http://tapedeck.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- tapedeck.org - analog audio tape cassette nostalgia tapedeck.org analog audio tape cassette nostalgia Home About Tapedeck About audio tapes Send us your Tapes Editor's pick All Tapes Tapewear: awesome t-shirts by tapedeck.org [select brand ] [select running time] [select type ] [select colour] --------------------------------------------------------------------- about tapedeck Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's. We hope you enjoy these tapes as much as we do! about audio tapes The compact audio cassette medium for audio storage was introduced by Philips in 1963 under the name Compact Cassette. Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems at the time, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips' decision (in the face of pressure from Sony) to license the format free of charge. It went on to become a popular (and re-recordable) alternative to the vinyl record deck during the 1970s. During the 1980s, its popularity grew further as a result of the Sony Walkman, with cassette sales overtaking those of LPs. (Vinyl overall remained ahead due to greater sales of singles, although cassette singles achieved popularity for a period in the 1990s). The mass production of compact audio cassettes began in 1965 in Hannover, Germany, as did commercial sales of prerecorded music cassettes (also known as musicassettes; MC for short). The system had been initially designed for dictation and portable use, thus the audio quality of early recorders was not well suited for music. Some early models also had unreliable mechanical design. As time went on, various improvements (in particular, the introduction of Dolby noise reduction) resulted in the format being taken seriously for musical use. Although its use in the West has declined as a result of more advanced technologies, it remains widespread, and is still the dominant medium for listening to music in many third world countries. In essence, the audio cassette is simply a cassette-based (and smaller) version of the older reel-to-reel tape format. It consists of two miniature reels, between which an oxide-coated plastic tape, or magnetic tape, is passed and wound. These reels (along with some other mechanical parts) are held inside a protective plastic shell. Four single audio tracks are available on the tape. These are paired to produce two stereophonic tracks - one played when the cassette is inserted with its 'A' side facing up, and the other when it is turned over (with the 'B' side up), thus mimicking gramophone records. (Source: Wikipedia, right here. Wikipedia Copyright stipulations apply.) send us your tapes Have you got some cool audio tapes lying around? Send us a picture then, we'd love to get e-mail from you! Please take a picture of your tape on white background from straight above without using a flash. The tape should measure about 800x600 pixels on the image. Please try to use as little JPG compression as possible (quality 10 or better when saving from Photoshop) and send the files to tapes@tapedeck.org Thanks you all so much for the contributions tapedeck.org has already received - without your input this site would be impossible. Thank you very much: Alexandru, Diego, Ahmed, George, Dominik, Marcello, Jouse, Pascal, Niko, Jaromir, Tim, Paul, Luciano, Marc, Andreas, Colin, Alexander, Roland, Maurice, Sven, Radu, Daniel, Scott, Reinhard and Ronny! orig_0030_fisher_c-90_cr audio cassette tape orig_0021_daimon_chromdioxid_90 audio cassette tape fuji_jp_is_60 audio cassette tape basf_crsii90_090802 audio cassette tape basf_ferro_super_lh_i_120_071126 audio cassette tape tdk_le_black_ar90_080417 audio cassette tape hitachi_dl90 audio cassette tape orig_0008_philips_cd_one_90 audio cassette tape orig_0004_brinkmann_super_ferro_sf-i_90 audio cassette tape ampex_472_90 audio cassette tape basf_edition_no4_90_ii_081001 audio cassette tape orig_0028_philips_c90_standard_quality audio cassette tape orig_0037_pdm_cd_x_60 audio cassette tape denon_hd8_90_111214 audio cassette tape SONY_EF_blau_90 audio cassette tape konica_sgi_60 audio cassette tape tdk_dj2_90 audio cassette tape orig_0001_fliptape_fl_60 audio cassette tape tdk_ma-x_90_1a audio cassette tape goldstar_hp60_081022 audio cassette tape orig_0059_fuji_cdfan1_90 audio cassette tape basf_ferro_extra_i_100_071126 audio cassette tape BASF Limited Ed. Coca Cola 90 B Side_MCiPjH_121006 audio cassette tape BASF Limited Ed. Coca Cola 90 A Side_MCiPjH_121006 audio cassette tape basf_chromdioxid_maxima_ii_mit_logo audio cassette tape basf_lh_sm_90_071126 audio cassette tape basf_ferro_super_lh_i_120_071126 audio cassette tape basf_sound_ii_90_080417 audio cassette tape basf_chrome_extra_ii_90c_081001 audio cassette tape basf_gruen_c_90 audio cassette tape basf_crsii90_090802 audio cassette tape basf_edition_no4_90_ii_081001 audio cassette tape tapedeck.org responsive layout after changing the ad layout (which only supports the site and does NOT make me rich, by the way) on tapedeck to inline, tape-sized ads i was finally able to make tapedeck even more responsive: sizing your browser now gives you 1, 3, 4, 5 or 6 columns of tapes, depending on the space available. go ahead and try it! a few pics are on facebook Isolating Tapes 101 [photo album] http://on.fb.me/MX2BHS -- isolating this denon tape was a real piece of work. Still, properly isolated tapes make better tees! Remember that. New Stuff coming soon to Tapewear! Updates first on Facebook to stay up to date with the tapes we post, be a fan of tapedeck on Facebook -- all updates are posted there first, sometimes days before officially appearing on the site! on Facebook, you'll also get updates on the tapes we're going to post in the future: the shape of tapes to come. --------------------------------------------------------------------- [select brand ] [select running time] [select type ] [select colour] professional tools for webdesigners graffiti photo collection Currently we have 934 audio tape cassettes online. 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