@@matthewrease2376 I am so grateful for reading the Bible cover to cover twice. If I had not read the Bible, I'd still be a Christian. Literally the shittiest book of all time. EDIT: Yes, I know, Islam is worse. Religion is a cancer.
@@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505 k You can read something without understanding it. I'm sorry you wasted your time (twice). Don't make a defense/excuse before me though, because I'm not the one you be giving an account to on the day of judgement.
You can often find unused ex-police interview cassettes in the UK for about about a £1. They used to give them away free but you had to be taken in for questioning first.
I know they changed it in the UK, but in America you should not talk to the police under any circumstances. I heard it was the labor government in the early 2000s where they changed the rules so that you could not bring up something in trial if you didn't mention it during the interrogation.
I think the bigger sin would be for these perfectly serviceable tapes (and their very fancy carrying case) to end up in landfill due to people not wanting 16 cassettes of the bible! Great video as always :D
Are you implying that the Bible would have sold better if it was only on 8 extended length cassettes? 😮 I'm sure that's what you meant because I was under the impression that *everyone* likes bible on tape. In fact, the only thing better than a bible on tape is a bible on SaCD in 5.1 Dolby.
@@damian9303 but the idea of having Rush's entire back catalogue hidden inside something that looks so much like a Bible is too deliciously sinful to miss haha
Excellent presentation! The “miserable” joke was perfect. Back in high school, I recorded over record club cassettes that arrived when I neglected to decline that month’s featured album.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. You will give an account for every word spoken, every word typed.
The tragedy happened when I was young. My dad erased a part of my favorite cassette! He was drunk and they had a party, and at the middle of my favorite song there was some silence and then you can hear him swearing and saying "...damn, wrong button!" :D
and then your religious family member grabs the tape, plays it and suddenly says "why is there "satanic" music on my tape" before starting to shred on the air guitar
I was going to use this trick with a set of "Learn German" tapes meant for diplomats. However, my son got into them, and now he's learning a very domain-specific set of German :)
Screws holding the shell together are also a sign of quality. I used to open them and cut off most of the leader so the music starts as soon as you hit play. It was a cool effect.
I started mentally trying to sing the Santana song when I started hearing it. but it was just to different. It's a bit like having a thought in the back of your mind that you can quite get to fully formulate.
I don't know if taping over the Bible is a sin, but taping over Morse code instructional materials is a grade-A travesty. Loved all the little easter (lol) eggs in this vid Kev, thanks for going the extra mile ;)
I've never seen anything like this at a thrift store (maybe I go to the wrong thrift stores?). But now I kinda want one of these 16-tape Bibles on tape sets to store all my favourite ZX Spectrum games.
@@patrickcardon1643 There is a even better one here in the UK its the Old Testament and its got 48 cassettes. " HOLY BIBLE : KING JAMES VERSION, Alexander Scourby Edition, 48 Cassette Tapes "
I used to do this "tape" trick as a kid. I had a lot of old pre-recorded tapes that I never listened to anymore, so I would record over them. In fact I still do that now! I'm sure my grandparents used to have a whole box set of bible tapes.
I was the opposite. I knew about covering the hole, but I was always against recording over pre-recorded cassettes. I always knew someday I'd want to go back and listen to those old cassettes again (particularly those with children's stories on them)
On decks with mechanical keys or shoebox recorders you could simply reach inside the tape well and hold down the little nub that senses the write protect tab, to unlock the record button. Then you can hold down the record button, release the nub, insert your cassette and start recording. No need to fumble around with sticky tape ;)
Fun trick: Depends on the unit, probably a bit easier with a Panasonic, you can slip the tape under the door and play/record with the door open. Useful for those dark tinted windows or no windows at all, or you cannot see or hard to see how far the tape has advanced. However, the tape can slip and cause, well, you can probably guess the damage.
The timing of this video is incredible, I saw FIVE cassette bibles at an estate sale today. I was briefly tempted to buy them, surely by a mischievous devil of some sort...
Back when I was a kid my girlfriends dad worked at a church that broadcasted its sermons over the radio. They'd record it on awesome studio quality Maxell cassette tapes. After they were done with them, he'd bring them home & let me have some of them. I still have them to this day! I even made new recordings on one! 👍🏻
Studio quality Maxell tapes... for a voice recording... which, if my experience is at all accurate, was recorded through a garden variety lav mic, into a Radio Shack mixer with the gains set either too low or too high (or possibly even, somehow, both.)
Years ago, back in my Eastern European home, I found some pre-recorded tapes with university lectures on them. Specifically, communist criminal law. I took the greatest pleasure in recording over them some criminally degenerate rock and roll. Including my favorite local blues band, whose members had actually been prosecuted for playing "western music" back in those days.
You always seem to have a humorous spin to all of your videos. They are very enjoyable. I've been taping over pre-recorded cassettes for over 40 years and usually have good results, too. I just wish I had a nice deck like your Denon.
