Even among major label stars, the form has at least one devotee: Thurston Moore claimed in 2009, "I only listen to cassettes." Underground and DIY communities release regularly, and sometimes exclusively, on cassette format, particularly in experimental music circles and to a lesser extent in hardcore punk, death metal, and black metal circles, out of a fondness for the format. Some musicians and DJs in the independent music community maintain a tradition of using and releasing cassettes due to its low cost and ease of use. Older genres like "dansband" may favor the format most familiar to their fans. This reversal is achieved either by flipping the cassette, or by the reversal of tape movement ("auto-reverse") when the mechanism detects that the tape has come to an end.Īlthough portable digital recorders are most common today, analog tape remains a desirable option for certain artists and consumers. Two stereo pairs of tracks (four total) or two monaural audio tracks are available on the tape one stereo pair or one monophonic track is played or recorded when the tape is moving in one direction and the second (pair) when moving in the other direction. The tape itself was commonly referred to as "eighth-inch" tape, supposedly 1⁄8 inch (3.17 mm) wide, but it was slightly larger: 0.15 inches (3.81 mm). These spools and their attendant parts are held inside a protective plastic shell which is 4 by 2.5 by 0.5 inches (10 cm × 6.3 cm × 1.3 cm) at its largest dimensions. Between the early 1970s and continuing through the 1990s, the cassette was one of the two most common formats for prerecorded music, first alongside the LP record and later the compact disc (CD).Ĭompact Cassettes contain two miniature spools, between which the magnetically coated, polyester-type plastic film (magnetic tape) is passed and wound. The first cassette player (although mono) designed for use in car dashboards was introduced in 1968. Its uses ranged from portable audio to home recording to data storage for early microcomputers. The compact cassette technology was originally designed for dictation machines, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either already containing content as a prerecorded cassette (Musicassette), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. It was developed by Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, and introduced in September 1963. You can find the 3 editable text areas within the first layer named “EDITABLE TEXT”.The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. You can change the logo text on the ghetto blaster as well as the text on the cassette tapes. In order to display the font used you will need to head on over to and download & install the font: TR-909. If you don’t have a vector-based application, and need it larger please contact me and I will be happy to export it at a different size you. +Photoshop (CS5) : The Photoshop file has no text regions and have been exported at 11×8 inches (4800px by 3314px) at 600dpi. + Adobe Illustrator (10, CS, CS5) + Corel Draw (10,15) + EPS Vector (PS2,PS3) + PDF (Acrobat 6) And with so many file types to choose from, both legacy and new, you’ll have something that will open it I’m sure. Even though there are countless curves, it’s neatly organized with all objects named, grouped accordingly and broken up into 8 convenient layers making it super-easy to work with.įrom the little kn obs, switches, indicators, meters, jacks, right down to a phoney Dolby NR logo-this graphic is made to impress. This highly detailed, realistic depiction of an old-school ghetto blaster / boombox took well over 12 hours to draw, and at least that to prepare for you.
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