The Onkyo TA-2022: Making Mixtapes is as easy as Making Mixtapes!

[@binarydinosaurs]

I made mixtapes back then because I'm old and it was all we had. Fun though!

[@AudioThrift]

It IS fun. I agree!

[@stephenmorrissey1254]

No true mix tape isn't complete without a Realistic brand cassette. The best noise reduction deck I ever had was a Technics with HX-PRO. Zero hiss. But nobody had a compatible deck and nobody sold HX-PRO recordings in the store so I was on my own little island in HX-PRO land. Really enjoying your artistry! Remember, you are on the silver screen and can now call yourself a thespian.

[@AudioThrift]

IMDB... I'm coming for you. lol

[@westelaudio943]

HX Pro doesn't need a compatible deck, it's a record only feature. It turns the oscillator down at higher record levels, preventing saturation (distortion) so the level on the tape can be higher off the noise floor.

[@RUfromthe40s]

i have several decks with HX-pro some even have a on/off switch in the front and in others in the back but most of them it´s on always because it improves not only the listening but recording too ,none of my decks ever had hiss just some who recorded with dolby to play it without dolby to increase high´s but it also makes a lot of hiss inbetween tracks ,so i never use dolby on my recordings but the HX-pro is a real good feature, it says in the back who developed it or Bang&Olufsen by a arregement they did with dolby laboratories, or demagnetise the heads the main source of hiss, there are good noise reduction systems but only to use professionally in studios ,i have a dbx nr in my fathers home studio conected to a studer reel recorder

[@RUfromthe40s]

@@westelaudio943correct but also mainly helps the listening ,the reason why it´s always on while the dolby nr(a), b, c or S are usable or not , never record with dolby and no hiss, my first cassette deck was a CT-F4141 from pioneer ,today still as no hiss and it as 47 years of use,off course today it´s rare to work but some friends ask me to play there a cassette and it plays like when it was new, no hiss and only uses dolby nr or A no B or C

[@westelaudio943]

@@RUfromthe40s Dolby A was a system intended for professional reel to reel decks, and is pretty much as effective as Dolby S. Usually on home tape decks designed before some time in 1981 when Dolby C was introduced, Dolby B was just labeled as Dolby NR as it was the only Dolby home HiFi NR system. I'm not aware of any home cassette decks using Dolby A, but I might be wrong, I'll look it up...

[@CounterRhythms]

I didn't often make mix tapes but I did record whole albums on tape to preserve my vinyl. That's why most of my 80's metal on vinyl is pretty mint or close. I would put extra songs because there was always some room on the tape so that's kind of like a partial mix tape. Cool channel. Stay heavy. 🤘

[@AudioThrift]

Nice. Love that. Did you put extra songs by the same artist or mix it up?

[@CounterRhythms]

@@AudioThrift usually the same artist but there may have been some exceptions. I don't quite recall and I don't have those old tapes anymore. Nowadays I usually stick to putting the same band. Sometimes a live or alternate version of one or more of the songs. Sometimes there's room to stick an EP at the end. Yes, I still make tapes occasionally just for the fun and nostalgia of it, not so much for archiving vinyl.🤘

[@RUfromthe40s]

almost everyone i knew did that even the ones who had not a turntable but today they can listen to the records with higfher quality ,the recorde tapes were a lot better than pre-recorded ones and they cost the same so aking to a friend with a new good system to record a cassette and then protect the better you can the vinyl, never used dolby in recordings ,the NR,b,c, or S or digital ,it messes with the sound quality

[@HenryKlausEsq.]

I'm convinced leaving cassettes in the hot car marinates the tapes, adding flavour.

[@AudioThrift]

Haha... maybe that's what I'll call them; "marinated".

[@maisyhewett]

I started making mixtapes when my friend decided to serve an lds mission. They aren’t allowed to listen to music while they’re set apart and he really missed listening to music that wasn’t church hymns haha. So I mailed him a portable cassette player along with some random cassettes I could find either at the thrift store or online and I also made a mixtape. My first one ever. I always wanted to make one. I named it “super lit mega chill mix”. It’s been about 5 months now and Im working on a winter mix and a mix of song requests he’s made haha. He said he uses the cassette player every night so I think it’s worth it. My older brother actually has the same tape deck as the one in this video, and he’s given it to me to hold on to while he lives in Europe. The sound quality is astronomically better than the dinky little portable recorders and players from Amazon 😂 this video was awesome! 👍🏼

[@AudioThrift]

Thank you. That means a lot to hear. I'm glad you can make tapes to make someone's life better!

