UPDATE 11/02/2022: Competition has now closed. For full report on the results please see: https://peakd.com/musicforlife/@tdctunes/announcing-the-winner-of-the-refurbished-sony-walkman-and-lo-fi-mixtape
Happy Friday Hive!
To celebrate the release of Escapism Mixtape Vol. 2, featuring my track "The Dreamer" I have a fun competition for you with a special prize!
Are you good at counting? Or guessing? Or do you like cable management like me?? Then this competition is for you!
You can win a physical copy of the mixtape on cassette, along with a freshly refurbished Sony Walkman to play it on!
Read on to find out what you have to do to enter...
The Competition
To enter, all you need to do is guess the number of patch cables I have based on the following picture of my modular, plus my cable hanger to the right that holds my cables not currently in use:
TO ENTER
Let me know your guess for the number of cables in the picture above in the comments below...
You have until 12:00 (mid day) Friday 11th February 2022 to submit your guess!
The Prize
Here's the full lowdown on the prize package!
It includes:
- Escapism Mixtape Vol 2. on cassette.
- Refurbished Sony Walkman. It's been fully restored including lubrication, new belts etc. It sounds great and is in fantastic condition for it's age.
- NEW pair of Walkman style headphones
- TDC Tunes and Oakhi Records stickers!
A few terms:
If more than one person gets the right number or the equal closest amount, I'll do a draw to decide the winner.
I have removed the power connections from the picture of my modular, so every cable in the picture is some form of patch cable and is included in the total.
One guess per person please!
Competition closes at mid day UTC 11th February. Any entries after that will not count.
Once announced, the winner will need to communicate their address to me. You can email me at [email protected], DM me on Instagram/Twitter or message me via Discord (I'm on many of the Hive ones, including the PIZZA one for example). I will use your address only for the purposes of sending the prize and then delete all copies of it.
I will ship the prize worldwide to more or less anywhere, but reserve the right to offer an alternative (digital) prize if for some reason shipping (from the UK) to your location is astronomical (like if you are in Antarctica or something!)
Keep in touch!
You can play my new track "The Dreamer" from the mixtape on the major streaming services via the following link:
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Thanks for being brave to make the very first guess of the competition! For that have some !PIZZA !LUV AND !WINE
The tape does look good - I didn't design it - it was made by the label - but I like what they've done and I think it fits the lofi/chill vibe of the cassette.
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My guess is 89. That's a really nice prize!
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A very nice guess - and did you know that it is a prime number?!
Yeah I kind've want the prize myself to be honest but sadly I'm not allowed to enter!!!
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151
Another fine guess and another person that has picked a prime number! Fascinating!
I wonder if there is some secret message hidden in all these answers.... hmm....
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I had this Walkman back in the days muhahaha this is a journey in my past :D
I think there are 122 of em
Haha nice - I'm all about the nostalgia at the moment (about to watch Book of Boba Fett so even more so!)
I didn't have this model though I had a similar one with a radio in it. For the prize I opted for the cleanest, nicest one I could find refurbished rather than prioritise features like a radio - and I think they going to turn off FM radio at some point anyway :)
Thanks for your guess!
I guess 163
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I count 147.
I used to love my Walkman. God, many wouldn't even know what it was. Damn, shows my age.
Thanks for a mighty fine guess! A solid number that 147!
Now I'm worried people won't know what the prize is and wondering if I needed to explain what a Walkman is? I'm in my advanced youth too btw :)
They don't know what they're missing if they've never seen a Walkman.
Have a great weekend. Cheers !wine
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Walkmans were a golden age! If you win I think you should walk down the street listening to it!
Oh absolutely I would 😁 Down a busy London street.
Awesome! Maybe we can organise a flash mob of Walkman wearers!
With those sponge headphones. Not many would understand.
Awesome, now I am gonna start counting! Our guess is somewhere between not enough and way too many...call it 180 for our guess! !PIZZA and !ALIVE and !LUV this post!
That's the highest guess so far! Well you do watch all my livestreams so you probably have some idea how obsessive about cables I have to be!
Thanks for the entry - we will see!
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112
I think that's a lovely number! Yes! a very fine guess indeed - we will see next week if it's the right one though - thanks loads for entering!
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What a headache enducing idea
haha do you mean the idea of trying to count them in that picture? (tbh it was quite tricky counting them in real life - I had to do it in sections and then double check each number - and it's actually a relatively simple patch at the moment!)
Yeah I meant in order to have the correct answer! !lolz
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I'm gonna have to work on being funnier then I guess.... I'm kind of a bum I guess
hahahahaha good retort... to a bot :)
I thought everyone on here was a bot
I'll count mine for fun sometime for you
For the record, I typed 'wores'into the gif thing and this came up so I just rolled with it
hahaha I did wonder! But it's cute so it's welcome!
Oh yes! Please do!
88 💪🍍🚀
Thanks loads for your guess! I think it's the lowest so far but you could be right.... or not.. we will find out next week!
Super appreciate you taking part and hope you have a great weekend!
