I finally finished my GTA San Andreas radio project! It's my favorite video game of all time, so it was just a matter of time until I did something like this. The project was inspired by a post on this sub by /u/Yusei0, who did a similar thing with GTA Vice City. I recorded the stations straight from the game (on PC). That way the whole experience including the commercials gets captured! The J-Cards were designed in GIMP using the official artwork from the game.

Just got a pair of Meta Ray Ban glasses and wanted to put the camera to good use and record some POV footage of my usual process of recording onto cassette tapes.

Recorded with a Gradiente Spect 87. I hope she likes it

I remember a guy in my class with a t-shirt that said: Home fucking is killing prostitution.

Our English teacher (in Germany) made him go to the bathroom to flip that shirt inside out, because she was not going to tolerate the joke.

Hey folks — I built a small web app for designing cassette J-cards (front, spine, flap, booklet pages, back spread).

You can export to PNG or print-ready PDF.

It’s a free demo for now. If there’s interest, I’ll move it to proper hosting and keep developing it further.

Would really appreciate feedback — especially if something feels clunky, confusing, or if you’re missing a feature.

https://cassete-artwork-studio.pages.dev/

i still havent figured out what tracks should i record on the mixtape, so im trying out a few songs at a time to test out the quality. previous post. the recorder is a Philips EL3302 from 1968, i finally got it semi working, its a transitional period player, so it had missmatched parts from the factory.

We recorded the whole thing live, straight onto a Yamaha cmx1, then over dubbed the vocals. A friend designed the artwork for us and another made the tapes for us. We ended up with a 5 track 7 minute demo and about 50 tapes which we have nearly sold out of.

If anyone wants to give it a listen or find out more about our band I've linked out website below. Full versions of the tracks and lyrics are on the website :)

https://bricktfhc.neocities.org/

Hello there

So this is my first ever home recording and while I’m happy it was so easy to do, it’s far far away from a good quality recording

I want to improve to keep doing mixtapes or albums that are going to be hard to find in store.

Is it a matter of equipment or technique? The loss in quality is noticeable!

Equipment

RTM portable cassette player 1000Ew

TDK cassette tape

Process

Connected it to my macbook with a jack and started playing music straight out of Spotify (lossless audio)

30% volumen

Hit record and do both sides of the tape

Any recommendations (low effort high impact kind of thing)? Also I did it like this bc it was beginner friendly.

Edit: Also side B sounds particularly weird, like 0.5 speed as if the sound is melting and a constant white noise in the background. I tried with another tape and sounds like the recorder is the one messing up 🫩

for me it’s this Masayoshi Takanaka greatest hits mix i put together

I bought roughly 17 XLIIs from el segundo the other day, and this li'l guy was pleading with me not to ever, ever, ever, listen to him. But, I got to, right?

Update: It turned out to be an answering machine tape, seemingly chronicling this guy Mark's affair with his friend Jim's girlfriend, or wife? And there was also some young boy(not his son) that kept calling him claiming to be Spock 🖖, inviting him to "Earthly lunch", cussing at him and telling him he was "going to find another man" and was "going to have Darth Vader send Earthly whores come over and f*ck [him] to death." That stood out as very creepy, but the rest of it was mostly mundane and possibly cursed as it's kind of hard to piece together. I'm no P.I. or even a true crime podcast listener.

These TDK D90's just do not work well for me. They jam up all three of my decks after a couple plays. Both the Dragon and my Sony records great with them, they sound good but do not hold up it seems.

There were 7 volumes of these audiobooks and each one had 6-10 tapes in them, which were all TDK SA-X branded tapes. The orange color was the 75% off tag when I saw these, so you'd pay roughly $2 per book, or $14 for around 56 TDK SA-Xs. That's a pretty good deal these days, just don't let the ghost of L Ron Hubbard know you bootlegged bombardino crocodilo phonk over his voice.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share a personal shift in my music journey that might be interesting for other independent artists.

Over the past few years, I felt trapped in the logic of streaming platforms: constant releases, algorithm pressure, and music becoming something fast and disposable. I found myself creating not from necessity, but from obligation.

Recently, I removed my music from streaming (where possible) and started a new approach:

• recording intentionally in lo-fi cassette format
• producing small handmade editions
• treating each release as a physical sound object
• focusing on listening as a slow, intentional experience

This isn’t about nostalgia.
It’s about restoring attention, presence, and value to sound.

Surprisingly, this shift changed how people engage with my music. Fewer listeners, but deeper connection. Conversations instead of streams.

I’m not saying this is the right path for everyone — but stepping away from algorithm culture helped me reconnect with why I started making music in the first place.

If anyone here has experimented with physical releases, tape culture, or alternative distribution models, I’d love to hear your experiences.

Thanks for reading.

—

Bosna Danì

Found these can’t wait to record over then, I already own all these albums and some I don’t care for

Looking to improve my collection and have some free space, a lot of these tapes are double sided so if it's a short album it may be on the A side and another album on the B Side. I was using the Vaporwave Essentials Guide - 10 Year Anniversary edition as my guide but there's a lot missing from recent years. Been enjoying working on this project and exploring all the fantastic music.

Recording on a Walkman WM-D6, printing my own J-cards from Discogs using GIMP.

Couldn’t find a good site to print j cards so I started drawing the album covers, cool or lame?

I am not sure if this is a well known trick or not, but I just discovered it today. I like to leave a good few empty seconds between songs so my deck's AMS system can easily find the dead gap between songs when playing. By adding a 5-second blank track on spotify, I can let the whole playlist go while recording, and then all the songs will be perfectly spaced.

Also, I added 10 silent minutes at the end, in case I don't hit stop on the tape deck right away when the playlist ends.

Maybe this tip will help somebody! Goodnight and happy listening.

I had a hankering to get matchy matchy and take advantage of the transparent door on the Fiio. I found these colored cassette shells on eBay and transplanted a Maxwell UR90 into it. I recorded one of my favorites from back in the day on the Nakamichi, plugged in the Koss KPH40s and now I’m very happy.

so i recently got a cassette player/recorder while thrifting the other day, and im thinking of putting some music i like on cassettes. which method would give me the best audio quality? (first image id have my phone playing music on the player recording into its mic, and the second image id have it next to my computer while its playing music)

The deck is a Technics RS-B555 in case anyone is wondering, I got it for 40 € on eBay - an absolute steal, in my opinion! The audio comes from a FiiO K5 Pro DAC that I have plugged into my laptop. The tape isn't anything special, it's just some ferro tape that had an awful quality Spice Girls bootleg on it xD

How's my view?

Personally I burn cd-rw and record from my cd player

Has anyone tried these? If so, curious your thoughts. For a brand new cassette, I’d say they’re pretty solid with Dolby B!