Hello friends,
New user here (As you could tell by my posting a new thread here). I joined these forums and came here today because I seem to have a bit of a problem with setting up this particular way of recording. Below I have a bunch text explaining the situation, if you don't wanna read it I put a tl;dr at the bottom describing it.
Backstory: I am a big fan of recording things in a simple way. As much as I like to think computers make it easier, for some reason I'm just much better at using basic tech in a quiet room with everything in the world around me off (For awhile I even liked using Audacity over Cubase. Also to be fair, I'm a big fan of lo-fi stuff).
I used to have a dual track stereo that would allow you to record over tracks. It was awesome, but now it's broken (And I don't have the means to fixing it). Going to my local thrift shop, I found they had a section of tape and vinyl players! I was so happy to find one that looked nice and had recording properties to it! The exact model is a Kenwood Stereo Double Cassette Deck KX-W595. So I picked it up (7.50, I recommend you all go to your local thrift store to see what you can find!) and brought this baby home with me!...
The only problem is that it apparently can't record. From what I gathered, it's only made for dubbing. I can record into it using my mixer, but I can't play it in the playback and then record over that (At least not to my knowledge). I didn't even know they made them like this...
Anyway my question is this: Given the circumstances, is there anyway for me to record the way I had wanted to using this kind of recorder? I have no idea how I could use it now, I was thinking maybe somebody knew how I would use this sorta thing for recording music. If I could get some nice warm cassette recording songs, I would be so happy. Half of this bold text isn't a question, I'm sorry haha
Below the tl;dr would have been a link to the manuals for the Kenwood. I can't post links until I hit 10 posts :( Let me know if you need to see if and I'll figure a way out! As additional information, I have an Alesis Multimix 8 USB mixer. Pretty simple standard mixer.
tl;dr: I bought a dual deck recorder, I'd like to put it to some recording use but I'm not sure how, though part of me is confident that there is no way. I'd like to know if anybody could help me out with figuring it out. Kenwood Stereo Double Cassette Deck KX-W595.
As a final note, thanks for reading this whole thing if you did! Also thank you in advance for any information or advice given! Here's hoping we can make something work!