Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
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- It's a real lost opportunity that we didn't call these Cassettepters. It's not-at-all difficult to say! OK, maybe Cassepter would be easier but isn't that, like, a sword or something? The descriptions are getting weird.
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Ironically, these made cars with a tape deck more future ready than a car with a CD player.
Not ironically, cars from the CD era are quite less likely to be kept as antiques than cars from the cassete era...
also, CD players are usually modular and can be easily replaced by cassete players or more modern equipment, whereas antique vehicles from the 70s and 80s had the cassette players integrated on the dashboard.
@@caracaes Can I have the CD Player replaced with an Aux input or tape player for 5 dollars?
@@caracaes Cassette adapter is 1-5 dollars.
@@bigchungus7050 The 80s was well into the life of the audio cassette and by then they were about as good as they were gonna get. A direct line of audio is much better than transmitting over FM, especially if you don't own a 500 dollar(or more) broadcaster.
"It's not groovy, it's particular" .... you've outdone yourself, sir.
I had to rewatch a portion of the video after I stopped laughing at that one.
Write! the puns were top notch in this one 😆
Have to agree, that one was pure gold! Or maybe Chrome. Ferric Oxide? Cobalt? Well, either way, 10/10 on that one.
Of course only the type of people who subscribe to this channel would get that lol
Dad joke, pun lvl...over 9000!
I made one of these as a kid. I saw one in the store, and could see through the package that it was just a read/write head. So I took a read/write head out of a broken tape recorder, and wired it to the chord from a pair of broken headphones. Took the ribbon out of a cassette, crammed the head into it, and ran the wire through it. Worked perfectly.
Did same thing couple years ago
A rubber band directly between the winding wheels too and it's perfected
I'll take things that didn't happen for $500, Alex.
@@mechanomics2649 Not only did it happen, it was so simple, anyone with a basic understanding of wiring could do it with just basic instructions. The hardest part these days would be finding the parts.
The two coils coupled together function like a miniature transformer.
One of my first 'hacks' was when I lost my own adapter as a child. I ripped the head out of an old walkman, did some surgery on a set of headphones, and glued it all into a real cassette. I never had any sort of feed spool mechanism or anything but it still worked perfectly! Totally forgot about my shenanigans until you reminded me today! Thank you!!
Real Walkmans are worth a mint now 😢 I was looking around to get an original one recently.
"While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting."
This sentence describes upwards of 50% of the things I spend my time thinking about or doing.
For a nihilist, this sentence describes reality!
@@thewolfin Much like the concept of Nihilism itself
Spoken like a true nihilist.
it spoke to me too
I was about to make this same comment
“Friggen tapes, how do they work? Magnets!”
Best line
It is. I can see him never missing a gathering of the Juggalos. I wanna hear a Woop Woop! 🤣
I was already thinking "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist!" based on the thumbnail, so I was so happy to see it paid off.
that was beautiful.
Magnets and Tapes = Miracles
I was almost tempted to reply "Nanomachines son!" at that question. I play too many video games 🤣
Fascinating, I always assumed it had a small loop of tape that was continuously re-recorded, but that would probably wear out quickly and needs twice as many components.
yeah i assumed that too. glad it's so simple in reality
It is but electronically as in recorded on electron
The meachanism have gears ro keep both reels rolling to prevent trigerring auto stop or auto reverse.
I just picked one up from an op shop for a dollar, hoping there was tape inside, hoping to rig up some sort of cheap and easy tape echo. My dreams are slashed, but not dashed yet.
I hope I’m not the first person to notice the “international hand sign” for CD Walkman, deep-cut TechDiff reference. Makes me love this channel even MOAR.
Ah, I was looking for this comment! I see you're a person of culture as well. 😊
Wite Rabid it made my day.
6:03 "While this is completely and totally useless it is at least mildy interesting."
Well Sir you've unlocked the secret to my CZcams recommendations
Nah fr czcams.com/video/Ft-iXoJQvP8/video.html
To CZcams itself, mostly.
Bluetooth cassette adapters are the most Cyberpunk bits of tech I didn't know existed. Rad.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mixxtape/mixxtape-the-cassette-reinvented
Here's the cherry on top
Maybe we didn't get all the neon lights, unnecessary Japanese signage or widespread use of makeshift prosthetics, but hey, cassette adapters.
