Nick Andre wrote to All <=-
The subject of audio came up in this single-parent household with
my teenage daughter... "If you didn't have Internet, how did you
put together playlists of music you liked?"
Okay... Grab a Maxell, TDK or Denon chrome-dioxide cassette. The
quality of cassette makes a huge difference. Avoid Basf and some
other brands. In this household, Maxell XL-II is king. Metal
tapes are good but expensive.
The tape deck must first be calibrated for proper Bias and EQ,
luckily I already did this and my deck has the ability to set
this for future use. The azimuth of the heads is also critical
but in most cases this is set right.
Grab your music from vinyl or CD or perhaps you have a slave-deck
and you want to use music from other tapes. Begin by cueing up
whatever the song is on the turntable or CD player, while the
tape deck is set on Record/Pause.
Fast-forward the tape a bit so a test snippet can be recorded
which will be recorded over afterward. Allow the song to play
while you hit Record. It is important to use a 3-head tape deck
to allow monitoring of the recording, so you literally scan
through the song or set the needle on what you know is the
loudest part of the track. The recording level is then set to
that maximum.
Rewind the tape a few turns if necessary to play back that
loudest part because its important when using Dolby HX or B
reduction that there is no distortion. When that peak level is
met (paying attention to the VU meters), rewind the tape back to
where the recording must start and record the song.
This to me is a fine art because it requires careful listening
and knowledge of that song's loudest part while carefully
adjusting the recording level. Distortion in the recording is a
no-no.
I do not believe in wasted space on mixtapes, so its important to
let the song play all the way through to where there is silence,
then repeat the process by rewinding the tape to that exact
moment where silence begins and the new recording starts.
Also it is necessary to make sure the time of the songs does not
"cut off" towards the end of the tape. Vinyl records must be
cleaned and CD's inspected for fingerprints or scratches because
nothing worse than a skip during a recording; when working with
tapes where you do not want silence, this becomes a challenge to
"correct" unless you have a very good 3-head deck with a solid stop-mechanism. As in, when you rewind and hit stop, the tape
stops dead-on.
The flow of songs is important - This is the heart of a mixtape
of music is songs that contexually flow from one to the next.
Never make a tape of sad-bastard ballads (unless you love
depression), there should be a good mix where the entire side of
that tape has sortof a musical theme or direction.
"Dad... you're insane... I just go on Spotify".
"Dad... you're insane... I just go on Spotify".
Sorry for ranting, I'm off my tape soapbox now. :)
Kids these days just don't know what they're missing.
And, having everything so easily accessible nowadays, I guess you
could say that they take a lot of (at least those) things for granted.
:)
Next up: The difficulties of trying to talk to your BF/GF on the
(corded) wall phone in the kitchen (the only phone in the house), with
most of the family within earshot at all times. LOL
Picking good cassettes is also an art of its own, with lots of pitfalls, as many (especially BASF and TDK it looks like) went downhill quite fast in the late 90s... Some of the nicer ones I've managed to find are 1988-1989 Sony UX-Pro and Metal ES, some 1990 TDK SA-X, but also some early 90s TDK SA-XS,
Kids these days just don't know what they're missing.
And, having everything so easily accessible nowadays, I guess you could say that they take a lot of (at least those) things for granted. :)
And, having everything so easily accessible nowadays, I guess you
could say that they take a lot of (at least those) things for granted.
:)
They'll never know the joy of being able to thread the return reel one-handed...
Nick Andre wrote to Gamgee <=-
On 22 Jul 23 09:10:00, Gamgee said the following to Nick Andre:
Next up: The difficulties of trying to talk to your BF/GF on the
(corded) wall phone in the kitchen (the only phone in the house), with
most of the family within earshot at all times. LOL
Yes, had to experience THAT growing up, trying to chat it up with
a GF.
Who was that son? Is she nice? Why don't you invite her over to
our barbeque party this weekend? We're having hotdogs, sausages.
"No mom, that would probably send the wrong impression"
Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis <=-
I can do that with my Teac A3440...
