Growing up in the early 90s to early 2000s, I would record mock radio shows with my brother and sister. I wish I saved those not realizing that today it would be called a "podcast."
The Audio Cassette format and the Cassette recorder were THE essential tools of my earliest childhood. In fact the old suitcase radio of my mom was my first electronic compantion that felt like a magic box to me. When you turned it on and tuned into a station and hearing the voices coming from the loudspeaker, making the radio seem like as if there's people inside it, talking to you and playing music from inside. You could not control what they did, only tuning the station and making them fade and come back in again but it felt like magic because it all came out of thin air. I spent a lot of time when i was four years old or so... listening to radio dramas and and at 5, just shy of 6, i got my own cassette recorder with radio in it. It was an Aiwa TPR-300A that my parents had gotten second hand before i was born and i loved this radio recorder sooo much. Not just for the good sound but for the possibility of playing and recording cassettes. I did not record anything on it as i did not get blank tapes till i was 7. The red recording button felt dangerous to me as if being pushed meant the ENTIRE cassette would be erased and i mostly listened audio stories for kids and the Synthesizer music tapes my dad gave me. It always made me dream and feel like i was somewhere else and i often red comics or drew pictures while listening... and when i got into school i got my first portable cassette player. A really kinda cheap one where you always heard the tape motor buzz when it ran. And it sucked batteries dry like crazy. At the same time my parents got their first CD player which was a Philips double-tapedeck radio recorder with a Toploader CD player in it as well. But i mostly used it for recording because it had a built in microphone and i was finally able to record something as i had gotten my first blank tape. A Sony HF Type1 60 minute cassette with smoke grey clear case. Being able to record something, playing it back, gave me joys like nothing else because it just felt so freaking cool and fun. From then on i recorded countless cassettes with my sister and sometimes friends, doing improvised stories and nonsense comedy and a few years later i experimented with a Casio keyboard and recorded a few things. First from speaker to mic and later with a recorder that had Line input. THAT was a whole new world for me when my dad showed me you could record something to cassette without a microphone but any sound source that had audio output jacks. Before that i could only record from Radio like that and that too always felt so fascinating. Recording what you just heard on radio and on my cheaper recorders the FM stereo pilot tone caused some weird noises and i remember at the very end of the FM band was always a weird beeping rhythm that was the so called "Euro Piep". I think it had something to do with pagers but i didn't know what it was back then. Just found that sound oddly fascinating and often listened to it for a while as if it was some kind of minimal melody loop, always randomly looping. Sadly AM was never really as big in Europe and Germany, like it is in the US... so talk radio here was usually only at night on some FM stations and even then not in every region of the country. But i do remember listening to some AM stations as a kid and always found it curious that there was a SECOND radio band that sounded a little less clear but still had quite some activity too. Nowdays it's only neighbor countries you can still hear on AM here in Germany. Stations bleeding in from England, Romania and Russia mostly. Often REALLY strong and clear too. It's pretty relaxing laying in bed or sitting in your chair, tuning in and listen through your headphones, voices speaking in languages you mostly don't understand ... so you don't really listen to much to WHAT they say but more like HOW they say it and it becomes like a vocal pad you can really nicely nod off to drift away with. Like the radio signal often drifts too.
This part about all those radio stations hit close to home. Searching for small stations at night is pleasant, I did it a lot when I was a kid, still doing it today. I really liked your video and all the atmosphere that goes with it !
yeah! i actually went to a vintage store the other day in providence that had a good number of metal tapes. just checked out the walkman you mentioned. looks super sturdy!
I just bought a cassette/radio/MP3 converter to digitize years of aging 4-track demos and I’m getting exited about my music again. Really enjoyed your video.🙌
The magnus archives podcast got me into learning about cassettes/tape recorders. I'd grown up around them due to my parents being older, but seeing them used in a medium/show I love makes me so much more interested in them and how they work
I love this. So calming, honest and relevant. I’m a late 80’s baby, I grew up with tapes and like many people ditched them for CD’s and eventually Digital. I’m exploring the world of cassettes again too after all this time and I’d love to start recording analogue tapes of all my Apple Music playlists. Keep up the great work. Respect from the UK
I'm a gen X'er and have recently gotten back into taping. I bought a 70s tapedeck and am doing some voice overs for various projects using a wide variety of blank cassettes. I bought myself a Walkman from the 80s and have various music tapes. It has a radio but can't record. I find Spotify uses up too much data and want to keep space on my phone for photos and video, so the Walkman helps when I have to travel and keeps my anxiety at bay. I'm glad there is another generation making their own use of these things and getting enjoyment out of the gear.
awww what a thoughtful comment. and i’m glad too. tapes are really a magical technology. i love voice in blank cassette. im hoping to do something similar soon. what projects?
