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8 Track
Jun 17, 2005 19:44:33 GMT -5
Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 17, 2005 19:44:33 GMT -5
I was in a music store the other day and they had a "vintage" JC Penny 8 track player for, brace yourself, $1000. I just had to laugh out loud. Even in the early 70's I knew cassette was better. And now that's archaic. Anyone here still have 8 Track tapes? Considering the predominate young age of this board I doubt it but I was wondering if anyone here had a memory of 8 track.
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Jun 17, 2005 19:46:03 GMT -5
Post by Don Quixote on Jun 17, 2005 19:46:03 GMT -5
WHAT?!?! $1000!?!?! I don't wanna llisten to difficult to oddly cut music that much! I've got an uncle who's got many his basement.
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Jun 17, 2005 19:51:37 GMT -5
Post by Dave Walker on Jun 17, 2005 19:51:37 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I have (well had) 8 tracks, and two functioning players. They were reclaimed by their rightful owner when I moved a year and a half ago. Still, $1000, I'd have taken it to the register and had some real fun with the clerk before not buying it.
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Jun 17, 2005 20:00:17 GMT -5
Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 17, 2005 20:00:17 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I have (well had) 8 tracks, and two functioning players. They were reclaimed by their rightful owner when I moved a year and a half ago. Still, $1000, I'd have taken it to the register and had some real fun with the clerk before not buying it. No kidding! I just stood there and laughed to myself. I have to assume it was refurbished and stuff but you'd have to desperate to play those old tapes to shell out that kinda scratch.
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Jun 17, 2005 21:06:07 GMT -5
Post by Dave Walker on Jun 17, 2005 21:06:07 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I have (well had) 8 tracks, and two functioning players. They were reclaimed by their rightful owner when I moved a year and a half ago. Still, $1000, I'd have taken it to the register and had some real fun with the clerk before not buying it. No kidding! I just stood there and laughed to myself. I have to assume it was refurbished and stuff but you'd have to desperate to play those old tapes to shell out that kinda scratch. There are 8's that I have that until a few years ago I couldn't find on cassette or disc; but, no matter how bad I would have liked to hear them, $1000 is light years beyond crazy talk.
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8 Track
Jun 17, 2005 21:08:51 GMT -5
Post by siamesesin on Jun 17, 2005 21:08:51 GMT -5
What's an 8 track?
(someone had to do it)
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Jun 17, 2005 21:28:30 GMT -5
Post by snoozer328 on Jun 17, 2005 21:28:30 GMT -5
The record store I frequent sells 8 Tracks for 25 cents each. The perfect thing to complement a $1000 player!
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Jun 17, 2005 22:09:40 GMT -5
Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 17, 2005 22:09:40 GMT -5
What's an 8 track? (someone had to do it) You kids are so cute! In the old days 8 track and cassette were competing formats. I think 8 track cartridge had an early lead in popularity but was inferior to cassette. They were bulkier than cassette and had four channels of stereo (hence 8 track) across the width of the tape. The tape ran in a loop and had no real beginning or end. You could fast foreword but I think not rewind. You could push a button and change between the four tracks. They kind of sucked. The term can mean different things though. I own an 8 track deck but it's a half inch reel to reel 15 ips multi track recorder. This probably made no sense to most of you but if you ask me real nice I'll tell you if I care.
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Jun 17, 2005 22:26:13 GMT -5
Post by GodoHell on Jun 17, 2005 22:26:13 GMT -5
I lost my last 8-track the day I rolled my Charger, dude.
I WISH. Actually, it was the day the tranny went out on my '75 Oldmobile Omega.
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Jun 17, 2005 23:12:20 GMT -5
Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 17, 2005 23:12:20 GMT -5
I lost my last 8-track the day I rolled my Charger, dude. I WISH. Actually, it was the day the tranny went out on my '75 Oldmobile Omega. Bummer dude. The first story was pretty good. I'd go with that.
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8 Track
Jun 18, 2005 0:31:10 GMT -5
Post by TomServo69 on Jun 18, 2005 0:31:10 GMT -5
Man, I'm fairly young, but, I got boxes of 8-tracks and a JC Penny, turntable, 8-track, AND cassette player (unheard of!). And all the functions still work! Great for me to blast out 8-track Boston and Temptations on. With the old woodgrain Allegro speakers.
Classic,
Servo
P.S. I'll try to get a pic of all this great stuff and post it!
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Jun 18, 2005 0:40:22 GMT -5
Post by mightyjack on Jun 18, 2005 0:40:22 GMT -5
Once, before the era of the Fostex (or maybe because I was too young to know what a Fostex was back then). I created an elaborate tracking system using my stero cassette player, my brothers cheap cassette player and my 8 track.
I don't remember how I did it (detail wise), but I was able to do my first experimentation with mutiple track recording, I used my brother cheaps player to record the background vocal and a rhythm guitar track, then double tracked that onto the 8 track. It created a really cool mono echo, a stuttering guitar sound that made me sound like a real rock star.
If I heard it today I'd probably find it sounds like crap, but I'd love to hear it again (but I wouldnt spend that amount to do so).
Yeah, somewhere I have a couple 8 track recordings of the early me, and one copy of Alice Coopers "Schools Out" that I listened to death. They really sounded muddy, why the hell did we buy these again?
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Jun 18, 2005 0:46:50 GMT -5
Post by mightyjack on Jun 18, 2005 0:46:50 GMT -5
Man, I'm fairly young, but, I got boxes of 8-tracks and a JC Penny, turntable... Man I have a great stereo system, but during the last move the arm came loose somehow and broke the needle. It's an old system and to buy a needle today is ungodly (I used to get these, 2 for $10!) And I tell ya, the Mono mix on some of the Beatles early CDs suck. Especially "Beatles For Sale", there are so many detais lost that I'm tempted to go spend the cash on that needle. (or the bastards at EMI could just release a new remastered stereo mix!)
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Jun 18, 2005 9:06:46 GMT -5
Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 18, 2005 9:06:46 GMT -5
The Beatles catalog is in dire need of a remaster. But many people have made CDRs of the now out of print MFSL albums. So higher quality CDs are available in trading circles than you can buy officially. It's ridiculous, what's wrong with EMI?
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Jun 18, 2005 13:35:09 GMT -5
Post by Dave Walker on Jun 18, 2005 13:35:09 GMT -5
Man I have a great stereo system, but during the last move the arm came loose somehow and broke the needle. It's an old system and to buy a needle today is ungodly (I used to get these, 2 for $10!) Last time I needed a needle it took me forever to find one. I can't even remember what I paid. When my old system died I made damn sure to snap the arm off for a spare needle. Oh yeah, and I've got a vinyl of the White Album, just thought that would fit nicely.
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