Sony Metal Master Type 4 Cassette - The Cassette Tape Made Out Of Tiles
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- The Sony Metal Master is one of the most expensive cassettes out there and even Sony themselves claim that at the time, it was their ultimate cassette.
In this video I show what makes it so special and give you a chance to hear and see it in action.
Music: Lost Astronaut, Falling By Villarosso / Gwen Osmond - No, this isn't available anywhere...
Cassette Deck Used - Dual C-814
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Wow, the song is amazing. I love the way it's produced, crystal clear sound with deep bass. Nowadays all the music is ruined by loudness war, it's a real shame.
Yeah, there's no brick wall limiting on this.
@@CassetteComeback,Hello Tony
!Thank for sharing with your such wide experience in Audiokasset's. Many people in Russia love this!Good bless for ever " Golden Audio Memories "!
The loudness war isn't a problem if it's not distorting. I paid for the entire dynamic range, the music better use the entire dynamic range.
Wow crazy, I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes looking at these visuals of a beautiful casette in this lovely unpretentious Deck while listening to this breathtaking song. You really brighten my day!
Love this channel and love this track. Such an 80s vibe 👍
love this track - hope it gets a release
One of the best looking tapes ever
My grandfather used to run a ceramic factory. The success rate to make precision casing such as a C-0 makes it expensive. Everything needs to be hand made and cooked in the oven. The amount of wasted materials and can’t be recycled is making these types of things really expensive
Thanks for the insight, I knew there had to be a reason.
@David Susilo Unscripted
Wow thanks for the great technical explanation. Love quality technical posts on the comment section!
Very good song recorded on a fabulous tape. The hiss is very minimal. At £5 each, those Sony tapes would have been minidisc killers ! Thanks Tony, for reminding us of the fond memories of recording mixtapes in the 90’s. Greetings from France.
I have a pair of Super Metal Masters which I bought when cassette was dying. They were still pretty expensive, but not obscenely so as they are now - and I totally HAD to have such a beautiful looking thing, even when I didn't have (and still don't have...) a *good* deck!
Very nice song, I wish you can find the singer and release it soon.
Thanks for sharing. I liked these tapes very much, could not hear a difference with a CD, have only 4 of them. Later I switched to minidisc, and now I’m back on tape.
Another great video! I've never seen one of these cassettes in person...and I really like that song. Hopefully it will see the light of day somehow...
That song sounds amazing. Your visual presentation of it was top-notch, too.
It's great to have you back Tony... I missed your videos over the past 2/3 weeks... video is great but the song is fantastic! thanks :)
This is a fantastic song! Thanks for sharing yours and Gwen's awesome work on an awesome tape :)
I wonder, did we really need metal tapes. I bought maybe a handful. I always thought what I was recording was not that important, and type IV tapes were too expensive. Nothing a sub $10 type II couldn't manage.
Agree. Out of all the cassettes I've recorded myself maybe less than 5% are Type 4.
Very cool. That labeling system would be a pain in the arse though. Looks great in that Dual, and sounds fantastic. Great music too.
Amazing cassette, never had one of these but it looks gorgeous! Beautiful song also, I really enjoyed it.
Can I ask you a question? What does the "autotape" feature do in your Dual cassette deck? Is it some sort of auto bias/level calibration?
Just selects what type of tape is in the deck. There's no bias or calibration features on this deck, I don't use it for recording.
Another great video Tony. It's sounds great, but then I'm not really sure it sounds any better than some good Chrome's.
I agree. You get to a level where they all sound equally as good.
I really need to record this music unto my Sony UX-S cassette using my professional tape deck. I love this track, beautiful and awesome track.
That's a sexy tape. Looks like something from the future.
I love audio compact cassette tapes and tape decks! That's why I never stopped recording on them and till this day, I still record all of my favorite music unto compact cassette tapes. While everyone were switching to CD's and later to Mp3's, I still stuck around with my favorite format, the compact cassette. They last a very long time, the sound quality is amazing, managed to record my tapes louder and cleaner than CD's. I miss those days when we used to exchange or borrow cassettes from friends in Highschool. Each time you borrow a tape from someone, it would have it's unique smell to it and characteristics. Someone would let me borrow a blue Sony CD-IT tape, someone would give me a tape with red hubs, others would let me borrow a colorful Memorex DBX tape and so on. When I borrow a tape from girls, they would usually smell like perfume or some attractive lotion smell, while guys would tag allover their cassettes or put all kinds of stickers & decorate them. Each tape would have it's unique personality. Good times. I'm gonna have to run to the store and buy some more blanks right now.