🤠 The walkmans will make a comeback, eventually just like the cassette tapes well. Also I was at a store the one day and seen them had a lot of records and record players so why not cassette tapes and walkmans. The one thing I didn't like about the Walkman is the fact that he had to keep a lot of batteries on you. But they were good back in the '80s and '90s plus you had to carry like a five or six cassette tapes on you in your pocket, while you're walking or riding your skateboard. Eventually down the road sooner or later everything comes back into style then it goes back out again.
This Cassette player is beautiful, what model is it? This video is so soothing and just really cool. I've been enjoying my tape player cuz like you I'm a 20 something who was a kid when CDs were more prevalent. With the walkman I got a few weeks ago I am still so enamored with how the devise is only made to play music and does it so well, without any distraction. Great video sir.
its all about escapism and nostalgia no 1 wants to be alive now and the cassette sounds like a world long gone i have just found my old Sony Walkman from 1989 still working however i don't use it as it was ment to i connected it to a UE Boom via the headphone jack it sounds great and the radio runs for days and days on 2 AA batteries
Wow ! The vibes I got from this video was insane ! I was thinking about getting a tape reader/recorder and this video convince to just go ahead and buy it
This video has such good vibes that it convinced me to buy this exact model of cassette player (even though i already got a few cassette players lol). really great video.
@@travisdumais2538 yes, it's really awesome. the device can even record in stereo if you plug an aux cable in the microphone jack. i have recorded multiple mixtapes on it and they're decent quality! i listen to this device all the time now: radio, mixtapes and even audiobooks. really well spent 40 bucks.
Artfully done video, Travis. Recently, an indie artist I support released a bundle of her vinyl, CD, digital, cassette, and T-shirt of the latest album. I didn't have anything to play the cassette with so I ordered a recorder Walkman from Amazon. My husband hung onto his 1980's cassettes from hair bands and heavy metal. We've been playing his old tapes on there. My 3 year old enjoys recording his voice. So he will chat a little, then I will record a vinyl song on my tape. More talking from my son, then another recorded song. I'm sure I will cherish this more so than some random file on my iPhone. It seems more permanent b/c it's a hard copy.
i love this comment. and appreciate it a lot. so glad you have those old libraries and your sons voice on tape. it will be even more nostalgic as time goes on ::)
@@travisdumais2538 My parents made fun of me for having cassettes but when shit hits the fan, I know a few batteries will give me radio on the cassette player to know what’s going on. And music ;)
Living in a city, all I would want is to go to my favorite place in the mountains, sit there and write a whole cassette with the ambient sounds there, and have it at reach when at home or away to listen and imagine...
It looks like the cassette even out survived other record-able formats like CDR's and solid state digital recorders if they are still in use today. You have to give some credit there for the format for it's simple and ready ease of use in a tangible form. No wires, syncing, or menu folders needed . Just having the player and tape ready to go on the go from the portable to the car and then the home stereo on the fly with something YOU created. It can be fun like taking Polaroid photos other than a digital one that just sits on your phone.
@@travisdumais2538 Glad to hear someone else who understands cassette recorded analog media for the purpose and warmth of it. I had to recently throw out all my CD's that I made in the 2010's. They just would not work in any player anymore. It's like they where slowly being erased over time losing data and skipping. I still have plenty of personal cassettes i made years before and they ALL still work fine. The cassette deck I made them on died but it was easy to buy a refurbished cassette deck from eBay from a reputable buyer who repairs mostly tape decks. The tapes sound as good as day one and are 15to 20 years older than the CD's. If you want to store your audible memories do it on a cassette tape. They will still be around years from now and so will the equipment to play them on. My oldest cassette is over 54 years old and still plays. I think that is enough for a lifetime and then some for whoever to discover it. My outdoor time capsule tape (Maxell UR 90 clear shell) was buried in the soil in a zip lock bag in an air tight container 30 years ago and still plays just as it did when new. Try that with a CD or MP3 player and see if they still work.
