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Hajidub

Hajidub

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The stress of producing a mix compilation (Tape, R2R, CD) for someone who's requested one. I know it seems trivial to most, but coming up with an honestly good mix is more difficult than just MP3'ing songs on a playlist. My son is soon to be 24, I've set him up with the gear required for analog mixing, but he'll never in his lifetime use it to record something for anyone (not even himself). I remember taking into account; mood, style, genre, experience/age of mix requester. Taking differential, difficult factors into the mix to produce something that'll be cool, refreshing, and possibly introducing.

It saddens my heart, honestly, that youth of today will not experience these perils. I wish I wrote more eloquently, but I've never been a writer (so hopefully someone gets what I'm trying to say).
 
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It's not that hard to make a mix CD. Hell, you can rip the music out of some YouTube videos and then burn the wave files to a CD-R. Easy peasy...
 
**** man, I sill make up what I label Homemade Records mixes for my own listening pleasure. That I have happened to share these creations with several, mostly Boomer-era but also Gen X, Y & Zers suggests the art isn't dead. It's slowed a bit, but there's still interest among folks of diverse ages to have and hear mixed material.

Just a coupe of weeks ago I completed a Metal compilation for a neighbor, fella in his later 30s. Five-six days later he asked if I could put together a mix for his (15 yo) daughter of -- yeah yeah yeah -- Beatles material. So I did.
 
I was never really bitten by the bug. Gear was available for the task at least into my mid 20s.
Usually listened to Albums or at least album sides.
Growing up in the NYC area in the 60s and the 70s left me with several ( I thought) excellent radio stations if I didn't feel like creating the background sound.
 
Hajidub said:
The stress of producing a mix compilation (Tape, R2R, CD) for someone who's requested one. I know it seems trivial to most, but coming up with an honestly good mix is more difficult than just MP3'ing songs on a playlist. My son is soon to be 24, I've set him up with the gear required for analog mixing, but he'll never in his lifetime use it to record something for anyone (not even himself). I remember taking into account; mood, style, genre, experience/age of mix requester. Taking differential, difficult factors into the mix to produce something that'll be cool, refreshing, and possibly introducing.

It saddens my heart, honestly, that youth of today will not experience these perils. I wish I wrote more eloquently, but I've never been a writer (so hopefully someone gets what I'm trying to say).
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I've never seen it as a chore, or stressed about it, it's one of the fun aspects of this love. Many would say "hobby", I don't see it as such, hobbies can come and go, I'll never stop loving listening to music.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around people complaining about the hours they "wasted?" doing something they supposedly love:dunno:

Some of these same people have large record collections, just think about all the time they've wasted cleaning records when hell they could have just gone all digital streaming, no more wasted time.

Sure glad I don't feel any time I've spent loving listening to music was wasted.

That said, there have been plenty of times I've listened to music wasted but I feel that's not quite the same thing:D
 
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Trying to figure out what I did with some of my old ones. Did I get confused about which box they were in and trashed them? Back in the early 80s was listening to FM regularly just kept the cassette in standby as soon as that first note of a song was hit (or if they had announcer still introducing a song) I was wanting I would hit the pause key and let it start recording. Made a number of mix tapes off FM back then. Onkyo TX-2500 Mk II receiver and TA-2020 tape deck. Cheaper than having to buy the albums. Took about 2 years of cutting about 4 neighbor's yards to buy the pieces to my first stereo system. Farthest one had to push the self-propelled mower a bit over 1/4 mile and bag all the clippings.
 
Mix tapes was a big thing in the heyday of cassettes. You had to have a decent collection of physical media, which took a lot of effort and cash. A mix tape, as the OP mentioned, was our way of making a personalized gift for the recipient. They can still inspire long lost feelings 40 years later.
 
I still spin many of the over 300 CD compilations I got in trading with others around the world on the old Audio Review Rave Recordings Forum. I sent out at least that many too.

My original mix tapes were 5 hours of music on Beta Hifi Tapes and player.
 
I was just visiting the "local establishment" yesterday for a brew or 2 and the bartender was playing her own mix from her iPhone. It was really good, music from the same era, each song seemed to be a natural progression from the previous song. I think lots of people have playlists, but they are not the playlists in the medium we use.

On a side note, there are several movie soundtracks that are pretty good as a playlist can get. City of Angles comes to mind and it is now out in vinyl.

I do not do playlists myself. I listen to vinyl and do the entire record(s) during the listening session. Yesterday afternoon we listened to the Monkeeys as a tribute to Michael's passing this last week. The wife really enjoyed it.
 
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