Oh, Tony! I wish I did not lose my father's old stereo to those vipers in Nevada in 1999. It had an 8-track recorder/player, 3-speed turntable, cassette recorder/player and AMFM radio all in one compact unit. I would have loved to help you digitize 8-track tapes if you wanted that done! I wish I could help my friends who still have these older stuff lying around. I simply don't have the equipment and wonder where would I put it all? Even if I could get my hands on some working older machinery, who to contact to keep it going? How do you find people who would be willing to help maintain it for a nominal fee in this day and age of throwaway and very high repair costs that makes you buy another piece of equipment and clutter your place with all the broken stuff?
How I wish I could! I love this discussion group. Sure is fun. I cannot help reminiscing where it is appropriate. I don't mean to get off topic a little. But isn't that audio, too? What's sad, Tony, is there are lots of wonderful things which will never be available on CD. And it hurts! They sure waste their time putting all this modern noise on CD and call them hits. I wouldn't cast a vote for those things if they paid me to! Maybe that's why musically I'm still living in the past. I don't understand this rap music and noise. Can't the younger folks sing at all? Soundslike only the classically trained bother. Mimi ----- Original Message ----- From: "nick danger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:01 PM Subject: Re: question about recording books > Hi Mimi, > > Gods! I thought I was the only person who felt that way about some of the > good old school stuff. And on that subject since we're going back into the > past a little right here, remember the 8-track tapes? I was digging around > in one of my boxes and found about 120 of em! Unfortunately when we moved > out of our old house, the 8-track pleyers didn't come with us because they > were shot ta s--... yall know the rest LOL! The reel to reel tapes predate > my music interest since I didn't start collecting stuff until 1975. I use ta > have one of those plug-in demagnitizer wands, a cassette head cleaning tape > as well as the combination cleaner/demagnitizer tape.they were great. I > don't know if any of that stuff exists anymore but maybe if you searched for > it on google or yousearched.com you never know what may turn up. I'll also > check into it myself it's got me interested. > > Tony > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mimi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:18 PM > Subject: Re: question about recording books > > > > How long have you been into tapes? I use denatured alcohol to clean the > > heads; been doing that for years, way back when I used to have reel to > reel > > decks, too. Also good on cassette machines. > > > > I used to have an electric wand demagnitizer which I used to use on all > > those machines I used to have. I think it did a better job than the > > cassette one does, but that's my opinion, and everybody has one! Now, I > > have a battery cassette-shaped demagnitizer since all my open reel decks > > were stolen from me in Nevada as a result of a secret divorce and the > person > > trashed everything I worked hard on through the years. Many rare tapes > were > > willfully dumped in trash cans around Reno with braille and raised print > > labels affixed to them, and nobody gave a damn about how I was feeling > back > > then. I could not get legal help and so on. Anyway, back to the present > > topic, denatured alcohol, and be careful with the q tips--wipe the rubber > > roller and all the metal parts you can squeeze in to reach, then when you > > use the demagnitizer you can get at any RadioShack store, you turn down > the > > volume because the tone can be very piercing and I don't think you want to > > listen to that. If you must monitor it, then set the volume to low enough > > for you to hear without being freaked out. When the tone stops and the > tape > > automatically shuts off, you are demagnitized. It does not affect your > > other tapes, although it would be a good idea to store that demagnitizer > two > > or three slots away in your case, if you have a big case that holds 40 or > 50 > > tapes. > > > > The battery in that thing lasts a long time. I've had mine for twelve > > years. I'd rather have the wand, but don't know if the electric wand > > demagnitizers are available anymore. It saddens me that so many good > things > > we used to use have passed on to the next format. Sometimes, I really do > > miss the older formats, but the cost of maintaining it these days are > > horrendous, I hear, especially for low income owners who do not have lots > of > > money to play with and spend. Phono cartridges are already expensive, I > > hear. It's a shame! > > > > I'm sorry I launched into a full-blown lecture about that. I realize I > come > > a long way. I'm already facing complete digitiizing of my tapes, > including > > music on videotapes which I recorded two years ago. It's a massive > project > > which I am enjoying working on. The vast majority of my collection will > now > > be in mp3 on CD's. > > > > I know that the more you take care of your machines, the longer they will > > last. I miss the neighborhood repair shop where they used to know you and > > fixed your equipment and kept it going. What a sad thing this is a > > throwaway world, and even people are throwaways now. Sorry. > > > > Take care and best of luck with your audio work. > > > > Mimi > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Mp3 is what I do best. Some may have better editing programs than me, but > > I'm not jealous. I just cannot afford it. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Terri Stimmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:43 PM > > Subject: Re: question about recording books > > > > > > > Hi, > > > How do I demagnetize my tape heads? And what do I need in order to do > > that? > > > Also, what's good to use, when cleaning a tape deck? > > > Thank you, > > > Terri > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
