todd33rpm Comes Aboard...

[todd33rpm]

...having seen this site referenced at the Steve Hoffman boards. I think maybe KatCassidey was who made a note of it, not having the thread in front of me.

You all have no idea how long I've been looking for a place like this. I'm very glad to know you're all around, and I look forward to reading a lot more here.

A note on the avatar (assuming it displays; still trying to figure out how to edit stuff): it's not my preferred blank for usage on mixtapes, just one of the ones I got my start with, and therefore has a bit of sentimental value.

Got bit by the bug when I was seven years old, with a GE mono portable back in 1977. First decent (read: usable) stereo recorder maybe two years later, first stereo portable boombox in 1984, first decent component tape deck in 1988, a still better one in 1991, and multiple other ones since.

Nowadays, I work with Hi-MD a bit more for transfer purposes, but still make tapes on a latter-day Harman Kardon deck for use in the car, and use many of the tricks learned over the ages in the course of my radio job. The Hi-MD seemed to be the closest aesthetic match for my mixtape sensibility...still haven't quite been able to make the jump to iPod, and kinda indifferent about mix CDs. Very few things touch on the art of conjuring two sides of perfect music, or at least the closest approximation of it, anyway.

Thanks for being here.

[MacGyver]

welcome!!:-)<- i once made what mustve been over a hundred mixtapes for me and my truck driver bio. ex father. mostly late model FUJI DR-I/IIs, and MAXELL XL-IIs.


BTW, i have one of that brand too, a peach-colored version, to be exact...


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll310/shaorin-chan/DSCF0775.jpg

[Des-Lab]

Welcome aboard! We are happy that you are here. Many people have also commented that this site is like a breath of fresh air and fresh life into a world that's been corrupted by censorship and elitisim. That was my intent.

-You won't find any of that hocus-pocus here.

Thanks for joining. If you have any questions on technical details for the site such as uploading an avatar or attaching pictures, myself or any number of members would be glad to help.

[todd33rpm]

Thanks for joining. If you have any questions on technical details for the site such as uploading an avatar or attaching pictures, myself or any number of members would be glad to help.

A pleasure!

Yeah, I seem to be not getting the hang of the avatar thing...I think my file's the right size, but I may need to be "sung up and down the changes" as it were. I keep getting a message akin to "upload of file failed"...

(It's the image that I've attached at the bottom of my initial post; that way if I didn't have the avatar up, people would know at least which image I was talking about...)

Edited to add: figured out the avatar thing. Thanks for your patience!

welcome!!:-)<-

Much appreciated!

i once made what mustve been over a hundred mixtapes for me and my truck driver bio. ex father. mostly late model FUJI DR-I/IIs, and MAXELL XL-IIs...

My dad drove a truck, too. His first one had an 8-track deck in it, and that format was a little harder to get a lock on when I was younger. Think I did maybe two Ampex tapes before he upgraded trucks and got a cassette deck. He was a fan of certain - ahem, explicit - kinds of country, we'll say, ones that I wouldn't have had easy access to. Most of my tapes since then as a result have been for myself, with the occasional one for a love interest now and again.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who knew the Audio Magnetics stuff! (Good image you attached...can I ask what's on the tape? I'm curious about what Energy This Side could mean.)

Edited to add: I botched the spelling of Kat Cassidy's name in my first post...apologies, Kat, if you see this. I would not want to be responsible for an international incident. :)

[close652]

Welcome here and have fun!

[Web Police]

Welcome. :)

[Scorpion8]

Welcome! You're in the right spot.

[todd33rpm]

Many thanks, Scorpion8 and close652. I love the feeling of being on the ground floor of this, and that there are so many fellow travelers.

Web Police, looks like dueling Bloomingtons! (Mine's in Indiana.)

[close652]

if you are a mixtaper, do not forget to sign up:
http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=658

[Manalog]

Hey todd33rpm,

Welcome! *reelspin**reelspin**reelspin*

[Web Police]

Many thanks, Scorpion8 and close652. I love the feeling of being on the ground floor of this, and that there are so many fellow travelers.

Web Police, looks like dueling Bloomingtons! (Mine's in Indiana.)

