Home Taping is Killing Record Industry Profits!!!

[TalkingDog]

Same as it ever was. Too bad their ploy didn't work.

[bluestateguy]

1. 1982 called, it wants its bowl haircut back

Now, I think Mondale has the whole package to give Reagan a real run for his money in '84.

[rocktivity]

2. Got a boxful of cassettes that could use some converting to MP3 or CD?

http://www.convertingtomp3.com/audiocassette-converter-to-mp3


rocktivity

[TalkingDog]

3. No, just surprised that the recording industry is STILL trying to convince us we are robbing them.

They have only replaced home taping with downloading. Otherwise, it's the same lie.

[randome]

20. It's not the same.

Not when millions of people can get music for free days after it's released.

Including me. I'm just saying the means of distribution have changed the environment entirely. The digital cat is out of the bag and there is no going back.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Numark makes a turntable with a USB port.

So you can suck your vinyls into your computer and remove pops with software and burn em to CD.

[hobbit709]

16. cheaper way to do it.

Line out RCA audio jacks on stereo amplifier, get a RCA to 1/8 in miniplug adapter, audio in on computer. I use Audio Cleaning Lab to remove hiss, etc. Have a Yamaha dual cassette deck and a turntable connected to stereo.
I record each side as a single file and then use the software to break it up into individual tracks, give it ID tags etc. I got a bunch of old vinyl and cassettes done that way(most of which were never issued on CD so screw the RIAA)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. Sending your post to the resident electronics genius/physics major.

Will see what he Says. I understand you are doing the same thing with old-fashioned jacks instead of USB ports. I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I'm still using my original high school stereo, circa 1971. A Marantz 2230 receiver and a couple of no-name but good speakers. I later bought a couple of big Advent speakers from a guy who had four of them. I only have 30 watts (15 per channel) but boy are they clean!

I only took it to the repair shop once and that was to replace the dashboard lights behind the dial. Cost a whole $200 as my xmas present in 1971. I also still have an Akai reel-to-reel that played reels, cassettes and 8 tracks. It was labeled as a Roberts.

I was the only girl I knew of in college who had a component stereo and knew how to take it apart and hook it back together. Receiver, turntable, cassette player, speakers and later a CD player (I got a Denon Six-stacker that still works well.)

[Jello Biafra]

4. My boy Jello doing that........

what a genius he is......

[HooptieWagon]

6. The record industry itself is killing the record industry

Along with ASCAP.

[MADem]

7. Who remembers Ye Olde Reel-to-Reel player? Now that was the dark ages! nt

[guitar man]

8. I still have a few

And still use them. This little gem is from 1973, still works perfectly

[saras]

9. Those suckers got mojo

For that matter, pretty much everything electronic built around '73 is bulletproof. The amp I'm using this very instant is from around then, a Pioneer SA-9100.

But I got a tiny portable reel-to-reel for Christmas when I was ten, and the very first thing I did was record songs off the radio. Pirate already. Of course, a few years later, FM radio stations were advertising the "six-pack", six entire albums played back-to-back without commercial interruption, Friday night at midnight, for your recording, listening, and partying pleasure. And cassettes were conveniently exactly the right length to hold albums.

[guitar man]

11. I still love my analog gear

I own and operate a 24 track professional digital recording studio so I deal with a lot of digital audio.

When I'm not doing studio work I love to play with my turntable and old open reel machines. I drag the one in the picture out ever do often to do live recording of my band in the clubs. It's hard to beat that fat analog sound

[MADem]

22. I have a hi-fi.

It's massive. It doubles as a buffet in my hide-a-way up in Maine. It came with the joint!

I also have a circa: late 40's "record player" in a cabinet--not quite hi-fi, just before--that has all its bits, but I haven't gotten it to work quite yet. Haven't really tried, to be honest--I'm using it as a TV stand right now. Looks great!

[MADem]

10. And it's a TEAC!!! Which makes you cool, doncha know--those were great! nt

[guitar man]

12. Indeed they are

great machines. In addition to the 2340 in the pic I've got a 3300sx and a 3340 that both need a little work. The 3300sx is a 2 track master macine that runs at 15ips. I want to get it fixed up so I can dump digital mixdowns to it in the studio and give them a nice fat analog sound before mastering to cd

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. I use to to have the one below that one back in the 1970s. Forge the model #.

Traded it in (with some $$$) for a half-track Revox A77 a few years later. Should have kept that Revox. It made some incredible tapes off my Linn Sondek.

[hifiguy]

19. Some hard core maniacs in the audiophile world

have revived the reel machine - rebuilding Tascam and Teac machines to the highest audiophile standards, including at times tube electronics.



See also: http://www.tapeproject.com/machines/machines.htm

[HooptieWagon]

18. Oh yes. I still have an AKAI R2R.

Also an AKAI 4 track cassette recorder, and a couple Nakamichi cassette decks.

[MADem]

21. AKAI--another "badass" brand! I'm having flashbacks...! nt

[bathroommonkey76]

25. Steve Jobs collected them

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/new-steve-jobs-bio-reveals-details-of-his-relationships-with-bob-dylan-bono-20111024

[undergroundpanther]

26. I have one.

my mom recorded me as a kid on it.It still works too.
I have an older stereo,pioneer reciever, tobisha double tape deck,single cd player,my old turntable,and I rigged up the extra ports to play my ipod.The other lines went to my computer.had excellent sound.

right now reciever needs repair.I got it when a fancy stereo place went out of business.It's a hybrid of sorts,it is both analog and digital.

[MADem]

27. +1!!! nt

[Nye Bevan]

14. Either pay for the whole album to get the one song I wanted, or record it from the Top 40

on the radio?

I could only afford to record it from the radio. But nobody was monitoring my IP address so I was safe.

[hobbit709]

15. They claimed that with reel to reel and 8-track too.

Remember the Digital Audio Tape howling?

[Javaman]

17. I had that tape!

love me some Jello

[Tom Ripley]

23. I think Bow Wow Wow were actually the first to do that (leave one side of the cassette blank

and explicitly encourage home taping)