Last week we looked at some fun things to make out of video tapes including making a book end, school notebooks, and gift wrap . This week, I’ll show you guys another cool household item that can be made from recycled LP vinyl records. As it turns out vinyl records are pretty flexible, and will...Read More
As time goes on, our old analog recordings continue to degrade day by day and little by little and soon will turn into muffled audio, or even worse. What once was a audio track full of crystal clear sounds had been transformed into a muffled inaudible mess once you transfer the cassette to CD. This...Read More
Why is Your Record Player Skipping? Oh No! Your Record Skips! What Now? Vinyl is great. It also happens to come with a lot of problems, such as record skipping. With the recent revival in popularity of vinyl record and record players, maybe you’ve brought your record collection out. Or, maybe you’ve purchased some new...Read More
As technology progresses, we’re constantly switching out the old for the new. Well, as everyone already knows, this also applies to your family media such as video and audio tapes. There’s been so many different tape formats and shifts of technology over the years, it’s hard for anyone to keep track of the model names...Read More
Do you have recordings of people sounding like chipmunks? This is typically a problem of differentiating tape playback speed. When a tape is played back at a speed that is faster than what it was recorded on, you will get the chipmunk effect. If the opposite happens, then you’re recording will sound slooooooooow with lower...Read More
Dealing with an audio cassette repair is similar to the “How to Fix a Video Tape” guide I posted earlier. To make things easier, the tools I used were splicing tape, a small flathead screwdriver, and a new blank cassette tape. The first step is to inspect what type of damage your cassette has, the...Read More
One of the types of requests we see a lot of is people asking how to convert audio cassettes or how to get their audio cassettes transferred to CD or MP3s. What many people fail to realize, is that it’s much easier than you think to perform this same type of audio conversion from your...Read More