That's what modern music formats are missing, the physical interaction and the human interaction. They meant something, like the media itself.
First of all let me tell you that I am glad to see a new video from you. You are an alright mate. And I have seen this tape on sale before and it does look lovely but paying 80-100 Euro for such a tape is just plain crazy. Nonetheless it was interesting to see it in action. My preferred tape is a straight TDK-SA Chrome from the late 80s. Sounds very good with my Nakamichi.
Saved this to my favorites just so i can listen to that song again
The girl singing isn't interested in releasing it...so I'm going to write new lyrics and vocals then release it...with zero of her input in it, as I wrote all the music. One way or another...
Theres a clear demand and,to be honest,her input is probably the least important element of the song's popularity.I have always been quite dismissive of 80's stuff and so the song,feel,atmosphere etc.. had to be a bit special to bypass my bias (relevant!) and captivate me,and they was,and it did!!!
It was released as is 2 weeks ago.
villarosso.bandcamp.com/album/lost-astronaut-falling
Working in Sony manufacturing as an engineer. Nobody wanted the Metal Master or Super Metal Master cassettes in the Staff shop, so I used to get a great deal on boxes of them At one point I had around 40 of them! Over time, I gave them away lent them to friends etc etc. I had two decks one Sony TC-K909ES and an AIWA ADF990 both calibrated these really well but Aiwa had the edge. My god I could push these so far. I could with my great TDK MRXG and MA's and some of my Maxell's too but I do think in my machines these had the edge. These still sound really, really good today considering they were often live DJ mixed tapes straight off Technics SL12MK2 with Concorde Pro cartridges via the tape out of a Pioneer mixer whether they were actually sonically better than less exotic MA's is probably not possible to say such was the performance of great metal tapes but I loved the Super Metal Masters as they also had a feel good factor when you used them, much in the way an MAXG did I guess
Great song and production Tony..LOVE her voice!
I recognise a kindred spirit in you Tony.Its almost like you are me if I'd chosen keys as my go-to rather than guitar.Have you ever spoken about your musical side anywhere (bands?Releases?Production Techniques?etc...) as I'm sure I wouldn't be alone in being interested in that.
Here's how I sound,BTW
soundcloud.com/thehighwriters/sets/originals
BTW-About half of the tracks were recorded on cassettes (via my treasured TASCAM Porta One)
Paul
I shall have a listen, but first impressions are good 😎
Thanks Tony.I appreciate you taking the time.Is there anywhere we can hear more of your stuff?
Great video! I didn't know you make music. 🎹🎵🎶🎧 Fantastic!🔟❎ For sharing such a great track! Hope she calls you soon so that you can release it. Otherwise (and as usual), the cassette quality is great and the video also.
I have other tracks at Villarosso.bandcamp.com
@@CassetteComeback
Oh I just listened to it. What can I say? - the music you make is way better than half of the today's artists' music. 🔝
Maybe that's only me, huh. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big 90's fan.
Great song, I must say!
The tape? It's a sony, they are always good! Kinda cool it is white, fits well in an open silver faced deck. But 60GBP? I rather buy 10 great chromes for that :p
They were really expensive back in the day. I used get mine from the staff shop in Sony. Really great though i used mine on the Aiwa ADF-990 machine which absolutely loved these tapes and could properly saturate them without distortion.
@14:00 was it a myspace collaboration? I have few tracks I produced where I face the same dillemna.. disappearing vocal artists. Still sitting on raw bed vocals of this incredible session from 2005.. never mixed it because of a similar situation. We even planned for a vinyl release. The track you shared, Her voice was really nice..and the production is class.
No. It seems that TV talent shows have put into the mind of people who can sing "Hey, if you can sing, instant fame and fortune is yours" You work for months on stuff, if they don't see an instant return, then they just disappear. They're too embarrassed to let you know they're going, they just go...so I'll use them for non profit purposes as I put more effort into the tracks than they did 😒
Sounds amazing!! I have both the signature metal case and this composite version..
Hi Tony! glad to see you back! This is indeed a very interesting cassette, but it was expected that recording-wise it won't be different from any other decent metal tape. Great!