I once bought a box full of cassettes with BASF tape stock cut to length from a duplication facility. What I found was that since they were made for high speed duplication, they had different magnetic properties than regular Type I tape and the high end would settle after recording, requiring experimentation with the bias current to find where it would give the best results. The short delay from the recording to the play head was insufficient to tell how much the tape settled. Even though the bias needed in the end was lower than for regular Type I tape, I did have to increase it from the level given by regular calibration. That's important to consider if using high speed tape stock with regular cassette decks and it's probably best to avoid on decks without manual bias control. Especially if using Dolby NR (especially Type C) as it will pump horribly on playback if the tape was not biased correctly.
I see what you did at 1:02: "But there's an ever cheaper way to amass a collection of cassette tapes..." I've used the tape-over trick to reuse unwanted spoken-word tapes many times. You got off easy with those tapes having paper labels. Newer tapes that have the labels printed directly onto the plastic aren't as easy to recycle, though a little bit of isopropyl alcohol usually does the trick.
You can always change the casings. buying used tapes from an ad online is a bit sketchy because if they were stored in the attic the tape itself is going to be destroyed by heat/cold cycles, but if all you need is some cool looking casings then that's a great and super cheap source. If I run into a cassette that has a really nice casing but the tape in it has perished I will throw out the rolls but keep the casing and use it when I get some good but crappy looking tapes.
If IPA doesnt work try "Meguiars Ultimate Compound" which is a car polish other finishing compounds may work but its the one i use it was around $20 for a bottle but when i was told about it i got some free 2ml sachets and when it worked a bought a bottle.
Some Bible tapes have the length on the top or on the leader as the use bulk duplicator tapes. Many still had the tabs left in. One time I got really lucky as they all were 120 minute Maxell Communicator Series cassettes.
Excellent! I actually did something similar with a few of these 12-cassette “Golden Oldies” box sets from the late eighties; because the sound quality of the various songs on those tapes was not great to begin with, I actually taped over them with the same songs with much better quality!
Back in the '90s I bought the entire Bible on cassette to listen to on my portable Walkman cassette player while delivering papers. But they were so cheap they would often jam up the first time I played them. Then, someone told me to always fully fast forward, and then fully rewind each tape before playing them. It worked! Kudos to ME for the tip.
"Cosmopolitan Blues" is very Twin Peaks-esque. I like it! Also, why would a cosmopolitan have the blues? Because he/she can't be recognized because they blend in?
I have been doing this for years. Being in Idaho, I have picking up LDS book of Mormon which is usually on about 17 cassettes for $2-3. I use rare earth magnets to erase them.
Imaging recording hard rock and heavy metal on a bible tape. Other than that, I too think it's a better idea to just grab some old tapes for a bargain and record over them. You won't believe how many chrome tapes you can find for cheap. Heck, sometimes you can come across gems you wouldn't even know about otherwise
That would be hilarious to record the latest Demons & Wizards album on one of those tapes! Reminds me a few years ago in Atlanta when I saw Demons & Wizards at a venue and the next morning they were having a church service in that same exact venue!
The red stripes on the tape leader (as seen on the bottom tape at 6:50) looks very familliar to the leader TDK used for its C60 tapes. So it could be a TDK tape.
"Hi, this is Tony from Cassette Is Not Going To Bring Back Jesus". Thanks for this beautifully crafted video, Kevin. It ticks all my boxes, heathen or not.
For some reason as mentioned in the video they used decent tape in a lot of these bible tapes, contrary to what you might expect. Using a 3 head deck they've always been stellar.
2:07 I have a set in a slightly different case/label somewhere, but the narrator sounds VERY familiar. Does each tape begin with some cheezy music, and are there occasionally dramatized background sounds in the recording production? The book of Matthew has plenty of that on my tapes...
I'm quite happy to have managed to get a nice pile of NOS TDK D series tapes, plus I have all my dad's old tapes from when he was going to Musicians Institute. I also have access to a near endless supply of country and classical music on tapes at any thrift store/goodwill/craigslist because I live in Montana and the older folk here only seemed to stop using cassettes because they've either passed, or because their truck with the tape player finally gave up the ghost. But taping over the bible (or other books) is quite an idea!
Waaaay back when I was very young and was unable to afford cassettes of any sort of quality I was very glad for my dad bringing home cassettes from Merryl Lynch (spelling). My dad was a banker and would get these cassettes distributed by ML giving parched-dry talks on how the markets were doing and such. These were my lifeline for media in the 70s lol. I highly recommend looking for these sorts of things as they can indeed save you a fortune.
I used to also get Recording For The Blind used open reel tape, usually dependable Ampex/Quantegy 631. They used it 5 passes, then I could have it as a volunteer. The Studio Director kept me well supplied.
