How many songs can cassettes hold

Divine influence or magic aside, how exactly did Sony manage to boost the potential of the plus-year-old magnetic tape technology?

According to Gizmodo :. The crystals, measuring just 7. Home Who It Is! Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? It can record at many high quality rates, even 96K.

When punching in, there is no Latency, what you hear is what's happening I'm aware that there are "better" models, but I'm suggesting the general genre. Yes, its a laptop with faders, but NO, its really not. This Akai, in 96K mode, only allows 8 tracks. The rude awakening most people get working with a computer and DAW is that it takes a fast powerful system, preferably Quad Core, then a good interface, monitors, preamp, mics, cables, it all adds up and that's before you track your first note mic'd up.

Even if you gather all the right stuff, then no matter which system you choose, you've gotta dig in and learn your way around it. There is no way around the learning part regardless of which system you choose. For the beginner, digital is actually easier, once you get the basics down.

I chose Logic over Protools and Cubase for what is included in the software suites. Tons of instruments, plugins, FX all easy to access with even the most affordable Keystation 49e. At least today there's all kinds of help to get the most technophobic user up and running. Ramsa to Tascam The Tascam has 4 direct outs, so out of the tascam and back through the Rasma again into 4 tracks to Cubase. Mucho mojo, it DOES sound like tape, or what one would think of as an "analog" sound. The Ramsa alone , to me, does have a sort of grainy quality to begin with, and I like what it does to DI synths.

For an old school sound this nails it every time. After the initital 4 tracks, which contains enough "mojo" LOL for the entire song, overdubs can be added. With practice, as tracks start to be added, the mix starts sounding better and better. Even if you go simple 4 track, it helps to have some sort of external board or mixer, just so you can keep all your normal inputs connected and ready to roll.

You'll probably want at least one good external preamp for capturing vocals and acoustic instruments. I had to learn all of this the hard way. I was trying to do all this with the signal chain from hell. Tracked Wet. No one told me I couldn't I had 4 mic setup for drums going for a while, used the Ramsa's preamps and e. That gave me 4 seperate tracks for drums.

That process alone really helped with getting that compressed 80's dark gothy drum sound. The overheads were darker. I'd send the 4 tracks out through the Art VLA 2 and kinda crush it, then into one stereo track into Cubase. That was it, drums were done, no going back! Then I'd track eveything else to sound mixed with the drums. It was a great process to get "that" sound.

Get the 4-track, and join the Team Lofi group here at Gearslutz! Search for the "Team Lofi" thread. I have a Pro Tools setup and use it. I like it fine. When I need big, clean sound that's the way to go.

But a few years ago I bought a Peavey 4-track on a whim, and I like using that as well. The fidelity will never compare to digital recording. It's a different sound. But it changes the way I play. You have to focus to play a part, unlike the DAW where endless comps and tweaks are possible.

And I like the sound of cassette, the personality of it. It's fun. In the late 80's there was a local studio I did some demo's at that was based on a Tascam 8-track cassette.

Occasional flops — For all its versatility, the cassette wasn't always a success. The "cassingle," an attempt to replace the rpm single, flopped. Fading away in the digital age — With the rise of the CD, introduced in , the cassette started fading from the music scene.

In , prerecorded cassettes still accounted for more than half of music sales; four years later, it was down to a quarter. When recordable CDs came out, it seemed like the cassette was doomed -- and downloadable music didn't help. The cassette comes back — But there's always a place for audio technologies.

Underground metal acts latched on to the cassette as a lo-fi medium attuned to their needs. Major labels quickly caught on, and acts such as MGMT released recordings on cassette. Like vinyl, also left for dead a few years ago, cassettes found a new willing market.

At least stores participated in the promotion, and a number of artists -- including Suicidal Tendencies and the Flaming Lips -- put out releases. The cassette may never regain the cachet it had in the '80s, but as an audio medium that's cheap, fun and tactile, there's obviously room for a playback. Story highlights Sony has made a cassette tape that can store more than 1, iPod Classics A single cartridge can hold terabytes of data It may be sold, but likely not for personal media.

A cassette tape. But this isn't one of those rattling plastic tapes you used to compile your ultimate summer road-trip jams and, too often, were probably forced to rewind with a pencil.

Sony's record-breaking magnetic tape technology allows it to store terabytes of data on a single cartridge. That's the same amount of storage as 1, iPod Classics, Apple's roomiest music player, which can hold about 40, songs.

Using that number, Sony's new cassette could technically store about That's enough jams for a really long road trip -- say, driving in Atlanta during a snowstorm. Read More. If you're more of a movie buff, think of it this way. The cartridge, which stores GB of data per inch of tape, has room for 3, Blu-ray discs full of your favorites.

The number obliterates the standing record, set in when Fuji developed a tape that could hold 35 terabytes of data. Sony, which worked with IBM on the tape, presented the new technology over the weekend at InterMag Europe , a magnetics conference in Dresden, Germany. In very simple terms, the technology involves shrinking the microscopic magnetic particles on tape that store data.