Cassettes and MiniDiscs are still fun to use. Solid State recorders... just feel so boring because file handling is not really satisfying when the recordings are just random anonymous files on a flash memory.
Growing up Christian, I wasn't allowed to listen to 'worldly music', but I found a tape player radio like this and used it to record songs on the radio late at night under the covers in my bed (rip 95.5 wbru). I bought a 4-track recorder as an adult and recorded my own music over a bunch of bloodhound gang, bon jovi, and other albums on tape. But the cool thing was that I could still turn the track up for the song on the tape, so I could mix my song in with the music already there. And you could get it to play backwards too. I'll upload some of it if I can find it. Also happly big 3-0!
aww thanks Khem!! i’ve actually never used a 4 track tape recorder, but have heard great things about the sound. also if you’re back in RI check out 88.1 it’s basically bru that my boss actually runs. and yeah it’s weird being 30 but i’m glad i’m here and doing it ::)
oh that sounds so nice. as does the auto skip ahead feature. and agreed they are a beautiful piece of art for sure. i might do a cassette release at some point as well ::) have a good day!
For me, cassettes are an interesting and possibly efficient way to quickly record the music I'm listening to and create a physical, tangible version of the music I love so much. Also the "analogue loophole" is pretty sweet, even if I _do_ mostly download music by paying for it.
cool video. my band tracks our instruments onto FL studio then bounces to a tascam 4 track to mix and master, tape has a unique way of wrapping everything into a little sonic bundle thats really hard to recreate digitally. we pull those masters back onto the computer and release it from there. highly recommend this process if you’re going for that sound.
they sooo do. i actually just got a bluetooth tape that i can put into this device. haven’t tested it yet but i’m curious if the lack of tape will take away that warmth. going to try to make some samples with it soon using my iphone and the new tape!
Whoa. This is awesome. Next level down the rabbit hole. I have all this tape gear like micro cassettes, tascam 388, 424, yamaha mt44. I'm into this stuff right now.
It was so awesome to hear your thoughts on cassette tapes. I’m a huge fan of cassette tapes too, trying to get back into making more videos possibly some about cassette tapes. Keep up the great work! 😊🤟
@@travisdumais2538 Sorry I just saw this. I had a thought to watch this video again then saw your comment! I’m happy to say I’ve gotten back into the video making. Working on doing more with animatics and vlogs. It’s been fun! Thanks again!
I really think that they need to bring back a high quality 4 tracker. Also a new listening medium. Where we have a place or thing that emits music like it used to. People have got lazy with listening to music on there phone speaker. No artwork to hold. A virtual Rhodes sounds good through an amp miced up. I often wonder if digital recording 0 + 1s would sound bad to an Alien compared to magnetic tape recordings of analogue and acoustic sources.
Interesting thought. I suspect if the aliens and had more sensitive ears and could pick up on it it might sound bad. Or maybe they would like the digitized nature of it
@@travisdumais2538Hi, a digital wav looks like a staircase and an analogue wav is smooth and pure ....i1.wp.com/academy.gray-spark.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Analog-vs-Digital-Converter.jpg?fit=1024%2C581&ssl=1 Its not pure like analogue recording.. It must proove its better or natural recording to magnetic tape even though the quality isnt as good. I always wondered if Aliens would hear our digital recordings as glitchy and not smooth..
