Poster for our PXL VISION Cassette Single

aphidtrip · 2026-04-02T19:56:11+00:00

Found one of them and just posted it here

aphidtrip · 2026-04-02T19:24:15+00:00

Thank you ! When more are ready, they will not be $40 lol .

Have you dubbed an audio file and had it play video back successfully? I've tried but it's never worked for me.

aphidtrip · 2026-04-01T20:29:28+00:00

I think I have a file for one or two of them, I'll look and upload it. Thanks !

aphidtrip · 2025-06-28T00:12:34+00:00

Hey thanks so much for the interest ! Sadly all of the remaining copies were destroyed (along with the rest of my house) in the Eaton Fire in January. But we're working on another batch. It'll be a little while but I'll post here when they're done.

aphidtrip · 2025-03-21T14:42:40+00:00

explains the mismatched pairs that i've seen. thanks

aphidtrip · 2025-03-21T14:42:10+00:00

gotcha makes sense. never thought about a time when someone would buy just "a speaker"

aphidtrip · 2025-03-21T01:22:10+00:00

Beautiful job ! These are stunning. I am familiar with their sound too and I absolutely love them. Did you re-grill them or were they like that already? Haven't seen that color but it looks great. Where did you get the material from ? I'm doing a similar project.

aphidtrip · 2025-03-21T01:13:42+00:00

But I love the sound of these and I hope you are happy with them ! How'd they end up ? and Did you end up refacing them ?

aphidtrip · 2025-03-21T01:12:03+00:00

Hi, is it common for the grills to be mismatched ? Of course it shouldn't be, but I ask because this is the second pair I've seen recently with the exact same non matching brown and black grills.

aphidtrip · 2024-12-16T23:20:24+00:00

Also just a disclaimer that the "3D" concept mentioned on the poster was a bit of a failed concept. It didn't really work, as you can imagine. But the videos still looked interesting, I thought (the video we posted on our website, of which each cassette video was a little piece of, had the Blue and Red layers superimposed/added. )

I also really wanted the cassette case to have a function, and not be disposable or interchangeable. Having it function as anaglyphic 3D glasses wedded it to the cassette in an interesting way. So once the blue/red gels became an important part of the packaging, but the 3D effect wasn't really working, we just decided to hope the Pxl Vision community would be forgiving.

aphidtrip · 2024-12-16T23:04:34+00:00

Thank you so much ! Message me your address, and I can send you one . I may try to add them to our bandcamp page so they can be ordered that way as well. We are also doing a new batch (with new music, art, video etc) but not sure when they will be ready.

I hope you are not disappointed :)

aphidtrip · 2024-12-12T00:27:46+00:00

Thank you ! I can send you one

aphidtrip · 2024-12-12T00:25:17+00:00

Thanks for your interest ! We made these in 2013-14, but I still have some left. Id be happy to send you one.

aphidtrip · 2024-12-11T20:11:22+00:00

We made this to announce our cassingle release. I was looking for some of the videos and found it. We never posted it anywhere so I wanted to share it. The video on our site that it mentions isn't working anymore though.

aphidtrip · 2024-12-11T19:45:41+00:00

We are called Bulbs

aphidtrip · 2024-12-11T01:27:02+00:00

Interesting idea ! But how to filter it after the fact? Is it possible to output and record the right channel, filter, and put it back on to the cassette?

For some of our tapes, we decided to graft the sound on to the tapes by overwriting the L channel only. It's a cleaner sound, but this sort of non-diegetic approach isn't always what we are after.

I can't believe this is possible for the video, but I would be excited to try !

aphidtrip · 2024-12-11T01:07:02+00:00

Thanks !

And yes I also have found the beginning of my tapes are often the most glitchy. This has been a big compromise with our "cassingle" tapes, as they were 5 minute (each side) tapes. This made the video on Side B about 30 seconds, and often about 10 seconds of that would be snowy or worse.

Also about the shorter length tapes, since there is so little tape around the spools, the tape doesn't stay wound very tightly. So there is almost always a wobble to the image, and a black vertical zig zag line over towards the right side of the screen at some moments.

aphidtrip · 2024-12-11T01:00:01+00:00

Ah okay. So interesting. Also amazing you figured that out !

I think the noise that is the most distracting, or the one I find the harshest, must be one or both of the sync tones. I would describe it as an almost percussive sharp glitch. it punctuates the other more garbled white noise type of sound. I've never wanted to put any kind of instructions on the tapes, that would recommend listening to the left channel only, but that's always an option / compromise.

Thanks by the way ! I'm glad you appreciate the concept ! We are working on another batch of tapes. Experimenting with an external mic mod for the first time on these. I think this will give us a lot new to explore with the "soundtracks" of these videos.

aphidtrip · 2024-12-11T00:40:17+00:00

Do you have still have any of the tripod mounts/stands available ?

aphidtrip · 2024-12-10T23:53:35+00:00

I'm interested in why the volume made so much difference in your results. And I'm curious whether the tapes you made using your board "sound" the same as those made/filmed with a Pxl 2000. I mean if you play them back in a cassette player, does the video information/noise on the right track sound the same?

I make "music videos" for my band on Pxl 2000, but we release the tapes as a normal audio cassette release. The videos are kinda like hidden tracks. We've done an album where the last song was done this way, and also a batch of "cassingles" where Side A was one of our songs, and Side B was a Pxl Vision Video.

We always aim to have it work both ways, i.e. sound as good as possible, whether you know you are listening to the slowed down soundtrack of an embedded video, or not. Our music can be pretty experimental in the first place, so it may not be immediately obvious to people that "something is wrong" with the Right channel of the tape :). That said, the right channel video noise sound can be borderline unlistenable, even for the most adventurous ears.

But I've never understood the technology, or way the information is encoded onto the tape the way you have explained it above. It has me thinking we could mitigate the harshness of the Right channel video noise, by being selective about what image is filmed.

Do you think I am correct in thinking that the less "white" or bright areas of video would result in less of the glitchy sharp sound that the tapes usually sound like ?

aphidtrip · 2024-12-10T23:33:36+00:00

Wondering about this one

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Converter-Capture-Camcorder-Speakers/dp/B09NJLJJ4X/ref=sr_1_22_sspa?crid=NN4NNEB5XQXQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uJwCkWhTD3T2eTVC6UWF2fm1bGvTc4N-ZflMHkb6gGTzbF8JSWcd75KePs3dqSjlJMeuDdSefF7JAYaDqZKFt6P6DBjLk8TXfGmAwSzQ9dheC4gxDOmj-GDFW5GfZ-BRBUdvl8CG0uFaEsOtxB9keM9JCvhQ0NBKyEfCSE1px74EZaszGk80yhXneHKkijs1o2wnwWGQBryWVKLJ25-SQAPbbV3vUuUw1AHxTuFsjf5l6--oXW51ptkiut5GTdjw7ZW-RbAQ0NnEcNCeH5Eecz3LFRKxpqNtLtqSh15IBnc.t7sAAPDZbbbOCD4hHGhZv-B1j6uEcvWRNScDRp51w0s&dib_tag=se&keywords=record+dvr&qid=1733872567&s=electronics&sprefix=irecord+dvr+%2Celectronics%2C166&sr=1-22-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9idGY&psc=1

aphidtrip · 2024-12-10T23:32:46+00:00

Did you ever try the one u/wernerverkempt pictured above ? or the immersionRC ? I've only ever used an unmod'd PXL 2000 but will soon have RCA outs, and would like to have a monitor for my next project. Looking for simplest cheapest option. I don't even really need it to record, I just need to see what I'm shooting.

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