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- A non-believer reviews cassette tapes meant for churches -- and comes away impressed!
Media used in the video:
John LaDuca - Mr. Fantastic in the Wonderful World of Wurlitzer
• Mr. Fantastic in the W...
TDK's Ultimate Guide To Recording From CDs
• TDK's Ultimate Guide T...
Colors In Motion - Secrets
• Secrets
Noah Roth - Where's Christian?
• Where's Christian?
Chris Haugen - Firefly
CZcams Audio Library
Gilmer Music / Suzy Nelson - Positively New Jersey
• Positively New Jersey ...
The enthusiastic radio preacher is Tony Evans.
#cassetteculture #kingdom #tapes - Věda a technologie
Media used in the video:
John LaDuca - Mr. Fantastic in the Wonderful World of Wurlitzer
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TDK's Ultimate Guide To Recording From CDs
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Colors In Motion - Secrets
czcams.com/video/eKu-utWOans/video.html
Noah Roth - Where's Christian?
czcams.com/video/plD74I59UaM/video.html
Chris Haugen - Firefly
CZcams Audio Library
Gilmer Music / Suzy Nelson - Positively New Jersey
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The enthusiastic radio preacher is Tony Evans.
^THIS!!! Thank you so much for listing it all up to satisfy the curiosity!! :)
Thanks for crediting my video! Was from a now hard to find TDK CD. Love your videos! Been a long time subscriber.
I have a big box of these and I can confirm they sound amazing!
More people need to know about New Jersey
God in heaven above points his hand down upon the hills of New Jersey and says...check out my mixtape bruh
"The people only had one copy of the Christmas album by the band Low.
But then a miracle happened, the lord and saviour VWESTLIFE; used his twin tape deck to turn the one tape, into 82 tapes"
Now he needs to share his -bread- tapes with the poor.
@@andreasu.3546 (Sung to the tune of Guitar Man by Bread)
Who draws the crowd when he plays his odd tapes out loud
Baby it's the VWestlife man
Who's gonna steal the retrotech show
You know, baby, it's the VWestlife man
He can make you love
He can make you cry
He will bring you down
Then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin'
Miles and miles of thrift stores shelves a day
To find another odd tape to play
Like with the bread and fishes except with cassettes. Feeding the 5000 with ferric
@@bletheringfool mmmmm tasty FeO2
That actually sounded fantastic on the 3 head deck. I love that there's still companies selling cassettes. I was surprised to find new Maxell tapes at a store here in town in 2019, so I bought a few. I went back in 2020 to buy more and they didn't have any. I asked the clerk if they were getting more, and she looked at me like I was crazy - "it's 2020!" she says.
Found the local Walmart selling cassettes in 2 packs for an inflated price. Was cool to see though a few weeks from 2022
I'm sure 65scribe can point you in the right direction, after a tour of the Petrolia museum.
Oh. On those early 2000s (and nobody liked tapes) I was able to buy chrome and metal tapes for about one dollar. Still in my tape collection. Brand new, sealed and gorgeous.
@@albertocabezas282 Look at the prices they go for now. You have to be very lucky to get Maxell URs (which at 8 Bit Show and Tell indicates were the last cassettes in most shops) for $1 each.
@@albertocabezas282 awesome! What brands of tapes do you have?
in the mid 70s my parents use to have Christian sermon tapes that would get passed around and mailed. We had tape duplicator! Parents would type up the labels and we kids would load the tapes in the duplicator. When I saw the box I knew exactly what kind of tapes they were!
When I was in high school (mid ‘90s), I did the sound at church, and we used these to record services. They really are good quality tapes. The New Jersey song is a good choice. The arrangement and vocals almost sound like gospel music!
As a guy born and raised in NJ, I really appreciate that incredibly inspirational piece of music. 😂
It was a good song. Sounds like it'd be part of a musical.
@@trashtrash2169 It was used by the NJN public TV network as their signoff theme song.
i wondered what that Disney theme for New Jersey was
I assumed the song was sarcasm.
Good gracious, that song BUILDS! ◡̈
About five years ago I picked up a high-speed dubbing machine I believe it holds six cassettes and a box of those cassette tapes out of a dumpster at my church.
You discovered Kingdom (blessed be)! Their 100 Cassette Wooden Racks are a little-known cassette collectors' gem. They are one of the only places to still buy new, large wooden racks like that. With vintage Napa Valley ones going for $50-$70 plus shipping the high-quality Kingdom ones at under $40 are a bargain. I discovered those from finding one initially at a thrift as well.
Thanks again for the great and very entertaining content!