Nick Andre wrote to Gamgee <=-
"No mom, that would probably send the wrong impression"
Nick Andre wrote to Zip <=-
I don't know what it was but Maxell XL-II just stuck with me, still use
a "workhorse" Tascam 122 with 3 heads and calibrated for that make of tape.
Nick Andre wrote to Zip <=-
As I said... I cannot compete with Spotify.
Gamgee wrote to Nick Andre <=-
Hahahaha! Yep. And sometimes you wanted to answer Mom with: "No,
she's not really nice..., but she has other good qualities". LOL
Nick Andre wrote to Zip <=-
As I said... I cannot compete with Spotify.
No but half of the music on Spotify is crap.
Sean Dennis wrote to Gamgee <=-
Gamgee wrote to Nick Andre <=-
Hahahaha! Yep. And sometimes you wanted to answer Mom with: "No,
she's not really nice..., but she has other good qualities". LOL
As I once said to a friend, "She's kinda mean but she's got more
curves than a mountain road." Ah, those were the days...
They've done a pretty good job including some bands that I was
familiar with in the 70s, eg: The Spotniks, Brewer & Shipley
(One Toke Over the Line - my first 45rpm record while in public
school!).
Have always thought Sirius XM was farrrrrr better than any Spotify or Pandora crapola. Real DJ's running things like a real radio station,
even the very rare speciality stuff gets the posh treatment.
On 23 Jul 23 21:33:00, August Abolins said the following to Sean Dennis:
They've done a pretty good job including some bands that
I was familiar with in the 70s, eg: The Spotniks, Brewer
& Shipley (One Toke Over the Line - my first 45rpm record
while in public school!).
"Witchi-tai-to" was a very underrated B&S album track.
I really don't like Spotify, often times it doesn't play
the version of the song I asked for; always giving me some
weird alternate take or live version.
Have always thought Sirius XM was farrrrrr better than any
Spotify or Pandora crapola. Real DJ's running things like
a real radio station, even the very rare speciality stuff
gets the posh treatment.
Nick Andre wrote to All <=-
Okay... Grab a Maxell, TDK or Denon chrome-dioxide cassette. The
quality of cassette makes a huge difference. Avoid Basf and some other brands. In this household, Maxell XL-II is king. Metal tapes are good
but expensive.
Since it wasn't random access, the recipent would listen to it in one
sitting, hopefully.
(continuity is something missing in CDs. People jump
around, whereas we used to listen to LPs in one sitting,
both sides. Ditto for cassettes. The music has a
different meaning when it's designed to be listened to
that way...)
I had a Sony cassette deck that had a "random" setting, and a
programmable one. I could preselect the tracks in any order and
it would seek-n-find to play accordingly. Random was pretty
wild to witness too, but most of my mixtapes only had the LP
tracks that I wanted to audition the most anyway.
The fact he rips music with filenames such as 01-Unknown Artist - Unknown Song.ogg does not help.
oh my god i HATE that!
if i rip something and its artist-song is unknown, i just put it into audac and add that info in it drives me so crazy
I had a Sony cassette deck that had a "random" setting, and a programmable one. I could preselect the tracks in any order and
it would seek-n-find to play accordingly. Random was pretty
wild to witness too, but most of my mixtapes only had the LP
tracks that I wanted to audition the most anyway.
On 26 Jul 23 12:57:36, Candy Cane said the following to Arelor:
oh my god i HATE that!
if i rip something and its artist-song is unknown, i just put it into au and add that info in it drives me so crazy
When I copied my CD collection to Emby, I used Audiograbber which does the lookup to a site called freedb.org or something, which auto-populates the entire CD track names based on the checksum of the CD's table of contents.
Nick
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Re: Mixtapes
By: Arelor to August Abolins on Wed Jul 26 2023 02:01 pm
The fact he rips music with filenames such as 01-Unknown Artist - Unknown Song.ogg does not help.
oh my god i HATE that!
if i rip something and its artist-song is unknown, i just put it into audaci and add that info in it drives me so crazy
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Arelor wrote to Candy Cane <=-
Re: Mixtapes
By: Candy Cane to Arelor on Wed Jul 26 2023 12:57 pm
Re: Mixtapes
By: Arelor to August Abolins on Wed Jul 26 2023 02:01 pm
The fact he rips music with filenames such as 01-Unknown Artist - Unknown Song.ogg does not help.
oh my god i HATE that!
if i rip something and its artist-song is unknown, i just put it into audaci and add that info in it drives me so crazy
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My fathr is just lazy. Oftentimes he has the original album and the booklet that comes with it. He just does not care to write the titles
in the CD ripping software.