This reminded me of when my uncle had a portable cassette player, and he was demonstrating it to us with some random cheap pre-recorded tape he bought, and he recorded a bit of his own voice over part of it! Some other people I was with were talking to him about the tape, but I couldn't remember much of what they said, though I know it happened back in 2007.
My grandfather was a hardcore Baptist and he gave me his collection of bible and preacher collections. He gave the tapes with the intention because he knew I liked to tape things.
I once found a buch of English tution degree books, each one has a spelling cassette included. So I happily grabbed the tapes and left the books untouched. Recorded music over. Great feeling.
There are a lot of local traditional and gospel music bands here in Newfoundland that put out tapes in the 90s and 2000s for the older crowd and couldn't sell them all. They tend to pile up at second hand stores, but their lengths may be shorter. I haven't tried them, but they may be good for recording short albums and the like.
Based on the "cue" marks on the leader I believe that the tape is actually "TDK D series" (or a knock off), still a very acceptable normal bias tape capable of fairly good quality.
Blasphemer! I used the "tape" trick as a kid with my Fisher Price cassette recorder. I had two comedy characters named "Toot" and Toot Toot" Genius. Actually, my best work was a LEGO stop motion animation on VHS, it was a Star Wars parody called "Inhaler Wars". All the characters had asthma (because I used to have asthma)
I found a 5-album set of about 28 or so tapes at the thrift store (a few were missing). It was some weird woo-woo meditation noises. I was confused and unsettled when my system made weird ominous wind noises.
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I've got a good handful of sealed, unused Type II and Type IV Cassettes just from Value Village over the past year or so. usually they are packs of two and are priced for about 2 dollars.
1:40 most likely since you found that in at the thrift store the person moved on to the other side. 😁 Reminds me, I found a forgotten stash of brand-new sealed cassette tapes I bought in the early 90's when I still used that Jurassic technology. I haven't used any cassettes for about 25+ years. Well, maybe it's time to dump em' on eBay. I still have stuff I recorded off the radio on cassette when I was a teen in the 80's. And yes, one of those cassettes is a TEAC Sound 52 with the little reels. 8:50 That's a *real* old school spreadsheet in all sense of the word there! 😉
This would be great, *except* I can remember my great aunt having a set of casettes with the Bible on her coffee table, as a child - narrated by none other than JAMES EARL JONES. I only wish I had kept it - imagine the Bible narrated by Vader himself!
The police used to give away free tapes in the uk if you were interviewed so we would go in for any crime they had and make a random statement to get a free tape
This is great. I've been using this hack for a while. I like using tapes from bands I don't care for, bought from thrift shops. Sometimes they were released on cr2 high biased! I wipe the print off using brasso polish. Works quite nicely!
Huh, 28 minutes 44 seconds per side on the shortest cassette... Gives me a delightfully devilish idea for what to tape over that one: Slayer's _Reign in Blood_ and/or Deicide's _Once upon the Cross_ would fit on it perfectly! 😁🤘 Either both sides recorded with the same album for a cool 'endlessly looping' tape when used with an auto reverse equipped deck, or one album on side A and the other on side B.👌
True story i had a huge set called user allusions that i recorded over. One day while walking i wanted to listen to one i pushed play walking by some people and it said "i really don't like you because you did that" then i stopped it i laughed so hard. Moral of the story. Make sure you play the correct side when using these
I once saw some iPods at my local Goodwill that were pre-loaded with the complete Bible. They looked like they were factory sealed from Apple. I guess you could do the same thing with those.
I went to a record store that had financial books on tapes for few bucks! It had six tapes, and mostly used it to copy some of my vinyl recordings to tapes, because it’s some music I want to play on the go!
I had this cassette tape that had the new testament on it but I recorded over it. I had the talkboy from home alone and I was at my cousin's house with another cousin and we all recorded random stuff on it. Whatever they wanted. I still have the tape but some of the recordings got messed up. One day I will digitize all my old tapes with funny recordings on them and may share parts of them here.
I got 4 garbage bags full of TDK SA-90s used once each for recording/mixdowns in an old TASCAM multitrack cassette recorder circa 1984...Are they worth anything? 🙃😉
Back in the day, in my hometown a pentecostal church kept a small fleamarket. Anyone who bought _something_ could then take two tapes of sermons for free. Once taped TDK SA-X 90's. Yeah...
I wish Metallica had done this with their new album. I went through 3 cassettes before I gave up and bought the CD, the tape stock they used had flaws all over it.