@@travisdumais2538 i started collecting them again, last time i used a cassette tape was in early 2000's. (I'm a 90's kid so i got into tapes right at the end of the era. And i still enjoy them, i have a sony walkman that i repaired and even tho there's hiss? I barely notice it when a song comes on, but there's Noise Reduction so that helps with reducing tape hiss..Tapes are unique. ♥️
Did you work as a videographer in the past? There's something about your videos that make me suspect you'll have 20K subscribers before the end of 2022. Keep it up!
awww thank you!! i’ve been working so much that making videos is difficult but i’m hoping work slows down soon so i can start producing more!! these comments are so kind
Wow those days. Huge stereo radio cum cassette players from National/Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi, Akai, Aiwa, JVC, Toshiba etc. Super sound super quality. But they are no longer made. How sad!!!. I am desperately looking for these super machines. But servicing is a problem because spares are not available in the company itself. But, I believe that one day they will be back.
Growing up in the early 90s to early 2000s, I would record mock radio shows with my brother and sister. I wish I saved those not realizing that today it would be called a "podcast."
The Audio Cassette format and the Cassette recorder were THE essential tools of my earliest childhood. In fact the old suitcase radio of my mom was my first electronic compantion that felt like a magic box to me. When you turned it on and tuned into a station and hearing the voices coming from the loudspeaker, making the radio seem like as if there's people inside it, talking to you and playing music from inside. You could not control what they did, only tuning the station and making them fade and come back in again but it felt like magic because it all came out of thin air. I spent a lot of time when i was four years old or so... listening to radio dramas and and at 5, just shy of 6, i got my own cassette recorder with radio in it. It was an Aiwa TPR-300A that my parents had gotten second hand before i was born and i loved this radio recorder sooo much. Not just for the good sound but for the possibility of playing and recording cassettes. I did not record anything on it as i did not get blank tapes till i was 7.
The red recording button felt dangerous to me as if being pushed meant the ENTIRE cassette would be erased and i mostly listened audio stories for kids and the Synthesizer music tapes my dad gave me. It always made me dream and feel like i was somewhere else and i often red comics or drew pictures while listening... and when i got into school i got my first portable cassette player. A really kinda cheap one where you always heard the tape motor buzz when it ran. And it sucked batteries dry like crazy. At the same time my parents got their first CD player which was a Philips double-tapedeck radio recorder with a Toploader CD player in it as well. But i mostly used it for recording because it had a built in microphone and i was finally able to record something as i had gotten my first blank tape.
A Sony HF Type1 60 minute cassette with smoke grey clear case. Being able to record something, playing it back, gave me joys like nothing else because it just felt so freaking cool and fun. From then on i recorded countless cassettes with my sister and sometimes friends, doing improvised stories and nonsense comedy and a few years later i experimented with a Casio keyboard and recorded a few things. First from speaker to mic and later with a recorder that had Line input. THAT was a whole new world for me when my dad showed me you could record something to cassette without a microphone but any sound source that had audio output jacks. Before that i could only record from Radio like that and that too always felt so fascinating. Recording what you just heard on radio and on my cheaper recorders the FM stereo pilot tone caused some weird noises and i remember at the very end of the FM band was always a weird beeping rhythm that was the so called "Euro Piep". I think it had something to do with pagers but i didn't know what it was back then. Just found that sound oddly fascinating and often listened to it for a while as if it was some kind of minimal melody loop, always randomly looping.
Sadly AM was never really as big in Europe and Germany, like it is in the US... so talk radio here was usually only at night on some FM stations and even then not in every region of the country. But i do remember listening to some AM stations as a kid and always found it curious that there was a SECOND radio band that sounded a little less clear but still had quite some activity too. Nowdays it's only neighbor countries you can still hear on AM here in Germany. Stations bleeding in from England, Romania and Russia mostly. Often REALLY strong and clear too. It's pretty relaxing laying in bed or sitting in your chair, tuning in and listen through your headphones, voices speaking in languages you mostly don't understand ... so you don't really listen to much to WHAT they say but more like HOW they say it and it becomes like a vocal pad you can really nicely nod off to drift away with. Like the radio signal often drifts too.
This part about all those radio stations hit close to home. Searching for small stations at night is pleasant, I did it a lot when I was a kid, still doing it today. I really liked your video and all the atmosphere that goes with it !
yay!! more soon friend. that feeling when you discover a channel you didn’t know of or even better a pirate radio station!