[@Raul-yg5oz]

Bro that first outfit was out of this world , as a kid I wasn’t to much into casette, I always thought that it sounded off , maybe because my parents had a “ Fisher Cr-5110 “ and although it sounded ok I never really used it my parents mostly used it for ambiance music though the house or when they were going to invite family members

[@ACBMemphis]

What to do with that extra blank space at the end of a mix tape...? Once I put a loud car crash from a "sound effects CD" then lent the cassette to a friend. The feedback when I got the tape back was "I was listening in the car and that scared the crap out of me."

[@AudioThrift]

Where were you when I was writing the script? That's a great idea. Or... maybe a few fart noises?

[@pervertedalchemist9944]

The Onkyo deck has square and rectangle buttons - which was very common in the 1980's. It also made many decks nondescript - as it was difficult to tell them apart in that time.

[@AudioThrift]

Heck, the cars were square... and the shoulder pads even made clothes square. lol Lots of squares in the 80's.

[@RUfromthe40s]

@@AudioThrift in my university squares were most of the students there, girls were often more rounded as in shape or mind open to new experiences

[@RUfromthe40s]

i do have a lot of heavy or hard rock speed metal trash or whatever they call it but for a fact that i sometimes remenber a 80´s album and do play it at home with high and clean sound but somehow my blood presure or tension rises like hell so i can´t hear no more entire 80´s album´s ,even worked as a dj for 35 years making special sets to my heavy metal friends, i do have metal mixed tapes recorded in party´s, i almost forget i also had a band ,i was the guitar rythm player allthough i played some solo´s, it started with my mixing board a guitar a metal charger pedal into a peavy amplifier with a gibson SG and a microphone from the 50´s by grundig and a electronic keyboard with rythm section so with a equalizer we made two songs that we spread in our city and in local shows on fm radio , normally sunday night when most of us were at home, i designed a cover and with a computer cassette C-30 ,in the cover it even said this tape is metal made only rusted,select type I ,it started as a joke with my friend more metalic made in the city i still live, we sold out our first cassingle ,the xerox copied design made by me was a hit we even record a second recording of the first cassingle only add songs not included in our first demo and it had extra songs ,like 7 from the original two we sold a lot of those to import records from England , buti think everyone made the same ,i can´t writte here the lirycs but they would be understood by the distortion of our 50´s mic. like blood spield from your .... places where baby´s come from not paris delivered by a stork, cassette decks were my favorite part of the system ,this onkyo and others i have them ,also more 45 ,in my main sytem i have 6 decks at the moment but really good ones and have other systems in my house all have at least one deck when having a reel deck too ,in my garage i put there a plexyglass wall to make a room for friends ,where i have all 90´s pioneer system only the turntable is a SL-3310 from technics bought in 76

[@niconeko6941]

If I May ask what Cable did you use to record the music onto the tape, like what did you use to connect both systems together yk

[@AudioThrift]

In this case, it was just Stereo RCA to Stereo RCA. The red and white ones. :)

[@niconeko6941]

@@AudioThrift ah ok ok thanks mate, also you think it would work as well with RCA to Aux?

[@AudioThrift]

It does, you just have to be very conscious of volume level. That's what the record level lights are for though. :)

[@niconeko6941]

@@AudioThrift ah ok bet thanks mate ,😁 can't wait to start recording

[@RUfromthe40s]

good cassettes are better, normally type I are good even better than some chrome tapes but in that deck the better i think it´s the chrome ones

[@B.l.i.s.s.f.u.l]

This exact device was used throughout the 80's, 90's and possibly 2000's by my dad, grandpa, and aunt. And now is used as decoration at my grandparents house. My dad claims it still works, but it has been rotting in the same position for years so i kinda doubt that. I had been thinking of searching for this device for a while now, and today was the day i searched for it and was releived to find it everywhere on the internet Great video!!

[@AudioThrift]

Thank you. It probably wouldn't be much work to get it going again. Just a belt or two. Very easy to do.

[@B.l.i.s.s.f.u.l]

@AudioThrift that's good to know!