Bloomington is good whether it is Indiana, Illinois or Minnesota. :)

[MacGyver]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who knew the Audio Magnetics stuff! (Good image you attached...can I ask what's on the tape? I'm curious about what Energy This Side could mean.)

back in the early '70s, my mother's two half-brothers formed a basement band. they needed a bass player, however, and my grandmother convinced my ex-father to get into bass guitar and join them. NONE of them knew at all how to play, and clearly had no talent, but that didn't stop them from going on anyway. they were at a loss for a name, and my mother came up with "Energy Crisis" they went with that, and produced a tape's worth of highly unmusical song covers before they gave up. my ex-dad was the only one that stuck with making music, going in and out with nowwheresville bands such as "Heather and Co." and "Glory Road" meanwhile, he also learned how to be a graphic artist, trying colored pencils and watercolors and colored inks. he was never very talented or original, but still a damn sight better at it then bass guitar. my mother always described him as a "Frustrated Lead Guitarist" in sum, grandma had that tape up until a few years back, when she gave it to me...

[stuwee]

Welcome 33rpm, and as my good friend Dame Edna says "it's Spooky isn't it viewer's"

"Got bit by the bug when I was seven years old, with a GE mono portable back in 1977. First decent (read: usable) stereo recorder maybe two years later, first stereo portable boombox in 1984, first decent component tape deck in 1988, a still better one in 1991, and multiple other ones since." quote-33rpm.

sounds just like my intro, I don't remember my mono GE mono portable model #, I'd know it if I saw it again, taped the ass offa that little bugger, you're just a little younger than me it seems. We started the exact same way, movin' on up, Cool *Hi5*, it's real nice havin' ya here, if we don't scare ya off, you're gonna have a real nice time.

I gotta warn ya, there are some serious enablers here, I'm in deep now, no turning back for "the stuwster" *devil* *reelspin* *reelspin* and if it *reelstop They jump right in and help out, Fast *check*

stuwster,
Craig

[Fast Forward]

Welcome to TapeHeads There are some real Vinyl lovers here

[todd33rpm]

Thanks Manalog and Fast Forward - yeah, I never completely got out of vinyl, ever, so I'm looking forward to seeing what my fellow tape buffs are into.

My most recent vinyl is Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and currently trying to secure a copy of Meet Glen Campbell, out on August 19th.

"Got bit by the bug when I was seven years old, with a GE mono portable back in 1977. First decent (read: usable) stereo recorder maybe two years later, first stereo portable boombox in 1984, first decent component tape deck in 1988, a still better one in 1991, and multiple other ones since." quote-33rpm.

sounds just like my intro, I don't remember my mono GE mono portable model #...

Me either...I remember it had a solid black finish with the lettering identifying the buttons in silver. It used an outboard 1/8" mic with a remote start button, instead of the self-contained condenser in the recorder itself. My parents bought two of them in 1977 to mail audio letters back and forth when my stepdad (in the Air Force) went for a one-year tour in Korea. After his return and our move to Colorado, I used one of them until the power cord fell apart (Gawd, were those things flimsy), then switched to the other. I also benefitted, sort of, from all the tapes they used - Mom blanked the tapes (paranoia over what was on them, I suppose, not that I actually want to know), and I began recording on them.

The "sort of" part is that the inherited tapes from that trip were all budget Certrons, mostly 60-minute tapes, along with three C-90s, and three more Audio Magnetics 60s. All held together with ultrasonic welds, no screws, and almost ALL the Certrons broke at the leader splice within three years.

Since there wasn't a line-in as such, the outboard mic was handy for recording off the radio...

I'd know it if I saw it again, taped the ass offa that little bugger

Likewise. I miss that time. Taping was my big after-school hobby in third and fourth grade. Shame the Cub Scouts didn't have some sort of merit badge at the time for us tape geeks...

I gotta warn ya, there are some serious enablers here, I'm in deep now, no turning back for "the stuwster" *devil* *reelspin* *reelspin* and if it *reelstop They jump right in and help out, Fast *check*

stuwster,
Craig

Sounds like my kinda gang. Thanks for the helping hand aboard!