Cassette and a couple of ideas

[egoless]

We tried recording stuff on some little Mitsubishi reel2reel tape recorder on a tape that's probably like 25+ years old... The results were so frightening that I was scared to used "that" in a tune. The thing we recorded sounded like it came from hell

Some people say that Lee Perry used to bury his master tapes in the ground and let them there for some weeks. Natural saturation I'll definitly will try this one once...

I have some sony professional 2ch cassete tape recorder and a revox a77 reel2reel and hope to use them more in the future than I already did...

Never heard of "the Disintegration loops" of William Basinski , listening now, very nice stuff... thx

[Mad_EP]

Just picked up a cassette deck I bought off eBay and have been experimenting with some cassette saturation today.

One of the fun things about cassette recording, is that they each have such distinct personalities. They all have "sweet spots" (using a specific kind of tape at a specific volume, etc)... but they are all different. I remember back in the early 90's, one of the best dual cassettes I came across was on a portable boombox. Overall, it was kinda crap (the cd player on it was particularly bad), but the cassette was great... but only if you used the right cassette. None of the chrome ones sounded good at all - Sonys were OK, but it was the TDK type 1 tapes recorded really well. I don't know why - but I can tell you I tried every tape known to mankind to figure it out.

So out of habit I bought the exact same tapes for the Denon deck I just got ... but they don't sound the same. Back to the experimentation drawing board.


Also, inspired by some of my experiments today, I've decided to re-record some of my DJ mixes to cassette. Get some of the extra flavor.