For diy musicians, you can also use these boxset cases to make your own boxsets. I go to thrift stores and savers all the time and grab the audiobooks that have multiple cassettes as they have really cool cases sometimes. I have some vhs library cases that contain cassettes instead that are pretty cool too. They look great with custom artwork (Edit: typos)
I'm a roman catholic christian, and I see no problem at all to reuse those tapes for something else. The Bible still there in paper, and God ain't gonna be mad for something so simple as that. I'd do the same, mainly because English isn't my first language, Brazilian Portuguese is, and even being able to speak and listen to English at a decent level nowadays, it woudn't be the same if I was listening to the bible in my native language. So happy taping, Kevin! Thank you for making my lunches (and dinners, just now I'm eating) so much enjoyable with your videos! Lots of love from Brazil♥♥♥
Also for your information, the versions of the Bible in various languages are simply a translation from the original version of the Bible written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
Another brilliant video, Ive been 'reusing' old audio books from the Uk, most are C60 and you can get a double for less than $1 for the two.... Still wrapped from the late 80's...
I have literally hundreds of old sermon tapes. Occasionally, there are some 120 minute tapes, which I always tape over those to listen to in my vehicle. I haven't resorted to taping over the Bible though. 😄
The reason why those tapes are in such good shape is the same reason why you bought the set so cheap: No one played them.
Sad but likely very true.
To be fair it's better to read it yourself than to listen to it.
@@matthewrease2376 I am so grateful for reading the Bible cover to cover twice. If I had not read the Bible, I'd still be a Christian. Literally the shittiest book of all time. EDIT: Yes, I know, Islam is worse. Religion is a cancer.
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You can read something without understanding it. I'm sorry you wasted your time (twice).
Don't make a defense/excuse before me though, because I'm not the one you be giving an account to on the day of judgement.
You had to read it twice to be sure? :D@@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505
@@matthewrease2376ah, the threat. Is that what your book taught you?
You can often find unused ex-police interview cassettes in the UK for about about a £1. They used to give them away free but you had to be taken in for questioning first.
"Says here you stole a cassette tape..."
Oh dear.
Under caution in the knick. (Watching too much BritBox)
I have a box of about 75 of these. Apparently loaded with AGFA tape.
I know they changed it in the UK, but in America you should not talk to the police under any circumstances. I heard it was the labor government in the early 2000s where they changed the rules so that you could not bring up something in trial if you didn't mention it during the interrogation.
I showed this video to the pastor at my church and he said it’s not a sin to do this. He even did this himself a few times.
This was probably how he got a hold of his Judaist Priest album back in High School lol.
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hahaha nice :)
Way to burn the bible. Not saying I dont agree with getting rid of the filth contained on those tapes.
Clearly not a fundamentalist church, lol. I'm pretty sure they consider breathing to be a sin.
I think the bigger sin would be for these perfectly serviceable tapes (and their very fancy carrying case) to end up in landfill due to people not wanting 16 cassettes of the bible! Great video as always :D
Are you implying that the Bible would have sold better if it was only on 8 extended length cassettes? 😮
I'm sure that's what you meant because I was under the impression that *everyone* likes bible on tape.
In fact, the only thing better than a bible on tape is a bible on SaCD in 5.1 Dolby.
It may look fancy, but once he opens up that case you can see the flimsy VHS clamshell material.
@@Boogie_the_cat I like the way god bounces around the room on the 5.1 version, really gives you that ethereal vibe!
@@damian9303 but the idea of having Rush's entire back catalogue hidden inside something that looks so much like a Bible is too deliciously sinful to miss haha
@@Boogie_the_cat I love it when the narrator spins around me in 7 channel surround sound while reading the list of who begat who
Excellent presentation! The “miserable” joke was perfect. Back in high school, I recorded over record club cassettes that arrived when I neglected to decline that month’s featured album.
Love that you spooled forward to 666 on the tape counter before bringing in the devil
961 vFv??
and on the 6th day; God created DOLBY
On the 7th day, Jesus descended to spread the wisdom about Dolby hx pro and that people might be missing some of the benefits stereo can provide
By Dolby, I assume, referring to She Blinded Me With Science singer Thomas Dolby.
And it was good!
@@theautisticguitarist7560No, but thanks for thinking of that. 😅
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
You will give an account for every word spoken, every word typed.
The tragedy happened when I was young. My dad erased a part of my favorite cassette! He was drunk and they had a party, and at the middle of my favorite song there was some silence and then you can hear him swearing and saying "...damn, wrong button!" :D
Your dad doesn’t seem to be very responsible and/or stable if he can’t keep his alcohol consumption under control …
@@gowildleri am not good at pushing buttons when i'm drunk, so i could see myself doing this 😂 not that i know this person's father
I always punch out the record tabs when I make a mix. I don't bother when I record an album, though.
At 28 minutes 44 seconds, the shortest tape is still long enough to record both sides of the original Tubular Bells album.
Tubular Bibells.
And the longest one will just about fit Pink Floyd's Animals album.
And only 10 seconds short of fitting the entire Slayer - Reign In Blood, on each side. Which is OK since the last 20 seconds are just sound effects.