I remember finding these Metal Master tapes in my favorite Hifi store .. at this time I had a pretty nice Hifi system, with a pretty good cassette deck, so I bought many Sony Metal XR tapes, the best tapes I ever used .. they were not cheap, but the price was fair to me, especially regarding the sound quality I was able to achieve with them .. they sounded exactly like the CD source .. so back then, and still today, I never understood why someone would spend that money on a Sony Metal Master blank tape .. they were more expensive than any CD !
Like the song!
That’s a very neat song. Certainly unique in it’s style. Across between Annie Lennox and Enya and I mean that in the most positive way. Hope I’m not starting ww3. I’m not a musician, just a music lover. How soon before it’s released. It will definitely play in the techno bars. I’m diverging off the subject. This tape is very quiet as far as noise. I heard none. The recording was excellent. As far as me going to lay down any more money on metal tapes, no. I feel better off chasing chrome ones. I am lucky to have a sizable collection already of metal blanks already. I have to focus my efforts on metal. Find her and get this on the shelf Tony. It speaks to electro fans!
I agree, this song needs to be published. Love the music!
What would be a (far!!) cheaper option of great quality metal cassette now days? Great vid and song, by the way, thanks! Subscribed.
There is none except the pot luck of buying used. The smart way in this day and age is to buy the best deck you can, then they can make pretty much any decent cassette sound good.
Damn this track is fire
You can listen to it in full here: villarosso.bandcamp.com/album/quattro
that is some mighty impressive analog performance on that tape, had too turn up my volume too actually hear that the hiss is lower than the hum.. or equal, .
and a nice tune too
The vu meters on that old deck are not accurate. It was recorded peaking at +7db, so lower playback volume needed, so less hiss.
You could record metal tape several dB hotter than any other type. +6 dB from Dolby level would still sound clean on a good deck but would overload on cheap boomboxes.
Really good track! I too hope it gets a release. and as always a gread video, nice to see how these tapes sound (as well as youtube can allow anyway) :)
I remember buying one of these brand new. it was crazy expensive!!!
I think they were $20 each back in 1990! Crazy money for just one tape. I bought about 20 of them over time.
Sounded great and looked super cool.
If I remember right, they also came with this this plastic sheet with letters and numbers on them and you would stencil your titles onto the cassette by pushing the letters/numbers on by pressing down on the other side. Ohhh, I didn't go far enough into the video: he opened it. I remembered correctly.
I found like 10 of these last year in a storage room with all my super old electronics. Mini Disc decks and stuff like that.
Wow,beautilfull item ❤️🤗
Thanks for your video 👍🙂
Nice tune. I Like it, I like it... You really need to get back in touch with the bird what sings on this track.
Always a pleasure to see a vid of you. Objective opinion and no-nonsense. Nice song. I remember another video in which is a song of yourself but can't remember which video :( The window of the Sony cassette looks almost the same as the THAT'S Suono metal.
Great song. Tape sounds incredible to me.
Very nice 👌 good job guys! Back in 97-98 I bought the Sony Signiture at a Tower Records when they were still around. It was 110 or 120 minute tape, black thin tape color. I didn't know jack about it and recorded random stuff on it with a regular stereo. The sound was so very thin and the frequency was super high lol...I wondered where all the bass went. Anyway it DOES actually get stuck in car stereo, especially a VCR type tape deck from my mom's 1994 Ford Thunderbird XL. I also remember loving the feel of the metal case, it was cool; almost cold to the touch. Thank you for your videos. I learn a whole lot just began recording to cassette again not too long ago. ~Ramon Altamirano
These cassettes are amazing ,I used a few of them
... Ooly shit! That songs awesome! So hope she gets in touch, took me back to the mid 80s being driven back from youth club in my mums Capri! lol Great channel + content!
I also found it difficult to open used metal master cassette marketplace.
I'm worried about which song to record :)
The song in the video is also very good.
That's them, i passed on the chance to get the from my brother years ago, just because i did not have a deck anymore. How stupid was i 🤪
Hindsight is a wonderful thing...
@@CassetteComeback Who sings?Write please!
It is one I produced with a singer, that I cannot release.
Great song on a beautiful cassette, would leave it there
I bought a couple "Super Metal Master" back in the 90s. Ended up selling them for over $300 in 2005. They sounded a-ma-zing !!! And the weight of them made me feel like they could last forever.
i think this is the best metal tape ever made
P.S.- was given a 'Kisni' C-60 tape today. Black screwed case with paper label. Looks old and has ' Compact Cassette' written on it.Never seen one before. Not tried recording on it yet. Keep up the great channel.