If they added a small generator to power the thing from the rotation from the cassette deck, that would be rad.
I want it and i don't even have a cassette deck
Was there ever a full MP3 player in a cassette?
EDIT: Ah, he mentionned it 😅
That unit provided the best sound per dollar than any other device I ever purchased. From the 70s to today. Sweet analogue signal. Thanks for keeping it concise.
The audio quality with this is absolutely indistinguishable from any other medium. Maybe an audiophile could nitpick in some fashion but it’s extremely crisp, especially in the controlled acoustic environment of your vehicle. My Acura has a stereo that is notoriously difficult to replace, so I just use one of these.
Not really, because of the deemphasis EQ in the tape preamp and the heads are most likely never properly aligned. Good enough for a simple car stereo, though.
- What are device you using to handless calls? Earphones? Speakers?
- No, I'm using a *cassette player*
*_80s internally_*
I have done this ! Z.K.
Blending old school with new school technology!
This is way too funny
@@mrmaniac3 new retrowave. The 80's that never existed! 😂😂😂
"Freakin' tapes, how do they work?! ...Magnets!"
Well, that just raises further questions!
More correct to use the term 'induction', rather than 'magnets'!
Eh, the answer is always '42' anyway.
@@MrWombatty yes, but then the joke doesn't work
@@KaityKat117 Jokes, how do they work?
ICP reference?
I remember when i was looking to buy my first car, I specifically chose a car with a tape deck over a cd player just so i could use one of these. The devices work surprisingly great as long as you played with the volumes on the device and the car.
One thing he didn't mention was that the tape contains 4 separate audio channels. Two for left and right audio channels when the tape is on side A, and the other two for when you flip the tape around to side B. The head only aligns with two of the channels, allowing you to flip the tape around to hear different music.
I very vividly remember the dark period of cars between ~2006 and ~2010 where they’d mostly gotten rid of their tape decks but hadn’t yet added aux jacks. Stuck with CDs for the life of the car.
I had a 2004 Explorer with lullaby renditions of Christian songs stuck in the CD deck when i bought it. Never got the CD out
I added an aux jack to my 2006 Nissan Altima head unit by splicing into the connection from the CD player assembly to the main board. I used a switched jack so the CD player still worked when the aux cable was unplugged, but I was thrilled to be able to use a tiny MP3 player instead of rotating through burned CDs.
My 1995 Ford was like that, AM/FM/CD. That's it.
Even my dad's like 2013 car doesn't have an aux jack, it has blue tooth, and a usb and freaking composite inputs for the tiny little screen. I mean the bluetooth works fine but I rather just use an aux cord so I don't have to fumble with setting up or connecting to bluetooth.
I wonder if cars will start ditching the aux jack now phones are getting rid of them, hopefully not haha.
Time made even darker by the fact that that's when they started using their own non-replaceable non-DIN conforming head units.
With a 1/4 adapter you could play an electric guitar through your car stero with these. Pretty cool back in the day.
I’ve never thought of that! That’s awesome!
then record it with a nokia for 100% trve kvlt effect 🤘
Oh my gosh because it's analogue.. don't make em like they used to.. genius
Add a line 6 pocket pod and you are on
But add some real pedals (doesn't matter what effect) before it. Adds to the kvlt.
@@AGTR98
(I like that we're brainstorming black metal toan on a 2 year old comment).
When 2 heads touch each other, urban dictionary calls that "docking"
0:37 Ah yes, the international gesture for CD-Walkman, I'm familiar.
Fantastic reference.
It's ironic that something like this actually makes having a cassette deck in your car more viable than a CD player.
Second that ... he's one of the very few youtubers who manages to walk the extremely fine line between science and entertainment without one getting into the way of another.
Added bonus: just like a stick-shift or manual transmission it can act as a millenial antitheft device.
How so? Most car CD players post 2000 have some form of aux input, through either the front or rear or in the case of factory radios, wired directly or patched into the cars loom somewhere. Not to mention that almost all CD players have better amps/output power etc.
@@JordyValentine I had a 2005 honda accord, it was even the higher end one and it did not have an aux cable, had to spend $100 for an adapter that plugs into the stereo and I also had to take apart the entire center console to add my own aux cable. so yeah I'd have to agree with Kova.