Here from reddit, you should buy a refurbished Walkman and review it. Better sound quality and battery life msot likely
Thanks! Yeah I’ll keep an eye out. Also nice username
@@travisdumais2538 the Walkman EX line is fantastic so keep an eye out on eBay. Tapes are Kvlt as fuck and very popular in the metal community, thanks
yeah! i actually went to a vintage store the other day in providence that had a good number of metal tapes. just checked out the walkman you mentioned. looks super sturdy!
I thought the walkman couldn't do recording?
Some of them can
I just bought a cassette/radio/MP3 converter to digitize years of aging 4-track demos and I’m getting exited about my music again. Really enjoyed your video.🙌
Such a beautiful and poetic video, ad such a glorious walkman!!!
Thank you Glassman SK, really is a great Walkman!
@@travisdumais2538 Love ur vids keep up the great work man! The Slovak Walkman community will watch your career grow with great intrest
that makes me super happy! ::) more to come
The magnus archives podcast got me into learning about cassettes/tape recorders. I'd grown up around them due to my parents being older, but seeing them used in a medium/show I love makes me so much more interested in them and how they work
This is really lovely. Well done
thank you! i learned a lot making it
This cassette player really means a lot to you, thumbs up!
Absolutely got me through some tough times for sure
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I love this. So calming, honest and relevant. I’m a late 80’s baby, I grew up with tapes and like many people ditched them for CD’s and eventually Digital. I’m exploring the world of cassettes again too after all this time and I’d love to start recording analogue tapes of all my Apple Music playlists. Keep up the great work. Respect from the UK
I'm a gen X'er and have recently gotten back into taping. I bought a 70s tapedeck and am doing some voice overs for various projects using a wide variety of blank cassettes. I bought myself a Walkman from the 80s and have various music tapes. It has a radio but can't record. I find Spotify uses up too much data and want to keep space on my phone for photos and video, so the Walkman helps when I have to travel and keeps my anxiety at bay. I'm glad there is another generation making their own use of these things and getting enjoyment out of the gear.
awww what a thoughtful comment. and i’m glad too. tapes are really a magical technology. i love voice in blank cassette. im hoping to do something similar soon. what projects?
@@travisdumais2538 doing voice-over overs for podcasting and blog videos for different YT channels plus a short audio drama
🤠
The walkmans will make a comeback, eventually just like the cassette tapes well.
Also I was at a store the one day and seen them had a lot of records and record players so why not cassette tapes and walkmans.
The one thing I didn't like about the Walkman is the fact that he had to keep a lot of batteries on you. But they were good back in the '80s and '90s plus you had to carry like a five or six cassette tapes on you in your pocket, while you're walking or riding your skateboard. Eventually down the road sooner or later everything comes back into style then it goes back out again.
yeah it’s funny the ebbs and flows of certain technologies and aesthetics
This Cassette player is beautiful, what model is it? This video is so soothing and just really cool. I've been enjoying my tape player cuz like you I'm a 20 something who was a kid when CDs were more prevalent. With the walkman I got a few weeks ago I am still so enamored with how the devise is only made to play music and does it so well, without any distraction. Great video sir.
Thank you! I’m gonna check and get back to ya. It’s weird right a single use device, in a world where our phones are everything. More to come ::)
its all about escapism and nostalgia
no 1 wants to be alive now
and the cassette sounds like a world long gone
i have just found my old Sony Walkman from 1989 still working
however i don't use it as it was ment to i connected it to a UE Boom via the headphone jack
it sounds great and the radio runs for days and days on 2 AA batteries
yeah that's really how ive been feeling lately and why this tec was giving me those vibes. the magic of aa batteries! thank you for your comment
Wow ! The vibes I got from this video was insane ! I was thinking about getting a tape reader/recorder and this video convince to just go ahead and buy it
Aww thank you! That’s really nice to hear. Hope you’re enjoying your tape recorder this weekend!
This video has such good vibes that it convinced me to buy this exact model of cassette player (even though i already got a few cassette players lol). really great video.
heck yes! have you gotten it in yet? Are you enjoying
@@travisdumais2538 yes, it's really awesome. the device can even record in stereo if you plug an aux cable in the microphone jack. i have recorded multiple mixtapes on it and they're decent quality! i listen to this device all the time now: radio, mixtapes and even audiobooks. really well spent 40 bucks.
