• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If you’re curious, nearly half a million cassettes sold last year, too, according to Billboard.

    I’m more curious about who’s still selling music on cassette and who’s willing to buy it.

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        9 months ago

        Someone else told me that. What bullshit. “You can’t have audio technology that was developed in the 1980s” is a fucking stupid punishment. Why not just make them listen to Edison cylinders?

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          9 months ago

          Not for sure, but I have a few leads.

          I’ve heard and discussed with artists who mentioned that producing vinyl was very expensive compared to cassettes, which are cheap and easy to DIY.

          Then I’d add that cassettes have a retro appeal nowadays. Lastly, they are an analog format, opposite to the CD which is the 1:1 copy of the downloaded FLAC album downloaded from Bandcamp.

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            9 months ago

            Analog, sure, but very low quality. 1/8" tape is not enough to reproduce sound accurately and there’s a lot of tape hiss. There’s a reason why professional analog multitrack studios use 1" tape.

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              Ehh, all those 1” tape machines are 8-tracks and designed for editing, not playback. Magnetic tape fidelity has a lot more to do with medium, bias and processing than the width of the tape itself.

              Hell, plenty of analog shops use four and eight track machines that run 1/4” tape!

              Compact cassette also has the potential to sound very good. If you would like a demonstration, look up the vwestlife yt channel or listen to a good tape on a good tape deck.

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          9 months ago

          Cheap short runs. National will do 50 unit orders and you can sell em at 5-7$ and you’re still doubling your money on tour tapes.

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              9 months ago

              idk how many people have functional tape decks but you can still buy new production component and portable ones and there’s a healthy used market.

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      9 months ago

      some bands, and their fans. you can make a cassette look pretty dope.

      and i’ve heard prisoners often only have access to cassettes.