@@JordyValentine I want you to name me 5 cars in the early 2000s that came with an aux jack stock, obv cant be a parts bin head unit. Also most standard audio equipped vehicles have a factory amp capable of about 25w, it does not take much to drive 4 paper cones
"not groovy" and "particular". I see what you did there. I also LOLed.
Those are Professor Utonium level dad jokes.
I literally had to pause the video for a laugh break
I laughed pretty hard at hearing this.
Paused, came for this comment. Was not disappointed
This is why i watch this channel
Believe it or not, I actually WAS wondering how these things worked. Kind of mindblown that they make Bluetooth ones now. Very interesting video!
The sheer meme and pun density at around 1:00 makes me so glad I subscribed and decided to go through some back videos. I want to hate the groovy/particular pun but it's just so beautiful.
So back in the day when we were listening to our favorite music on cassette tape, no matter the genre we were always listening to metal lol. I'm so glad everyone likes my corny joke.
😂
Heheheheh, nice.
Goddamit 😂
Omgahhhh dad level 3000. I’m borrowing this one.
Not gonna like this. Because 420.
technology connections: video is 9:31 mins long
tom scott: video is 1:19 hours long
yep thats 2020
I know and to tie it all together we have an obscure Tom Scott reference in here too
There's a Vsauce3 video that's 18 hours long
@@mychemicalbromance97 Ah yes, the International sing for the CD Walkman. I see you are a man of culture as well.
@@cpufreak101 I did feel Jake got a bit repetitive near the 14 hour mark though.
Hell world
I just found this despite having subscribed to this channel for years. As a proud owner of a 2004 Buick where the stereo system has a CD player and a Cassette deck, The CD player now has become a phone holder and I am about to order a Bluetooth cassette adapter to replace my physical auxiliary cord. Love the channel and I love now having discovered a life upgrade to a car I spend wayyy to much time in.
Wow, i recently bought an old car and love watching your videos. I happened upon this not realizing you had covered this topic! Super insightful as someone who had no idea how these work I feel much more comfortable getting one for my car!
When he said: "the two heads get real personal with one another" I sort expected him to continue: "And this is how tape-recorder heads are made."
I'll see myself out.
Please do.
I don't think docking makes babies, just saying
so long as the use masks and santize their **ahem** cootchie-coo'ing parts.. they CAN get personal.
SARS-Cov-2 doesn't pass on in -seminal fluid- electromagnetic currents.
Electromagnetic frotting.
I remember when I was like 15 I built one of these from a set of old headphones, a cassette and a tape player just to prove to my brother it was that simple...
My brother made one of these to prove to me that it was that simple!
@@felipesancho Plot twist: you are brothers!
I made one too but could never get it to sound clear enough for regular use.
When I was about 14 I used an old cassette player head, a stick, some hot glue, and some magic to make an adapter to fit my 8-track player to play CDs from a Discman.
this is amazing i did always wonder about this!!! thank you so much
btw loved the second camera angle gag and i REALLY appreciate your captions 🥰
I was always so baffled about how these worked (but to be fair, I didnt know how casette tapes in general worked). I'm so surprised by how simple it is. Awesome video idea and great explanation.
4:26. That got personal real quick. I have a 96 Honda Accord. And yes the cassette player still works!!
JD's Variety Channel , I have a ‘96 Accord too. Great cars. Got 275k on mine, how about yours?
i use one in my 98 impreza. mainly for podcasts since i dont use my phone for normal music, i usually use casette tapes or just listen to the radio
I miss my Accord. That thing controlled so smoothly! I hope it's a standard transmission. Take good care of it.
2008 Renault Espace, has a working cassette player.
2001 Ford Ranger with am fm stereo cassette and cd player.
“Short video!”
The next day: “The CED part 6!” *37mins*
sounds like a solid video, everyone knows the CED is a bottomless pit full of content
I forgot about the CED series, did he finish it or is there more? I can't remember lol
It was finished in a Part Five.
