Today's subject: a mixtape that was in a box of cassettes I bought at a yard sale a few years ago. This is one of the better sounding tapes I've heard, easily beating some of the pre-recorded tapes I own. I'd love to know what kind of deck was used to record it.
Obviously, the original owner took great care to make sure that audio quality was top notch, as all of the songs are level-matched, and the recording itself isn't too loud. Going by the great low-end (the first track had my floor shaking!) and sparkling highs, I'm guessing that most of these songs were recorded from CDs. However I did hear occasional vinyl-like clicks on the last track, although it's entirely possible that they were introduced during the recording process. Keep in mind that you're listening to this through my camera's microphone; the tape sounds even better in person.
There's definitely an interesting array of music on this tape. Side A is mostly 80's dance stuff, and side B slows things down with songs like "Wake Up Everybody" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, and "Easy" by the Commodores.
This is all of side A, as played through a 1981 Yamaha cassette deck. My camera battery was running low by the end of the first side, so I didn't include both. To skip to different songs on the tape, open the video on YouTube and look at the pinned comment.
It was a BX-125E and it was phenomenal - I made a lot of mix tapes that, at least to my ear, sounded just as good as the source material (generally CD or radio).
