{"id":1234,"date":"2008-02-19T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-19T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T22:35:44","slug":"such-a-deal-crappy-old-music-in-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/such-a-deal-crappy-old-music-in-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Such a Deal!  Crappy Old Music in Exchange for 4-Track Recording Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bm_rH7XceXo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Hey, gang!<\/p>\n<p>Say, I need your help.  I just traded in my old <strong>Saturn<\/strong> sedan for an old <strong>Toyota<\/strong> pickup truck, and &#8212; as the Toyota is of a vintage that features a <strong>cassette deck<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;ve been rediscovering old cassette tapes that I&#8217;ve not listened to in about 20 years.  What&#8217;s really frustrating is that I&#8217;ve taken to reaching into my old cassette box at random and listening to whatever the hell I pull out &#8212; and a good number of the tapes I&#8217;ve been pulling out are actually old 4-track cassettes full of 4-track demos, recorded on my 1989 <strong>Tascam Porta 05 Ministudio<\/strong>.  Those of you familiar with systems like these know that popping a 4-track cassette into a plain old (i.e., &#8220;2-track&#8221;) cassette deck will allow you to hear only 2 of the 4 tracks originally recorded.  So the net-net is that I&#8217;ve been tooling around DeeCee listening to these bizarro, dub-like &#8220;mixes&#8221; of partial songs (most of which suck) &#8212; maybe a bass and vocal track in this one, or guitar and drums in that &#8212; and it&#8217;s driving me crazy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>So here&#8217;s the deal:<\/strong>  I managed to find my old Tascam Porta 05 in the basement, carefully wrapped in a bath towel and shoved in a box.  But&#8230; no power supply, dude!  So I&#8217;m stuck.  Here I am, proud owner of a gajillion-dollar recording studio, and I can&#8217;t even listen to shit I recorded 20 years ago on a $150 cassette deck.  I tried eBay for a power supply, but came up empty.  There aren&#8217;t even any used Porta 05s out there for purchase anymore.  I need help!  If any of you can furnish me with some helpful tips for unlocking all this old music, I promise &#8212; I PROMISE &#8212; to post 3 of the most noteworthy tracks I uncover.  This will likely provide many posts-worth of amusement at my expense, but no matter.  I must have these crappy old songs back!<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Thanking you in advance,<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>p.s.:  Mod, I also found the original box (though not, sadly, the cassette) of Three Miles Island!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, gang! Say, I need your help. I just traded in my old Saturn sedan for an old Toyota pickup truck, and &#8212; as the Toyota is of a vintage that features a cassette deck &#8212; I&#8217;ve been rediscovering old cassette tapes that I&#8217;ve not listened to in about 20 years. What&#8217;s really frustrating is <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/such-a-deal-crappy-old-music-in-exchange\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}