28 min 44 secs is same as Saigin Kick - Water side 1 (1993)😂
I love how much fun you had choosing the verses and such 😂
imagine use these bible tapes to record Iron Maiden's song "number of the beast", probably the tape deck will catch on fire
and then your religious family member grabs the tape, plays it and suddenly says "why is there "satanic" music on my tape" before starting to shred on the air guitar
Na, Slayer's "Reign in Blood" If you're gonna do it, go full hog.
@@PeterBellefleur Corporate Avenger's "Christians Murdered Indians" would also be pretty appropriate.
Lol
I think some good old possessed will do the job
I love the subtle joke of having the counter tick over 666 at the start of the "Diablo" recording!
I was going to use this trick with a set of "Learn German" tapes meant for diplomats. However, my son got into them, and now he's learning a very domain-specific set of German :)
The 88 type of German?
@@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14 it could very well be from 1988
Well, he knows how to ask where the Ambassador's residence is, or where the wine reception will be held :)
Screws holding the shell together are also a sign of quality.
I used to open them and cut off most of the leader so the music starts as soon as you hit play. It was a cool effect.
This was probably how the teenager in a strict Christian household got a hold of his ACDC albums in the 80s
I was the church sound man in high school and college. We wiped extra sermon tapes all the time. We even had the big Radio Shack bulk eraser!
i love that "dinner with the diablo" was clearly meant to be a no-frills version of smooth by santana
it sounds very close to Corazon Espinado, from the same album as Smooth
I started mentally trying to sing the Santana song when I started hearing it. but it was just to different. It's a bit like having a thought in the back of your mind that you can quite get to fully formulate.
The new American bible, Made in Singapore. 🤣 Can't get more American than that.
I don't know if taping over the Bible is a sin, but taping over Morse code instructional materials is a grade-A travesty. Loved all the little easter (lol) eggs in this vid Kev, thanks for going the extra mile ;)
xfer the morse code course to the mp3 format, then record over the tape. You can have your cake and eat it too.
I've never seen anything like this at a thrift store (maybe I go to the wrong thrift stores?). But now I kinda want one of these 16-tape Bibles on tape sets to store all my favourite ZX Spectrum games.
Not going to find those over here in Europe, that's "fer sure" 😁
It's the luck of the draw. From personal experience you'll have better chances on finding cassettes at thrift shops that aren't Goodwill.
@@patrickcardon1643 There is a even better one here in the UK its the Old Testament and its got 48 cassettes. " HOLY BIBLE : KING JAMES VERSION, Alexander Scourby Edition, 48 Cassette Tapes "
@@patrickcardon1643 Only in the USA where strange things happen
Since when does English people say they are a part or Europe., thats new@@Rick_Todd
My favourite quote from something is this
“Don’t you read the Bible?”
“Yea, im actually listening to it on a tape, don’t tell me how it ends.”
I used to do this "tape" trick as a kid. I had a lot of old pre-recorded tapes that I never listened to anymore, so I would record over them. In fact I still do that now! I'm sure my grandparents used to have a whole box set of bible tapes.
I was the opposite. I knew about covering the hole, but I was always against recording over pre-recorded cassettes. I always knew someday I'd want to go back and listen to those old cassettes again (particularly those with children's stories on them)
On decks with mechanical keys or shoebox recorders you could simply reach inside the tape well and hold down the little nub that senses the write protect tab, to unlock the record button. Then you can hold down the record button, release the nub, insert your cassette and start recording. No need to fumble around with sticky tape ;)
Fun trick: Depends on the unit, probably a bit easier with a Panasonic, you can slip the tape under the door and play/record with the door open. Useful for those dark tinted windows or no windows at all, or you cannot see or hard to see how far the tape has advanced. However, the tape can slip and cause, well, you can probably guess the damage.
@@kpanic23 Yep, I was able to perform this trick way back when, wondering if anyone else ever tried this. Well, I am not the only one!
I'm 60 and still do with black tape on a pioneer ct -f 900
The timing of this video is incredible, I saw FIVE cassette bibles at an estate sale today. I was briefly tempted to buy them, surely by a mischievous devil of some sort...
Back when I was a kid my girlfriends dad worked at a church that broadcasted its sermons over the radio. They'd record it on awesome studio quality Maxell cassette tapes. After they were done with them, he'd bring them home & let me have some of them. I still have them to this day! I even made new recordings on one! 👍🏻
Studio quality Maxell tapes... for a voice recording... which, if my experience is at all accurate, was recorded through a garden variety lav mic, into a Radio Shack mixer with the gains set either too low or too high (or possibly even, somehow, both.)
Well that's just a sin.
Hope your not still with the girl with the delusional father. He sounds like a real douche out to take money from old people.
@@menotyou8369What?
Man, the Apostle Paul really played a good saxophone to the Corinthians. Who knew?
Years ago, back in my Eastern European home, I found some pre-recorded tapes with university lectures on them. Specifically, communist criminal law. I took the greatest pleasure in recording over them some criminally degenerate rock and roll. Including my favorite local blues band, whose members had actually been prosecuted for playing "western music" back in those days.
