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i knew throbbing gristle played with tapes... hell the noise scene wouldnt be anywhere were it not for cassette manipulation... har... seriously thats one of my favorite parts of a noise show -- watching somebody pull a cassete out and repalce it with anothoer mid-song... Godley and Creme are fuckin...

what i think will reallllllly ELECTRIFY the audience is watching me reach into a shitttily constructed woden box filled with shittily modified shity walkmen and pulling out 6 cassette tapes and then inserting 6 new cassete tapes into the aformentioned machines... i think that will flat out ELECTRIFY...

also...
i wanna build it with the old style telegraph buttons...
so it can look like the simeon played by the silver apples...

dude im like rick wakeman... only ghetto.

today i picked up an old alifone school style (with the awesome multiple headphone outs for the whole classroom) and an endless loop tape from an old radioshack answering machine... upon playing with the 30 second endless loop cassette tape i got a brilliant idea! making a cassette bassed mellotron!...

i just never thought that much e6 stuff sounded that much actualllly like what it was claiming to sound like... but thats just me apppparently... jeff magnum is/was a fucking genius, and the OTC were quite solid (primairily when they were more instrumental), but other than that most of what i heard ...

this record grew on me quite heavily... upon reading the pitchfork review i checked it out and i wasnt super overwhelmed like i hoped to be -- as psych is sort of the bread and butter of my worldview.... i was deffffinately instantly impressed by the sounds he put to tape -- as they truly do sound '...

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what sort of level do most home cassette decks record at?
im just trying to plan all this out -- and im not a super experienced DIYer... but i wanna try this.. becuase it hink i have some ideas that if ic an pull off owuld wokr verrry verrrry welll...

dustin

greetings. so i have this idea for a diy tape echo machine that im working on.... and thus far ive been using 'found' parts from other tape machines... what im wondering is if there is a place to get cheap 1/4" tape heads (all 3) but not in an assemby and super-easy to wrire/etc (aka minimal preamp ...

yeah apppparently its not company wide.... i went to another radio shack here in seattle and it wasnt on sale... so im going to run back to the one that was 1/2 off... it may be about to happen company wide, as the woman who is the manager of that store whom told me about the sale after seeing us di...

if you are wanting to experiment with this at all -- now is a decent itme... as the parts drawers at radio shack are 1/2 off... so the mic element costs around a buck fifty.... take it and attach it to an xlr cable (if you got phantom power) and your set... as easy as soldering 3 wires... im sure wi...

greetings. so radio shack is having a massive sale on everything in the 'parts drawers' so i finally bought a few mic elements to play with (its been on my to do list for years) and im pleasantly suprised by how they sound... veRRRry decent omnis... i just wired them up straight and was rather impre...

greetings. so i have a fender super six with FLIGHT CASE! im on tour with it presently almost to the west coast.... . . but im getting frustrated by its size... a lil info: basically its a twin but built on a 6 x 10. its silverface -- but has been tuned and sounds amazing. famous users of this amp i...

the nyc big muff re-issue, as well as the 70s one, has an actual power in -- however -- the russian re-issue doesnt... and i like how nasty my russian one sounds...

im about to start experimenting...

i knew i had to worry about the MA -- but i think if im only powering a few other things that i should be fine... its a zvex super hard on and a big muff -- so its prettttty simple stuff that doesnt draw many MA. should i wire it as 1 goes to the 2 next -- in series i believe is the word... or shoul...