Asked a friend visiting Japan to try and bring me back a vintage walkman. Gave him $100 for it, told him if it was more, I'd give him more. He brought me back THREE. Apparently they're super common.
For the fluff, try taking some isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip and rub the tape head down a little bit to remove any magnetic annoyance. When I buy gummed up tape players it always works.
Also, he might have to mess with the head alignment aka azimuth. Could also just be bad tapes that have lost their high frequencies, which is quite common with old tapes.
Yes! Cleaning the tape haeds can do wonders sometimes! Often you don't even See any dort because it's so little - still it can have an impact. Also think about the pressure pars in the cassette. These can also deteriorate or someone may habe bent it down towards the inner of the cassette. This could affect the tape-to-head contact
I love how people really kinda rediscover the magic of an actual audio cassette. Including me. I recently got myself a walkman from the late 80‘s and it‘s just amazing. Can‘t go anywhere anymore without it in my pocket
@@pugg5ter542 yeah I‘m totally fr. I put my own music on the cassettes and always take the walkman and a few cassettes with me. Listen to them on the train omw to school yk I love this retro thing
Ive owned a Walkman for about four years now, and have been carrying it to work with me for one and a half. Its honestly my favorite way to experience music.
Sadly the 1st walkman wasn't designed to be mindblowing. Small history lesson, the 1st walkman was unamed hence why its known as the "TPS-L2" as they were expecting the product to totally flop. So they rehoused a "tape counter/ pressman" and removed its record function then threw it into the world Only in 1981 when the 1st Walkman to get the Wakman name the "Walkman WM-2" did sony make a machine from the ground up for audio listening and it was a huge leap. In quality, size and parts
Got do I love these old Walkmans. I have a WM-3 from '81 that I mostly take to college and when I go out and about. Most people like it and find it interesting to see a 19 year old with something this old
the thing about cassettes and vhs, is due to their composition, the tapes will gradually decrage, sometimes faster under humid conditions. i remember an anedoctal story about how the original master copies of the Macross/Robotech series was nearly destroyed due to a flood
lol no just no cassettes and vhs is shit Cds/bluray is better discs are just better when it comes to music and movies cuz its digital digital sounds better and more eaiser
@@Judyhopps-1iq no one tell bro optical discs rot to hell with time and SSDs die if you don't play with them every few months lol. Funnily enough one of the preferred formats for mass (and I mean MASS) storage in companies that need stuff to stay stored for long are, still, tapes, way more data dense and larger but still tapes lol
1: if they werent already these players are like 45 years old now, put a new belt in it or it will sound like crap 2: the sound quality is probably because the pinch rollers are ran-through and need serious cleaning or replacement, and i noticed on mine its developed serious capacitor problems. worth replacing those close-to 50 year old bad boys. also clean the volume sliders, one of the first things i did on mind and it did improve it quite a bit PS clean the tape head, its crazy how dirty they get and how much it affects sound quality, just a q-tip and ISP alcohol will do wonders and on an unrelated note if you want the best, most over-engineered walkman around, get a wm-7, its sound quality is amazing, its the first auto reverse player, first with logic controls, and holds up really well compared to a full-fledged cassette deck (its also really slept on, prices arent too crazy for them yet)
I honestly love Frank. And that green iPad 4 made me go on Amazon and buy one. I works great. You are right though, it is preeeety slow. Especially since it came with iOS 10. Only $100 USD though, so that's not bad. Oh yeah, and the dingusPod (the gold one) inspired me to pick one up brand new not a month before the iPod was discontinued entirely. I may not be a patron but I am CERTAINLY a fan.
Good call. It's particularly ironic that he used the SR60s, known for very accentuated treble. That Walkman has no support for Type IV tapes, no noise reduction, and not the most up-to-date circuitry, which all makes for lots of hiss. Then again, it somewhat mitigates the typical tape problem of muffled sound (which he mentions) due to azimuth misalignment.
