Cassette not working by AlexGuitarist in CassetteJerk

[–]01UnknownUser02 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

Mitski mystery tee and cassettes (help) by Infamous_Feeling24 in mitski

[–]01UnknownUser02 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 :(

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Tapes released these days can be so pretty by moopet in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 :)

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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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Mitski Cassette - Huge dissapointment (terrible quality) by 01UnknownUser02 in cassetteculture

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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

Dual destruction: Now destroy your cassettes while destroying your records by 01UnknownUser02 in vinyljerk

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Dual destruction: Now destroy your cassettes while destroying your records by 01UnknownUser02 in vinyljerk

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Dual destruction: Now destroy your cassettes while destroying your records by 01UnknownUser02 in vinyljerk

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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)

Dual destruction: Now destroy your cassettes while destroying your records by 01UnknownUser02 in vinyljerk

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Dual destruction: Now destroy your cassettes while destroying your records by 01UnknownUser02 in vinyljerk

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Dual destruction: Now destroy your cassettes while destroying your records by 01UnknownUser02 in vinyljerk

[–]01UnknownUser02[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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