A devilishly cheap way to get good cassette tapes: Tape over the Bible!

[@manolokonosko2868]

The reason why those tapes are in such good shape is the same reason why you bought the set so cheap: No one played them.

[@matthewrease2376]

Sad but likely very true. To be fair it's better to read it yourself than to listen to it.

[@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505]

​@@matthewrease2376 I am so grateful for reading the Bible cover to cover twice. If I had not read the Bible, I'd still be a Christian. Literally the shittiest book of all time. EDIT: Yes, I know, Islam is worse. Religion is a cancer.

[@matthewrease2376]

@@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505 k You can read something without understanding it. I'm sorry you wasted your time (twice). Don't make a defense/excuse before me though, because I'm not the one you be giving an account to on the day of judgement.

[@NielsHeusinkveld]

You had to read it twice to be sure? :D@@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus505

[@ApemanMonkey]

​@@matthewrease2376ah, the threat. Is that what your book taught you?

[@gwheregwhizz]

You can often find unused ex-police interview cassettes in the UK for about about a £1. They used to give them away free but you had to be taken in for questioning first.

[@Kumimono]

"Says here you stole a cassette tape..."

[@jameslaidler2152]

Oh dear.

[@defaultuserid1559]

Under caution in the knick. (Watching too much BritBox)

[@matthewlawrenson3628]

I have a box of about 75 of these. Apparently loaded with AGFA tape.

[@christo930]

I know they changed it in the UK, but in America you should not talk to the police under any circumstances. I heard it was the labor government in the early 2000s where they changed the rules so that you could not bring up something in trial if you didn't mention it during the interrogation.

[@mikepuk8224]

I showed this video to the pastor at my church and he said it’s not a sin to do this. He even did this himself a few times.

[@LazyPirate8]

This was probably how he got a hold of his Judaist Priest album back in High School lol.

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

😆😁😄😃😅😂🤣🥲☺

[@SkinnyVampiress]

hahaha nice :)

[@TheDeadheadable]

Way to burn the bible. Not saying I dont agree with getting rid of the filth contained on those tapes.

[@runoffgroove]

Excellent presentation! The “miserable” joke was perfect. Back in high school, I recorded over record club cassettes that arrived when I neglected to decline that month’s featured album.

[@ROMCat1952]

At 28 minutes 44 seconds, the shortest tape is still long enough to record both sides of the original Tubular Bells album.

[@Kumimono]

Tubular Bibells.

[@error52]

And the longest one will just about fit Pink Floyd's Animals album.

[@llaeeZ]

And only 10 seconds short of fitting the entire Slayer - Reign In Blood, on each side. Which is OK since the last 20 seconds are just sound effects.

[@mohammedbudi1046]

28 min 44 secs is same as Saigin Kick - Water side 1 (1993)😂

[@skyrocketautomotive]

I think the bigger sin would be for these perfectly serviceable tapes (and their very fancy carrying case) to end up in landfill due to people not wanting 16 cassettes of the bible! Great video as always :D

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Are you implying that the Bible would have sold better if it was only on 8 extended length cassettes? 😮 I'm sure that's what you meant because I was under the impression that *everyone* likes bible on tape. In fact, the only thing better than a bible on tape is a bible on SaCD in 5.1 Dolby.

[@damian9303]

It may look fancy, but once he opens up that case you can see the flimsy VHS clamshell material.

[@skyrocketautomotive]

@@Boogie_the_cat I like the way god bounces around the room on the 5.1 version, really gives you that ethereal vibe!

[@skyrocketautomotive]

@@damian9303 but the idea of having Rush's entire back catalogue hidden inside something that looks so much like a Bible is too deliciously sinful to miss haha

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@Boogie_the_cat I love it when the narrator spins around me in 7 channel surround sound while reading the list of who begat who

[@metaleggman18]

I love how much fun you had choosing the verses and such 😂

[@novelezra]

and on the 6th day; God created DOLBY

[@RealEpikCartfrenYT]

On the 7th day, Jesus descended to spread the wisdom about Dolby hx pro and that people might be missing some of the benefits stereo can provide

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

By Dolby, I assume, referring to She Blinded Me With Science singer Thomas Dolby.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

And it was good!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@theautisticguitarist7560No, but thanks for thinking of that. 😅

[@matthewrease2376]

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. You will give an account for every word spoken, every word typed.

