Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Only 3 out !! 
It's a KX-390 very good decks.
It's a KX-390 very good decks.
Vintage HI Fi. Anyone else in to it?
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Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Maxell UR 90 a pack of five for £4 free delivery on ebay, I've recorded on them and they seem ok, reviews are pretty good too, obviously not quite up to metal,chrome standards
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
How do cassettes fair with age? Is there a bleed through that slowly brings on distortion, or is that a myth?
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
It’s interesting that cassette tapes are still out there, whereas MDs are not.
I use MDs in radio broadcasting as I find them useful (nay, essential) for home pre-production and stockpiled a lot of blanks about 12 years ago. I have found they do have a finite life in use.
MDs are one of those unfortunate pieces of technology that arrived too close to the dawn of the MP3 era and thus was their doom sealed.
I use MDs in radio broadcasting as I find them useful (nay, essential) for home pre-production and stockpiled a lot of blanks about 12 years ago. I have found they do have a finite life in use.
MDs are one of those unfortunate pieces of technology that arrived too close to the dawn of the MP3 era and thus was their doom sealed.
<probably stupid question> What stops you just recording whatever you do in home pre-production and saving it as an MP3/FLAC/other format and sticking it on a USB stick?
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
I've not recorded any cassettes for years but I've still got a few blank/new ones,
If they've been stored well (nothing elaborate, just kept indoors and reasonably dry) then I find them fine. I still listen to tapes I recorded over 30yrs ago but at the time I used a lot of Maxell UD-XL 11 tapes which were £2.50+ each although they were for 'prime recordings' of good LP's I'd borrowed, mix tapes etc were generally done onto TDK D90's or BASF LF-E1's. Not much of a fan of SA-90 though.
If they've been stored well (nothing elaborate, just kept indoors and reasonably dry) then I find them fine. I still listen to tapes I recorded over 30yrs ago but at the time I used a lot of Maxell UD-XL 11 tapes which were £2.50+ each although they were for 'prime recordings' of good LP's I'd borrowed, mix tapes etc were generally done onto TDK D90's or BASF LF-E1's. Not much of a fan of SA-90 though.
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
Because the way our studio is set up with multiple screens covering the playout software, the internet and a third touch screen for playing promos and jingles is not conducive to opening a further play out app to play off a stick. We have an MD player linked into one of the 12 mixer channels that is automated from the fader and thus easy peasy lemon squeezy. Sorry to be a bit techy if anyone’s not familiar with radio desks.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
Plus the editing on MD was easy, a mate of mine used it for recording his music,
View: https://youtu.be/76FIUYzy0Ow
Paul C Smith with the 'Tiger John' blues band
EDIT Paul is very influenced by 'Greeny' and this is 'double tracked' with him playing at least 3 guitar parts (maybe 4)
KneesUp
Guru
I would imagine there is if the levels are high enough - the metal tapes I used to use would let you record at quite a high level without overloading the tape, but if you went too high you could hear bleed in the quiet bits. Mind you I had better hearing then - I was in the process of damaging it by listening to my Walkman too loudly
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
CharlieB
Junior Walker and the Allstars
- Location
- Therivermeadowatthepileofstones
Exactly so. Both for my music segues and for any interviews I’ve done.
Lovely little Teac machine (vintage 2002) I have at home. Can’t recall the model number, as I’m not home at the moment.
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raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
Err MD is a digital formatSacrilege.....................
Us dinosaurs love our old retro analogue stuff.
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Doh...I misread Tim's reply, thought it was a general response to recording.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
If i could go back and have a word with my teenage self, I'd have told me to buy nothing but metal or chrome tapes... after 20-30 years many of my old TDK D90s and Maxell tapes are very dull whilst the few metal and chrome recordings i have still sound fine.
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- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Similar here - Sugden Masterclass & Dynaudio. Only additions I have made over the years are a Logitech Touch Streamer and Arcam rDAC. Will see me out!
Dynaudios date from 2000 so maybe they aren't vintage yet?