I have maybe a dozen of these, and find them not at all like your garden variety metal tapes. First, they are not easy to bias, and take my ZX-7 almost to the limit.
Once dialed in, on my system, they sound very lush and base to lower-mids forward.
That's not to say they can't capture the highs - they can.
I push them pretty hard without any noise reduction, and they sound pretty fantastic to me.
If this looses microscopic ceramic material on the tapepath you will have a great sanding tape for your heads :-)
Great tune! Very nice looking cassette too, but a bit pricey for me.
Too pricey for me. I unwrapped one for the video, the rest are for sale 😀
I had one for my 4track recorder to cut down on vibration and it did make an appreciable difference
I still have several Sony Metal SR-100 tapes from the late 1980s with some mix music that still sound really good given the age.
You have a cool name 😀
I forgot about these. I once had a mid 90's version of this. It came in an anodized aluminum two-piece case which it was form-fitted into. It cost $20 if I remember correctly. The shell looked otherwise similar, was white, and had the visible grey innards poking through the capstan holes.
That's the later Super metal master
I still have my ceramic cassettes. Bought them in Japan in early 90’s.
KajaGooGoo would be nice to put on this tape, especially Islands/Extra Play album, but you can record Kaja (they renamed in 1987 or so) :D
That’s the one who did his only hit “Too Shy” In 1983.
@@Musicradio77Network Not really. Listen to two later albums, those are much better than the first one.
I have seen one Super Metal Master on ebay. Wrapped and new for 110€. Crazy.
Great you finally relase this song on "Quattro"
7:12 This makes sense: Can you picture what an aberration would it be to put a paper sticker on one of these? Even my 15-year old self was not particularly fond of using those on his humble cassettes. Everything was indexed in the inlay, why would I want to stick a thing that would yellow and get dirt on it just to repeat information? I can hear you say: What if you, for any reason, had several same-model cassettes out of their cases lying around at some point? Well, what about just playing a second of it, and I know which one it is, problem solved.
I think the letraset is a neat and elegant solution
@@CassetteComeback So do I. Hope you got I was talking about myself as a teen. The correct sentence would go "my 15-year old SELF". Won't point up the fact that English is not my mother tongue since it has nothing to do with that, it's more like I don't know how I left that out. Maybe my mind is shot at my early forties, bad luck to me...
$60 pounds is almost $100 Canadian. No wonder I never see these. Not even back in the day. How much did they retail for in 1990?
I got a laugh when you said you deflower them !!! You don't have to do it for my sake ! Maybe get viewers to donate opened tapes to use instead of unsealing them. :) Thanks tho that was very cool.
He said they were 20 pounds when new.
@@splo1nger909 More than a CD, and it didn't even come with any music! Total ripoff!
Ceramic! Interesting material choice Sony.
Taking it back to 1985!! I dig it.
Back in the 1990s I was an assistant manager at a Camelot music store. I don't know if they had any Camelot music stores in the UK or Europe. They are now called FYE here in the US. I was fortunate enough to find one 90 minutes Sony Metal Master cassette tape in a Bargain Bin! At the time when Maxell was selling 5 pack of UDXL II for $10.99 USD, this precious Sony Metal Master, in a Bargain Bin mind you cost the same! I never seen one like it so I had to get it and let me tell you this, it is an incredible tape! On side one I recorded "Mark O'conner-Meanings Of" ( which is an absolute incredible album if you have not heard it) and on the side two I recorded a collection of my favorite "Alison Krauss" tunes and it sounded perfect then and it still sounds perfect now! I have seen these Sony Metal Master cassettes going for as high as $100 USD used on eBay very recently! That beats some TDK MA sealed cassettes that were listed at the same time! Thanks Tony for making this video!.... I'm still waiting for you to make a video on the 3M Blackwatch 2020 or the 3M Blackwatch 4040. Or better yet the very rare Bang & Olufsen cassette tapes or even the more rare Loran cassette tapes... Just some thoughts...
Glad you like the videos. Yeah, my boss had a few in the day, but I never was tempted. 10x UDII or one SMM? Not really a choice for me then. The Scotch Blackwatch and Loran are North American only, so hard for me to get. The blue Bang & Olufsen cassettes are just rebranded BASF Chrome Maxima II, 1989 version, and I looked at those early on as they're one of my favourites.