[@TheErador]

Love that you spooled forward to 666 on the tape counter before bringing in the devil

[@djmhyde]

imagine use these bible tapes to record Iron Maiden's song "number of the beast", probably the tape deck will catch on fire

[@RealEpikCartfrenYT]

and then your religious family member grabs the tape, plays it and suddenly says "why is there "satanic" music on my tape" before starting to shred on the air guitar

[@PeterBellefleur]

Na, Slayer's "Reign in Blood" If you're gonna do it, go full hog.

[@Dorelaxen]

@@PeterBellefleur Corporate Avenger's "Christians Murdered Indians" would also be pretty appropriate.

[@PlayitagainVHS]

Lol

[@SkinnyVampiress]

The tragedy happened when I was young. My dad erased a part of my favorite cassette! He was drunk and they had a party, and at the middle of my favorite song there was some silence and then you can hear him swearing and saying "...damn, wrong button!" :D

[@gowildler]

Your dad doesn’t seem to be very responsible and/or stable if he can’t keep his alcohol consumption under control …

[@zuffin1864]

​@@gowildleri am not good at pushing buttons when i'm drunk, so i could see myself doing this 😂 not that i know this person's father

[@windowsuser321]

I always punch out the record tabs when I make a mix. I don't bother when I record an album, though.

[@LazyPirate8]

This was probably how the teenager in a strict Christian household got a hold of his ACDC albums in the 80s

[@doctorpotchke]

Screws holding the shell together are also a sign of quality. I used to open them and cut off most of the leader so the music starts as soon as you hit play. It was a cool effect.

[@N2tech]

The new American bible, Made in Singapore. 🤣 Can't get more American than that.

[@jbmcb]

I was going to use this trick with a set of "Learn German" tapes meant for diplomats. However, my son got into them, and now he's learning a very domain-specific set of German :)

[@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14]

The 88 type of German?

[@pikgears]

@@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14 it could very well be from 1988

[@jbmcb]

Well, he knows how to ask where the Ambassador's residence is, or where the wine reception will be held :)

[@5roundsrapid263]

I was the church sound man in high school and college. We wiped extra sermon tapes all the time. We even had the big Radio Shack bulk eraser!

[@johnsheppard3740]

My favourite quote from something is this “Don’t you read the Bible?” “Yea, im actually listening to it on a tape, don’t tell me how it ends.”

[@gymnasiast90]

I love the subtle joke of having the counter tick over 666 at the start of the "Diablo" recording!

[@error52]

Years ago, back in my Eastern European home, I found some pre-recorded tapes with university lectures on them. Specifically, communist criminal law. I took the greatest pleasure in recording over them some criminally degenerate rock and roll. Including my favorite local blues band, whose members had actually been prosecuted for playing "western music" back in those days.

[@nickvickers3486]

Good for you, keep on rocking in the free world!

[@applescruff1969]

Very punk rock! I love it!

[@jamesslick4790]

If I owned a radio station, Its format would be "Criminally Degenerate Rock and Roll"! 🎶👍😊👍🎶

[@heggy_69]

That's hardcore man

[@morganneher8643]

🫡

[@plushifoxed]

i love that "dinner with the diablo" was clearly meant to be a no-frills version of smooth by santana

[@stranget92]

it sounds very close to Corazon Espinado, from the same album as Smooth

[@dennisp.2147]

I started mentally trying to sing the Santana song when I started hearing it. but it was just to different. It's a bit like having a thought in the back of your mind that you can quite get to fully formulate.

[@macktheinterloper]

I don't know if taping over the Bible is a sin, but taping over Morse code instructional materials is a grade-A travesty. Loved all the little easter (lol) eggs in this vid Kev, thanks for going the extra mile ;)

[@xaenon9849]

xfer the morse code course to the mp3 format, then record over the tape. You can have your cake and eat it too.

[@OzRetrocomp]

I've never seen anything like this at a thrift store (maybe I go to the wrong thrift stores?). But now I kinda want one of these 16-tape Bibles on tape sets to store all my favourite ZX Spectrum games.

[@patrickcardon1643]

Not going to find those over here in Europe, that's "fer sure" 😁

[@GrumpyIan]

It's the luck of the draw. From personal experience you'll have better chances on finding cassettes at thrift shops that aren't Goodwill.

