Music Cassettes - Remember them ?

wibbly said:
I can remember pointing the microphone from my cassette recorder at the speaker of the radio to tape my favourite spngs from the top 40 on a Sunday night to play back. The only problem was trying to work out when the record finished and the damned DJ was going to start talking over the top of them
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:plusone: :lol::lol:
 
wibbly said:
I can remember pointing the microphone from my cassette recorder at the speaker of the radio to tape my favourite spngs from the top 40 on a Sunday night to play back. The only problem was trying to work out when the record finished and the damned DJ was going to start talking over the top of them :D

If only I'd thought of the idea of NOW that's what I call Music! :D
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That reminds me of the time that I was out with a house-mate at a do, talking to one of the local aficionados about a jazz programme on the telly that night. we mentioned that we were recording it. Sounding impressed, the other bloke said "oh, you've got a video!" (this was the early eighties). We had to explain that we had left our 14" B&W telly switched on with the reel-to-reel next to it and the microphone next to the telly speaker :D

I've still got an old Sharp tape deck that I will plug into the amp if we come across an old tape (but I got rid of almost all mine a long ago - if they didn't foul up, they sounded awful and often at varying speeds according to excessive tension). I have plugged the deck into the line-in of the computer to convert the odd tape to CD for a few friends.
 
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oh i remember rewinding them using an hexagonal pencil to save the batteries on the walkman...
 
Lynton said:
oh i remember rewinding them using an hexagonal pencil to save the batteries on the walkman...
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I think I did that! Spend many an hour slapping cassettes to make the tension go correctly too. Cleaning tape heads and pinch rollers with cotton buds.
 
srichards said:
I think I did that! Spend many an hour slapping cassettes to make the tension go correctly too. Cleaning tape heads and pinch rollers with cotton buds.
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oh yes, and had the tape player / walkman decided to eat the tape, and you'd have to cut it out and then remove all the bits....
 
Happy memories
Recording the charts, annie nightengale and john peel then listening in the bath

I remember I got a boogie box about 1980 with the facility to f/f r/w a track at a time (only worked on proper albums with gaps between tracks), it was like black magic
Then all the fun of trying to get the tape out the machine and rewound into bow all twisted and mangled
Or finding out your brother put tape over the wee bit you broke off to stop recording on, then taped some horrid heavy metal thrash over spiders from mars
Happy memories indeed
 
mortimerhill said:
Haven't even got a cassette player now. Last had access to one in 2003 in a Vauxhall Vectra. None of my cars since then have had one.

I did at one point have a cassette adaptor so I could play CDs from a portable CD player in the car
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Neither have we - for music or video...
 
I had a few tape mangling incidents. Was grim to deal with. VHS and betamax knots were worse though.

I remember auto reverse being well cool. And high speed tape to tape dubbing.
 
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