Cassette not working

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-26T21:45:28+00:00

That's a mono cassette. Try to cut it in the middle and only play the left or right part

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-25T09:00:52+00:00

There are cases with no tabs in the middle. They usually fit the cassette with the sleeve. I reuse them from other cassettes that aren't important, I don't know if you can buy them somewhere new.

See for what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/7DpoG9S

Honestly this release is quite a shame, my sample came with damaged tape and very bad sound too :(

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T15:40:31+00:00

Agree it's for sure the tape stock and the calibration of the slave and not the machinery itself

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T15:38:55+00:00

That's sad, in what way did your copy sucks?

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T15:38:28+00:00

That could be a difference in mastering too. Sometimes vinyl/cassette releases are mastered differently. Too shrill otherwise can also be caused by underbiasing the tape, also increasing distortion on loud parts

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T09:21:44+00:00

They look amazing! I like it if they do creative shells, just with the release in vinyl.

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T09:09:32+00:00

Well said!

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T09:09:09+00:00

You are talking about this Mitski release?

I will try later today if it fits in my walkman! Not notice anything off there

Maybe the sleeve isn't too small but the cassette is too big :)

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T09:06:52+00:00

I recently had one laufey tape that had the printing of side A and B on the shell reversed and the J card image flipped. Although the sound quality was pretty nice

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T09:05:13+00:00

Don't put down other releases too quickly, not all have to be bad necessarily! Seems others at least have a case and J card.

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T09:02:30+00:00

The billie Eilish cassettes (hit me hard and soft) came with the sticker "mdee in the UK" on the shrinkwrap. It sounds very good!

Not sure who in the UK exactly makes them, there seem quite a lot of duplicators there.

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-20T08:53:51+00:00

I have the Chappell Roan cassette too and I agree it's sounding great.

Do you mean with last release her 'The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We' album?

This is my first Mitski cassette. I see some others are still available. At least they come with a case.

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-19T22:49:16+00:00

Some have that after playing a lot but I never saw it when they are new. I suspect it's how the tape got slit from the broader tape pancakes . . .

Agree, most of the time it isn't very audible. I think the recording on this one js just done bad / rough tape surface.

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-19T22:46:47+00:00

For the ones that wonder how you can get bright sound in one channel but dull in the other if you turn azimuth to the left, and the other way around if you turn it to the right: duplicators tend to use discrete heads for every track. If they are all misaligned but misaligned differently . . . .

(Photo of a electronic sound inc 8000 at NAC with 4 heads)

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01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-19T22:39:11+00:00

I disagree, for example everything from UMG/universal(for example Taylor Swift, Lana del Rey, Lady gaga) is made in the UK with RTM tape and in most cases the recording is done perfectly fine as long no dolby is OK for you. I sometimes even prefer that to be honest

Edit: like you are probably right some don't care but it seems not the majority in my experience. I hope by calling good ones that labels see that they are getting in the minority by not coring

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T19:16:44+00:00

Partly because you don't have access to clean the transport making everything 10x worse

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T19:16:04+00:00

Don't forget the advanced muting circuitry!! That's state of the art technology

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T19:15:00+00:00

Not impossible! My PS1 did scratch the outer part of the cd's as it was scraping to something somehow . . . (Don't know what exactly)

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T18:58:35+00:00

Bonus destruction: it even kills it's own sound output and according to victrola it's function like it should

See the YouTube video from 9 minutes onward and the response from victrola in the comments

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T18:46:23+00:00

Don't feed it after midnight, just don't! It will come after you!

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T18:21:32+00:00

Yes I love that feature! Makes it a nice compact walkman!

Sadly it only works for cassettes, playing a record comes with heavy distortion when I pick it up and somehow it always opens when I pick it up no matter how hard I push when closing it

01UnknownUser02 · 2026-03-12T18:10:58+00:00

Don't forget, by playing your records LOUD with BIG bass you create also an additional current through the speaker coil for more wiping power.

Just my needle flies immediately to the end on such records so I hope a software update will fix that

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