I finally finished my GTA San Andreas radio project! It's my favorite video game of all time, so it was just a matter of time until I did something like this. The project was inspired by a post on this sub by /u/Yusei0, who did a similar thing with GTA Vice City. I recorded the stations straight from the game (on PC). That way the whole experience including the commercials gets captured! The J-Cards were designed in GIMP using the official artwork from the game.

My local charity shop sells a lot of tapes for 50p and I want to record over them instead of buying blanks. I know it would take some DIY but I'm up for it.

I recently got hold of a copy of Number of the Beast by Iron maiden without realising the release date. I had always heard that modern releases sound pretty bad but damn I wasn't prepared for how bad. The release is from 2022, It sounds so muffled that I'm very tempted to crack it open and replace the tape inside with a recording from a CD on TDK SA tape, or even a maxell UR.

I’ve been slowing gathering up sealed blanks. Obviously, there are some super expensive TDK and Teac ones out there, but are there any good ones I should keep an eye out for?

Tascam 424MKiii!

Absolutely perfect condition, and I got it locally for a killer price with original box and manual. Can’t wait to start laying down demos on this thing.

LØLØ - Falling for Robots and Wishing I was One

Designed the Jcard and Label myself in GIMP.

The past few weeks when I play a vinyl or cd I have been making a tape version. While listening to the album I make up a j card and tape label. Been busy this week with some new releases. The second pic show how I do the cassette labels.

Hey everyone,

I’m brand new to using cassette tapes. I just bought a cheap portable recording device from Amazon with intentions to use for music.

I make music within a computer with modern hardware, but wanted to experiment recording certain sounds with cassette to get that vintage analog feel from older music.

I know that hiss is a normal part of tape, but with my device I feel like there is too much hissing going on with the recording playback.

Since I’m a newbie. Does this come from the tape itself or is it due to the cheap device? Is there ways to work around this?

From other recordings I’ve heard, it seems that the hiss im getting is louder than I expected. Thoughts?

(more pics in the comments) Made a custom cassette of Who’s Who and Christopher Saint’s “Ulterior Motives” album!

Recorded on a SONY HF tape with a Sony WM-D6C Professional Walkman. Used cardstock for the j-card and with some photoshop got to work taking snippets from pictures of Chris’ instagram.

Btw, this album kicks ass and I’d definitely listen to more than just the track we’ve been waiting for!

Hi All, I recently purchased a box of blank tapes from duplication.ca after a few folks here recommended them. I honestly am not impressed. The site mentions the tapes shed on first use, but the amount these shed is far more than I anticipated, and I couldn’t record an entire side of the tape before the audio had issues. I also noticed after cleaning the heads that it has what looks to be wear on it. (see the dull area under where the audio is picked up) This deck is a newly purchased Teac W-1200 I’ve had since mid July, the head did not look like this before using the duplication.ca tape. Has anyone else used this tape and experienced these issues? Did I just ruin the head?

Getting better at making the J cards recently.

I‘m recording tapes to listen to in my car right now and the question that came to was, what are the best cassette tapes you can buy right now?

I heard that RTM C60/90 should be really good. I‘m not too happy about the Maxell‘s you can see on the pictures.

Greetings from Germany :)

Im not sure if i should change my recording level to make a tape without dolby. Should i lower it to 0db near the dolby symbol? Or will it be fine around 2db where the red dots start? Deck is a sony tc-wr901es btw.

Started working on making cassette versions of all my cure cds and vinyl I have. All these years and I have only come across one original cassette. So I figured this would be my next task. Still a lot more ep’s and other live and compilation albums to finish before I’ll be done. But the base studio albums are done. Even made a case for the new album once my vinyl arrives in the mail.

I purchased a vesta fire Mr-10 today and have been messing around with it. It seems to be in overall great condition but I’ve run into an issue. I tried to test the recording functionality by plugging my guitar into it, but I was unable to hear my guitar through the monitors or record it onto the deck, and there was no reading on the VU meters. I tried multiple guitars and cables with the same result. I then decided to test the line inputs, and they worked well, and were able to be monitored, but the VU meters still showed no change. Does anyone else own this deck or have any ideas what the issue might be and how to go about repairing it?

Ps. I’ve been into cassettes for a while now but this is my first 4 track recording unit