EYO, got any news for the walkmans? New vibes or still woofy? EDIT: the ELO cassette looks like Chrome tape, be sure you have the set for chrome tape, it changed quite a bit how you hear it! it's quite a good gap of quality no joke
So……my recommended has been filled with these after shows ever since you uploaded them…..and I couldn’t be happier that I have so much DankPods that could last me at most a year if I dripfead myself these videos
Wanted one too because i use cassette tapes but think they went up in price because they look A LOT and possibly the same model as the one Chris Pratt uses in Guardians of the Galaxy so might have raised the prices
What really is funny about the TPS-L2, you can get two Sony WM D6C for the same price and the D6C not only records, it will blow away almost any other walkman ever made. Locked disk drive capstan servo, amazing head and amplifier circuit, got dolby B,C and can record to ferric, chrome and metal tapes. I´ve got an D6C serviced for myself and this machine is crazy like almost like playing a CD. The TPS-L2 is more a mediocre tape player. Super bareones and doesn´t have Dolby decoding or a tape selector switch to provide the correct tuning (Equalization). Don´t know why people are so after it.
"Made in Japan, that's rare these days." Reminds me of how literally any "British" electronics company now plasters "designed in the UK" everywhere because yes, that is true, but they're still made in China and Bangladesh.
I just got a nock off Walkman with slipknot cassettes for my birthday i love it now im gonna start saving my money to get a real Walkman hopefully ill get one before Christmas
Dudeee, I would fucking LOVE that feature at 2:26, being able to adjust the volume of each ear, mainly because I hear less in my left ear and its so annoying to listen to music since I have to constantly adjust my headphones because they dont sound equal 😭🙏🏻
As somebody who was paid to work on somebody's project car..... Yeah it's nice not to have something that's messed with because I know absolutely nothing about cars well I know the important stuff how to change a tire basic faults etc. classic cars absolutely nothing although I don't know about how a distributor works. But this guy had opinions that and changed priorities that then changed. Things that he wanted done a certain way even though that's the wrong way to do them. Like doing construction on the building in reverse order. Hiring somebody to do computers and audio video for events and then bringing them in to help put in a two-story addition ( actually know about construction although it's been a while so I forgotten more than what I felt like the people I was working with knew ). Where was I, I don't know.
Perfect Video Mate. Like Yup. Sony Walkman Cassette Tapes Can Still Work As A Bomb If The Batteries Agree To Trust The Walkman Itself. Before I Buy Something In Mint Or Used Condition From The Past…I Make Sure It Still Works And I Look It Up The Specs And Reviews. If It’s In A Local Store, I Speak To The Seller To See The Same Reason Or Just Test It Before Buying. But You DankPods Are An Expert Of All Electronics. I Will Be Sure To Give You So Many Likes To Your Channel. 👍👍👍
Dang, disappointed you didn't at least clean the thing with a q-tip and alcohol before assessing the audio quality...may have decades of grime holding it back!
Walkmans are garbage analog trash!! Discmens are better digital is better i like digtal more compact discs wins for me i hate the sound of tapes there trash
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Asked a friend visiting Japan to try and bring me back a vintage walkman. Gave him $100 for it, told him if it was more, I'd give him more. He brought me back THREE. Apparently they're super common.
The very reason I am going to Japan
time to go to japan
@@dracula5752yup
sony is from tokyo so it makes sense
Good tip! they're very uncommon where I live, but I'm visiting in a few months.
For the fluff, try taking some isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip and rub the tape head down a little bit to remove any magnetic annoyance. When I buy gummed up tape players it always works.
Also, he might have to mess with the head alignment aka azimuth. Could also just be bad tapes that have lost their high frequencies, which is quite common with old tapes.
Also: Try a newer recording. Well-recorded tapes can sound wonderful even on "inferior" players.
I buy used tape machines all the time and they never work. I shall use this info more than you would ever know mate 👍
Yes! Cleaning the tape haeds can do wonders sometimes!
Often you don't even See any dort because it's so little - still it can have an impact.
