normal CD speed. Just keep the cassette and buy the same album on CD if you have the $$..
it's not a question of the dollars, its the fact that some of the stuff isnt available any longer and a lot of it was live recordings, but thanks for the suggestion. is cassette speed really faster than cd? we live and learn.
What does that have to do with anything? I can make a CD from any source, tape, vinyl, even a manufactured CD and it sounds better and louder that the original. Even without these skills, and the equipment I have, why would you buy a CD of something you already own on cassette when making a copy is a piece of cake with a computer and a tape deck?