Good for you, keep on rocking in the free world!
Very punk rock! I love it!
If I owned a radio station, Its format would be "Criminally Degenerate Rock and Roll"! 🎶👍😊👍🎶
That's hardcore man
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You always seem to have a humorous spin to all of your videos. They are very enjoyable. I've been taping over pre-recorded cassettes for over 40 years and usually have good results, too. I just wish I had a nice deck like your Denon.
5:05: Turns out old John can't tell a trumpet from an electric guitar.
I once bought a box full of cassettes with BASF tape stock cut to length from a duplication facility. What I found was that since they were made for high speed duplication, they had different magnetic properties than regular Type I tape and the high end would settle after recording, requiring experimentation with the bias current to find where it would give the best results. The short delay from the recording to the play head was insufficient to tell how much the tape settled. Even though the bias needed in the end was lower than for regular Type I tape, I did have to increase it from the level given by regular calibration.
That's important to consider if using high speed tape stock with regular cassette decks and it's probably best to avoid on decks without manual bias control. Especially if using Dolby NR (especially Type C) as it will pump horribly on playback if the tape was not biased correctly.
I see what you did at 1:02: "But there's an ever cheaper way to amass a collection of cassette tapes..."
I've used the tape-over trick to reuse unwanted spoken-word tapes many times. You got off easy with those tapes having paper labels. Newer tapes that have the labels printed directly onto the plastic aren't as easy to recycle, though a little bit of isopropyl alcohol usually does the trick.
You can always change the casings. buying used tapes from an ad online is a bit sketchy because if they were stored in the attic the tape itself is going to be destroyed by heat/cold cycles, but if all you need is some cool looking casings then that's a great and super cheap source.
If I run into a cassette that has a really nice casing but the tape in it has perished I will throw out the rolls but keep the casing and use it when I get some good but crappy looking tapes.
If IPA doesnt work try "Meguiars Ultimate Compound" which is a car polish other finishing compounds may work but its the one i use it was around $20 for a bottle but when i was told about it i got some free 2ml sachets and when it worked a bought a bottle.
Not even 19 cents per tape, that's what we call a bargain 👍
Some Bible tapes have the length on the top or on the leader as the use bulk duplicator tapes. Many still had the tabs left in. One time I got really lucky as they all were 120 minute Maxell Communicator Series cassettes.
Came for the blasphemy, stayed for the Johnny Cash electronic bible endorsement.
Sorry, but where in the vid was that part?
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I too have had pretty good results taping over old unwanted pre-recorded tapes. A lot of them used BASF tape or other brands that bias like a BASF.
in my case either TDK or SONY EFX tapes are everywhere and easy to find.
Excellent! I actually did something similar with a few of these 12-cassette “Golden Oldies” box sets from the late eighties; because the sound quality of the various songs on those tapes was not great to begin with, I actually taped over them with the same songs with much better quality!
Back in the '90s I bought the entire Bible on cassette to listen to on my portable Walkman cassette player while delivering papers. But they were so cheap they would often jam up the first time I played them. Then, someone told me to always fully fast forward, and then fully rewind each tape before playing them. It worked! Kudos to ME for the tip.
"Cosmopolitan Blues" is very Twin Peaks-esque. I like it!
Also, why would a cosmopolitan have the blues? Because he/she can't be recognized because they blend in?
I have been doing this for years. Being in Idaho, I have picking up LDS book of Mormon which is usually on about 17 cassettes for $2-3. I use rare earth magnets to erase them.
I was rather surprised to hear background music on the bible recordings. They also seemed to be of mediocre recording quality.
Yeah! The music he recorded to the tape from a CD sounded way better than what was already recorded on the tape.
Sounds heavenly!
Imaging recording hard rock and heavy metal on a bible tape.
Other than that, I too think it's a better idea to just grab some old tapes for a bargain and record over them. You won't believe how many chrome tapes you can find for cheap. Heck, sometimes you can come across gems you wouldn't even know about otherwise
Imagine recording all that over the Bible... and then re-donating it for some poor soul to buy thinking they're getting the Bible.
That would be hilarious to record the latest Demons & Wizards album on one of those tapes! Reminds me a few years ago in Atlanta when I saw Demons & Wizards at a venue and the next morning they were having a church service in that same exact venue!
I just bought 115 blank 100 minutes chrome tapes from a church.
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Greetings from the Netherlands !
Jesus Christ
Amen. @@cromulence
Holy shit
Good God
The red stripes on the tape leader (as seen on the bottom tape at 6:50) looks very familliar to the leader TDK used for its C60 tapes. So it could be a TDK tape.
Exactly my thoughts
Ah I remember yes, it is TDK!
"Hi, this is Tony from Cassette Is Not Going To Bring Back Jesus". Thanks for this beautifully crafted video, Kevin. It ticks all my boxes, heathen or not.
