Tips for making a mix tape. - Page 2

Sonic Youth 37 · 03.12.2007, 01:58 PM

okay, now a technical question

I purchased a $20 RCA Personal Portable Cassete Recorder, it has a built-in microphone and a microphone jack. What is the best way to record to a tape from it? Is it just to plug in a mini-jack from my cd player into the mic jack on the recorder?

Also, I'm using Song HF 90 minute tapes, I decided to go with them over Maxwell 120 minute tapes. Did I make the right choice? (I already had my tracklist configured for 45 minute sides)

Sonic Youth 37 · 03.12.2007, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Eight out of every ten mix tapes made before 1995 has Joy Division's, "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

I believe that completely. That song is just necessary for most cds or mixes or anything to do with anything

03.12.2007, 02:26 PM

The pacing of the tracks is just as important as the tracks that you choose to put on it.You might choose different genres of music to make your tape, but how things from impossibly different backgrounds are made to gel can be a key to its recipient finding it ace or dull.Also, it's always good to have a vague idea of the mental aspect of the person you are making a tape for.It's highly rewarding when you put a song on it that you think that person might like and it turns out that way.

Sonic Youth 37 · 03.12.2007, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

The pacing of the tracks is just as important as the tracks that you choose to put on it.You might choose different genres of music to make your tape, but how things from impossibly different backgrounds are made to gel can be a key to its recipient finding it ace or dull.Also, it's always good to have a vague idea of the mental aspect of the person you are making a tape for.It's highly rewarding when you put a song on it that you think that person might like and it turns out that way.

I've pretty much have a spot-on idea of what this person likes and dislikes, so I'm confident in my choice of songs.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 01:23 AM

Most of my tapes I make for my own amusement, and I am quite fucking familiar with what motherfucking gmku motherfucking likes and motherfucking dislikes. Know what I mean?

03.13.2007, 01:27 AM

Shut up you old bastard.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:11 AM

Learn punctuation, dumb ass.

03.13.2007, 02:13 AM

Shut up you bastard.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:14 AM

Fuck off, dumb ass.

03.13.2007, 02:16 AM

get rid of that rolling stones avatar............. you old bag.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:17 AM

Oh, Ykrop, you really disappoint me...

03.13.2007, 02:19 AM

watch your back pensioner

Cantankerous · 03.13.2007, 02:20 AM

tips for making a mix tape:

don't put any bikini kill on it.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

watch your back pensioner

No respect. I tell ya...

03.13.2007, 02:29 AM

Shut up, smelly breath.You're hijacking a good thread.Take the candy and go.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:35 AM

Most of the mix tapes I make are for my own amusement. I hardly ever make a tape with anybody else in mind but myself. I am thinking only of myself and my own amusement when I make a mix tape.

03.13.2007, 02:38 AM

no young girls, uh?

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:42 AM

What do you consider young?

03.13.2007, 02:44 AM

yong.actually, yong.

gmku · 03.13.2007, 02:47 AM

Now you're making gibberish. Give up the drugs. Your mind is mush.

03.12.2007, 01:58 PM	#21
Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	okay, now a technical question I purchased a $20 RCA Personal Portable Cassete Recorder, it has a built-in microphone and a microphone jack. What is the best way to record to a tape from it? Is it just to plug in a mini-jack from my cd player into the mic jack on the recorder? Also, I'm using Song HF 90 minute tapes, I decided to go with them over Maxwell 120 minute tapes. Did I make the right choice? (I already had my tracklist configured for 45 minute sides) __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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03.12.2007, 02:26 PM	#23
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	The pacing of the tracks is just as important as the tracks that you choose to put on it.You might choose different genres of music to make your tape, but how things from impossibly different backgrounds are made to gel can be a key to its recipient finding it ace or dull.Also, it's always good to have a vague idea of the mental aspect of the person you are making a tape for.It's highly rewarding when you put a song on it that you think that person might like and it turns out that way.
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03.13.2007, 01:23 AM	#25
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Most of my tapes I make for my own amusement, and I am quite fucking familiar with what motherfucking gmku motherfucking likes and motherfucking dislikes. Know what I mean? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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03.13.2007, 01:27 AM	#26
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	Shut up you old bastard.
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03.13.2007, 02:11 AM	#27
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Learn punctuation, dumb ass. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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03.13.2007, 02:13 AM	#28
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	Shut up you bastard.
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03.13.2007, 02:14 AM	#29
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Fuck off, dumb ass. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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03.13.2007, 02:16 AM	#30
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	get rid of that rolling stones avatar............. you old bag.
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03.13.2007, 02:17 AM	#31
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Oh, Ykrop, you really disappoint me... __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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03.13.2007, 02:19 AM	#32
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	watch your back pensioner
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03.13.2007, 02:20 AM	#33
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	tips for making a mix tape: don't put any bikini kill on it. __________________ RETIRED
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03.13.2007, 02:29 AM	#35
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	Shut up, smelly breath.You're hijacking a good thread.Take the candy and go.
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03.13.2007, 02:35 AM	#36
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Most of the mix tapes I make are for my own amusement. I hardly ever make a tape with anybody else in mind but myself. I am thinking only of myself and my own amusement when I make a mix tape. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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03.13.2007, 02:38 AM	#37
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	no young girls, uh?
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03.13.2007, 02:42 AM	#38
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	What do you consider young? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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03.13.2007, 02:44 AM	#39
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	yong.actually, yong.
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03.13.2007, 02:47 AM	#40
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Now you're making gibberish. Give up the drugs. Your mind is mush. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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