[@Rick_Todd]

@@patrickcardon1643 There is a even better one here in the UK its the Old Testament and its got 48 cassettes. " HOLY BIBLE : KING JAMES VERSION, Alexander Scourby Edition, 48 Cassette Tapes "

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

@@patrickcardon1643 Only in the USA where strange things happen

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

Since when does English people say they are a part or Europe., thats new@@Rick_Todd

[@patrickcardon1643]

Not even 19 cents per tape, that's what we call a bargain 👍

[@sethbramwell]

Man, the Apostle Paul really played a good saxophone to the Corinthians. Who knew?

[@chrisnunya7171]

Back when I was a kid my girlfriends dad worked at a church that broadcasted its sermons over the radio. They'd record it on awesome studio quality Maxell cassette tapes. After they were done with them, he'd bring them home & let me have some of them. I still have them to this day! I even made new recordings on one! 👍🏻

[@nickwallette6201]

Studio quality Maxell tapes... for a voice recording... which, if my experience is at all accurate, was recorded through a garden variety lav mic, into a Radio Shack mixer with the gains set either too low or too high (or possibly even, somehow, both.)

[@menotyou8369]

Well that's just a sin.

[@TheDeadheadable]

Hope your not still with the girl with the delusional father. He sounds like a real douche out to take money from old people.

[@jimmymelendez1836]

​@@menotyou8369What?

[@bazzle592]

The timing of this video is incredible, I saw FIVE cassette bibles at an estate sale today. I was briefly tempted to buy them, surely by a mischievous devil of some sort...

[@therealchriscunningham]

Came for the blasphemy, stayed for the Johnny Cash electronic bible endorsement.

[@patrikniklasson4059]

Sorry, but where in the vid was that part?

[@le9038]

​@@patrikniklasson4059 1:47

[@applescruff1969]

​@@patrikniklasson40591:55

[@CoolDudeClem]

I used to do this "tape" trick as a kid. I had a lot of old pre-recorded tapes that I never listened to anymore, so I would record over them. In fact I still do that now! I'm sure my grandparents used to have a whole box set of bible tapes.

[@Tomsonic41]

I was the opposite. I knew about covering the hole, but I was always against recording over pre-recorded cassettes. I always knew someday I'd want to go back and listen to those old cassettes again (particularly those with children's stories on them)

[@kpanic23]

On decks with mechanical keys or shoebox recorders you could simply reach inside the tape well and hold down the little nub that senses the write protect tab, to unlock the record button. Then you can hold down the record button, release the nub, insert your cassette and start recording. No need to fumble around with sticky tape ;)

[@techmaester]

Fun trick: Depends on the unit, probably a bit easier with a Panasonic, you can slip the tape under the door and play/record with the door open. Useful for those dark tinted windows or no windows at all, or you cannot see or hard to see how far the tape has advanced. However, the tape can slip and cause, well, you can probably guess the damage.

[@techmaester]

@@kpanic23 Yep, I was able to perform this trick way back when, wondering if anyone else ever tried this. Well, I am not the only one!

[@patrickcoughlin-qj9uk]

I'm 60 and still do with black tape on a pioneer ct -f 900

[@uxwbill]

I was rather surprised to hear background music on the bible recordings. They also seemed to be of mediocre recording quality.

[@RyDawg96]

Yeah! The music he recorded to the tape from a CD sounded way better than what was already recorded on the tape.

[@andreasu.3546]

5:05: Turns out old John can't tell a trumpet from an electric guitar.

[@jhonwask]

You always seem to have a humorous spin to all of your videos. They are very enjoyable. I've been taping over pre-recorded cassettes for over 40 years and usually have good results, too. I just wish I had a nice deck like your Denon.

[@nonelost1]

Back in the '90s I bought the entire Bible on cassette to listen to on my portable Walkman cassette player while delivering papers. But they were so cheap they would often jam up the first time I played them. Then, someone told me to always fully fast forward, and then fully rewind each tape before playing them. It worked! Kudos to ME for the tip.

[@Zacabeb]

I once bought a box full of cassettes with BASF tape stock cut to length from a duplication facility. What I found was that since they were made for high speed duplication, they had different magnetic properties than regular Type I tape and the high end would settle after recording, requiring experimentation with the bias current to find where it would give the best results. The short delay from the recording to the play head was insufficient to tell how much the tape settled. Even though the bias needed in the end was lower than for regular Type I tape, I did have to increase it from the level given by regular calibration. That's important to consider if using high speed tape stock with regular cassette decks and it's probably best to avoid on decks without manual bias control. Especially if using Dolby NR (especially Type C) as it will pump horribly on playback if the tape was not biased correctly.

