REWIRE YOURSELF
I've noticed that most people who use cassette machines treat the opening into which they pop the cassette as the portal to another dimension. They slap the cassette into the machine, slam down the cover, push play, and don’t give a second thought to the electro-mechanics that run the tape past the heads to produce the sound—or in the case of video recorders, the sound and picture.
REWIRE YOURSELF
DEPARTMENTS
CASSETTE PERFORMANCES
by
Richard Robinson
I've noticed that most people who use cassette machines treat the opening into which they pop the cassette as the portal to another dimension. They slap the cassette into the machine, slam down the cover, push play, and don’t give a second thought to the electro-mechanics that run the tape past the heads to produce the sound—or in the case of video recorders, the sound and picture.
Unfortunately this “Don’t tell me, because I don’t want to know’’ attitude about the irtternal mechanics of the cassette deck has rather dire results. The more often the cassette deck is used, the more the actual process of using Jthe cassette fouls the internal mechanics, until the day arrives when the quality of the sound, or sound and picture, suffers.