Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Fri Sep-17-21 08:40 AM
2. "The "Random" Feature On CD Players" In response to Reply # 0
To me it was like the "ooohh shiiiiittttt" technology at the time, but after a while it kind of gets annoying when you waiting for your favorite song to cue up and the player keeps skipping it like it knows it's your joint and waiting to save it for near the end, lol.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
16. "RE: The "Random" Feature On CD Players" In response to Reply # 2
I would take like, 30 minutes to pick 3 CD’s for my changer and then knock out all of my homework in a zone. Especially when my collection got thick with the individual Dungeon Family, Wu, and Bad Boy releases.
5. "5 disc changer for the home stereo." In response to Reply # 0
12 disc changer in the car. shit was a hassle to change what was in the changer. and really sucked if I took it out of the trunk, forgot it in the house, and drove off.
7. "When I went off to college…" In response to Reply # 0
moms bought me a stereo for my dorm room. Bookshelf type jawn with 2 powerful ass speakers, dual cassette and a 5 disc CD carousel. I would load it up with 5 banging cds, hit random, crank that shit and open my door and we’d all chill in the hallway and bullshit off my sounds. Lol…damn.
...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft
8. "Super Bass, MageBass, and BBE " In response to Reply # 0
Aiwa walkmen were famous for these and I loved it. Paired with a good TDK SA-X tape, and you couldn't tell me nothing
<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up... __________________________
Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect. Game: Like Gladys Knight. Jay: Aretha Franklin. Game: Word, I like her too. Jay: Nigga...
12. "Type II (metal) cassettes" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Sep-17-21 12:56 PM by flipnile
IMHO, still a better sound off these than CDs, even if you dub a CD onto a metal tape. Very low hiss and that slight bit of tape saturation & compression made for a smooth sound. All my dubs were on these types of tapes.
Regular tapes (like the jawns with the clear casing) we a hissy, noisy mess when you recorded on them.
Wasn't until 24-bit audio that I thought the Type-II tape was obsolete.
If I could find a 4-track for cheap tho, I'm be buying some more of these tapes (why are 4-tracks so expensive tho?)
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Fri Sep-17-21 08:39 PM
18. "Type II Chrome aka CrO2 Blank Tapes Were My Standard" In response to Reply # 12
I never cared for metal tapes cause once you record on them joints it will never be able to erase anything, it always left audio in the background if you tried to re-record over it.
I didn't do much re-recording but I did tons of edits and pause tape mixing and editing and I always felt chrome tapes were the perfect tapes, I basically didn't use anything after having a tape deck that I could record with dolby & type II, then when it came time for playback, the audio sounded like gold, super clear, and loud; every mixtape I've ever made was recorded on those CrO2 tapes; Maxells & Fuji were the only brands I basically fucked with Memorex not so much though, always had issues with spotty areas on the tape...always.
There was a local dj equipment/car audio store that carried blank tapes and I would buy my 90 min. Fuji tapes by the box (ten tapes in each box) and would buy two to five boxes at a time; tapes were $1.50 each but if you buy a box it would be $11 and if you buy 5 boxes or more it's $10 a box; I still got a box of unopened 90 min. Fuji blanks right now.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
22. "I firmly believe Type II was better than Type III" In response to Reply # 18
All my good dubs, be there from tape, vinyl, or CD, were on chrome. Metal was too muted. When I was still doing music production, the mixes all went to chrome. Maxell, BASF, Fuji were all cool, but TDK was king in my house (hell, check the avatar). Between my dad and I, we kept 10 packs of SAX-90s.
<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up... __________________________
Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect. Game: Like Gladys Knight. Jay: Aretha Franklin. Game: Word, I like her too. Jay: Nigga...
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20. "The cassette to CD adapter" In response to Reply # 0
Listen, I thought I was living in the future when I could play CD's in my car via that tape adapter. Granted, I drove a bit different trying to keep my discman from skipping.
Also, head units reading MP3 Data Discs My boy had ONE CD with 8 albums on it. I was like, "Why am I saving for a disc changer?"
Like going from 56K to the 512K or 1M of DSL was a life changer. Didn't have to use the phone line while on the internet and the speed was so much faster than dial-up.
27. "DSL was life changing" In response to Reply # 21
No more getting knocked offline 2 minutes away from a 2 hour download and speeds that felt near the T1 line I had at work.
As a matter of fact, I've kept the same e-mail from those times, even though DSL has been long gone in the area. When it first came in through AT&T, I set my family up with their e-mail addresses. When fiber came in and the switch was made, I just kept paying the DSL fee to keep the e-mails. Paying the $10/mo or whatever it dropped to was worth the peace of mind than to try and move my parent's accounts all to gmail (they now have their own gmail accounts and the att.net account is mostly spam, but they still have insurance and other billing e-mails that go there, so it stays open for now).
<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up... __________________________
Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect. Game: Like Gladys Knight. Jay: Aretha Franklin. Game: Word, I like her too. Jay: Nigga...
28. "iPods. One of my favorite devices of all time" In response to Reply # 0
As much as I hated iTunes on Windows, having 20GB of music at my fingertips was unreal. even now I have a modded Mini and 6th gen Classic that I will never, EVER get rid of.
<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up... __________________________
Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect. Game: Like Gladys Knight. Jay: Aretha Franklin. Game: Word, I like her too. Jay: Nigga...
30. "One time in 9th grade, the auto-reverse on my Walkman "broke"" In response to Reply # 0
So every time I hit it, it would play the tape backwards.
First thing I did was listen to all the tracks the used backwards masking to figure out what they were saying. It was illuminating and disappointing. Turns out D.O.C. was just cursing a lot at the end of "Beautiful But Deadly." Same with Flavor Flav at the end of Public Enemy's "Megablast."
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