They’re available on eBay if you can get them. Kingdom still made cassettes which is still available online, and Kingdom has no sign of slowing down. Now that other iconic brands like TDK, Memorex, Sony, Fuji and others were phased out it’s cassette production, except Maxell is still making these cassettes like UR. Kingdom is that way to get if you get them at the church.
@@Musicradio77Network Maxell UR was discontinued worldwide in 2017-18, except within Japan.
@@peacearchwa5103 Because US now has RTM Fox cassettes, Capture, and ATR. Japan continues production on the Maxell UR.
I found a box of those at a church sale, with a mono duper. They're great tapes. I recorded slayer albums onto them.
that's an edgy story bro
HEATHEN!!!!!
@@hunterdavis3003 ...and proud of it! Hail the gods! Hail the folk! Happy Yuletide!
@@EgoShredder lol! Surgery with no an anesthesia!
@@hunterdavis3003 I bet most people were healthier in times past generally speaking, e.g. more exercise, physical work, fresh air, fresh food and meat, free from chemicals and processing etc. Simple pleasures and no usury debt.
"Let's see how many tapes I have left in this box of a hundred"
*Turns into a chipmunk*
A lot of cassette, good for making mixtapes as a gift for Christmas!!!
My university's bookstore sold duplicator cassettes back in the 80s. The price was right and they were better than the three-to-a-sleeve junk at Kmart.
oh god yes!!! These caseless blister 3x tapes you could find were really the bottom-level of tape quality. Had a few of those. Some were already junk the moment you used them, others aged sooo badly in 20 years, the drop out rate is insane, compared to actually quality manufacturer tapes like from BASF, Sony, TDK & Co.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 I remember those, too. They were horrible. I quickly learned to ignore them. They might be ok for voice recording. I will have to look and see if I still have any in my boxes of cassettes.
I used to love going to Phar-Mor. Their video/game rental "store" inside, was one of the most disorganized I've ever seen, but I remember finding some awesome SNES and Gameboy games back then mixed with some random movies.
I remember those tapes.... Back in the 90s I volunteered to help at the church to do recordings and tape copies. The sermon gets recorded through the mics and a small mixer board into a recorder, and afterwards we use a bulk tape copier to make up to three copies at a time. They're for people who want to hear the sermons again or if anyone missed the previous services.
The tape duplicators were so fast and easy I didn't need to be there watching so I could chat with my friends till they were done. Good times...
I used to do the same thing. Now churches just do live streams, podcasts, or CZcams videos.
In the early 00’s my church switched from tapes to cds. The shut-ins loved it because it meant they could keep the cds. Previously the church collected the tapes every few weeks to erase and reuse.
I worked at a Time Brokered AM gospel radio station in the late 90's/early 2000's in High School, we had several preachers that brought in their sermons to play on cassette tape, by the time I left some had moved to CD, I recently visited them in the summer of 2021 and still saw they had a cassette deck in the studio for "holdouts" that had not fully went digital.
I have a few cassettes, and I did used custom labels for brands that doesn’t exists since I printed out myself using a printer. It’s also available for C60, and C120 lengths, and these are white cassettes which were made for the church. I remember visiting my grandmother’s house where she had a handful of white cassettes that she got the church, along with the blank ones. That was a long time ago.
I'm curious how much of an exclusive those cassettes truly are. The packaging is identical to that used by National Audio Company, whose 731 normal bias tape is also an excellent performer. Theirs don't have the text on the leader, though.
Kingdom's been on the web for a while. The Wayback Machine has a capture from 1996, with a nice graphic showing all the services they offered at the time.
I once bought a JVC DAT deck that came with some matching JVC blank tapes, some of which had been used. Turns out it had been owned by a church of some sort and the tapes were full of sermons and "testimonies" of things the church members had overcome (such as the pastor's former drug addictions, etc). Needless to say the tapes were subsequently recorded over with the devil's music.
You should've made a copy, sent it to news outlets to expose... THEN recorded over it!
@@briannem.6787 or maybe not.
@@alkestos maybe not. I do not know what past me thought there. I assume that I had misinterpereted the comment.
As others have said, I have used these tapes for many years, too. I have thought that they look very similar to TDK tapes of that era. So, I don't know if TDK manufactured them for Kingdom or not. While going through things in my garage during quarantine, I discovered boxes of church service recordings on these tapes. About 30 years later, the recordings hold up very well on them. No "sticky tape syndrome," or drops in sound quality.
After tapes, we went to CD-R recording and duplication. Now, I send an audio signal back to someone else who is running a video switcher connected to a Macintosh laptop running e-cam software streaming to CZcams. Oh my, how far we have come!