_It’s a nice chocolate brown - well calendered!_
@@Fluteboy I can certainly hear that in his voice.
For some reason as mentioned in the video they used decent tape in a lot of these bible tapes, contrary to what you might expect. Using a 3 head deck they've always been stellar.
2:07 I have a set in a slightly different case/label somewhere, but the narrator sounds VERY familiar. Does each tape begin with some cheezy music, and are there occasionally dramatized background sounds in the recording production? The book of Matthew has plenty of that on my tapes...
I'm quite happy to have managed to get a nice pile of NOS TDK D series tapes, plus I have all my dad's old tapes from when he was going to Musicians Institute.
I also have access to a near endless supply of country and classical music on tapes at any thrift store/goodwill/craigslist because I live in Montana and the older folk here only seemed to stop using cassettes because they've either passed, or because their truck with the tape player finally gave up the ghost.
But taping over the bible (or other books) is quite an idea!
Waaaay back when I was very young and was unable to afford cassettes of any sort of quality I was very glad for my dad bringing home cassettes from Merryl Lynch (spelling). My dad was a banker and would get these cassettes distributed by ML giving parched-dry talks on how the markets were doing and such. These were my lifeline for media in the 70s lol.
I highly recommend looking for these sorts of things as they can indeed save you a fortune.
I used to also get Recording For The Blind used open reel tape, usually dependable Ampex/Quantegy 631. They used it 5 passes, then I could have it as a volunteer. The Studio Director kept me well supplied.
Merrill Lynch.
Another fine score and good tip. Thanks young lad. Brilliant stuff!
The 666 on the counter when the recording starts, that's the VWestlife magic I love.
This reminded me of when my uncle had a portable cassette player, and he was demonstrating it to us with some random cheap pre-recorded tape he bought, and he recorded a bit of his own voice over part of it! Some other people I was with were talking to him about the tape, but I couldn't remember much of what they said, though I know it happened back in 2007.
My grandfather was a hardcore Baptist and he gave me his collection of bible and preacher collections. He gave the tapes with the intention because he knew I liked to tape things.
I'm still laughing at the "miserable recordings"
I once found a buch of English tution degree books, each one has a spelling cassette included. So I happily grabbed the tapes and left the books untouched. Recorded music over. Great feeling.
There are a lot of local traditional and gospel music bands here in Newfoundland that put out tapes in the 90s and 2000s for the older crowd and couldn't sell them all. They tend to pile up at second hand stores, but their lengths may be shorter. I haven't tried them, but they may be good for recording short albums and the like.
The guy narrating those tapes sounds exactly like every old American movie actor.
'The Good Book...on TAPE...oooh it's read by Larry King!' (It's always nice to be reminded of classic Simpsons!)
16 cassettes. That's 32 sides. Damn. What a waste of tape.
I love this idea. I’m blind I wonder if I can get my hands on old books on tape through American printing house, or the state.
Based on the "cue" marks on the leader I believe that the tape is actually "TDK D series" (or a knock off), still a very acceptable normal bias tape capable of fairly good quality.
Blasphemer!
I used the "tape" trick as a kid with my Fisher Price cassette recorder.
I had two comedy characters named "Toot" and Toot Toot"
Genius.
Actually, my best work was a LEGO stop motion animation on VHS, it was a Star Wars parody called "Inhaler Wars". All the characters had asthma (because I used to have asthma)
I found a 5-album set of about 28 or so tapes at the thrift store (a few were missing). It was some weird woo-woo meditation noises. I was confused and unsettled when my system made weird ominous wind noises.
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I've got a good handful of sealed, unused Type II and Type IV Cassettes just from Value Village over the past year or so. usually they are packs of two and are priced for about 2 dollars.
1:40 most likely since you found that in at the thrift store the person moved on to the other side. 😁 Reminds me, I found a forgotten stash of brand-new sealed cassette tapes I bought in the early 90's when I still used that Jurassic technology. I haven't used any cassettes for about 25+ years.
Well, maybe it's time to dump em' on eBay. I still have stuff I recorded off the radio on cassette when I was a teen in the 80's. And yes, one of those cassettes is a TEAC Sound 52 with the little reels.
8:50 That's a *real* old school spreadsheet in all sense of the word there! 😉
This would be great, *except* I can remember my great aunt having a set of casettes with the Bible on her coffee table, as a child - narrated by none other than JAMES EARL JONES. I only wish I had kept it - imagine the Bible narrated by Vader himself!
Certainly better than ending up in a landfill.
That is one of the most funny and informative at the same time videos you ever made. 😈🤓
The police used to give away free tapes in the uk if you were interviewed so we would go in for any crime they had and make a random statement to get a free tape
I waited a video like that for years nice you rock Kevin thanks ! Quality video from one of my fav UA-camr
another good one is the "learn a language" tape packs. they can have like 10 tapes and you can get them for a couple bucks.
