Members Cougar Hunter Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Our group is looking to make some tapes. Where can I get 100 or so for cheap? Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members giggletaint Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmyfirst Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 1994?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ComingApart Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Seriously, do they even make tapes anymore? I thought there was some deal made over the last plant that made them shutting down recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gspointer Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 What is a cassette tape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members giggletaint Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Old people are old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cougar Hunter Posted May 13, 2011 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 They're hot right now. hi fi analog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmyfirst Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 i saw a shop in Slovakia that was still selling blank c90's! incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rampage Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Call around some used record stores? The nerdflingers there would probably know where you could pick some up. You could also try eBay. A quick search of "blank cassette tapes" brings up a ton of results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ComingApart Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Deltamedia.com has 100 packs for just under $30. They appear to be cheapies though. No experience with them, just turned them up on a search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teemuk Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 I think overall a cheaper and less-labour-intensive solution is to find a company that still makes x amont of cassette tapes from the material you send them. I can't imagine anyone wanting to copy 100 of them manually and the expenses of the cassettes bought from store will most certainly exceed the expenses of buying them from a company that has the right wholesale accounts and connections. But seriously, why not a CD? I did understand the cassette thing back in 2000's when manufacturing CD's was still quite expensive and folks actually still had cassette decks, but today.... it's pretty much the opposite. Few people own a deck and CD demos are damn cheap to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cougar Hunter Posted May 13, 2011 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 ^^^actually, checking ebay, it seems cheaper to buy a duplicator than to get it done professionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members therabbit Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Never go anywhere without it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NITROHOLIC Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 i cassettes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ron Burgandy Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Brilliant. Tapes are the new vinyl. An old tascam dual cassette deck at a garage sale and 100 blank tapes off ebay should run you $50 max. When you sell all 100 in record time, CD dweebs will still be jerkin off trying to give away their vanilla bland media with no sex appeal. Winning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~Abstract~ Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 So the people you're gonna give these to...what are they gonna use to play them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ron Burgandy Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Their 92 Jettas with the factory deck, breaux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Anomaly Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Wait, OP, are you serial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wyatt Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Funny, and Sony just killed the Walkman this past winter, which was considered the nail in the coffin. They are kinda hot with nostalgia buffs, but only because they and their players can be bought dirt cheap. But it's not a hi-fi thing like vinyl, cassettes have always been considered a weak medium, 8-track much better fidelity (which is why cartridges stayed in radio station until digital soundboards came about), but cassette was the more convenience package. But tape wears out. Wouldn't be a bad marketing tool, but I think it'll cost you more than it's worth, since it should be a short-lived fad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shask Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 So the people you're gonna give these to...what are they gonna use to play them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~Abstract~ Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 You should get some of these too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrokenFusion Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 I have probably 30 or 40 new in the wrapper I'd sell you. I had a connection at BASF and used to get them dirt cheap to record demos on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teemuk Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Also, in before NOS C-cassettes, that sweet, lush tape saturation toan and warm hiss, most definitely the warm hiss ...so unlike cold, sterile compact discs. Also, I heard the vintage ferric oxide coating preserves all those fragile harmonics that the more modern chromium dioxide or [ugh] ferrichrome coating crushes... Reputedly Eric Johnson prefers the toan of using Band Aid as write protection instead of those plastic tabs that introduce a "fakey" plastic coloration to toanz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members maneatingapple Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 I have seen a bunch of bands selling tapes again. I actually still have a bunch of old demos on tape that I still listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kissmyace Posted May 13, 2011 Members Share Posted May 13, 2011 Seriously, why ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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