As always, thanks so much for these videos! Have a happy holiday, VWestlife!
I’ve been relatively shocked, when I was doing a tour of a local AM station, preachers were still sending their sermons on tape as late as 2018. Mostly Maxell UR tapes.
Cassette tapes just never seem to die… Just got 2 of my decks serviced, and they sound as good as they can. Merry Christmas.
That's awesome. And it also makes sense. Up until early 2021 these were the only fresh blank types i could find in stores. However i haven't spotted them recently but instead i discovered a different type from UK called "EQ Professional".
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The only ones I can seem to find are the dumb Onn tapes at Walmart. Besides that, the pharmacy chains here seem to very rarely have overpriced 5 packs of Maxell UR.
I’m wishing we could get something halfway decent, UR can’t handle much above 0dB, whereas I’ve pumped Sony HF to +9dB and they handled it like a champ.
Cassettes won't die because it's the only analog medium that its still accesible, can withstand some abuse, can be recorded easily, and most importantly, its out of the digital domain, so as long as the tape isnt stolen, you can keep your recordings safe. That's why they're still used by police and other agencies,
Was a production director at a station in semi-rural Indiana back around 2012. Was definitely happening then as I was the one who had to record them in to our automation system.
@@jordantomblin2302 Yup the Maxell UR tapes (individual and 5er packs) are getting more expensive every yearm everywhere i look. On amazon the prices for such a pack are getting insane as well.
We had CLOUD tapes here in Scotland back in the 80's. What you recorded on side A could be heard on the blank side B!!
That's one hell of a punch through.
As stated earlier, definitely misaligned head\s. Too bad no one figured it out back then :(
heads probably needed azumuth aligned
I'm familiar with that company. Our church gets their catalog. They also have house branded electronics such as microphones and wireless transmitters. Overall, their stuff does an acceptable job.
As entertaining and informative as Kevin’s videos are there is also a fun factor with each one. This one was great! Happy Holidays sir! Thanks for the hard work!
My grandfather was a deacon for his church from about 1989 to 2016, he has loads of these blanks around. They're rather good quality for ferric tapes, I use them often for recording classical music from the radio when I'm away.
I have a big box of similar tapes, except mine are ex-Police stock (Neal branded - Techmoan did a video about their tape recorder a while back). They're apparently filled with AGFA Ferrocolor tape. You'd never mistake them for a TDK AR, but at 49p a tape I can't complain.
That key change in the New Jersey song 🙌
Nobody seems to do key changes in modern music anymore.
Nice NJN sign off song!!!! Pressing the nostalgia button, got that warm fuzzy feeling!
Definitely buying these for my future black metal demos.
"Heavenly voices or hellish rackets" sounds like some lyrics to a Black Sabbath track ;)
Maybe that's why the tapes are white and black, for recording the album Heaven and Hell.
no, they are just white or black.
Blessed with Premium® sound. Amen.
The Forgotten Chipmunk: VWestlife...
I kid though. XD
The New Jersey song was so dramatic. 💕
My church used these tapes. Knowing that they just sold their building, these tapes might have actually come from there! The older shells had the Kingdom logo molded into them.
I'm still enjoying 'Positively New Jersey!'.
I got that "NEW JERSEY" song stuck in my head now.
My personal experience with these Kingdom cassette tapes has been pretty good… in fact, I actually used one of these to record various episodes of Car Talk from my local NPR station (91.5 WUNC, to be exact)…. and this was before I actually made my first mixtape on a Maxell UR120 tape which featured nothing but hits from the 1960s. Thanks for such an excellent video!!!
Missed opportunity in the New Jersey song is singing about the turnpike
The song is the NJN theme song called “Positively New Jersey” which was a song that used for the station’s sign-offs and sign-ons. I found this one here is the signoff and the same song from 1988. WNJM-TV was on channel 50 in Montclair, NJ when it was part of NJN. It usually reached NYC via UHF analog. I usually get channel 50 in NYC back in the day. czcams.com/video/KIC8k45mgyY/video.html
That first tape "normal bais"... that was way funnier than it should have been
My God! I had no idea New Jersey was worthy of such fidelity. Who knew?
I seriously doubt that it is. No offense to Kevin, of course.
I did drive through New Jersey once, stepped out of the car for a few seconds so I can say I have been to New Jersey, then got back in again, and drove on. I have never been to Texas. :-)
I laughed at "although it is screwed, which is good".
The black tapes on that box are the ones they use to record sermons about Satan 👹.
