400 or so.
Surprisingly the nephew wanted the cassette collection instead of the vinyl.
Crap ton from this era.
Similar era. I have two of those. Plus some Specials, Sex Pistols etc. I’m with Priller, I like playing older stuff on vinyl.
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What's your vinyl count?
- Thread starter Wingboy
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Similar era. I have two of those. Plus some Specials, Sex Pistols etc. I’m with Priller, I like playing older stuff on vinyl.
Did you give him a pencil?400 or so.
Surprisingly the nephew wanted the cassette collection instead of the vinyl.
Crap ton from this era.
I need a belt for my belt drive. Still available from Bay Bloor Radio
sburns
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You didn't keep any? I get the convenience, but there was some magic to finding that song on vinyl and enjoying that jacket art.
Mad Mike
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At one point I had a dozen or so milk crates. I spent a lot of time digitizing to CD. After finishing a couple of crates Napster showed up along with terabyte hard drives - no more digitizing.
That’s all gone for me now. Streaming services are dirt cheap and easy.
All my milk crates were repurposed, they now hold motorcycle parts. Except one I gave a friend a a gift to his KLR.
I had a lot of pretty limited pressings and got rid of most of them. I only kept about 6 or 7 of my favourite records and recently decided that I'm going to give them away to a good friend who plays vinyl. The one thing I used to really enjoy was heading down to Play De Record and other record shops and crate digging with my buddies for hours on end as we looked for hidden gems.
For some reason - I'm not attached to the vinyl. I just like the music, so whether it's a high bitrate MP3 or a vinyl pressing it makes no difference to me. That said, recently I bought a really nice analog mixer and an equally amazing analog FX unit, so I am curious to hear how much richer the vinyl sounds through my new gear than the MP3 files
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This is a big reason for me too. I often bought records with 1 song I really wanted, but they had many songs I didn't want. Now I just buy the individual track from Beatport.
There's something about zero loss direct to disc recordings. Mics to mixing board to master disc cutting lathe. Amanda McBroom singing The Rose sends chills up your spine.
sburns
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Yeah I also spent a bunch of time at Play De Record back in the day.
I have around 200 at last count. Pretty close to the same number of CDs, give or take.
Priller
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My son is the same. To be fair to them, new records are often $40+, so cassettes bring the same sense of dealing with analog tech with much lower costs. He doesn't have the same baggage we do about cassettes being poor audio quality and what you settled for when you wanted to listen in the car or on a walkman.
Definitely a big improvement for DJ's dragging hand carts stacked with records and dub plates. And not having to be an insider to get said dub plates apparently levelled the playing field. That said, I used to love watching the real wizards like DJ Hype scratching and mixing, something very visceral about knowing it was all analog in front of you rather than twiddling knobs on what could just as easily be a pre-recorded mix. More like watching someone play an instrument than a record...
One joy of cassettes was recording off the radio and playing them in your car later.
You start out diligently stopping and recording to eliminate the commercials etc but soon lose track and end up with all the blab anyways, but music is music so you play them in the car anyways
It's 3:15 in the afternoon as you go about your day running errands and listening to your (Illegal) copies. You've got three hours before you're supposed to pick up your date around 6:00 PM. Then you remember you're listening to a taped show and the time is only relevant to when you were recording. It's actually 5:15 PM. Your date lives at the other end of town and you aren't dressed for the occasion.
You start out diligently stopping and recording to eliminate the commercials etc but soon lose track and end up with all the blab anyways, but music is music so you play them in the car anyways
It's 3:15 in the afternoon as you go about your day running errands and listening to your (Illegal) copies. You've got three hours before you're supposed to pick up your date around 6:00 PM. Then you remember you're listening to a taped show and the time is only relevant to when you were recording. It's actually 5:15 PM. Your date lives at the other end of town and you aren't dressed for the occasion.
Under skillsets that have little to no use today.
I can look at the groves on a record and visually note the loudest passages. Then I can use these to quickly set the recording level (hot) on my cassette deck to maximize SNR without distortion VS having to run the entire song or side looking for the loudest passages on the VU meters.
I have digitized a few LPs, so the skill still has some minor value setting levels here, but not much as the SNR of the analog to digital conversion is much better than the LP, so there no point in running it anywhere near hot.
I can look at the groves on a record and visually note the loudest passages. Then I can use these to quickly set the recording level (hot) on my cassette deck to maximize SNR without distortion VS having to run the entire song or side looking for the loudest passages on the VU meters.
I have digitized a few LPs, so the skill still has some minor value setting levels here, but not much as the SNR of the analog to digital conversion is much better than the LP, so there no point in running it anywhere near hot.
I have a bunch of cassettes. I also have PTSD from when a piece of equipment would get hungry and decide to eat said cassette resulting in a ****** game of “unfuck the tape deck”.
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