MetaFilter posts tagged with audiotape

Dude, those pants are loud!

dobbs — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:48:51 -0800

"Sonic fabric (woven from 50% cotton and 50% audio cassette tape) emits sound when you run a tape head over it. Because the tape retains its magnetic quality through the weaving process, it acts as a big wide band of tape." Here's an interview with the creator. {via Apartment Therapy}

terminal decline

highsignal — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:08:51 -0800

Project C-90 is a photo collection of vintage cassette tapes • Meet Artyom, the Russian DJ who built his own cassette turntables • Last week, BBC News declared "Not long left for cassette tapes" • Mod your old cassette to make a USB flash stick.

low-noise heaven

bunglin jones — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:50:44 -0800

It all seemed perfect: Smiths side A, Pogues side B - or whatever else you wanted. For all the folks getting nostalgic further down the page,we are trying to turn back time for 60 minutes… or, maybe, for 90...

Analog tape crisis

starscream — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:18:41 -0800

Quantegy, the last remaining branded manufacturer of professional audio tape, closed its doors and filed for Chapter 11. But it seems there's hope that they'll bounce back.

The reel end of analog?

pfafflin — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:31:05 -0800

Tip and Shout: 2'' Tape: "But last Friday, [Jeff] Tweedy hit a snag as he prepared for a session in Wilco's Chicago studio space: Nobody could find any of the professional-grade audio tape the band is accustomed to using."