Cassette recorder

Greetings,

I was looking for some sort of analog recording gear, to make some experiments with tape loops, and got this one very cheap. It will arrive next week.

http://images03.olx.pt/ui/2/83/52/38128152_1.jpg

I have no info on the equipment. But it looks awesome.

But then I got another deal. A friend of mine want to sell (for almost nothing) a Stereo 8 or 8 Track recorder. I know nothing about these recorders.

They use a Cart with tape inside, but my question is, it it possible to record in 8 tracks? Like a multitrack recorder?

It's this model:

http://saojoaodamadeira.olx.pt/deck-de-cassetes-antigo-leitor-e-gravador-iid-51178318

I can get this one for 10Eur, but I'll have to dig ebay for blank carts

get both and then sell the one you use less

can you even record on 8 track cartridges. you cant rewind them

i saw something cool the other day. it's pretty much a micro cassette recorder but it's digital. same sound quality and mic but smaller and more space (it records to memory card) oh and it was 20-30 dollars

  On 12/22/2009 at 3:00 AM, ieafs said:

well firstly you can't make traditional tape loops on a cassette in the first place... you could use one of those endless mobius loop ones but it's not really the same thing.

My Results...

I've got one of those Coomber recorders which I modded - it now has a speed control (slow down only though... I could probably hack it to run faster but I can't be arsed) and an erase head switch so you can record over audio that already exists (don't expect "multitracking", it just wrecks whatever's underneath it = cool effect)

Thank you,

Nice work on your Coomber. I really like your tape loops. My idea is to have several loop tapes, and several walkman / tape players looping some drones and ambient sfx.

Regarding reel, I'm am looking on a deal for a Grundig TK 120 Deluxe:

That is for sale near my house for 40Eur. Any good?

Cheers

in my experience it is perfectly possible to make a tape loop using a traditional cassette tape. You just have to be very meticulous opening it up and closing it again, but yeah i've done it on multiple occasions. It's just a lot harder to do it vs a reel to reel.

  On 12/23/2009 at 8:11 AM, ieafs said:

  On 12/22/2009 at 8:29 PM, Awepittance said:

in my experience it is perfectly possible to make a tape loop using a traditional cassette tape. You just have to be very meticulous opening it up and closing it again, but yeah i've done it on multiple occasions. It's just a lot harder to do it vs a reel to reel.

yeah but i mean it's so fiddly compared to just splicing 1/4" tape together... i remember fixing a few cassettes that had got jammed and it never worked that well. it would be an exercise in patience to make music that way for sure.

That's what I like about them though. They're so bad, unpredictable, generally a bit wonky. The fact that you can leave them running and see how the player struggles through playing a loop that isn't that well done for 10 minutes is brilliant.