[@kevinpatrickmacnutt]

Some Bible tapes have the length on the top or on the leader as the use bulk duplicator tapes. Many still had the tabs left in. One time I got really lucky as they all were 120 minute Maxell Communicator Series cassettes.

[@meurighailstone1999]

I too have had pretty good results taping over old unwanted pre-recorded tapes. A lot of them used BASF tape or other brands that bias like a BASF.

[@JPX64Channel]

in my case either TDK or SONY EFX tapes are everywhere and easy to find.

[@seanx666]

All of these tapes deserve 80's heavy metal 🤘

[@themaritimegirl]

Sounds heavenly!

[@RealEpikCartfrenYT]

Imaging recording hard rock and heavy metal on a bible tape. Other than that, I too think it's a better idea to just grab some old tapes for a bargain and record over them. You won't believe how many chrome tapes you can find for cheap. Heck, sometimes you can come across gems you wouldn't even know about otherwise

[@sethbramwell]

Imagine recording all that over the Bible... and then re-donating it for some poor soul to buy thinking they're getting the Bible.

[@SkiBumMSP]

That would be hilarious to record the latest Demons & Wizards album on one of those tapes! Reminds me a few years ago in Atlanta when I saw Demons & Wizards at a venue and the next morning they were having a church service in that same exact venue!

[@bertcb1gwn909]

I just bought 115 blank 100 minutes chrome tapes from a church. 😁 Greetings from the Netherlands !

[@cromulence]

Jesus Christ

[@mrnmrn1]

Amen. @@cromulence

[@ExtraThiccc]

Holy shit

[@cartonofchaos]

Good God

[@bslaws]

I have been doing this for years. Being in Idaho, I have picking up LDS book of Mormon which is usually on about 17 cassettes for $2-3. I use rare earth magnets to erase them.

[@ArttuTheCat]

A new channel subscriber / retrospective tomcat 😺 from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮. I still listen to the old rock and metal music 🎵🎶 on the c-tapes, LP's and CD's 😺👍. And you may not believe this, but i also have the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. Thank you 😸😺👍.

[@douglasallen9428]

Excellent! I actually did something similar with a few of these 12-cassette “Golden Oldies” box sets from the late eighties; because the sound quality of the various songs on those tapes was not great to begin with, I actually taped over them with the same songs with much better quality!

[@stereophonicstuff]

I see what you did at 1:02: "But there's an ever cheaper way to amass a collection of cassette tapes..." I've used the tape-over trick to reuse unwanted spoken-word tapes many times. You got off easy with those tapes having paper labels. Newer tapes that have the labels printed directly onto the plastic aren't as easy to recycle, though a little bit of isopropyl alcohol usually does the trick.

[@GreatGodSajuuk]

You can always change the casings. buying used tapes from an ad online is a bit sketchy because if they were stored in the attic the tape itself is going to be destroyed by heat/cold cycles, but if all you need is some cool looking casings then that's a great and super cheap source. If I run into a cassette that has a really nice casing but the tape in it has perished I will throw out the rolls but keep the casing and use it when I get some good but crappy looking tapes.

[@stevewhitcher6719]

If IPA doesnt work try "Meguiars Ultimate Compound" which is a car polish other finishing compounds may work but its the one i use it was around $20 for a bottle but when i was told about it i got some free 2ml sachets and when it worked a bought a bottle.

[@Narayan_1996]

I'm a roman catholic christian, and I see no problem at all to reuse those tapes for something else. The Bible still there in paper, and God ain't gonna be mad for something so simple as that. I'd do the same, mainly because English isn't my first language, Brazilian Portuguese is, and even being able to speak and listen to English at a decent level nowadays, it woudn't be the same if I was listening to the bible in my native language. So happy taping, Kevin! Thank you for making my lunches (and dinners, just now I'm eating) so much enjoyable with your videos! Lots of love from Brazil♥♥♥

[@HBC101TVStudios]

Also for your information, the versions of the Bible in various languages are simply a translation from the original version of the Bible written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

God would approve of having less things in landfills, I'd think.

[@nickvickers3486]

'The Good Book...on TAPE...oooh it's read by Larry King!' (It's always nice to be reminded of classic Simpsons!)

