If you're so strong into Cassettes then you should buy a Nakamichi Dragon,
that's considered the best cassette deck ever made
So bottom line seems to be you have access to plenty of ready mastered tracks and all you need to do is to transfer them to cassette. The one problem I see with doing this using a regular cassette recorder is that you will have to do it in real time. So every 40 minute album is going to take you 40 minutes to create.
Cheers
Ian
lol, yeah, that's true, 40 minutes or so per cassette. I have a vast vast catalogue of tracks that I'm waiting to finish up mixing and they are ready to go to Mastering. I can't Master. Back fifteen years ago I used to be able to provide a decent Master, but my personal school of thought shifted towards or rather stayed in the Philosophy that people who do Masters only Master and people who Mix only Mix. Mostly was like that until the late 90's or so as per rule, as you surely know. Everybody thinks different, I don't mind people who Mix and Master. For me it's a whole different discipline.
I can Mix and record on any environment. Meaning open space, untreated room, etc, once I get accustomed to it, maybe even a couple of hours would do, and deliver a good Mix, but it's not the best scenario, but I can do it. But when attempting Mastering I can't even match volumes for a "internet mixtape" type of release without screwing up and making everything sound harsh. I don't like the sound of Ozone so I do it "manually" with other plugins, using volume reference plugins and so on. And I need to get good speakers and sound treatment if not I go crazy due to the acoustics of my room.
I have used professional studios, so yeah, it actually makes me go crazy, trying to fix the sound when it's impossible in those conditions, looking to fix frequencies that are actually rebounds and so on. So I left all my mixes at 90% done or so. And at the same time I know I can't deliver a sub-product. Patience, patience.
At the beginning I'm only making runs of 12 cassettes or so. I can handle that work. Mostly preorder. Then make 3 or 4 to take to the stores for show and if they like them they can order how many they like. If a music fare or something where I can put a stand comes up I'll figure out how many I'll bring. That's no problem.
I was looking into duplicators long ago thinking ahead in case if I needed them down the road. I've seen duplicators with 6 recorders with a Master In source in good conditions selling in a dedicated tape/cassette online store go for 1,600 bucks or so. As the cassette business grows I'll grow along with it. Don't want to get ahead of myself. I have a bunch of friends that I'm sure will get a kick out of making a song, a single, for a compilation.
Probably will do a special run with full body printings from this site, check it out:
https://www.duplication.ca/quotes/ca/en/cassette-packages.php
There's much to do, and lots of ways of doing it. Just need a little time.
I mean, really all I need if I really wanted to start right away is to get a Sony deck for 300 bucks from an online store and I'm on. But I want and need to spend intelligently, smartly, diligently.
No, I am really just joking. I admire your commitment. Good luck and sounds like you'll have a lot of fun !]
