#599487 - 07/27/1305:35 AMRe: Didja miss me?
[Re: Silver_Moon]
MrB
I invented modding!
Registered: 08/28/03
Posts: 9635
Loc: SE Kansas
So pleased for you on your new music.
It's been 29 years this fall since I have had a phonograph player. I had just moved across Dodge City, to my new house after my divorce. The stereo I had ended up side down. I took that as a sign for me to get a new system . Discovered a new thing called a Compact Disc Player. Wow! Never heard about it at the time. Bought it. Cost me $450 back in '84. I looked around for CDs to play.
I bought three of the four in town. Amazing at the time.
You have brought back memories.
So glad to see you back here again. I have been thing about how you were doing.
Dave
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Let us know Steve's Make & Model# it would help us to know what to search for should 'he' need replacement parts and so forth.
AH! The "OLD Penny on the Tone Arm" trick... ...yeah brings back memories...
OK, Bad News First: The MAJOR issue you're going to encounter is REPLACEMENT Needles (Called Cartridges) that's the little snap-in unit that holds a jewel chip (usually Sapphire because of it's Hardness) because no matter how hard the jewel, THEY STILL CHIP AND WEAR OUT Pretty Darn Quick!!! WARNING: Worn-Out Needles will TOTALLY WRECK A Record In Very Short Order (one or two plays) especially with a Penny On the Tone Arm... that's supposed to be perfectly Balanced so that the "needle" barely touches the surface of the record.
BASICS: "NEEDLE" is a misnomer. They stopped using Steel NEEDLES back in your Grand Mother's Day. (as I said earlier, they switched to polished chips of jewels (later still, Synthetic Jewels)) to increase the "life" of the 'needle'... and thus, reduce the amount of Wear-Damage they inflict on your precious, and I imaging RARE Vinyl Records.
Second, There's no real "Surface" on a record, just GROOVES... along the side of which the the music is microscopically etched. If you chip away the microscopic vinyl that causes the needle to vibrate, that then gets translated into electrical impulses, cause the magnets in the speakers to vibrate, that causes the air to vibrate, which the ear translates into SOUND... better yet... MUSIC!
As a dull needle scrapes away those microscopic bits of vinyl from the inside of each groove, it can now be heard as "HISS" or worser still "POP" ...so annoyingly familiar to us "old geezers"
IOW, Save your rare & precsious Vinyl until you locate a source of the now obsolete needle cartridges.
NEXT: The purpose of the TWO Cassette Decks, is of course, for "DUBBING"... the old term for Creating Your Own "Mixes" or Copies of Music-to-Tape, in Steve's case... the option of copying Vinyl recordings (thus extending the "Life" of the record) or CDs which were still relatively rare---back then--- to a more familiar and available source, A TAPE-PLAYER
Hey Guys... remember those big ol' personal tape players we used to tote around prior to single MP3 Players.. and eventually those now famous "THOUSAND-SONGS-IN-YOUR-POCKET"iPods? (wot're they up to now? 80,000 Songs In Your Pocket?)
...anyway... Find out Steve's Make & Model Number (usually located on the back of the unit) Score yerself a fresh cartridge ASAP... ..and have FUN with Your New Tech-Toy.
#599507 - 07/27/1312:51 PMRe: Didja miss me?
[Re: Celandine]
Silver_Moon Record enthusiast
Registered: 09/15/09
Posts: 2519
Loc: Teetering between IL and AZ
I wish I had some blank tapes, creating mixtapes sounds fun. Now, I looked on the back of Steve. He's a magnavox fcd-196 bk02. I have a feeling styli are going to be expensive...
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One of the beauties of "4 Track Cassette Tapes" is the ability to Erase Them & Record over them multiple times. But 1) Don't go wreaking your dad's old recordings without asking first... Who Knows.. He might be the Soul-Owner of Grateful Dead Bootlegs , er sumpthin'! (ONE Of a kind, and irreplaceable since Jerry G. is no longer with us. ((R.I.P.)) ) And 2) Be aware that The SAME CopyRight Laws apply to "cutting tapes" as "Burning .MP3s !
You can mix a personal tape for yourself, but Selling Them is a HUGE "No-No"
Otherwise, Have A Blast! We sure did!
Oh.. 3) I wouldn't "tape over" store-bought tapes, they were even more expensive than vinyl albums ...once upon a time...
One cannot accidentally tape over store bought cassettes as they have tabs that prevent it. One needs to break the tabs out if one wants to record over it.
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#599514 - 07/27/1302:49 PMRe: Didja miss me?
[Re: AusMac]
six_of_one
Pool Bar
Registered: 04/19/02
Posts: 4445
Loc: Alexandria, VA
Originally Posted By: AusMac
One cannot accidentally tape over store bought cassettes as they have tabs that prevent it. One needs to break the tabs out if one wants to record over it.
Other way around: if there is no tab, you can't record. The store-bought album cassettes just have an indentation -- if you want to tape over them, the easiest way is to put a piece of scotch tape over the indentation and you're good to go ;-)
One cannot accidentally tape over store bought cassettes as they have tabs that prevent it. One needs to break the tabs out if one wants to record over it.
Other way around: if there is no tab, you can't record. The store-bought album cassettes just have an indentation -- if you want to tape over them, the easiest way is to put a piece of scotch tape over the indentation and you're good to go ;-)
I stand corrected. Yes, now I remember.. you broke out the tabs to stop them being over recorded on blanks you had recorded.
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I looked up the model number of it, and can't find much about it unfortunately.
Hey Guys... remember those big ol' personal
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