This aged like milk
I LOVE THIS PERSON AND THIS CHANNEL! The gags are great you should keep doing spectacularly fascinating things
I used these to load/save or stream data off/to the Commodore Datasette. I love the mechanical-analog-digital essence of this data transfer method :-)
hey! i was just explaining to someone how these work yesterday!
people don't believe me when i tell them my favorite feature of my car is the tape deck, but with a small investment of $5, i can play just about any song i want through my car's stereo system. not bad for a car that's almost old enough to rent a car itself!
“While this completely and TOTALLY useless, it is at least MILDLY interesting!” 😂
I found it *very* interesting, personally.
Personally I’m not. A short look at this thing makes this video pointless
@@ingenfestbrems Lol you aren't very interesting?
@@ingenfestbrems I CaN tElL yOu ArE fUn At PaRtIeS
The motto of this channel.
I could watch your outtakes on a compilation for hours. The most interesting person to watch complain
It really helps that that's actually a nice soothing song for the outro. But even without that yeah I could easily watch a compilation for hours. Could also make a fun guess the video game
Love your work man! Makes me smile after a bad day, superb viewing ;)
Re: The MP3 cassette player thingy. It was called the romeMP3. I remembered it too and about a year ago went on a Google binge to look for it. It's a full regular MP3 player. But you can put it into a cassette player and it will actually play. Even rewind and FF will perform as expected.
i found the same but named "auvisio MP3-Player for cassette steros" in german ebay.
I backed one on Kickstarter named "Mixxtape".
Yep, I got one close to 20 years ago, and to this day I still think it's the coolest gadget I ever got, hence why I still have it. It amazed me how you could use the controls on your cassette player or car stereo to pause/RW/FF just like it was a normal cassette or just hit FF/RW for 1 second to switch tracks. At school I just plugged in ear phones to use it as a normal mp3 player and after school I had my favourite tunes playing on the car stereo with it. I can't describe how awesome that was at a time before portable music was commonplace. Here's the one I got at the top (and still have). I think it was around $200 at the time. Best money I ever spent. www.stereo2go.com/topic/index.php?content_oid=304301014311174157&board_oid=193392314111653483
Ages ago like 2002/2003 someone used cassette like that to connect a discman to a tape player.
I remerber starting at it like it was magic
I had one back in the day and it used a very particular kind of external media card.. still have the card, but i cant seem to find the player :( it was indeed awesome tho!
7:31 I've got one of the elusive "MP3 in a cassette case" audio devices. It was made by Hyun Won Inc, Model No. DAH-210M. It was a revolutionary item back in 2002.
0:45 actually yes, not long ago I was wondering this exact thing so its kinda weird to see a video on it from you! I needed one for my old-ass car and I had always wondered how they worked. I cant believe how incredibly simple they are! I wouldve never guessed! Also awesome to know about the bluetooth version, Im definitely going to pick one of those up tomorrow.
I had one of those MP3 integrated ones you speak of, still do. Had to show off my oddware to a nonbeliever. Picked it up for about £10 on eBay for my old 90s car. Must have been about 15 years ago. I’m sure it still works. Man that SD card will be chock full of surprises 😂
For those who want cassette MP3 player/adapter. Google: "cassette sd mmc".
Thank you for this, it was too interesting of a concept to not look into.
There is a fancy version called the Mixxtape that even has a little display inside the clear cassette shell.
@@KeithJewell I got my dad's original kickstarter model and it is really cool!
@@jakershaker13 Woah hold up, he support it?
It’s so funny that there was even a Kickstarter for this. Most of us slightly older people were glad to be done with those things once and for all. I _was_ a cassette fan, back when I could obtain good (used) decks but couldn’t afford CD players, but I never saw a car cassette deck that was all that great and once I moved to CD changers in the car, I didn’t look back. Now I just stream from my phone in whatever format I want with my subscription account to listen to what I want. No desire to go back for nostalgic purposes. Not in my car, anyway.
Though I never gave up tube radios and turntables at home. Not that I’m old enough for tube radios to have been “in” during my lifetime, they were just some of the first things I repaired as a kid (my grandparents’ old console tube radio) and I always thought they were neat. But never gave up vinyl as I already had a lot of it and some things I like were never released on anything but 8-track, cassette and/or vinyl and given the choice, I stuck with vinyl for those recordings. Many of which still have never been digitized by anyone except end users.
