HACKING a piece of ancient technology!

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@MikePerigo 4 ай бұрын

Interesting experiment. You should also activate the erase head to wipe the tape before you make a new recording as your early attempts can still be heard when you listen to the later tries.

@willdoesbuild 4 ай бұрын

Good idea!

@mike_van_in 4 ай бұрын

@@willdoesbuild Well, how shall I put this ... The player does not have an erase head that you can "activate"! They only come with a tape "recorder". What you *could* do is run the tape past a magnet. Like they did in days of yore. Be aware that the mechanical rubbing will trash your tape material pretty quickly. There are ways to circumvent this. But a better way is to put a bit of (experimentally determined) DC power ionto the play head, to wipe the previous recording with the resulting electro-magnet. OR Do a bit of reading about how tape recorders actually work! This will save you from reinventing fire, the wheel, and the light bulb. My two cents. Use it, don't use it.

@pufthemajicdragon 4 ай бұрын

One big reason the recording quality was so poor was because you were holding the wires to the line jack from your phone. Any movement will alter the electrical characteristics of the connection and cause interference. Wire your 3 recording wires into a socket so you can remove that interference and your recording quality should go up dramatically. I like this video more than your computer one, mostly because the computer one has a few shenanigans that feel gimmicky to me. However, the content in both is great and you're well on your way to becoming a great channel! And those shenanigans are probably more appealing to a younger-than-me audience so do what you do :) Great job and great content! What's next on the docket?

@willdoesbuild 4 ай бұрын

I have a few projects in mind, and my next video will probably be much simpler than the relay calculator lol!

@pufthemajicdragon 4 ай бұрын

@@willdoesbuild FWIW the computer itself was really sweet, and I'm uber impressed by the idea of using a motor as a clock! That was ingenius! Can't wait to see what you cook up next :)

@FaceStuffer 4 ай бұрын

@@willdoesbuild fix the bell

@Idontknow4 4 ай бұрын

from the guy with the most shenanigan pfp

@Da_Skinny_Mann 4 ай бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who still works with cassette tapes.

@willdoesbuild 3 ай бұрын

They’re so fun

@Da_Skinny_Mann 3 ай бұрын

@@willdoesbuild Yeah. My dad recently got me two big cases of old time radio shows.

@12nHk3j 3 ай бұрын

I don't know much about cassettes, but I think if you used a amplifier, then wired it up, it would be more louder. Also, I'd recommend using a arduino, you can wire those 3 wires up to it (if it doesn't use much current), connect a microphone to it too, then program it and it could be as a voice recorder. Cool thing, you should try that!

@electronicecstasy 4 ай бұрын

Cool video! You should get some alligator clips so you don't have to manually press the wires to the audio cable. That would increase the sound quality too. I'm excited to see other projects you'll make in the future!

@marluna_x 4 ай бұрын

The voice recording didn't work because a mic only gives out a teeny-tiny amount of current. You need to amplify it to hear anything. Computers usually do that for you already.

@simonabunker 4 ай бұрын

I want to know where I can get a third hand!

@patrickcraenen5163 4 ай бұрын

Very funny video, I definitely found it worth watching. The reason the audio sounds so bad is because you are not using a bias carrier. You also hear the previous recordings because your cassette player does not have an erase head and therefore the previous recordings are not completely erased. By just holding the wires against the jack plug you indeed do not have a stable connection as mentioned by @pufthemajicdragon Cheers

@CallousCoder 4 ай бұрын

We used to multitrack on a regular take de k by sticking some tape over the cleaning head. The problem was that the previous takes would get softer and d sifter with every overdub. But it was the way we made demos in the 80s, until we had a 4 track TASCAM recorder, that basically were two play heads stacked on top of each other. So the whole cassette would be used on one side only.

@FieryToast1 3 ай бұрын

that popping sound sounds like Wifi or Bluetooth interference

@jameslaidler2152 4 ай бұрын

If you want to learn more about tape recording, look up Jack Mullen, who brought back German Magnetophon tape machines after World War II, and teamed up with Bing Crosby to create the Ampex company. Also look up Les Paul (yes the electric guitar guy) who developed multi-track recording as we know it today.

@draakisback 4 ай бұрын

Its a great idea, but you could really make it work better by securing the wires and also by boosting the signal a bit with more voltage. For example, if you used an DAC on your IPhone with an AMP and a dedicated battery, you would probably get crisper audio. I also imagine, that you could just take apart the 3.5 mm headphone jack and then solder the three wires together. The audio is coming in as Mono anyhow, so you could just cannibalize a 3.5mm cable and then connect the 3 cables to your player.

@willdoesbuild 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, this was a cool proof of concept though!