Nina Kalinina (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images I know some of you are here for the tapes, right? So, more experiments with DIY tapes! First, a GIF of actually making the tape - applying Fe3O4 over regular scotch tape. Fe3O4 - black iron oxide or Mars Black - actually resulted in a very good tape! I've made a few recordings and posted them on YouTube. I have no cable to capture the audio from the reel deck, so: 0) No tape, audio playback from my laptop over Elizabethan's tube amplifier - sort of a baseline of the quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSGPdbGg2f4 1) Playing the very same song from Fe3O4 tape that I made this evening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl1x1X-kgWU 2) And now Fe3O4 tape made out of paper and glue - it sheds like crazy, the glue needs to be replaced or baked https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K4qBm3tucTI Cleaning up the Fe3O4 - black pigment - from all over the desk was not fun. Thank you my beloved @[email protected] for helping a lot with it. If I were to use paper tape again, I'd run the whole length of the tape between two sponges before running it in the deck.