Also think about the pressure pars in the cassette. These can also deteriorate or someone may habe bent it down towards the inner of the cassette.
This could affect the tape-to-head contact
yes!! gotta clean those tape heads.
I love how people really kinda rediscover the magic of an actual audio cassette. Including me. I recently got myself a walkman from the late 80‘s and it‘s just amazing. Can‘t go anywhere anymore without it in my pocket
That’s mad bro 😂 u Fr walking about with some cassette player in your pocket??
@@pugg5ter542 yeah I‘m totally fr. I put my own music on the cassettes and always take the walkman and a few cassettes with me. Listen to them on the train omw to school yk I love this retro thing
@@pugg5ter542I would also walk around with a CD player if it didn’t have a dead motor and thus demanded a perfect 45 degress
@@tezcanaslan2877 damn that’s crazy. Why not Spotify or Apple Music? Hell even an mp3 player?
@@pugg5ter542 That is a figurative expression. Ordinary cassette players were usually fastened to a belt.
This is enough content for a month
But it will last two days
No we need MORE!
Idk if I'll be able to watch it all
Just enough time for another car video
Fr
Ive owned a Walkman for about four years now, and have been carrying it to work with me for one and a half. Its honestly my favorite way to experience music.
What, like a new one? That’s crazy if ur walking about with some old ass Walkman.
@@pugg5ter542 it's an old school one from '84.
@pugg5ter542 says the guy with the vintage xbox 360 profile pic lol
@@pugg5ter542new "walkmans" are junk
Sadly the 1st walkman wasn't designed to be mindblowing.
Small history lesson, the 1st walkman was unamed hence why its known as the "TPS-L2" as they were expecting the product to totally flop.
So they rehoused a "tape counter/ pressman" and removed its record function then threw it into the world
Only in 1981 when the 1st Walkman to get the Wakman name the "Walkman WM-2" did sony make a machine from the ground up for audio listening and it was a huge leap.
In quality, size and parts
I can’t look at a walk-man without thinking about Star-Lord, so I’m glad you played the tape that had ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky
The best part is, this is the Walkman model Star Lord uses.
Got do I love these old Walkmans. I have a WM-3 from '81 that I mostly take to college and when I go out and about. Most people like it and find it interesting to see a 19 year old with something this old
lol analog walkmens are trash
@@Judyhopps-1iqnot compared to you
@@Kroooza nah vhs players and walkemns are trash blu-ray players and discmens are better.
@@Judyhopps-1iqif it was all about quality we would just use Spotify or something, it’s about the aesthetics and a bit of nostalgia
I love the two AA's!!
Made me laugh out loud! I'll be thinking about that one all day. Thanks DankPods!!
the thing about cassettes and vhs, is due to their composition, the tapes will gradually decrage, sometimes faster under humid conditions. i remember an anedoctal story about how the original master copies of the Macross/Robotech series was nearly destroyed due to a flood
they only degrade when playing them.
lol no just no cassettes and vhs is shit
Cds/bluray is better discs are just better when it comes to music and movies cuz its digital digital sounds better and more eaiser
@@Judyhopps-1iq Ok man, we get it, you hate old stuff like the Walman. Now shut up
@@Judyhopps-1iqpeople enjoy those both for reasons outside of sound quality.
