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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I see a lot of folks on bandcamp who sells cassettes for instance

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Do you know why they choose to sell cassettes rather than or maybe along with other formats?

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Cheap to produce and stand out for folks getting into some bands.

[–] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not for sure, but I have a few leads.

I've heard and discussed with artists who mentioned that producing vinyl was very expensive compared to cassettes, which are cheap and easy to DIY.

Then I'd add that cassettes have a retro appeal nowadays. Lastly, they are an analog format, opposite to the CD which is the 1:1 copy of the downloaded FLAC album downloaded from Bandcamp.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Analog, sure, but very low quality. 1/8" tape is not enough to reproduce sound accurately and there's a lot of tape hiss. There's a reason why professional analog multitrack studios use 1" tape.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Ehh, all those 1” tape machines are 8-tracks and designed for editing, not playback. Magnetic tape fidelity has a lot more to do with medium, bias and processing than the width of the tape itself.

Hell, plenty of analog shops use four and eight track machines that run 1/4” tape!

Compact cassette also has the potential to sound very good. If you would like a demonstration, look up the vwestlife yt channel or listen to a good tape on a good tape deck.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cheap short runs. National will do 50 unit orders and you can sell em at 5-7$ and you’re still doubling your money on tour tapes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But do enough people still have functional cassette players?

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

idk how many people have functional tape decks but you can still buy new production component and portable ones and there's a healthy used market.