[❇ Abby ❇]

Music is my life!! I have 51,000 records, so far.
In `89, I finally bought myself an open reel ape deck!! I've wanted one since the early `70's. I decided a LONG time before that when I get one, I'm going to copy all of my 45's to reel. so, I started doing that in `89. Recorded nearly 200 reels!! Some nights I'd do 2 reels a night!! (7") After about 3 or 4 years of doing it, the deck died and I did a few cassettes instead, then I bought a CD burner and was going to continue on CD and eventually do it all all over again onto CD. I decided to pull one reel out and play some of it to copy to CD. The reel WAS brand new when I started using it!! The first time I tried to play it, the oxide started to melt onto the tape heads and guides!! After the first 5 minutes, this squeal began and got louder and louder until it was all you could hear, then, after 20 minutes, the tape deck couldn't deal with it anymore and stopped!! The oxide had built up so much it was refusing to let the tape run freely anymore!! All that work, hundreds of hours I put into that project and it was a total waste!!!! NOTHING was salvageable!!!! I found a very small pre-amp that I could plug straight into the computer from the turntable and recorded lost of stuff for that project onto a hard drive!! Don't ya know, the turntable went bad on me!! I think one of the hard drives also went very screwy on me, then I got the turntable fixed and the cartridge went bad on me!!!! I guess I'm just not allowed to record!!!! :-( One of these days I'll get a new cartridge and get back to work on that. I still have a few thousand records I've never heard yet!! But, the new computer (it's only a year old and I hardly ever use it!) is starting to give me all kinds of problems on my recording projects!!

OMG that sucks loosing all those reels. It took me long enough and I didn't have to listen to them.
I have loads of 80's music. I left school in 89. My record collection is mostly picture disks and special editions from 1986 - 1995. I have far more on CD. Love searching around charity shops and discount stores for bargain CDs. 60's and 80's are my favourite decades.

I did read in a electronics catalogue about a turntable with built in amp that plugs in to usb.
Maplins UK
Found it on a US site.
Musicians Friend US

I still can't believe I had not made copies. It's not like I don't know better or have enough drives. I have 2 backup copies now. lol


Denita