Artfully done video, Travis. Recently, an indie artist I support released a bundle of her vinyl, CD, digital, cassette, and T-shirt of the latest album. I didn't have anything to play the cassette with so I ordered a recorder Walkman from Amazon.
My husband hung onto his 1980's cassettes from hair bands and heavy metal. We've been playing his old tapes on there. My 3 year old enjoys recording his voice. So he will chat a little, then I will record a vinyl song on my tape. More talking from my son, then another recorded song. I'm sure I will cherish this more so than some random file on my iPhone. It seems more permanent b/c it's a hard copy.
i love this comment. and appreciate it a lot. so glad you have those old libraries and your sons voice on tape. it will be even more nostalgic as time goes on ::)
@@travisdumais2538 My parents made fun of me for having cassettes but when shit hits the fan, I know a few batteries will give me radio on the cassette player to know what’s going on. And music ;)
This a really lovely commentary and the vibes were immaculate. Thank you
abaolutly! so glad
Living in a city, all I would want is to go to my favorite place in the mountains, sit there and write a whole cassette with the ambient sounds there, and have it at reach when at home or away to listen and imagine...
This is nice
@@travisdumais2538 rather accurate too xD
My girlfriend bought an old Volvo estate which came with a tape deck. I've started recording mixtapes for her. Such fun. :)
It looks like the cassette even out survived other record-able formats like CDR's and solid state digital recorders if they are still in use today. You have to give some credit there for the format for it's simple and ready ease of use in a tangible form. No wires, syncing, or menu folders needed . Just having the player and tape ready to go on the go from the portable to the car and then the home stereo on the fly with something YOU created. It can be fun like taking Polaroid photos other than a digital one that just sits on your phone.
yessss i agree with this. such a lasting technology. and even the ones that don’t because the material breaks down still have cool sampling value
@@travisdumais2538 Glad to hear someone else who understands cassette recorded analog media for the purpose and warmth of it. I had to recently throw out all my CD's that I made in the 2010's. They just would not work in any player anymore. It's like they where slowly being erased over time losing data and skipping. I still have plenty of personal cassettes i made years before and they ALL still work fine. The cassette deck I made them on died but it was easy to buy a refurbished cassette deck from eBay from a reputable buyer who repairs mostly tape decks. The tapes sound as good as day one and are 15to 20 years older than the CD's. If you want to store your audible memories do it on a cassette tape. They will still be around years from now and so will the equipment to play them on. My oldest cassette is over 54 years old and still plays. I think that is enough for a lifetime and then some for whoever to discover it. My outdoor time capsule tape (Maxell UR 90 clear shell) was buried in the soil in a zip lock bag in an air tight container 30 years ago and still plays just as it did when new. Try that with a CD or MP3 player and see if they still work.
Cassettes and MiniDiscs are still fun to use. Solid State recorders... just feel so boring because file handling is not really satisfying when the recordings are just random anonymous files on a flash memory.
Nice video and commentary. Very soothing and ethereal. I like how some of the younger generation is embracing the nostalgia of tape.
Thank you! And yeah nothing quite like it for sure
Growing up Christian, I wasn't allowed to listen to 'worldly music', but I found a tape player radio like this and used it to record songs on the radio late at night under the covers in my bed (rip 95.5 wbru). I bought a 4-track recorder as an adult and recorded my own music over a bunch of bloodhound gang, bon jovi, and other albums on tape. But the cool thing was that I could still turn the track up for the song on the tape, so I could mix my song in with the music already there. And you could get it to play backwards too. I'll upload some of it if I can find it. Also happly big 3-0!
aww thanks Khem!! i’ve actually never used a 4 track tape recorder, but have heard great things about the sound. also if you’re back in RI check out 88.1 it’s basically bru that my boss actually runs. and yeah it’s weird being 30 but i’m glad i’m here and doing it ::)
also the reason it took so long to respond to this comment is because it somehow got flagged as possibly spam
Cassette's to me are beautiful peace of art.
oh that sounds so nice. as does the auto skip ahead feature. and agreed they are a beautiful piece of art for sure. i might do a cassette release at some point as well ::) have a good day!