Was always able to pick up neat tabletop tube radios cheaply that I kept around and used as they always sound great. I have a radio alarm clock one that still works fine. Had an early stereo FM tube radio from the 50’s that paid my rent one time when I was hard-up for money.
Current projects are an eeeearly 1926 Bosch Cruiser tabletop tube radio (six massive tubes in a large wooden case that requires “A” and “B” batteries - “farm” batteries as many people didn’t have electricity yet; still need to build a custom power supply and speaker converter for it) and a 1947 New Zealand radio in a nice wooden tabletop case that doesn’t work at the moment. Both are shortwave / broadcast (AM) radios that I’m anxious to get working and utilize. Anxious to see the “magic eye” tuning indicator tube working on the 1947 radio.
So maybe I am the same as the millennials that like playing with cassettes and things, just slightly older lol. But I do actually utilize these things for primary listening, those that work. Only modern thing I have is a Sonos Play:3 speaker and my iPhone. I work in IT and hate most modern tech, especially those creepy things that talk to you and spy on everything you say. Get them out of your home! lol And for goodness sake, disable Siri!
So. Many. Jokes at start! 😂
But, seriously, as a person who still uses one of these regularly because I'm the proud owner of a 20-year-old truck that I maintain and keep running... May I ask how many people have ever tried the Bluetooth versions of these?
Perhaps a future video could solve the mystery as to why EVERY SINGLE BLUETOOTH CASSETTE ADAPTER THAT HAS EVER EXISTED IS HORRIBLE AND UTTERLY NON-FUNCTIONAL. 😠 I realize one appears in the video (before I started typing this comment) but I've now tried at least 5 of these and every one has sounded like an Emerson stereo playing inside of a college dorm bathroom.
It's quite the boggle.
I have experience with only the one in this video which came from the exotic lands of Walmart and... it's been fine? Though I've not used it much at all, frankly (if you hadn't guessed I bought it for the Figaro) but when I have it sounds totally fine to me!
(edit): I should add that the Figaro's right speaker is dead, so I haven't heard what the right channel sounds like yet! But the left seems totally fine!
@@TechnologyConnections maybe I'll have to give this another shot then. :-)
I tried all of mine maybe seven years ago I think.
Here's to old cars!
@@DeviantOllam 7 years is quite a while for Bluetooth and mobile things. Especially in terms of getting it to work at all. Probably. Some stuff is still just as painful, but some is actually better than a while ago.
@@TechnologyConnections I have one of these adapters in my 92 Corvette ZR1, but it only seems to play out of the left speaker. Is this adapter mono?
"Frickin' Tapes - how do they work? Magnets!"
I uhhh... I understood that reference!
Just found your channel for the first time, and let me just compliment, sold in first 20 seconds. And I am HARSH on youtube personalities. But dig your humor/approach. Thanks for an interesting and actually entertaining video. As the kids say... "subbed"
I had one of these in a MK4 Golf GTi so I could keep the original radio and keep all the dash lighting the same red colour. Cost about £25 and worked way better than I expected. Hid the wires so everything looked neat and tidy.
The first time I saw this thing in a mail order catalog in the early 90s, I was totally sure it was a scam. Because how the hell would this work, it’s ridiculous!
To make things even more confusing, those catalogs had a contest where you had to find the one hidden fake made up product hidden in it.
I was sure this cassette thing was it.
When I was 12 years old - I had a cassette stereo with a broken tape drive and a walkman with only tiny headphones. But I wanted to hear my music loud.
When I learned electromagnets from the encyclopedia - I just placed one headset unit over the head in the stereo, hit "play" both on walkman and stereo - and (surprise!) made the stereo play the music from the walkman without any cable connection between devices (I just had no appropriate cable those times).
Of course, it was mono. But I was happy about this trick in my twenty)
this just makes me want to try making an adapter with a small fast-switching LCD and another laser motor just to follow the laser around, you know. Just because. The dumbest adapter ever, where you have to leave the door open on the player for it to work.
I discovered a similar trick putting my phone speaker to the strings on my electric guitar. Back when phone speaker volumes were very low and most didn’t have earphone jacks
@@stephanietanniss how did it work?
