Epic Win: Dual Cassette Player
Submitted by Elaine S
Suddenly music and mixing became portable and easy with the Dual Cassette Player. You could walk down to the store with your boombox on your shoulder or you could plug it into the wall at home and make your girl some mixtapes.
Any street performer or hip-hop, ska, or rocksteady artist worth their salt knows that they owe everything to a dual cassette player and about 30 D batteries. Without the Dual Cassette Player there would have been no street breakdancing, hip-hop, Sound Systems, reggae, mixtapes, or Soundwave (and without Soundwave there’d also be no Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ratbat, Rumble, Frenzy, Slugfest, Overkill, Squawktalk, and Beastbox).
So give it up for the Epic Win Dual Cassette Player aka Boombox, aka Ghetto Blaster, aka Brixton Briefcase.
PS. We realize Soundwave, in appearance, is not a Dual Cassette Player, however, he always had all of those cassettes inside him, so in reality he’s a multi-cassette player.
ALL HAIL SOUNDWAVE!
That is all. *bows*
“We realize Soundwave, in appearance, is not a Dual Cassette Player, however, he always had all of those cassettes inside him, so in reality he’s a multi-cassette player.”
So true….especially considering that the Japanese version of the toy that would become Soundwave in the U.S. had a larger chest cavity that could fit two of the cassettes at a time.
There’s a greater win than the Dual Cassette Player, though–the later model Dual Cassette Players that had detachable speakers, so that you could have both a home stereo with positionable speakers *and* music on the go.
Yay for mixed tapes! Every crush I had got one for valentine’s day….
Soundwave Superior, IPods Inferior! (well, that’s debatable…)
Win!!
Soundwave!
But additionally, having that ability to record from one tape to another, and have all that piratey goodness back in the day!! You could totally tape over your Mom’s John Denver with some DuranDuran! (Or any other adult contemporary with some modern pop/rock/rap..you all know you did it, at least once….)
You really could spend a whole HOUR listening to music, if you let it play between the decks!
And it even had radio built in, and DOUBLE BASS! Wow, all those late night shows with DJs you remembered the name of and enjoyed to listen to between hot rockin’ beats!
I would always listen to tapes back to back on the dual players!
Yes! Dual tape players rule. Making tapes for my friends, staying up all night figuring out a mix for somebody special, those were the days…
***Without the Dual Cassette Player there would have been no street breakdancing, hip-hop, Sound Systems, reggae, mixtapes, or Soundwave***
FAIL! How exactly did the ghetto blaster have any influence, let alone responsibility for creating, reggae?? Whomever wrote this is a ‘tard and needs to have their music privileges revoked. Oh, and I had a sound system LONG before the ghetto blaster ever came out. Double FAIL.
E P I C W I N
Without the dual cassette player, there would be no mix-tapes!
Imagine an adolescence without mix tapes! Nooooooooooooooooo!
Wow, I remember being jealous of kids who had boomboxes like that – where the tape player fast forwarded to the exact start of the next song. Never knew it was called APSS though.
Soundwave FTW!
Ah yes, how many times did I copy tapes from friends and family that I really wanted. And seriously, the amount of batteries one of those things required was ridiculous!
That’s why you got the AC adapter cord, silly, so you could at least use wall current when you were at home.
I had this Sharp thing that said MEGA BASS on it and had a special button to activate it.
I’m a little sad now, knowing I will never be that cool again!
Oh yeah and I almost forgot, the double tapes were actually back-to-back.
Seriously, I think I am going to cry.
Soundwave and Transformers… UBER cult classics. Tape recorders… hmm can happily move on from those!
Okay, tell me true… was I the ONLY one who also DJ’d my own radio shows a la Rick Dees with these things? *Sigh* Now the tapes are only good for laughs at family holiday get-togethers
Soundwave… Yet again I am behind my generation. I have the animated movie on VHS, as well as the GI Joe one and several of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
i still have tis in my home
totally false, mix tapes were possible before dual cassettes…you had to record songs off the radio.