@@CassetteComeback Thank you for replying to my comment. I understand the Dilemma between 10x UDII vs. 1 SMM for sure. I only ever found one physical SMM and it was in the cheap Bargain Bin so I thought I'd get it because I'm never going to get the chance to get another one. Mind you, the price of the SMM was slashed at least in half because it was in a cheap Bargain Bin so it would sell faster. I'm sure most people didn't understand what that cassette was all about. I did. If memory serves, I believe I paid roughly $6.99 USD and that was in the 1990s somewhere along the line. Anyway, thanks for your reply! You still sound like Paul McCartney and I love to listen to you as you display your wonderful cassette tapes and explain the good, the bad and The Ugly! Thanks Tony!
Hold on, taking out the floor of my bathroom and stuffing it into my deck
😂
I have just one of the Sony Metal Master cassette tapes. Only one! The reason why I have only one is because even back in the day when they were slightly available in the USA, meaning just too expensive for the stores to put them on the shelves cuz they wouldn't move because people didn't understand what they really were, they were so expensive. But I do agree 100% and I always have said that this is the best tape that I have ever used! I still have the original music I recorded on and either the late 80s or very early 90s. I actually bought this tape brand new in a Bargain Bin for $6.99 USD in the time we're paying that much for a cassette tape was just out of the question here in the USA. But, most definitely the best cassette tape ever! The second best tape without any doubt that I have ever used I only have 2 of is the 3M black watch 20/20 and 40/40. Once again I only have two of those because they were terribly expensive in the late 80s per cassette tape. $8.99 USD each! Ouch! But, I suppose perhaps Denon made those 3 M's and if so it was the best Denon tape that was ever made!
Great video, but the song is AMAZING!
If enough people feel the same, I'll release it...then maybe the singer will get back in contact. Hmm....
@@CassetteComeback maybe you are the one that needs to do the shoutout. Like " hey remember the stuff we did? Contact me if u interested etc"
If I had a way to contact her I would. I replied to the last mail she sent to me and it simply bounced back as the address was not in use...
@@CassetteComeback damn. :/ maybe she has facebook? Friends?
Release the track, Tony. Nice Pads and leads. Nice looking deck and tape, mate. :)
Had a few, still have, great.
As unlikely as this might sound, I watched this video because at the weekend I found one of these among a bunch of D-90s in a SKIP! I'm already a bit of a tape-head anyway, so whenever I see any old collections being chucked out I'll have a look, but this is the first time I shouted "OH MY GOD!" in the middle of the street while rifling through a skip :D
Now I just need to decide what to use it for...never seen the point in owning cassettes and not using them.
Gotta take pleasure where you find it in this world.
Good video mate.
Unfortunately, that's pretty generic sounding 80's synth mumble pop....reminded me of David Brent's foray into pop oblivion. I agree with Colin garner. Tape info is very informative as usual.
So what music have you created and released? None? Those who can't, critique...
OMG when I was a teenager in the 90 I thought Im the only person in the world obsessed about cassettes. No internet back then. Now I know, I was wrong. Remember when these ceramic marvell was on sale but could not afford it. BTW my favourite sounding tape is sony UX-PRO
The mid 80s UX-PRO is one of the greatest Cassettes ever IMHO.
@@CassetteComeback Well, ux-pro I tested was early 90 but it was great and durable. I didnt know the origin of it was 80s. and btw I put this tape into dcc case and was able to record digital on it. Tried differet brands but there ware to many errors ux-pro worked fine.
@@buretehudesi I didn't think I had tried UX-pro but many other chrome tapes back then. I ended up using Maxell XLII-S for DCC.
I dont care if the metal tape is a thousand quid, maxell typeII will always be my favourite for sound quality.
It's the law of diminishing returns.
@@CassetteComeback Its those sizzling highs and great bandpass sound of a good type ii that metals just dont deliver, in fact id goas far as to say metals sound boring in comparison, a maxell type II from 1988 or 90 will destroy a metal for hf response.
I wondered whether I'd ever see a video on the ceramic metal master, as I have just 1 of them with all my other cassettes, I also brought many Sony metal XR tapes in the black shells they are Excellent cassettes to record on I can remember when I first used one of them to record Madonnas immaculate Collection and it was as good as the record.
Nice cassette, never seen them up to this. Was wondering have you heard of a new brand of tape made in Italy called Magnex ?
Don't think they're new, but yeah, I've heard of Magnex. Seem to have shells from Matsushita, but again, only in Italy.
Don't think they're new, but yeah, I've heard of Magnex. Seem to have shells from Matsushita, but again, only in Italy.
Will this be available on CD? Amazing song!