This is great. I've been using this hack for a while. I like using tapes from bands I don't care for, bought from thrift shops. Sometimes they were released on cr2 high biased! I wipe the print off using brasso polish. Works quite nicely!
i did this as well found a pre recorded cro2 tape for $1 aud and it records really well on my pioneer deck
Gotta love that off-brand Santana track.
"...And needing to erase someone's ** miserable recordings..."
Oh, har har. Very funny.
Huh, 28 minutes 44 seconds per side on the shortest cassette... Gives me a delightfully devilish idea for what to tape over that one: Slayer's _Reign in Blood_ and/or Deicide's _Once upon the Cross_ would fit on it perfectly! 😁🤘 Either both sides recorded with the same album for a cool 'endlessly looping' tape when used with an auto reverse equipped deck, or one album on side A and the other on side B.👌
Where was the "yoga tapes" scene from? Asking for a friend.
MTV's Undressed, the episode called "The Big Jerk".
True story i had a huge set called user allusions that i recorded over. One day while walking i wanted to listen to one i pushed play walking by some people and it said "i really don't like you because you did that" then i stopped it i laughed so hard. Moral of the story.
Make sure you play the correct side when using these
"Dinner with the Diablo" sounds exactly the same as a Carlos Santana song called "Corazón Espinado" ("Thorned Heart")
I once saw some iPods at my local Goodwill that were pre-loaded with the complete Bible. They looked like they were factory sealed from Apple. I guess you could do the same thing with those.
I went to a record store that had financial books on tapes for few bucks! It had six tapes, and mostly used it to copy some of my vinyl recordings to tapes, because it’s some music I want to play on the go!
I'd love to see one of your amercian presidents swearing the oath of office with one of those cassette bibles
I bow down to you and your excellently timed jokes.
that's what i've been doing over the years, making playlists/albums from cassette audiobook! they sound great most of the time
The last time I was in a Charity shop they had a large basket full of cassettes which all turned out to be of the audiobook variety.
Good news on the morse code front, you no longer need code to get General or Extra in the US
I had this cassette tape that had the new testament on it but I recorded over it. I had the talkboy from home alone and I was at my cousin's house with another cousin and we all recorded random stuff on it. Whatever they wanted. I still have the tape but some of the recordings got messed up. One day I will digitize all my old tapes with funny recordings on them and may share parts of them here.
I got 4 garbage bags full of TDK SA-90s used once each for recording/mixdowns in an old TASCAM multitrack cassette recorder circa 1984...Are they worth anything? 🙃😉
That was some s̶a̶t̶a̶n̶i̶c̶ santanic music there.
el diablo sure has a good taste in music
Back in the day, in my hometown a pentecostal church kept a small fleamarket. Anyone who bought _something_ could then take two tapes of sermons for free. Once taped TDK SA-X 90's. Yeah...
Finally, I can make my Slayer and Metallica mix tapes off other tapes, vinyl, cds, mp3s, satellite radio, and FM radio.
What better medium than this to start my own death metal bootleg collection? I'd leave the original labels on and keep em in the box they came in.
I'd love to do this, and get SO MANY cassette tapes, but I'd probably go to hell lol
I wish Metallica had done this with their new album. I went through 3 cassettes before I gave up and bought the CD, the tape stock they used had flaws all over it.
For diy musicians, you can also use these boxset cases to make your own boxsets. I go to thrift stores and savers all the time and grab the audiobooks that have multiple cassettes as they have really cool cases sometimes. I have some vhs library cases that contain cassettes instead that are pretty cool too. They look great with custom artwork
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I'm a roman catholic christian, and I see no problem at all to reuse those tapes for something else. The Bible still there in paper, and God ain't gonna be mad for something so simple as that. I'd do the same, mainly because English isn't my first language, Brazilian Portuguese is, and even being able to speak and listen to English at a decent level nowadays, it woudn't be the same if I was listening to the bible in my native language. So happy taping, Kevin! Thank you for making my lunches (and dinners, just now I'm eating) so much enjoyable with your videos! Lots of love from Brazil♥♥♥
Also for your information, the versions of the Bible in various languages are simply a translation from the original version of the Bible written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.
God would approve of having less things in landfills, I'd think.
2:05 Based in Iowa Falls! Was there a yesr ago but don't recall seeing their offices.
Well they say the Devil has all the best tunes 😈
As always
I love your sense of humor
Suddenly those aliexpress tapes dont seem so overpriced anymore
Another brilliant video, Ive been 'reusing' old audio books from the Uk, most are C60 and you can get a double for less than $1 for the two.... Still wrapped from the late 80's...
5:15 sounds remarkably similar to Smooth by Santana (ft. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty)
I have literally hundreds of old sermon tapes. Occasionally, there are some 120 minute tapes, which I always tape over those to listen to in my vehicle. I haven't resorted to taping over the Bible though. 😄
Yet!