[@denniseldridge2936]

Waaaay back when I was very young and was unable to afford cassettes of any sort of quality I was very glad for my dad bringing home cassettes from Merryl Lynch (spelling). My dad was a banker and would get these cassettes distributed by ML giving parched-dry talks on how the markets were doing and such. These were my lifeline for media in the 70s lol. I highly recommend looking for these sorts of things as they can indeed save you a fortune.

[@KentTeffeteller]

I used to also get Recording For The Blind used open reel tape, usually dependable Ampex/Quantegy 631. They used it 5 passes, then I could have it as a volunteer. The Studio Director kept me well supplied.

[@Daniel15au]

Merrill Lynch.

[@UserUser-zc6fx]

This was a common method that poor kids and teenagers used to amass cassettes in the 80s and 90s for mix tapes. You could buy these bibles, or those business and self help seminar packs that had 6-12, 60-90min cassettes for a dollar or two in thrift stores back then. I got 2 dollars every day for lunch and I could skip my lunch at school one day and pick up enough cassettes to record up to 18 hours of music.

[@KearSki]

I'm quite happy to have managed to get a nice pile of NOS TDK D series tapes, plus I have all my dad's old tapes from when he was going to Musicians Institute. I also have access to a near endless supply of country and classical music on tapes at any thrift store/goodwill/craigslist because I live in Montana and the older folk here only seemed to stop using cassettes because they've either passed, or because their truck with the tape player finally gave up the ghost. But taping over the bible (or other books) is quite an idea!

[@mason6300]

The police used to give away free tapes in the uk if you were interviewed so we would go in for any crime they had and make a random statement to get a free tape

[@aTrulyPowerfulSpirit]

This is funny because I live in Eastern Europe, we mostly have Scandinavian and Finnish secondhand goods here. I always look for new trift shops but I never saw those blocks of tapes. So last week I walked into a new one and - there it was! - two audio Bibles as boxsets and numerous other audiobooks on tape, a whole cardboard box of them.

[@MosoKaiser]

Huh, 28 minutes 44 seconds per side on the shortest cassette... Gives me a delightfully devilish idea for what to tape over that one: Slayer's _Reign in Blood_ and/or Deicide's _Once upon the Cross_ would fit on it perfectly! 😁🤘 Either both sides recorded with the same album for a cool 'endlessly looping' tape when used with an auto reverse equipped deck, or one album on side A and the other on side B.👌

[@nickcliff]

Christians would be very uncomfortable with taping over the bible tapes

[@dennisp.2147]

I can assure you that I personally do not care.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Blasphemer! I used the "tape" trick as a kid with my Fisher Price cassette recorder. I had two comedy characters named "Toot" and Toot Toot" Genius. Actually, my best work was a LEGO stop motion animation on VHS, it was a Star Wars parody called "Inhaler Wars". All the characters had asthma (because I used to have asthma)

[@alekc4053]

"Dinner with the Diablo" sounds exactly the same as a Carlos Santana song called "Corazón Espinado" ("Thorned Heart")

[@mannhimself]

Finally, I can make my Slayer and Metallica mix tapes off other tapes, vinyl, cds, mp3s, satellite radio, and FM radio.

[@andreasu.3546]

What better medium than this to start my own death metal bootleg collection? I'd leave the original labels on and keep em in the box they came in.

[@rocker11281]

That is one of the most funny and informative at the same time videos you ever made. 😈🤓

[@scheitinjebroek]

The red stripes on the tape leader (as seen on the bottom tape at 6:50) looks very familliar to the leader TDK used for its C60 tapes. So it could be a TDK tape.

[@DaXande135]

Exactly my thoughts

[@debarghyaroy9948]

Ah I remember yes, it is TDK!

[@sternwheeler]

I used to do this all the time, but the library was getting really pissed.

[@Safetytrousers]

I had a little laugh out loud.

[@sternwheeler]

@@Safetytrousers 😊

[@JaredLekites]

Gotta love that off-brand Santana track.

[@synapticburn]

Years ago Jesus: The Movie was mailed to hundreds of thousands of houses, and I knew a postal worker who gave his friends huge stacks of them unopened to use as free blanks!

