Does anyone still use cassettes?
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- dMullins
Just wondering. I haven't even SEEN a cassette tape since like 2002, when my girlfriend had this real beater of a car, and it only had a tape deck.
- utopian0
What is a cassette, please discuss...
- sherm0
I have a dual cassette deck at home, you know... just in case, someone wants to hear a tape. part of my multi-unit stereo system.
- acescence0
i use them when i rip old ones i find to digital, but that's it. i still have this badass old nakamichi deck that sounds amazing.
- mikotondria30
I don't miss cassettes.
They were shit. Hissy, wobbly, prone to breakage, stretch and dropouts - that stomach churning moment when you hear the eq drop, the music warble to a halt, when the tape wraps itself around the little spindle wheel, and is probably fucked. Digitise all your cassettes, then burn them and the machines you played them on.
Slow, dirty, grainy sub-par analog sketches of music, with none of the redeeming analog features of vinyl. One of the worst formats ever, hopefully gone for good.
- killthefish0
I use them all the time.
- dMullins0
Did something happen to the mix-tape your first love gave you?
You're pretty upset about cassettes?
- I just lost my favorite mixes over the years due to overuse, repeated listening whilst on speedy drugs, all night.mikotondria3
- letterhead0
fuck yes. I've got a glove box full of old but classic techno mix tapes, and I listen to them in all their dirty muffled glory, loud as shit.
- http://ravearchive.c…duckofrubber
- I'll have to spend some time going through that!letterhead
- sherm0
Honestly, the bass reproduction on cassettes and vinyl are bananas. CDs are totally shit.
- get better equipment.mikotondria3
- I have pretty good equip sir. I'm an audiophile. not to be confused with pedophile.sherm
- hahacreez
- then I genuinely retract that and agree that cd's are nasty too. What equipment do u currently use ?mikotondria3
- I have studio monitors for when I'm making my music and for when I get into DJing again.sherm
- please tell me they're not NS10 M's :\ Hate those.mikotondria3
- nah m-audio bx-5s. need the sub woofer though.sherm
- dMullins0
I got this Le Tigre song called "Cry For Everything Bad That's Ever Happened" that I put on a mix-tape once. Every time I think about cassettes, it's the first song that comes to mind. Something about the song is reminiscent of that low-fi aesthetic I guess.
- fooler20
I have 2 pretty nice cars that are both pre 2002 and they both have cassette players in the dash and CD changers in the truck.
Both CD changers are getting old and skip and malfunction all the time. Using a cassette adapter or FM transmitter for my ipod is a pain.
I found most used record shops sell used cassettes for less than 2 bucks. It's well worth it, it's way easier than burning or downloading and you can find some pretty crazy obscure stuff out there.
- dbloc0
YES!
- sea_sea0
- http://www.qbn.com/t…version3
- was it too much for ya? LOLsea_sea
- fooler20
I also have a friend that installed an 8 tack into his car. It's even crazier what you can find on 8 track and he also bought some blank 8 tracks on Ebay so he can listen to new music he's downloaded by putting it on tape.
- nicole_marie0
my first cassette was Prince, and it was good.
- sherm0
My first cassette was "My name is DNice" by D-Nice, followed by "Bacdafucup" by Onyx. Good times!
- dMullins0
I think my first cassette tapes were N.W.A. "Straight Outta Compton" and Guns & Roses "Use Your Illusion 1." They were Christmas presents from my estranged father, which my mother summarily trashed within moments of seeing what he had sent me. Pretty funny in retrospect.
- designbot0
The weird thing is there hasn't really been a replacement for CD's. I mean everything is digital, which just isn't the same.
I was expecting them to have some sort of chips to store music by now....so you could go to the store and buy something tangible with cover art/book etc.
Paying to download music is lame...and why would I buy something on itunes for the same price when the music quality isn't as good as a CD and I don't get any cover art or book with it?