A Boombox-only Traveling Tape! Who's in?

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restocat

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I'd like to participate too. Do late additions get added in somewhere? Or perhaps start a second travelling tape?

Also would be fun to have a few things thrown in the package along the way: stickers from the country it was at, etc.

Curious though, what happens if a boombox eats the tape?
Does the guilty party have to send their boombox to the next person, with the tape still stuck inside? :hmmm: :-)

New Mexico, USA
 
ViennaSound

ViennaSound

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restocat said:
Curious though, what happens if a boombox eats the tape?
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I would say, everybody should make a copy of the tape.
So the last recordings are always saved and in worst case a replica could get on tour! ;-)

Also if it get lost by shipping... :-/
 
mmcodomino

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I'd say when the tape arrives:
1st step: dubbing
2nd step: record your track onto the original tape
3rd step: record your song onto the copy substitute tape

OR

1st step: record your song onto the original tape (with a good box that does not eat the tape!
2nd step: dubbing

BTW...does that mean Roman and i are in the project? :angelic: :-D :huh:
 
blu_fuz

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Definetly not a M90, just the good 'ol tape eating Dynasty Wheely ;-) . I'll make sure I use that one for you.
 
jaetee

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Go figure.... After a day of zero activity on the thread, I thought there was basically no more additional intrest.... And I didn't want to leave the early responders hangin'...

So, let's see who else pipes up over the weekend and see if we get enough people on board to start two 10-person projects. I can reorganize the list on Sunday evening. I think that the 14 on the list so far makes for a perfect number of one big project...


As for the question about what happens if a boombox eats a tape.... That was actually one of the considerations for sending two tapes as well. If that should happen early enough in the project, there will be a 2nd tape as backup so the project doesn't die. I have a lot of good blanks.

Max's idea of dubbing is a good recommendation. I have actually dubbed all three of the previous traveling tape projects I've been involved with. Not because it was required (which it wasnt) but because I wanted to... Hey, if you're gonna listen to it anyway, might as well record a copy... right? Then again, I'm set up to do that very easily. That might not be the case for some of you.

Since restocat was good enough to bring up the topic, I'll just shout out to all who signed up and ask that you PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE TEST YOUR BOXES WITH ONE OF YOUR OWN CASSETTES FIRST. IF YOUR BOX HAS EVER EATEN A TAPE OR YOU QUESTION IT'S RELIABLITY EVEN JUST A LITTLE BIT.... THEN DO NOT USE IT.

Use this project as an excuse to do some routine maintenance and build your confidence.... Bust out your q-tips, cleaning tapes and isopropyl alcohol and start cleaning heads, capstans and pinch rollers now! If you only seldom listen to tapes in your boomers, start listening to some of your tapes now and make some practice recordings while you're at it... Play with your auto level control and compare it to the results you get from manual level control...

And If you NEVER play tapes on your boomboxes, then please don't sign up to do this... Just wait for the downloadable file or listen to it online when it's done instead.

Personally, I know which of my boxes are reliable and which should be avoided. And as a general rule I don't put precious tapes (like expensive super-metals, or tapes with one-of-a-kind recordings on them) into any cassette deck unless I have a solid history with that unit. I have plenty of crappy tapes and duplicate (read disposable) recordings in my archives that get used for trial and error in questionable or new to me cassette players. If you don't have any cheapo tapes, please go to a drug store or thrift store and buy some.

Now, with all of that said, I fully realize someone could test their faithul boxes to the tilt and it could still happen anyway. That's pretty much the Achilles heel of cassette tapes. But a little bit of thought and foresight will surely mitigate the chances of failure by a fair margin. So let's just all agree to do our best and hope for the best.

And if it does happen anyway (knocking on wood) then we will cross that bridge when we get there.

:cool:
 
Terry

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God yes! Why am I just seeing this thread now? Add me jaetee.

Brisbane Australia.

I also like the idea of adding some local colour (color for my American spellcheck) in the form of stickers etc.

:breakdance:
 
restocat

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Terry said:
God yes! Why am I just seeing this thread now? Add me jaetee.

Brisbane Australia.

I also like the idea of adding some local colour (color for my American spellcheck) in the form of stickers etc.

:breakdance:
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Cool. We should probably add some rules for the additions though, like: "No Witchetty grubs" :lol:
 
Gluecifer

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This is gonna be bloody awesome!

On Terry's suggestion, I think it'd be nice if we all signed the tape with a Sharpie or something as it passed through,
or wrote a little message somewhere on the case. Even if it's the outer case.

Just a thought anyway!



Rock On.
 
ViennaSound

ViennaSound

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mmcodomino said:
BTW...does that mean Roman and i are in the project? :angelic: :-D :huh:
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Hope so.
Jaetee must decide... :-)


jaetee said:
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE TEST YOUR BOXES WITH ONE OF YOUR OWN CASSETTES FIRST. IF YOUR BOX HAS EVER EATEN A TAPE OR YOU QUESTION IT'S RELIABLITY EVEN JUST A LITTLE BIT.... THEN DO NOT USE IT.
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I think nobody would do this.
But some **** can happen.
I always thought my SHARP GF9090 is a perfect box.
And yesterday while listening the vienna meeting mix tape, suddenly the belt broke.
Luck, only about 30cm of the tape got rippled.
But so fast it could happen... :-/
But i would use my new belted PHILIPS supercompo. :yes:

And the most risk is for sure the lost in shipping. :hmmm:
 
Lasonic TRC-920

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Gluecifer said:
This is gonna be bloody awesome!

On Terry's suggestion, I think it'd be nice if we all signed the tape with a Sharpie or something as it passed through,
or wrote a little message somewhere on the case. Even if it's the outer case.

Just a thought anyway!



