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This was the first reason I got hooked on Stranger Things. The music. It reminds me of a time and space I've actually never lived in. And it probably never existed like that. Yet growing up it is very much how I believed North America looked like.
If anyone was into the band Boards of Canada, this is how they created a lot of their sounds.
If anyone was into the band Boards of Canada, this is how they created a lot of their sounds.
Music has the right to children!
Fun video. I enjoy this angle of hacker news - where it really is somebody going unnecessarily deep into some tech. Not for practical use, but just because it's there.
Fun video. I enjoy this angle of hacker news - where it really is somebody going unnecessarily deep into some tech. Not for practical use, but just because it's there.
Mono only VHS decks were not uncommon (and I wouldnt be surprised to hear that the last VHS decks made were only mono) because mono only pre-produced content - even with NTSC MTS TV Audio, mono only broadcast originated programming was not unusual. I'd love to see him doing this with the VHS HiFi signals, which were.. IIRC, significantly better than MTS Stereo/FM Stereo (particularly in L/R channel separation) - so b…
People also built data backup devices using VHS tape machines. At the time anyway, the data density of VHS tape was pretty good.
This was the first reason I got hooked on Stranger Things. The music. It reminds me of a time and space I've actually never lived in. And it probably never existed like that. Yet growing up it is very much how I believed North America looked like.
You should check out Alex Ball's deep dives into analog synths of the 70s and 80s. Particularly the full documentary on ARP.
If anyone was into the band Boards of Canada, this is how they created a lot of their sounds.
"[the strings in Semena Mertvykh were] performed into a dissected VHS deck with the motor running super slowly, so you can hear all the pockmarks, the dropouts on the tape. It’s mono, too, which gives it something special. More people should record in mono these days." original article[0] and archive[1]
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/music/tomorrows-harv...
Techmoan did a video on a format that used VHS tapes to store digital audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDCxTtn4OQ
This was the first reason I got hooked on Stranger Things. The music. It reminds me of a time and space I've actually never lived in. And it probably never existed like that. Yet growing up it is very much how I believed North America looked like.
You should check out Alex Ball's deep dives into analog synths of the 70s and 80s. Particularly the full documentary on ARP.