[@graboid116]

True story i had a huge set called user allusions that i recorded over. One day while walking i wanted to listen to one i pushed play walking by some people and it said "i really don't like you because you did that" then i stopped it i laughed so hard. Moral of the story. Make sure you play the correct side when using these

[@BeatUpRecordsCDs]

I'm still laughing at the "miserable recordings"

[@albear972]

1:40 most likely since you found that in at the thrift store the person moved on to the other side. 😁 Reminds me, I found a forgotten stash of brand-new sealed cassette tapes I bought in the early 90's when I still used that Jurassic technology. I haven't used any cassettes for about 25+ years. Well, maybe it's time to dump em' on eBay. I still have stuff I recorded off the radio on cassette when I was a teen in the 80's. And yes, one of those cassettes is a TEAC Sound 52 with the little reels. 8:50 That's a *real* old school spreadsheet in all sense of the word there! 😉

[@STR82DVD]

Another fine score and good tip. Thanks young lad. Brilliant stuff!

[@thisvideoisback9852]

For some reason as mentioned in the video they used decent tape in a lot of these bible tapes, contrary to what you might expect. Using a 3 head deck they've always been stellar.

[@xylemphloem]

For diy musicians, you can also use these boxset cases to make your own boxsets. I go to thrift stores and savers all the time and grab the audiobooks that have multiple cassettes as they have really cool cases sometimes. I have some vhs library cases that contain cassettes instead that are pretty cool too. They look great with custom artwork (Edit: typos)

[@firenado4295]

another good one is the "learn a language" tape packs. they can have like 10 tapes and you can get them for a couple bucks.

[@MuchWhittering]

The guy narrating those tapes sounds exactly like every old American movie actor.

[@Corvid-]

Certainly better than ending up in a landfill.

[@Mister-Salieri]

I once found a buch of English tution degree books, each one has a spelling cassette included. So I happily grabbed the tapes and left the books untouched. Recorded music over. Great feeling.

[@MikeDS49]

There are a lot of local traditional and gospel music bands here in Newfoundland that put out tapes in the 90s and 2000s for the older crowd and couldn't sell them all. They tend to pile up at second hand stores, but their lengths may be shorter. I haven't tried them, but they may be good for recording short albums and the like.

[@1marcelfilms]

Suddenly those aliexpress tapes dont seem so overpriced anymore

[@BilisNegra]

"Hi, this is Tony from Cassette Is Not Going To Bring Back Jesus". Thanks for this beautifully crafted video, Kevin. It ticks all my boxes, heathen or not.

[@Fluteboy]

_It’s a nice chocolate brown - well calendered!_

[@BilisNegra]

@@Fluteboy I can certainly hear that in his voice.

[@kbhasi]

This reminded me of when my uncle had a portable cassette player, and he was demonstrating it to us with some random cheap pre-recorded tape he bought, and he recorded a bit of his own voice over part of it! Some other people I was with were talking to him about the tape, but I couldn't remember much of what they said, though I know it happened back in 2007.

[@hellion9547]

I'd love to see one of your amercian presidents swearing the oath of office with one of those cassette bibles

[@jmi5969]

Does anyone know an ancient pagan temple that distributes their beliefs on quarter-inch double-coated Maxell reels? Much obliged...

[@bletheringfool]

Please don't buy up all the audio books on tape. I'm a big fan of listening to them. Many of them not available on audible or similar

[@nova3752]

Get a library card and order them from your state's library online catalog

[@jeenkzk5919]

My grandfather was a hardcore Baptist and he gave me his collection of bible and preacher collections. He gave the tapes with the intention because he knew I liked to tape things.

[@whahappa]

I wish Metallica had done this with their new album. I went through 3 cassettes before I gave up and bought the CD, the tape stock they used had flaws all over it.

[@kyyla771]

Back in the day, in my hometown a pentecostal church kept a small fleamarket. Anyone who bought _something_ could then take two tapes of sermons for free. Once taped TDK SA-X 90's. Yeah...

[@korasov]

That was some s̶a̶t̶a̶n̶i̶c̶ santanic music there.

[@RealEpikCartfrenYT]

el diablo sure has a good taste in music

[@kamuy_1337]

that's what i've been doing over the years, making playlists/albums from cassette audiobook! they sound great most of the time

[@MrDuncl]

The last time I was in a Charity shop they had a large basket full of cassettes which all turned out to be of the audiobook variety.

[@chuckaluck123]

This is great. I've been using this hack for a while. I like using tapes from bands I don't care for, bought from thrift shops. Sometimes they were released on cr2 high biased! I wipe the print off using brasso polish. Works quite nicely!

