Yeah...
sidenote: "Gaffa" is a brand. "Gaffer" is the job the tape is needed for.
They were rare at least where I come from, but still I was sure I had at least one of them. Couldn't find it so I just posted a link to an image I found. We had a reel tape machine, though, and I preferred it much over cassette tape - except as a Walkman [tm] replacement...
Excuse my cultural upbringing then. Me and my unworthy fellows blatantly made the distinction between 'disk' and 'tape' for games on the C64. And as a DJ lateron, I recorded a hell lot of mixes on 'tapes'.jens wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:46 pmAh, no, I think it's basically just you mitranslating, misremembering and confusing stuff.Ronny Pries wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:36 pm
Additionally, "Tape" has been synonymous here in Germany with Cassettes. When talking about games. "Tape vs Floppy Disk".
Mixtape also seems to be oddly format specific.
So: yeah, I'm aware that all these plugins are called "Tape". And find it unsettling.
I'd be fine with being mistaken. Could this be exclusive to Germany?
In Germany:
a tape-machine is "Bandmaschine" or more specifically "Tonbandmaschine" or "Bandgerät" or "Tonbandgerät" - band = tape
(Klebeband = adhesive tape and Tonband = audio tape (however Haarband = hair ribbon); Ton (in this context)= audio; Gerät = device)
... reel on the other hand would be "Spule" in German, which nobody ever uses (or used, for that matter afaik/afair) when talking about the machine.
in the 80's a tape-cassette was a Tonbandkassette and a tape-cassette player was called Kassettenspieler(player = Spieler) so in German it was basically (at least for the most part of it) a word-by-word translation of the English terms.
But along came the hipsters - and because they were so very hip, they used a lot of Anglizisms - so a Band was a tape - but the hipsters weren't interested in tape-machines in the slightest so they didn't need a hip word for these...
and thus the German word "Band" was used by the non-hip people dealing with tape-machines and "tape" was used by the hipsters whenever they talked about their silly cassettes (where they were super-proud (as if they had anything to do with even just a single note of the actual music they used) of making their own silly, semi-random sampler-cassettes they handed over to anyone who had absolutely zero interest in listening to it - and these the wankers then called "mixtape".)
But it doesnt do floppy discs.kevinsparks wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:02 pm I look forward to demoing this magnetic recording media simulation very soon.
Nope. Its not cloth-based and not adhesive; more like very thick clingfilm, in how it sticks to itself. Actually quite useful as a cable wrap, easy to remove and no horrible adhesive residue.
ah, yes, I just read up on that - it's actually more like cling film... thanks for clearing that up - I learned something new.whyterabbyt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:19 amNope. Its not cloth-based and not adhesive; more like very thick clingfilm, in how it sticks to itself. Actually quite useful as a cable wrap, easy to remove and no horrible adhesive residue.
Yeah, "tape" in English refers to both cassettes and reel-to-reels.Ronny Pries wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:36 pm I'd be fine with being mistaken. Could this be exclusive to Germany? Or growing up amongst autistic people? Whatever it may be: It doesn't give me a properly executed cassette emulation
And no, Sketch Cassette ain't that. Because: everything I'm missing, as stated above. Additionally, it sounds very harsh and digital when extremely pushed. Where the noise is merely a layer on top. Like most
100% safe to say it isn't in any way. It is absolutely typical to also mention other plugins (for one or the other reason) in a thread about a certain plugin.
No, the reel is still the thing that holds the tape. Like a cable roller / cable drum.
Clingfilm, eh? Seems an educational gap just closed for mewhyterabbyt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 8:19 amNope. Its not cloth-based and not adhesive; more like very thick clingfilm, in how it sticks to itself. Actually quite useful as a cable wrap, easy to remove and no horrible adhesive residue.
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