Let's play that cassette with no writing on it

[Transistorized]

I am cleaning up my boom room today. I have a pile of cassettes I listen to but, there are always ones in the back dark area with no writing on them.

So today as I clean and organize, I made a game out of it. Let's play these tapes with no writing on them and label them.

This is the first one I stuck in a boombox.

 

[Tinman]

You must've really been into the OJ trial, lol.

 

[Transistorized]

You must've really been into the OJ trial, lol.

Some of these came from my wife. She recorded some of the weirdest stuff. Some had open air recordings of Back to the Future while being played on the TV. I also found tapes recorded of her when she was 7 or 8 pretending to be some kind of a game show host.

Most of them are 60 min cassettes with 1 or two minutes of recordings. She sure did waste a lot of blank tapes..lol.

When I was growing up, I had to find pre-recorded cassettes and tape over the record tab slot to record off the radio.

As Eric Cartman from South Park would say. We were "hella poor".. My wife had more stuff including a huge box of wasted blank cassettes she opened and put one song on. I may use the ones she doesn't care about to record albums onto. Tapes are expensive these days.

 

[Superduper]

hey wait a minute, thats the wrong ge, no $10k analog meters that was supposed to be on daily go to box.

 

[Transistorized]

hey wait a minute, thats the wrong ge, no $10k analog meters that was supposed to be on daily go to box.

You are so right. My poor little Blockbuster probably wishes I would forget about it for a few days.. It's about to go on a little trip to PA and MD in a few weeks it just doesn't know it yet.

I did have fun with it down in my basement yesterday. Connected it up to a Yamaha receiver with (2) 3-way vintage floor speakers with 12 inch subs. It sounded so good you wouldn't even know you were listening to a cassette Since it doesn't have line out in the back, I used the headphone out to feed the line in on the amp and kept the Blockbuster at about 2 on the volume dial which worked nicely.

Before this recording though, this happened. I had that little dude screaming..

On Dropbox to avoid copyright

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

 

[Brutus442]

I am cleaning up my boom room today. I have a pile of cassettes I listen to but, there are always ones in the back dark area with no writing on them.

So today as I clean and organize, I made a game out of it. Let's play these tapes with no writing on them and label them.

This is the first one I stuck in a boombox.

The other side is OJ confessing to the murders to Norm MacDonald

 

[Transistorized]

The other side is OJ confessing to the murders to Norm MacDonald

Rolling on the floor dude! You win.

 

[goodman]

I also use old cassettes to make new recordings on them.
Some of them are missing the covers and I don't know what's recorded on them.
So I play them to listen - maybe I'll find something interesting...

 

[Tinman]

Some of these came from my wife. She recorded some of the weirdest stuff. Some had open air recordings of Back to the Future while being played on the TV. I also found tapes recorded of her when she was 7 or 8 pretending to be some kind of a game show host.

Most of them are 60 min cassettes with 1 or two minutes of recordings. She sure did waste a lot of blank tapes..lol.

When I was growing up, I had to find pre-recorded cassettes and tape over the record tab slot to record off the radio.

As Eric Cartman from South Park would say. We were "hella poor".. My wife had more stuff including a huge box of wasted blank cassettes she opened and put one song on. I may use the ones she doesn't care about to record albums onto. Tapes are expensive these days.

Yep, my one sister had a tape recorder that she walked around recording all kinds of goofy stuff on.
I know I have one that she recorded of my father and me "fighting", I was really young, good memories.

 

[goodman]

I also use old cassettes to make new recordings on them.
Some of them are missing the covers and I don't know what's recorded on them.
So I play them to listen - maybe I'll find something interesting...

In case anyone missed it, here are the cassettes I use for recordings:

One clarification: These boxes labeled TDK do not contain such cassettes.
There are other ordinary ones with different durations - from 30 to 70 minutes.

 

[Transistorized]

I still have a few new Maxell 90 / 100 cassettes but those are going to be saved for special recordings as I can't justify the price to replace them. I never thought I would be saying this long after the format ended in the early 2000's.

I was enjoying the cost of cassettes more when they hadn't become resurrected. It seems that there is always a negative to a resurgence.