She reminds me of Adele in this song.
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Weirdly, I don’t think that’s nearly as interesting as the New Orleans Christmas carols. If I heard that on the radio, I’d pass on by.
Apparently she was a headliner at this year’s ACL Fest. I guess I need to keep up.
I was wondering how your rig was working. You might try cleaning the recording level pots. Crud builds up over the years inside and they can be persnickety when first used after a long time. Otherwise, most likely caps in the recording preamp section.
What recording tape are you using? Used tape can be dicey with sticky-shed syndrome (it’s a real thing) being problematic with Quantegy and some Maxell tape, but not all. I decided to just buy the new tape that is made by either ATR or Recording the Masters. Both make superb tape and offer in 1 mil thickness which I like for home use because I can fit more on a reel.
I love the look of the RT-707 and the auto-reverse is nice. I prefer the RT-909 because it accepts 10-1/2" reels as well as 7". That’s a very good price, but there’s no substitute for a thorough servicing by somebody with the right gear and knowledge. I have a guy in LA that works on my Teacs, but I purchased my Crown from a guy named Chuck in Ocala that is a master technician and holder of a huge inventory of parts and other Crown gear from the '60s and '70s. He’s well known in the RtR world and even signs his decks at the request of his customers. Crown decks are very easy to work on so if something goes wrong, like one of the reel motors, I can easily remove it and sent it to Chuck who fixes it and gets it right back to me. He will also talk me through a repair or adjustment over the phone if possible.
Anyway, good luck on your journey down this rabbit hole!
I cleaned the pots and switches. It just won’t even try to engage the recording. I’m guessing it’s the caps, but I’ll have to figure it out. I bought some new ATR tape, so I know it’s not that.
Thinking hard about that RT-707. The 909 is magnificent, but 10x the price. The reviews on the 707 say it’s a damn good machine, perhaps the best 7-inch one out there, but it’s still only 7-inch (that’s what she said). I’ve still got that Sansui receiver taking up space, so I don’t know.
The obvious solution is to set the Sansui up as your “B” system with the Teac and use the 707 with your “A” system. I have two Sony tape deck switch boxes, one SB-300 one SB-500, that allow you to hook up as many as three decks to the tape inputs/outputs of your amp. My receiver has two tape inputs so I can have as many as six tape decks hooked up at the same time. Currently I have five plus an old iPhone.
I’ve seen prices on record company issued 7" reels more than quadruple over the last eight years or so. Tape decks have about doubled. If you get another deck and bring it up to spec., you will likely be able to sell it for what you put into it.
The Marantz is my “B” receiver. The Sansui is third string. Yeah, I have too much shit already.
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That was good, Neal. She’s got a wonderful voice. She’s from Lake Charles, same as Casey Daigle the former MLB and LSU pitcher. I wonder if they’re cousins or something?
Anyway, I think I still prefer this guy’s version best of all.
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There’s only one Christmas song.
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Daigle is awesome.
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I absolutely love You Say.
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Those of us of a certain age remember when MTV was a big thing and actually played music. If you want to hear a discussion of working for MTV at that time, between two recovering addicts with absolutely zero filters or boundaries, here’s the link.
Trigger Warning: this is Marc Maron’s podcast. I don’t listen to every episode, and I almost skipped this one, but I’m glad I didn’t. It’s funny, nostalgic and crazy with a side of deli meat. There is also copious discussion of drug use, in case you don’t want to listen to that.
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I only listen to Marc Maron’s (and Joe Rogan’s) podcasts based on who their guests are.
A couple of days ago I was dusting my turntable and was not careful enough. The cloth barely caught the needle and bent the cantilever about 45 deg. Totally ruined the cartridge. Replacement cost: $1,150 USD.
FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!
I’ll have a flat forehead for a long time.
Looking at Grados for the replacement.
Want to know something really nutty well I’ll tell you I recently as in within the past year got my hi-fi out of storage and I discovered that the stylus needed replacement and so I got one and by some miracle the one I found was priced under $1000 in fact it was priced under $20 at $19.95 and you want to know something else well I’ll tell you it works just fine as in I drop in on my records and it finds the groove and next thing I know sound as often as not pleasing sound is being emitted from my speakers.
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Reminds me, if you like covers albums by B grade indie rock bands, and I know you do, you should check out If I Had a Hi-Fi by Nada Surf, a band that descends to B grade in my book because their best known song fucking sucks grape nuts.
Otherwise, if you start counting from their third record, they’re pretty great. And they get better in a linear way, which is remarkable.
If I Had a Hi-Fi has any number of outSTANding tracks - the opener, Electrocution, Love Goes On! which is a song by the outSTANDing Australian band the Go Betweens off of their perfect 16 Lovers Lane record, and, especially, the back to back tracks Janine and You Were So Warm, the latter originally by Dwight Twilley and the former by a kook named Arthur Russell who was a cello playing lunatic/genius that I don’t have time to get into right now.
Extra fun: If I Had a Hi-Fi is a palindrome. A Man, a Plan, a Hi-Fi.
Ouch. That sucks. I’ve been afraid of doing that, and my cartridge isn’t anywhere near a $1,000 one.
I am a huge fan of Grado, but I do not own one of their styli. I have three sets if their headphones though.
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What’s wrong with grape nuts? I mean besides the stupid fucking name.
Nothing. I like them. See other threads for reference.
In Latin America they are generally called ‘Gray Noops.’
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The stars are indifferent to astronomy.
And all that we think we know