@@Judyhopps-1iq no one tell bro optical discs rot to hell with time and SSDs die if you don't play with them every few months lol. Funnily enough one of the preferred formats for mass (and I mean MASS) storage in companies that need stuff to stay stored for long are, still, tapes, way more data dense and larger but still tapes lol
I am such a big ELO fan so the love for the boys is so so so appreciated by me. Hearing Night in the City on a Dank Pods vid is CRAZY
1: if they werent already these players are like 45 years old now, put a new belt in it or it will sound like crap
2: the sound quality is probably because the pinch rollers are ran-through and need serious cleaning or replacement, and i noticed on mine its developed serious capacitor problems. worth replacing those close-to 50 year old bad boys. also clean the volume sliders, one of the first things i did on mind and it did improve it quite a bit
PS clean the tape head, its crazy how dirty they get and how much it affects sound quality, just a q-tip and ISP alcohol will do wonders
and on an unrelated note if you want the best, most over-engineered walkman around, get a wm-7, its sound quality is amazing, its the first auto reverse player, first with logic controls, and holds up really well compared to a full-fledged cassette deck (its also really slept on, prices arent too crazy for them yet)
The TPS-L2 is a dream player of mine, it really is the quintessential Walkman. Would also be nice to compare to my WM-EX510, a late Walkman
I honestly love Frank. And that green iPad 4 made me go on Amazon and buy one. I works great. You are right though, it is preeeety slow. Especially since it came with iOS 10. Only $100 USD though, so that's not bad. Oh yeah, and the dingusPod (the gold one) inspired me to pick one up brand new not a month before the iPod was discontinued entirely. I may not be a patron but I am CERTAINLY a fan.
Congratulations with this beautiful device, hope you can get it working completely fine soon
Happy to see an after show on here, thanks !
2 things:
Either the head is dirty
Or the head is worn and needs replacing.
gotta clean those tape heads for that clear sound quality!! isopropyl alcohol and qtips do the trick.
Dolby audio lol, gets rid of issues with tapes. Depends what year the tape was made and player too. Also the condition of them both lol
it was such a missed opportunity to use the sony mdr7508
Good call. It's particularly ironic that he used the SR60s, known for very accentuated treble. That Walkman has no support for Type IV tapes, no noise reduction, and not the most up-to-date circuitry, which all makes for lots of hiss. Then again, it somewhat mitigates the typical tape problem of muffled sound (which he mentions) due to azimuth misalignment.
EYO, got any news for the walkmans? New vibes or still woofy?
EDIT: the ELO cassette looks like Chrome tape, be sure you have the set for chrome tape, it changed quite a bit how you hear it! it's quite a good gap of quality no joke
Techmoan has a great vid about the original walkman
If you give a man a normal vid, he’ll eat for a day. Give a man an after show and he’ll eat for however many aftershows he didn’t watch on Patreon
Fellow John Bonham simp, hella respect. I actually use the pedals he used (not the exact ones obviously) and they are a treat to the feet.
For the muffled Sound, I think he didnt have the Dolby Noise Reduction on and Also try a type 2 tape. These sound much much better then ferric Tapes
fuk no
discs sounds much much better give me digital all the way analog sounds like shit lol
Just got myself a red DDII, loving these pieces of history
Clean and demagnetize the play head, use a NON-Dolby tape, make sure the felt pad is good on the tape.
I'd really like a WM-2 in red, but even those are pretty dang expensive.
Did you use or have a cassette tape cleaner tape to maybe improve sound quality
So……my recommended has been filled with these after shows ever since you uploaded them…..and I couldn’t be happier that I have so much DankPods that could last me at most a year if I dripfead myself these videos
the sound may be due to the cassettes being Type I (aka the cheapest most basic type)
the audio quality is probably because the age of the walkman. if you used high end equipment, you would be able to get near CD quality on a tape
lol tapes are shit
@@Judyhopps-1iq proove it
Wanted one too because i use cassette tapes but think they went up in price because they look A LOT and possibly the same model as the one Chris Pratt uses in Guardians of the Galaxy so might have raised the prices
There's something oddly amusing to me about seeing a pair of Pkcells poking out of something as iconic as an original Walkman.
Really loving this content, thank you
Recording songs off the radio is still the best form of piracy. All the best songs as long as u can tell the future 😂😂😂
That is an investment, you are not going to loose money on that 👏
I listened to a tape player all through high school while other people had ipods
I still do that just for fun :D
happy new years
he needs to get the Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1 and 2 on cassette tape to pair with it
MiniDisc?
What really is funny about the TPS-L2, you can get two Sony WM D6C for the same price and the D6C not only records, it will blow away almost any other walkman ever made.