@@DFX2KX I love this
@@zsin128 pick ups are basically microphones, but normally they are passive, they need another electric field to disturbe them aka the strings, i was wiring my guitar and if strings doesnt have a conection to groudn the passive pick ups will not pick up the vibrations, so when you make the strings vibrate to the speakers, the strings transfer the vibratiosn to the pick ups..
but theres also active pickups wich are microphones and can pick up all noise
Very interesting! I have never heard of these before, but this seems like a great alternative to changing the radio on an old car. Thanks a lot for this video!
No joke these were awesome, they made my tape player more relevant than my CD player in older cars... at least back when smart phones still came with Aux ports! lol I'm grateful I've upgraded to a car with full bluetooth but man these little gadgets got me through a lot of commutes in the past!
"While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting." Hilarious, and kind of a great mission statement for the channel. I just discovered your channel, and I love it so much.
Sadly while the first part is a pertinent statement for my life the second part isn't.
That statement made me laugh
I could use that knowledge to digitize any cassette with only a cassette recorder and a smartphone. Not saying it's the best way, but now I can do it with the resources I already have.
My first car had a CD player with no Aux jack in the era of Ipods... I hated the thing because I had tons of music on my Ipod and could not use it.
I always wished the car had the original tape deck so I could use one of these.
The radio station things just suck in cities.
You know, that cassette bluetooth adaptor actually makes having a car with a cassette player more useful than a more recent car with a CD player. If your car has a CD player you have to buy one of those bluetooth FM transmitter things, which kinda work but are also a pain in the rear, especially when you drive to a new city and have to find a new blank frequency.
The worst for me are cars that have these CD players, think to include an *Actual AUX* port, but don't actually put that port on the front of the panel.
Looking at YOU, Ford and your 07 Focus head unit....
@@DFX2KX lol, I had 2 ford freestyles. Both included an aux connection jn the back of the radio... but didn't use it for an aux port. One used it for the DVD player in the back, and the other just iddnt use it for anything at all.
DFX2KX 07 Mazda3s are the same.
Fun fact, I've watched so many TC videos, the ad before this was for an air conditioner-heater cold weather heat pump installation! ❤
I came back to this one because it showed up on my feed and i only just now noticed all the different shirts on TCC2! Also, the editing between the two shots is perfection
I'm going to wait until Part 3 so I can find out the really technical details, and the backstories of the engineers involved.
1:05 the pun muscle is strong in _this one._ "Not groovy, but particular..."
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Can someone explain the pun to me ?
@@maximecollet30 Magnetic tape is not _groovy_ because it doesn't have _grooves_ like a record; it's _particular_ because it has _particles_ of iron oxide. At least that's how I understood it!
(In case you're not familiar with the words, "groovy" means great, exciting; "particular" means special, distinctive.)
Diego C. I knew about grooves but not about groovy. Didn’t make the **connections** with records and the particular either. Thanks !
@@maximecollet30 The pun is more easily caught by a boomer. Alex is quite young to use "groovy" instead of "noice" which makes it just a little bit funnier. I've seen enough of his videos to know that he's steeped in the culture grandfather's era - which is approximately my age.
Just ran first time into your channel. Cool content! 🤘🏼
Fantastic video. Love this channel so much
"they are not groovy, they are particular"
I unsubbed then resubbed again. To send a message.
I can't tell if it's a negative or positive message.
Neither can OP.
Welcome to the channel!
This message fits your pfp
I don't get it
Upvote this so my dude will see it: "mixxtape" from "mixtapeboss" is the MP3 player-cassette tape.
It's a modern version, but I had one that had a replaceable battery, 14 years ago.
Mixxtape looks pretty rad, tho sadly it falls victim to the tape movement sensor.
Fwm czcams.com/video/Ft-iXoJQvP8/video.html
There's also this one usb.brando.com/usb-cassette-mp3-player_p01122c035d15.html
www.aliexpress.com/item/4000780210561.html
@@BertGrink I actually had that one back in the day. Sadly my car stereo was too smart for the fake tape technology so i could only use it as an mp3 player.
It was pretty neat, but be warned, it didn't work with SDHC cards and the battery was useless after a year of forgetting about it. I question whether they bothered to update the tech.
The fact that you can "record" to these is beautiful. That's incredible.
Love how you explain stuff, man
“While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting.” Spoken like a true nihilist.
"Frikkin tapes! How do they work?" -Insane Technology Connections Posse
Magnets.