And he strikes again with another wonderful video about tapes, which I love! and when you started counting the tapes and used my favorite song from that Wurlitzer record at 1:34 I just opened a big smile from one ear to another ♥ ♥ ♥😁
A company specializing in cassette tapes for... preachers. And still alive even today... what else will we see in this world. 🤣
The cassette counting was hilarious, and the comments all over the video ridiculously funny. Just another quality video from the usual suspect, VWestlife.
and their web address sounds like "kingdom come"
@2:20 - Mansfield, PA - I used to frequent a bar there quite heavily as well as The Gaslight in Wellsboro. I also used to date the old Mansfield school board president years ago. My father and I owned a restaurant in Tioga which is only a couple of miles up the road from Mansfield. That brought back memories.
it's always something weird that keeps old formats around. either its tapes for jesus stuff, or floppy disk for old computers that run the nuclear weapons around the world.
Let's hear it for the Garden State! You have a good holiday season.
I've never been more excited about New Jersey!
Thnx for the video. It's Julafton here in Sweden so thnx for the gift.
You just brought this company lots of customers. Amen to that.
the questions are a) will they have enough stock to meet demand ? b) Can they actually replace their stock if they sell the ones they have.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and each of this channel's flock of followers :)
Great video! I appreciate your sense of humor and delivery.
I am shocked they have screws. What was keeping cassette tapes in production was the US Prison market and the specs for those tapes require they be clear and the tapes have to be sonic welded shut. Basically we had some strange electronics made because of prisons including a speakerless clear RCA CRT TV made with a digital tuner. It only existed because they hadn't cleared Flat screens as safe for jail. Techmoan did a video on his American Prisoner tech collection.
Impressive sound quality.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The New Jersey anthem was the best laugh I've had in weeks!
that song about New Jersey, lol. you always have the lost media treat
Nostalgia made me click the thumbnail just for the PharMor tape lol
Another great video, Kevin. Ignore the trolling asshats - there’s many of us who really look forward to a new video from you. And I hope you have a great Christmas. 🥰🎄
9:40 "This ends the broadcast day at NJN. Operated by the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, WNJN operates at an assigned carrier frequency of...."
Your videos are always so informative and entertaining. I had a box of 100 "duplicator" cassettes - came from a church - but these had shell warping issues and some of my early cassette recorders weren't strong enough to play them. Your tapes seem much better and sound great!
But the BEST part of your video was that song "New Jersey" at the end. I have never heard the like - it sounded like a hymn or anthem to a state! I've visited New Jersey many times, but never got the urge to move there like the folks singing this song! Advertising gone over the top - Amazing. Thanks for the fun video. I always look forward to your postings.
We can always count on Kevin to find some obscure but amazing music to end his videos about tapes.
nice score brutha VW, in my old indie band we used to buy similar bulk blank cassettes & laser printer labels to DIY our music back in the early 90s. Now that you've spread the word, I bet Kingdom will sell out quickly.
I came for the tapes, left enjoying that New Jersey song
Exactly what I would expect for the audio quality from a new old stock (NOS) blank cassette tape! I have a similar experience with a Maxell UE Type I Tape that I bought 2 boxes of it, ALL SEALED, old new stock for around $20 or around 1000php. Good thing I have my 3 head tape deck and I got a similar output as yours, very decent sound quality. I didn't need to playback with Dolby NR after recording.
Good video VWestlife! More videos like this please... :)
Always informative and entertaining as usual :)
I find your videos so fascinating as an audio and computer guy... also someone who drove vws much of his life :) keep doing great work!
These tapes may sound good, but be forewarned. Be careful when selecting your source material. I tried recording Deicide's "The Stench of Redemption" on one, and it burst into flames, nearly taking out my Nakamichi Cassette Deck 2.
you got lucky
mine pinched my finger very hard with the cassette door when trying to record some rap and nearly bit it off
so yeah be very careful
A great find, love the content you produce :)
I remember that Jersey song playing at the Port Authority Bus Terminal back in the day.
Thanks for the upload! :)
Awesome find, it's nice to see there are companies still selling good quality standard cassette tapes, however my church live streams their Sunday service, funerals(if the family allows), and special events on YT with a simple 720p webcam/mic setup that captures the majority of the sanctuary in one shot, and has long since stopped recording it onto cassette tapes, VHS, or burning to DVD, however if you bring them a clean 32GB or 64GB flash drive they will put it on there for ya, as they back everything up on an offsite file storage server.
I used to do the cassette duplication at my Dad's church, and yup, that's what I used.
Today I learned new jersey has a theme song.