It's due to be released on all streaming platforms on the 18th October.
tbh, Gwen has such a beautiful voice
Felicitaciones desde Argentina! Este si que no lo tengo en mi colección! genial
Cassette Comeback. Tony, is any tape with aluminium case?
Love seeing your videos. Got a job recently. I MIGHT buy some tapes if i survive the couple of weeks.
Oh that song sounds amazing i wonder who was that singer
Tape metal master the best one than others tapes
That song is here:
villarosso.bandcamp.com/album/lost-astronaut-falling
imagine a bathroom made out of these thatd be an expensive wall haha
You would have thought they would have just put in a sliding erase protection tab (like 8mm video cassettes) instead of that fiddly mess.
Yeah, like Loran did on their Cassettes.
Interesting you can’t hear the difference vs. a regular metal tape, Great video anyway, Denon MG-X, That’s Suono next?
I'll have to save up for a bit before doing those 😀 I have got a very rare and interesting cassette to look at in a future video...
@@CassetteComeback Looking forward to it
Metal Master? Hell yeah! 🤟
That song with such a tape feels almost ironic.
Tony are you the only other person on the planet other than me that didn’t find the sound of this tape any better than a Tdk MA-R. I had some expensive tapes in my collection that for what ever reason I never got rid of when I got out of Cassettes. I’m now back with a vengeance and I have one of these along with three Maxell Vertex and the MA-R, MA-X, and when you get to this level of type four metal the differences are mostly in the shell than it is the tape itself.
They are fun to have but with the price of the Metal Master, I will do more of my recording on the normal and chrome with the occasional Sony SR and the UCX and UX-S. Tony is it true that the Sony UCX-S and the UX-S is basically the same tape formula with Sony dropping the C from the name around 87-88?
At the level these top metals are, there's minimal difference that my ears can perceive. Yeah, they dropped the C, the formulations changed over the years however.
I have a chance to put my hands on a Dual C 824, do you think its a nice opction for a deck comapred with a yamaha kx 580? Great video!
I’ve never seen this tape before. Sony Metal Master cassettes are very expensive, and the cassette shell is made of ceramic instead of plastic. It would not play it in a car or on one of the shoebox cassette recorders, this is recommended for high end cassette decks.
I remember seeing one in asda in 1995 for about £20
Wow. Never thought ASDA would have stocked these. Either way, buy one blank or 2 new albums. I know what I would have bought back in the day...
@@CassetteComeback they are lovely cassettes. Only ever saw them Once there and a few times at the sony store later on but never appreciated high end tapes back then. It was tdk cding and with extra pocket money, sa or sa x.
That's it, D / UR / HF, or if I was flush SF or UDII and they were all good enough.
Hi, is this deck powerful enough to completely erase blank for the Sony super metal master?
I really like your song..it sound great..............
I wonder if the 3-second music blip @0:11 is part from Türküm/EBEN's track Creed.
It's not as I've never heard of it 😀
Denon MG-X were some damn good white shells. The worst I ever seen in were Prism type 0.. tape that looks black as high bias or metal but was as bad as Recoton.
If you told me this was pure digital, I would believe you.
Can you put your music on GooglePlay? I only use the one play service because I like the consistency, never have trouble switching devices and phones. I also don't need several apps that work a million different ways. I've got Soundcloud which for songs that are hard to find from what I can figure is free, but I loathe using it.
It's been 7 years since I dumped CDs. You've got me making mix tapes, buying music I haven't thought of in years. I still haven't bought a metal tape ever
All my Villarosso tracks are on Google Play Music
Okay, so I put Tears in Rain on a Laser 60 min tape. It's damn good. Not the cassette. Best recording on the tape though. It's how I remember tapes. Then I put it on a Sony UX 90, it's the first song I was able to get right on that tape, followed it up with Marathon. Is that metro noises mixed in there? I could argue I like hearing the tape more than the phone it was recorded from. I'm only doing this for fun, the challenge I guess. Once I get to listening to it playing back, when it's perfect, I keep listening to the whole song. Then I want to record another. I've found I can compensate for not having a biasing tape deck with the EQ and tube amp simulator on the phone at a specific volume. Dolby C on the deck. Playback needs no adjustments
One more thing. Have you heard of Moog? I think you'd like some of Moog's music, it's not 80's synth but there's something about your music and his music, one reminds me of the other, complementary. Bullet, Neon Lights, Remember, These City Lights, Flee the City, are one's I'd suggest checking out for sure.
Great track Tony!!!