![]() ![]() When you play it, only run it in short sections at a time, cleaning the play head frequently. If that’s the case, try letting your tape sit in a low-humidity, room temperature environment for a few days. Or singing “Under the Sea.” Another nostalgic reference … couldn’t help it. When those belts dry out, your tape can do weird things, i.e. Older cassette tapes can dry out over the years, losing some of the inner lubricant that helps them play smoothly. You may also try cleaning the capstan and pinch roller (which is probably your culprit) on the cassette tape deck to see if that helps loosen the adhesive. To see if this is the case, try lightly tapping the cassette on a hard surface a few times to loosen the tape or doing a manual rewind with a pencil. We’re talking about cassette tapes, so we might as well get nostalgic with our references. ![]() If the tape is wound too tight or the adhesive is sticking to the tape layer, this can cause playback to sound slow, like Macaulay Culkin’s Talk Boy playback in Home Alone 2. ![]() This can lead to the magnetic ribbon in your tapes getting wound too tight or too loose. Personalize Narrators voice: Select the voice you want Narrator use, as well as, voice speed, pitch, and volume. Leaving you scratching your head and asking yourself, “Why does my cassette tape sound slow?”ĭecades in storage, enduring the extreme fluxes in weather that your attic, garage and basement afford can really do a number on your cassette tapes – and old analog media in general. So, after digging through your old boxes in the garage, attic or basement (you know it’s true), you stumble across that cardboard box underneath your old acid washed jean jacket labeled “Glory Dayz”īut, when you plop “Mixtape ‘89” into your Walkman or your old boombox, you notice the playback is super slow, like the song is dragging in molasses. With cassette tapes making a little reunion tour onto music store shelves and into audiophile’s hearts, it’s the perfect time to dig out your old cassette tape stash … that is if you’ve still got them. ![]()
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