@@travisdumais2538 Seems a lot of people on here find your voice comforting. So go for it! : )
my dad recorded himself on a cassette tape yesterday lmao I used to record myself on cassettes back when I was 10/11 :D
Oh wow throw back and yes there’s just something so warm about them
I have many a cassette tape of young me talking nonsense and singing into a cassette recorder
Think I'm gonna head over to the thrift store. :) Enjoyed the video.
Awesome!
For me, cassettes are an interesting and possibly efficient way to quickly record the music I'm listening to and create a physical, tangible version of the music I love so much. Also the "analogue loophole" is pretty sweet, even if I _do_ mostly download music by paying for it.
cool video. my band tracks our instruments onto FL studio then bounces to a tascam 4 track to mix and master, tape has a unique way of wrapping everything into a little sonic bundle thats really hard to recreate digitally. we pull those masters back onto the computer and release it from there. highly recommend this process if you’re going for that sound.
oh this is a really great idea! getting that texture on the master sounds really interesting. going to try ::)
Why would you use fl to track instruments? It's like the most jnconvenient thing ever
MrSil haha I meant to say Ableton. it’s all the same to me cus I don’t know how to use them
amazing video i still have all my tape recorders that have a warmer feel to them
they sooo do. i actually just got a bluetooth tape that i can put into this device. haven’t tested it yet but i’m curious if the lack of tape will take away that warmth. going to try to make some samples with it soon using my iphone and the new tape!
Whoa. This is awesome. Next level down the rabbit hole. I have all this tape gear like micro cassettes, tascam 388, 424, yamaha mt44. I'm into this stuff right now.
Yeah! That’s great! I’m hoping to get back into this stuff more once I fully
Move into my new studio ::)
What a mood, lovely 😊 thanks mate
It was so awesome to hear your thoughts on cassette tapes. I’m a huge fan of cassette tapes too, trying to get back into making more videos possibly some about cassette tapes. Keep up the great work! 😊🤟
Awesome! Hope you get your creative juices going!
@@travisdumais2538 Sorry I just saw this. I had a thought to watch this video again then saw your comment! I’m happy to say I’ve gotten back into the video making. Working on doing more with animatics and vlogs. It’s been fun! Thanks again!
Magnificent video, thank you very much for this!
Welcome ::) I enjoyed making it
This video was beautiful…Man you have talent
Thank you Donny! Currently working on another one with a similar vibe
@@travisdumais2538 Awesome
I know I'm late but I did watched the video long enough to notice that they named a hurricane after me.
Bless your soul you magical storm
Beautiful - great job Travis
Thanks Adam!!
I have an old walkman, cassette recorder/players and an old Sony cassette radio.
Classic
very interesting, thank you!
great stuff! love the feel to it
Awww ty I’m going to be making more videos with this vibe soon
This is art.
Thanks Seth that’s what it’s all about
I absolutely loved this
Thanks Daniel! I’m really looking forward to putting some of these sounds into the MPC
Scratchy voices in the dark, like ghosts. Captured as imprints on an obsolete medium..
such a vibe comment ::) thank youuu
Just bought a brand new WeAreRewind tape cassette player/recorder.
yay! good move
@@travisdumais2538 It is not a perfect player, but it is better than the Amazon crap I have.
5:54 radio du quebec wow c'est cool.
I really think that they need to bring back a high quality 4 tracker. Also a new listening medium. Where we have a place or thing that emits music like it used to. People have got lazy with listening to music on there phone speaker. No artwork to hold. A virtual Rhodes sounds good through an amp miced up.
I often wonder if digital recording 0 + 1s would sound bad to an Alien compared to magnetic tape recordings of analogue and acoustic sources.
Interesting thought. I suspect if the aliens and had more sensitive ears and could pick up on it it might sound bad. Or maybe they would like the digitized nature of it
@@travisdumais2538 we may know one day soon ha the way 2020 is going..