"magnets!"
I lost my shit to that one.
Oh man, I have been confused by magnetic tape for so long, thank you for explaining it so succinctly. And that bluetooth adapter, my god.
My first car was a 2000 with a CD and cassette player. Those adapters are so nice for being able to connect your phone to your car for only a couple of dollars, no Bluetooth FM adapter needed. While I don’t have a use for one in my new car that has Bluetooth, I still love these little things and how helpful they can be. I didn’t know they made Bluetooth ones so i had to spend a bit extra on an aux adapter for my phone but in all it only cost me $15, most of which was the adapter.
I actually built one of these when I was in my early teens. Literally just wired a head from a broken walkman an glued it inside the tape. Worked perfectly
Well hey, when it's literally that simple you can do stuff like that
I did the same thing.... GMTA. :-)
@starshipeleven as much as I love tech I can agree. There's a magic when you can visualize what's actually happening versus "this little blob does everything"
I love how you changed your shirt everytime you did a "side character" lmao this was hilarious.
Holy crap. Nice catch.
I had to go back en check cx
Didn't even notice until this comment. The transitions between shots are so smooth!
that was really neat. this channel is wonderful
Thank you! I always learn a lot with your videos!
That bluetooth adaptor is pretty damned cool. I wonder if its possible for the motor in the tape deck to turn a mini dynamo fitted in the casing, so you don't need to remove it to charge!
Great idea!
Oh you smart cokiie
One way to find out!
if I stop being lazy and get around to finishing my projects lol
I don't think so. It usually moves too slowly to be useful, and the motor doesn't have much torque, unless you're fast-forwarding.
@@techno1561putting some gearing on it would be a place to start, but torque could still be a limiting factor depending on the speeds necessary.
I remember wondering this as a child... I remember imagining a loop of tape, somehow getting a perpetually updating and erasing the recording on the loop of tape, lol.
Me too! Who would have known it was _that_ simple, instead.
I bought a '74 Javelin over a year ago, and when I found out that I could use a bluetooth casette tape to listen to music from my phone I was super curious on how it must have worked. The radio/cassette deck ended up dying a few months later so I just bought a bluetooth enabled radio, but still it was such a cool concept.
I have ALWAYS wondered how these things work. Thank you so much
Ah the good ol cassette aux adapter! Back in the late 90's I installed an MP3 player in my car for a cross country road trip (this was back before most people even knew what MP3's were). I literally put a desktop PC tower, CRT monitor, and keyboard in the back floorboards of my car and wired it to my car stereo with a DC to AC inverter lol. At the time, it was one of the largest collections of music to ever be access in a vehicle.
lol, my friend and I did the same thing in my '92 Caprice. We even made a little GUI in Visual Basic to make it more user friendly on the go.
Buddy this has been done since the 80s lol
@@RETIREDAMATUER considering mp3's were only conceptualized in 1987, and released to the general public in 1991. i call ballshit.
1:00 - "Tapes, how do they work?" "Mag--" I thought he was about to say "magic", lol
I think it was actually an Insane Clown Posse reference. Ingenious.
"F×××in magnets, how do those work?"
"Frickin tapes, how do those work? Magnets!"
That's the reference lol
"F×××in magnets, how do those work?"
"Frickin tapes, how do those work? Magnets!"
That's the reference lol
Me too.
This is my favourite video, I even come back here from time to time to check it again
I treasured my cassette adapter back in the day (which was actually not that long ago after all)! It worked wonders with my Sony Walkman (which still works) which is branded as "Car Ready" and has a special "ESP Max" feature. "ESP" stands for "Electronic Shock Proof". It basically was a buffer memory that prevented playback stopping if a bump made the disc tracking unstable for a second.
When I was a kid, I had a second hand stereo with an 8-track player. But I had a portable CD player. So I had to use an 8-track tape adapter and then put the cassette adapter into that. It was like Sonic 3 plugged into Sonic & Knuckles plugged into a game genie plugged into a genesis.
Plugged into a 32x on top of a Sega Cd
EnGiNeER
Yo I heard you like adapters, so I put an adapter in your adapter, and adapted your adapter for your adapter with your adapter in it so you can adapt your adapter to your adapter with your adapter.