Locked disk drive capstan servo, amazing head and amplifier circuit, got dolby B,C and can record to ferric, chrome and metal tapes.
I´ve got an D6C serviced for myself and this machine is crazy like almost like playing a CD.
The TPS-L2 is more a mediocre tape player. Super bareones and doesn´t have Dolby decoding or a tape selector switch to provide the correct tuning (Equalization).
Don´t know why people are so after it.
Telephone line is one of Elos best songs
"Made in Japan, that's rare these days." Reminds me of how literally any "British" electronics company now plasters "designed in the UK" everywhere because yes, that is true, but they're still made in China and Bangladesh.
I just got a nock off Walkman with slipknot cassettes for my birthday i love it now im gonna start saving my money to get a real Walkman hopefully ill get one before Christmas
That’s a nice walkman
DankPods said my name. All has been accomplished
Cassettes CD player 8 tracks and records my life right now
Dudeee, I would fucking LOVE that feature at 2:26, being able to adjust the volume of each ear, mainly because I hear less in my left ear and its so annoying to listen to music since I have to constantly adjust my headphones because they dont sound equal 😭🙏🏻
As somebody who was paid to work on somebody's project car.....
Yeah it's nice not to have something that's messed with because I know absolutely nothing about cars well I know the important stuff how to change a tire basic faults etc. classic cars absolutely nothing although I don't know about how a distributor works. But this guy had opinions that and changed priorities that then changed. Things that he wanted done a certain way even though that's the wrong way to do them. Like doing construction on the building in reverse order. Hiring somebody to do computers and audio video for events and then bringing them in to help put in a two-story addition ( actually know about construction although it's been a while so I forgotten more than what I felt like the people I was working with knew ). Where was I, I don't know.
Honestly, I couldn't hear much with all that barking from Frank. I hope you'll put him outside the next time you're recording.
Perfect Video Mate. Like Yup. Sony Walkman Cassette Tapes Can Still Work As A Bomb If The Batteries Agree To Trust The Walkman Itself. Before I Buy Something In Mint Or Used Condition From The Past…I Make Sure It Still Works And I Look It Up The Specs And Reviews. If It’s In A Local Store, I Speak To The Seller To See The Same Reason Or Just Test It Before Buying. But You DankPods Are An Expert Of All Electronics. I Will Be Sure To Give You So Many Likes To Your Channel. 👍👍👍
if you clean the magnetic head it’ll sound less muffled
dear god, the original nugget
Those cassettes have Dolby NR encoding on them, they won't sound good on an old Walkman because they aren't equipped to handle that
If they are Dolby encoded and you play 'em back without, it should sound very bright and top-endy instead oft muffled.
is the Venom Snake nugget!!
If its "fluffy sounding" i would think you would need to clean the tape head, its prob not clean in 40 years
Also known as the pre-pod
Is he talking about James?
Dang, disappointed you didn't at least clean the thing with a q-tip and alcohol before assessing the audio quality...may have decades of grime holding it back!
ELO! FUCK YEAH! Time album is the best in my opinion.
I had one kinda like that till I I got a G shock or whatever they were called. I had to steal it to get it tho
This makes me want to get out my Aiwa and Panasonic players. Damn it. 😂
Should have tried the other jack.
Holy moly
tcd5 pro??
Happy new years too all
this is crazy
I think that maybe this video had a little padding...
5:11 Frank jump scare!! 😱
hi i love your content
1:38 FFRRRAA-
Goddammit! 🤤
good video
On your own time m8
1:56 haha
frank did nothing but improve the content
Dank
woah
AA’s 😂😂😂
Www 🎉🎉
Frank get out mateeee!!!!!
way too early!
1:52
Discmens>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Walkmens
REALLY EARLY!!!
Lmao
Walkmans are garbage analog trash!!
Discmens are better digital is better i like digtal more compact discs wins for me i hate the sound of tapes there trash
try writing the comment again in english
sony tps. Tape Player Stereo
This is the holy grail of the pre thousands nugs lol
Love the videos and tell frank I says 🫨