@@travisdumais2538Hi, a digital wav looks like a staircase and an analogue wav is smooth and pure ....i1.wp.com/academy.gray-spark.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Analog-vs-Digital-Converter.jpg?fit=1024%2C581&ssl=1
Its not pure like analogue recording.. It must proove its better or natural recording to magnetic tape even though the quality isnt as good. I always wondered if Aliens would hear our digital recordings as glitchy and not smooth..
this is so vibey
All about the vibes
Great video! I love cassette tapes! :)
Thank you!! Yeah they’re great
@@travisdumais2538 You're welcome and I agree.
@@travisdumais2538 i started collecting them again, last time i used a cassette tape was in early 2000's. (I'm a 90's kid so i got into tapes right at the end of the era. And i still enjoy them, i have a sony walkman that i repaired and even tho there's hiss? I barely notice it when a song comes on, but there's Noise Reduction so that helps with reducing tape hiss..Tapes are unique. ♥️
@@UrOpinionsSucc Yes! im a 90s kid too and this is such a nice comment. im glad you get to enjoy the uniqueness of tapes ::)
@@travisdumais2538 Long Live Cassettes!!
Did you work as a videographer in the past? There's something about your videos that make me suspect you'll have 20K subscribers before the end of 2022. Keep it up!
awww thank you!! i’ve been working so much that making videos is difficult but i’m hoping work slows down soon so i can start producing more!! these comments are so kind
Great video!
Thank you! More soon ::)
Where can I get a similar device for a reasonable price?
ebay!!
the vibes wow. Do you make your background score?
yes! that score was on the minilogue
1980's are coming back
Wow those days. Huge stereo radio cum cassette players from National/Panasonic, Sony, Hitachi, Akai, Aiwa, JVC, Toshiba etc. Super sound super quality. But they are no longer made. How sad!!!. I am desperately looking for these super machines. But servicing is a problem because spares are not available in the company itself. But, I believe that one day they will be back.
yess!! it is sad when nostalgic technology is lost to innovation
I bought a Sony from 2002 I think it’s a tc-we475 back a year a so such a nearly format
I have a SONY CASSETTE DECK of the same. It is great
Cassette Sound Better Than WAV.Even Cassette Has Annoying White Hiss.
hey do you know where i could buy one of these?
i got mine from ebay!
great video! can you suggest me a very cheap cassette players and recorders but the voice quality is good and is portable? this 2020
hmm unfortunately i don’t know much about other handhelds
what microphone do you use/recommend for this model?
hmm i’m actually not sure. i do use the SM7b to record audio but that wouldn’t work with this easily
this was awesome! keep it up
thank you! im actually working on the first video of a new series called "stories from the radio"
@@travisdumais2538 that's awesome, how long did it take you to make this video?
@@destinybelen i think for days? working an hour so.
@@travisdumais2538 wow thats great! also how much did the walkman cost you?
@@destinybelen i think it was 30 or 25
Can I put digital audio into micro cassette recorders?
yeah i think if you put an audio in to this you can. but i’m no expert!
Wow what an awesome video. Where did you snag that thing? Sorry if you mentioned it in the video. And did it say Long Island or RHODE island?
Aww ty!! Was really fun to make. And Rhode Island and I got it off of eBay
@@travisdumais2538 are you from RI?
@@GasGotti yeah! You?
@@travisdumais2538 yessir!! Newport… born and raised!!!
nice :D
::) thank you
Whats the song in the background?
It’s one I made on my synth!
If you want I can dig it up and put it on a google drive for a download
@@travisdumais2538 yeah for sure!
@@SuperMikefun here you go! drive.google.com/file/d/1nh07ykNU1C49U-4Y8OIiCrc1mnDXY39M/view?usp=sharing
@@travisdumais2538 Thanks!
First contradiction of the vid... "out of date novelty/". .0:29"
im a walking contradiction
upload more about cassette tape please,hahaha.
Oh I might have one coming up in a similar fashion
@@travisdumais2538 i thought you was review some released cassette tape becasuse im being addicted on cassette tape
Do you know what time it is?
Dare time?
@@travisdumais2538 jacket reference
I'm really thinking of buying one of these but these shit are expensive as heck haha, someone can give me a hand and indicate me a cheap one of these?
I found mine on eBay but honestly it’s my first one so I’m not the best to give suggestions. Highly recommend tho ::)
Damn bro why do you sound so dead?
Was recording from inside a coffin