Stories
A cassette album can look perfectly healthy while its magnetic coating is quietly weakening. The tape may have spent decades in a hot cupboard, a damp garage…
A clean vinyl transfer begins at the point where the groove meets the stylus. If the diamond is worn, dirty or damaged, your turntable may still play records,…
A carefully labelled CD insert turns a homemade disc into a useful record of your listening history. When LPs, singles and cassette tapes are transferred to…
A 45 RPM single can preserve a remarkably vivid snapshot of a song, radio hit or local memory, yet its small playing time makes every recording decision…
When a vinyl record is cut, the audio stored in its grooves is not a simple, full-range copy of the music. Low frequencies are reduced and high frequencies are…
If you have spent the last few years digging through op shops in Fitzroy, hunting through Saturday markets in Fremantle, or queuing outside record fairs in…
There is something quietly magical about sliding a worn cassette into a deck and hearing the faint squeak of the leader tape before the first song kicks in.…
Burning a finished mix to a compact disc used to be a rite of passage for home studio hobbyists in Australia. Whether you're putting together a demo for a mate…
When you inherit a box of cassette mixtapes from a relative in Adelaide or pick up a bundle of second-hand LPs from a trash-and-treasure market in Brisbane,…
Cassettes once lived in every Australian household, slipped into car stereos on long drives down the Hume Highway, swapped at school in Melbourne and Brisbane,…