[@aronslegogbcs1057]

i did this as well found a pre recorded cro2 tape for $1 aud and it records really well on my pioneer deck

[@nrdesign1991]

Makes me wonder what kind of equipment they used if the original audio sounds so atrocious compared to the new recordings. Even the best quality tape won't help if the source is garbage.

[@moth.monster]

Rather clever idea. My local thrift store has a large collection of old books on tape that never sell; probably because an MP3 file is so much more convenient these days.

[@austinorth5549]

I love this idea. I’m blind I wonder if I can get my hands on old books on tape through American printing house, or the state.

[@GP1138]

5:29 - that's a smooth track.

[@Kramer7969]

I didn't even have to record over anything, I was at a church rummage sale and they were selling their "blank" tapes that they used to record sermons on. They are all very generic tapes with little doves on them and are clearly marketed towards churches. I bought them along with a tape duplicator and CD duplicator. They finally got into the 21st century and started streaming all their stuff. The tape duplicator is basically a POS as it creates horrible duplicates (but it works great if I want to rewind a bunch of tapes at once) but the CD duplicator is awesome. Literally can duplicate up to 8 CD's (or DVD's) at a time with nothing but a click of the button.

[@coondogtheman]

I had this cassette tape that had the new testament on it but I recorded over it. I had the talkboy from home alone and I was at my cousin's house with another cousin and we all recorded random stuff on it. Whatever they wanted. I still have the tape but some of the recordings got messed up. One day I will digitize all my old tapes with funny recordings on them and may share parts of them here.

[@godofacorns]

Got a dozen church blanks loaded with TDK Metal last year for dirt cheap. I could hardly believe it.

[@KingMacintosh2]

Common. Organizations don't value anything old. Almost everything EOL gets thrown away if it's not given away.

[@stricm3]

I have literally hundreds of old sermon tapes. Occasionally, there are some 120 minute tapes, which I always tape over those to listen to in my vehicle. I haven't resorted to taping over the Bible though. 😄

[@BertGrink]

Yet!

[@jasonwilliams6005]

I have that same official tape rewinding tool!! Mine is the blue model. Works every time. 😅

[@israelquezada9936]

I did this, but with tapes of sermons, here in México the tapes are very expensive, my mom had a lot of cassettes with sermons and preachings, but she asked me to first make an mp3 transfer of all of them so she can listen to them and then I could tape over them.

[@thefamilydad8635]

I was fortunate enough to stumble across a box of 8 brand-new SA-X 60's for $3 at the local Salvation Army Thrift Store once. Needless to say, I set land speed records (once I got my jaw off the floor, anyway).

[@williamschneider3355]

A standard pencil eraser should be able to remove the printing on those Morse Code tapes. Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@TOOLMANTIMSWORKSHOP]

So about three months ago, I went to an out of town thrift store looking for as cheap as I could find Blanca sets. I came up with a smart ass idea to buy the entire Bible. It had 40 or 50 cassettes on it and I thought what’s the most they’re going to charge me maybe 10 bucks those things have been sitting there collecting dust for years. The lady proceeds to open it up and start counting the cassettes and wanted me to pay two dollars Percocet. Needless to say I left there I’m going I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this

[@cptnd3851]

5:15 sounds remarkably similar to Smooth by Santana (ft. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty)

[@MaxW-er1hm]

I guess I'm ahead of the curve, because I did this so much when I was a kid. If you agreed to take the Watchtower from the Jehovah's Witnesses you could get a new cassette from them every month oh, I even honored them by writing Watchtower records on the bottom of the label when I put new music on them

[@vwestlife]

Ask the old-timers how their prediction about 1975 turned out!

[@Kumimono]

I hope one cassette included "All Along the Watchtower".

[@Ramdileo_sys]

@@vwestlife Dual power supply system??

[@vwestlife]

@@Ramdileo_sysDual power supply system!!

[@Ramdileo_sys]

@@vwestlife .. what do that Deck runs also on batteries..??

[@DeadKoby]

There were LOTS of tapes with speeches, motivational material, stuff like that that may be cheap or free. I've used those before.

[@JustPeasant]

I envy the Americans for having thrift stores...😠😠😠 Edit: You can rerecord the tape with THE Revelations. Upon pressing the play, after a prolonged metal riff, it goes: "O God of Earth and altar Bow down and hear our cry Our earthly rulers falter Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us The swords of scorn divide Take not thy thunder from us Take away our pride" That would be awesome!🎙🎸🎼🎵🎶