I once used one of these in an old, massive stereo with an 8mm microphone hooked up to a 8mm->3.5mm converter and a male to female converter. Jankiest setup of all time but it WORKED and it was legendary. Still remember the band and I hauling this massive stereo system from the late 80s into a 16 year old girl's birthday party in 2014. Absolutely comical.
I remember when I was young and creative I made one of these out of an old tape recorder, I was so proud of myself. Could only use the fancy tapes that had screws to keep them together, but it was easy to make :D. I'm old and boring now lmao
Great vid, I've always loved these adapters
'The cassette adapter doesn't have tape'
'Wait, do they?'
10/10 preparation for this video.😂😂😂😂
The cassette adapter doesn't have tape'
'Or do they?"
*Rise 1 eyebrow while cue music by Jake Chudnow starts playing*
I will gamble he wrote that joke
I was obviously part of the script you idiot.
@@vertyisprobablydead it*
I love the Techmoan reference when you use the same type of player he used in one of his recent videos.
That model is going to inflate in price on eBay.
Every time I reread the perks of being a wallflower I get almost a feeling of nostalgia but for a time when I wasn’t even alive. It’s so interesting that cassette tapes were how you listened to music and you couldn’t hop from one artist/genre to another.
The amount of times I've seen a video of something that's always perplexed me but always forgotten to research, presented by yal ❤
0:04 - Me fail English? That's unpossible.
unheard + impossible ?
@@frecio231 Ralph Wiggum, Simpsons
Yeah I also thought of Ralph right away.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unpossible
Himmelganger I have the Ralph Wiggum association with the term unpossible regardless of whether it actually exists in the dictionary.
In my high school in the early 2000's someone figured you can break open a headphone earpiece and put the magnetic speaker on the cassette head in the boombox and do the exact same thing, amazing
Nothing like a youngster investigating how things work. Nice!
I had a 1985 Buick Skyhawk with a cassette deck. In the early 90s I picked up one of these adapters and connected to a portable CD player. It worked great!
Brings back memories of cruising down the highway in my 1988 Ford Taurus with my Sony discman with xtra bass plugged into the tape deck! 10 second skip protection activated and endless asphalt of Southern California mountains, I was good to go!
me: "Huh, these would be cool with bluetooth."
TC: "We now have bluetooth versions of these!"
6:03 reminds me of the time I plugged some headphones into a microphone jack, and spoke into the headphones. It actually worked as a (very crappy) microphone.
I’ve done that before and I thought I discovered a secret in the universe
I have headphones and speakers hooked up to a splitter. When the speakers are on and I bump the headphones I hear it through the speaker.
Any idea what that talking in the background says?
For me it was the opposite, I plugged a Mic into an earphone jack and I could faintly hear audio coming from it. It opened my eyes up to a whole new way I looked at tech.
Yeah, I did this back in the nineties when playing around with mod-files. It was glorious! I could sample myself saying silly stuff, and play around with it in a mod-editor. Microphone? Oh no no no, that wasn't readily available back then...
"And this gag isn't helping with that"
"Indeed"
I love these videos
1:08 "it's particular" How damn sublime are the puns from this guy. I can't stop smiling on his genius.
1:00 "Frickin' tapes. How do they work? Ma-"
Me: Magic.
"-gnets."
makes me wonder how may people missed the joke
"Magical Mysteries by Thrilla Killa Klownz" to be more accurate.
Eduardo Daniel Don’t disrespect the insane clowns like that
@@StevieDrama I used to be a fan of them, not a juggalo but a fan since their wrestling days, but Shaggy said that scientis LIE... for me turned a song that was spiritual in to ignorant bs.
@@HarunaNoJikan man I'm a juggalo and it always makes me smile hearing jokes in the wild :)
Lol that "Magnets" ICP reference was so well placed I almost missed it 😂
My first car (VW Beetle) had only an AM radio. I mounted an 8-track player a friend gave me, bought an 8-track to cassette adapter and one of these cassette to jack adapters. Finally I plugged in a dime store FM pocket radio. Added more speakers as well. Wired from the 8-track.
With no dash to set stuff on I duck taped the radio to the windshield. I found it got better reception if I taped it up high so the cord (doubling as the antenna) was better exposed.
Ah, these adapters saved my life from boredom back in my high school days with my old Accord.