It’s dramatic how the hiss just totally disappears with Dolby noise reduction
In some alternate universe, there was no "Horizons" at EPCOT Center, but rather New Jersey--and this was its song
Thanks, I know what I want for Christmas now ... A box of tapes and a new jersey.
Very good find. In a junk shop I found some 80s TDKs with church services recorded onto them and awful organ playing. But these are really mint. The sermons sound much more exciting than mundane Presbyterians.
I enjoyed this very much!
Nice find enjoy taping them!
Wishing You Kevin & Your Family A Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year 🎄🎅🎁⛄
Somehow I find myself wanting to visit New Jersey... 👍😎
Kingdom Inc gonna be surprised with a sudden increase in orders for their tape. Also, no CZcams, I’m not interested in Elevation Church.
they already sold out
Already sold out!
I absolutely love this channel 😁
This happens to be my most-viewed YT channel.
Leader tape arrows look same as Maxell leader tape has. So maybe this is MAXELL UR ??. Merry Christmas!
Tony at Cassette Comeback will love this. I wonder if these cassettes are still being made or if they just have a stack in warehouse somewhere. p.s. I love the New Jersey song. We need the writers to write our next Eurovision entry :-)
That was actually some really good sound! I miss the days of recording radio songs on my tape player
I am a full time youth minister. My previous church used tapes until 2005. My current church just steams to CZcams and a HDD as backup. Fun times. God Bless.
Forgot to mention... At my old church, they kept every sermon ever given. Since 1966. So that's a tape for every Sunday 1966-2005. It took up an entire closet, floor to ceiling.
This tape really sounded good on my cellphone speaker.
I`ve bought a couple Napa Valley style storage cases from them. Found them by accident. Was nicely surprised they still were in the cassette business
Another cassette video- happy days. I love picking up sealed blank tapes in charity shops and used high- end ones as well ,( not all charity shops will sell used ones though). Tapes rock. Mind you, picking up Dat tapes or DCC tapes is rarer than rocking horse droppings. Keep up the great videos.
My best find in terms of blank tapes was a car boot sale where I found three TDK SA90s from the early eighties and a TDK MA-R unused in wrappers albeit heavily shredded. Fifty pence for the lot. I think I used all my tape luck for the year there as I've not found a single blank since.
DAT tapes = Digital Audio Tape tapes. I like tape tapes.
Love how that first cassette that appears in the video has "Normal Bais" :)
Please explain what bias is and what adjusting it does. I really enjoy your videos, thank you and have a happy new year.
Thats awesome! Im always in search of quality blanks at the thrift store!
Counting tapes feat. Alvin the chipmunk
Also, miss the obligatory “Radio gets results” jingle
Very interesting.
I am from Northern Ireland and I used to go to a Baptist Church as a child.
They had the exact same white coloured tapes which they used to record their services.
I also remember even back in 2004 going to a Christian event and I bought one of the tapes of the services that were recorded and guess what, the exact same white tape. I’ve been listening to a few of your videos of late and they are very interesting and very good. I love audio equipment myself. I am a person who is legally blind therefore I enjoy listening to a lot of audio dialogue and I love your narration of describing things. Keep up the good work.
Well I don’t know exactly the makes of the tapes as I cannot see but they were very similar and I can see a little bit of colour.
I lived in Mansfield from 1992 to 2006 and worked and went too school with the son of the founder of the company, they also got into computer manufacturing and sales quite a bit in the mid to late 90 through the early 2000s
I was up there at that time. We owned one of the restaurants in Tioga. We used to host Scott Turner on weekends with bar specials.
Nice Christmas gift a bit earlier Kevin videos Merry Christmas to you and nice for a cassette video
The New Jersey song changed my life.
Also, 🎶 we’re sorry that we made the world deal with Paulie D 🎶
Are they really singing about the same New Jersey that exists on planet Earth?
@@Frank_42 Yes. What other state has ski slopes and a sandy ocean beach within an hour's drive of each other?
Don't listen to New York, Jersey. You do you!
I read that Tascam is doing a new limited production run of their 424 cassettes. Are you going to get one to test?
Those are being made for them by National Audio Company, which is already selling them (sans TASCAM branding) on their web site. And yes, I may get one just because I think it looks cool.
They are still on the website. Nice.
Hi Tony! 🙂There's an other church tape brand, called ProGamma 2000, they also came with 92 minutes long tape, I don't know why churches liked that odd lenght. I bought a few of these tapes here in Hungary in a local online auction a few years ago. They're meh. Sounds OK, but there are some dropouts. This Kingdom tape is seemingly better.
“It’s not unusual”
…to be mad with anyone