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i mean i get that, i'd just be worried i would lose the booklet and
stuff.. like to keep everything together
Sean Dennis wrote to candycane <=-
Hello candycane,
Thursday July 27 2023 15:09, you wrote to Arelor:
i mean i get that, i'd just be worried i would lose the booklet and
stuff.. like to keep everything together
I do believe there's software that will let you do that.
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i mean i get that, i'd just be worried i would lose the booklet and stuff.. like to keep everything together
My fathr is just lazy. Oftentimes he has the original album
and the booklet that comes with it. He just does not care
to write the titles in the CD ripping software.
Nick Andre wrote to Candycane <=-
On 27 Jul 23 15:09:00, Candycane said the following to Arelor:
i mean i get that, i'd just be worried i would lose the booklet and stuff.. like to keep everything together
Thats the thing about records and CD's which streaming and Mp3's don't provide... I love that tactile feeling of holding that album in my
hands.
I can copy my DVD collection to a streaming storage server and be
"done" with them, but my music and Hifi collection is something else. I spent a small fortune on it number one and number two, music really got
me through some hard times in life.
Theres "something" about setting that turntable needle gently down on
some album, with the giant headphones on, in the dark... immersing ones self in that album experience.
I cannot part with those things very easily, even as my sole
next-of-kin teenage daughter really shows no interest.
Nick
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August Abolins wrote to Arelor <=-
Hello Arelor!
** On Thursday 27.07.23 - 13:05, Arelor wrote to Candy Cane:
My fathr is just lazy. Oftentimes he has the original album
and the booklet that comes with it. He just does not care
to write the titles in the CD ripping software.
Maybe he simply doesn't like typing?
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Maybe he simply doesn't like typing?
isnt using a computer all about typing tho
Hello candycane!
Maybe he simply doesn't like typing?
isnt using a computer all about typing tho
Nope. Could be someone who just does the "point n click" :|
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Maybe he simply doesn't like typing?
I am not a fan of random playlists. They make it easy for
you to lose track of what you are listening to (pun
intended). If you get a new CD as a birthday gift and play
it in random mode you are less likely to know which song is
which in the end.
Just an observation. I play albums straight so after a
couple of goes I know the good songs are the second and the
5th, so I can look them up in the list at the back of the
album.
May father just dumps five albums in the same mix and plays
them random, so when he discovers he likes a band he has
more trouble finding out the name of the band he likes and
the track number of his favourite songs.
The fact he rips music with filenames such as 01-Unknown
Artist - Unknown Song.ogg does not help.
I sincerely hope I am adopted.
For me, I like the "surprise" element (never knowing which tune
will be next). It keeps the listening experience fresh. I've
simply grown tired of knowing what tune will be next on a
favourite recording.
Yeah sure.. I would do that for a first-time recording. But
then, I *can* seem to remember the favourite ones by title and
refer to them at any time.
Is that on a 5-disc CD player or something? That would be
tricky to identify unless one pays attention do the operating
panel for Disc # and track # and take notes - which I would do.
Outch. That's kinda lazy for sure. There are resources like
CDDB built into rippers that ought to solve that problem, but
that requires being online at the time of rip.
I sincerely hope I am adopted.
:D
Is that on a 5-disc CD player or something? That would be
tricky to identify unless one pays attention do the operating
panel for Disc # and track # and take notes - which I would do.
Nah, he just rips CDs to mp3 or pirates them from the web, then compresses
Is that on a 5-disc CD player or something? That would be
tricky to identify unless one pays attention do the
operating panel for Disc # and track # and take notes -
which I would do.
Nah, he just rips CDs to mp3 or pirates them from the web,
then compresses the songs and puts it all together in a mix
CD or a thumb drive or something.
But he must have learned the pirating stuff from you?
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