Rock On.
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Totally agree!
 
jaetee

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Okay... so now we have some Central European and West Coast USA members on board, 18 members total!

I must say that I think it's very cool that 18 people stepped up and want to participate! But that means we will most definitely need to split this up into two groups or this project will take FOREVER. (Trust me on this, I was once in a 12 person traveling tape project that took over 8 months to complete.) So, as there has been a fair amount of time since the last post to this thread, I am now closing this project to any additional entrants.

Consider the GLOBAL BOOMBOXERY TAPE RACE OF 2010 launched!

Two sets of C-90's will leave here with tracks on them. That would leave the remaining 17 participants to be split up into two groups. Because one group would have nine members and the other would have ten, I am asking Alex (our reident Stranj man in Venezuela) if he is willing to be part of both projects as well? (waddaya say, Alex?) That way we'd have 10 members per team, and as our only member in South America that creates a scenario where both tapes will have to make a trip to South America and therefore hit all four continents. The "race" will be more fair that way. Do you mind shipping twice, Alex?

There will be a TEAM JVC and a TEAM MAXELL. And with two tapes per team and 10 members each, let's set our recording time limits to around 15~17 minutes maximum per member. That should give us each plenty of time to put three or four tracks on the tape. One side of each tape = 45 minutes = 3 members per side target. Most C90's are actually 46 or 47 minutes per side, so I'm thinkin this should work out okay. And rather than have a track cut off at the end, please try to work it so that doesn't happen. That is another reason why I'm factoring in a little bit of extra tape time to be left on each project.

Here are the two teams and order:

TEAM JVC (AFII)
JaeTee (Florida)
Ford93 (Florida)
Fatdog (Tennesee)
Ghettoboom (Tennesee)
Master Z (Ohio)
restocat (New Mexico)
BMoney (California)
Terry (Australia)
Claret Badger (UK)
Stranj (Venezuela) - Gets to fill up whatever time is left on the second tape if he wants to...


TEAM MAXELL (XLII)
JaeTee
Uncle Ed (Florida)
Hemiguy2006 (Florida)
Oldskool69 (Abalama) :-P
Blu_Fuz (Wisconsin)
TRC-920
Stranj (Venezuela)
Gluecifer (Australia)
ViennaSound (Austria)
Mmcodomino (Germany) - Gets to fill up whatever time is left on the second tape if he wants to...

The way I organized the two lists is so that one set will be headed west and across the Pacific first, and the other will head east and go across the Atlantic first. Both sets will hit North America, South America, Australia and Europe.

Also, I will I will start new, separate threads for each tape group when I mail them out, and provide the finalized summary of the "rules". Having a separate JVC and MAXELL thread will make each set of traveling tapes easier to track in it's voyage and keep discussions about the recordings separate and minimize confusion.

So, Does this work for you all?? I have already recorded three tracks onto the JVC tape and will put three onto the Maxell tomorrow. The plan is for both sets of tapes to go out in the mail on Monday. PMs sent to Ford93 and Uncle Ed
 
Fatdog

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jaetee said:
Okay... so now we have some Central European and West Coast USA members on board, 18 members total!

I must say that I think it's very cool that 18 people stepped up and want to participate! But that means we will most definitely need to split this up into two groups or this project will take FOREVER. (Trust me on this, I was once in a 12 person traveling tape project that took over 8 months to complete.) So, as there has been a fair amount of time since the last post to this thread, I am now closing this project to any additional entrants.

Consider the GLOBAL BOOMBOXERY TAPE RACE OF 2010 launched!

Two sets of C-90's will leave here with tracks on them. That would leave the remaining 17 participants to be split up into two groups. Because one group would have nine members and the other would have ten, I am asking Alex (our reident Stranj man in Venezuela) if he is willing to be part of both projects as well? (waddaya say, Alex?) That way we'd have 10 members per team, and as our only member in South America that creates a scenario where both tapes will have to make a trip to South America and therefore hit all four continents. The "race" will be more fair that way. Do you mind shipping twice, Alex?

There will be a TEAM JVC and a TEAM MAXELL. And with two tapes per team and 10 members each, let's set our recording time limits to 17 minutes maximum per member. That should give us each plenty of time to put three or four tracks on the tape.

Here are the two teams and order:

TEAM JVC (AFII)
JaeTee (Florida)
Ford93 (Florida)
Fatdog (Tennesee)
Ghettoboom (Tennesee)
Master Z (Ohio)
restocat (New Mexico)
BMoney (California)
Terry (Australia)
Claret Badger (UK)
Stranj (Venezuela)


TEAM MAXELL (XLII)
JaeTee
Uncle Ed (Florida)
Hemiguy2006 (Florida)
Oldskool69 (Abalama) :-P
Blu_Fuz (Wisconsin)
TRC-920
Stranj (Venezuela)
Gluecifer (Australia)
ViennaSound (Austria)
Mmcodomino (Germany)

The way I organized the two lists is so that one set will be headed west and across the Pacific first, and the other will head east and go across the Atlantic first. Both sets will hit North America, South America, Australia and Europe.

Also, I will I will start new, separate threads for each tape group when I mail them out, and provide the finalized summary of the "rules". Having a separate JVC and MAXELL thread will make each set of traveling tapes easier to track in it's voyage and keep discussions about the recordings separate and minimize confusion.

So, Does this work for you all?? I have already recorded three tracks onto the JVC tape and will put three onto the Maxell tomorrow. The plan is for both sets of tapes to go out in the mail on Monday. PMs sent to Ford93 and Uncle Ed
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It all sounds good to me, JT. I'm ready!! :thumbsup:
 
mmcodomino

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Awesome :-D
I can get to listen to the whole tape first :-D :-D :-D :thumbsup: :surf:

The idea is awesome!!!

Probably I missed it..but are we supposed to sign the cassette now or not?
 
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