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Yeah, I noticed the other guesses seemed much higher, but I had already had the thought of "high 80's" for some reason, so I just went with it. Heh.
Yes! Go with your gut! That seems possibly saner than the people who are zooming in on the picture trying to count every cable!
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Congrats!
Awesome contest!
I am from 1981 but - one way or another - I never owned a walkman ( nor a GameBoy ). I also feel like going back to other ways of listening to music, when outdoors, so rocking a walkman and headphones like this would be great!
My guess is 152
( I first wanted to say 222, as 2 and 22 are my favorite numbers, but that seems a little too high a number )
Heya - I'm sorry you didn't get to experience a walkman the first time around - but hopefully this will be your chance to revisit that golden age of walking around with a battery powered cassette playing machine attached to your waist and rocking those foam headphones!
A fine guess anyway - thanks loads for taking part - I wonder if anyone else will get in a guess before the deadline tomorrow!
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Even if I don't win ( and that's likely ), it might inspire me to find myself a walkman.
I believe I even dreamed of discovering one in the house that I'm renting, days ago.
Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to the big reveal :<)
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mandino in PortugalHaha that dream is trying to tell you something! Do you own/play vinyl out of interest?
Probably :<)
I sure play vinyl and have owned a bunch of record players, since a decade and a half or so. When I moved to Portugal, three years ago, I got my dad's old record player and his vinyl collection. I already had built up a collection of myself. My favorite part is the dozens of movie soundtracks that I own ( I used to study film in Uni and was an indie shoestring budget filmmaker - on and off - for a decade or so ). These days I write books.
So nice that you got your Dad's record collection! My parents gave all there's away about 10 years ago :(
I have only really just started building my own vinyl collection. (for the second time - I'm old enough that the very first music I bought was on Vinyl - though only just old enough!)
I guestimate you to be from the early to mid 70s. You look pretty young though ( says the boyish looking 40 year old ). Great to hear that you got your parents record collection.
Ah, wait. They gave them away, not to you...
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When I started buying music, around 1993, it was the start of the CD era, although I bought cassettes too and made mixtapes, recording from the radio, on my double deck radio casette player, from the early to mid 90s or so.
I also still owe a couple of dozen of movies on VHS. Unfortunately I don't have a working VCR though, these days.
I gotta go with 120. Nice round number. Though maybe a little high.... Hmmm....
Man I want that Walkman lol
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Nice guess - and a nice round number indeed! I thought most people were picking odd numbers and quite a few have picked primes!
It's a nice Walkman isn't it - I wish I could win it too - haha!
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Thanks for taking part - only 1 day till we find out the winner!
Ah, yes. I was wondering....
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haha maybe by the end of 2022 :)
Thanks for the guess and have a great evening!
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I work in IT and have to do a lot with patch cables (not this ones lol mines are Ethernet cables with rj45s at the end lol) and I have nightmares about cables at times ahahah
I wanted to get in but as I looked at the picture my brain went ape and died 🤣🤣🤣 I would have just guessed the number so let me just go random with 169 🤣🤣🤣
Best of luck to everyone and cool post and idea 😁
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Ahah - when we renovated our whole house last year (all non supporting walls taken down so pretty full renovation) I took the chance to put in Cat6 to every room - and did the RJ45 cables and sockets myself. It was a bit trickier than I expected and the first one took me ages but once I got the hang of it, it wasn't too bad.
Definitely lets not have any brain deaths from trying to count the cables in my picture so a guess is a good idea!!!
Thanks for taking part and a nice guess!
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I see, pretty cool that you did all by yourself. Cool job 😎
lol I was joking, I was still a bit asleep when I checked the post and that picture was like a nightmare 🤣 but pretty cool challenge, I imagine people trying to count every one of them, surely they'll miss some 😂
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I do wonder about how much people are trying to count vs. guess. I found it pretty hard counting them in person let alone from a picture - but I suppose from the picture you could count a certain amount of them and use that as the basis for an estimate. When we have a winner it will be interesting to ask them which approach they used!
Have a great day/evening!
Yep it'll be very interesting to see how they win! (I think 60-70 % of people end up guessing lol)
Thanks and same to you! :)
Brilliant love this @tdctunes
My guess will be 103
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Another fine guess and yet another person that has picked a prime number! I wonder if there is something about us tending to pick primes more often than not when making guesses!
Thanks for taking part and good luck with your guess!
And of course - have a great weekend yourself!
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I just thought it would be an odd number more likely than an even i nearly guessed 105 but i changed my mind.
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Nice one! I say 117. Have no idea why that number, but somehow it feels very close to the real number. But then again, I may be off with a factor of 2 or more :) Please tell me: You always know exactly how many patch cables you have and use? Or you did count from 0 to 117 especially for this challenge?
Hahaha - a great guess and you seem incredibly sure of yourself!
No hints at this stage as it wouldn't be fair to the other guessers - we will all find out the winner this coming Friday!
Normally I don't even think about it. I guess I have an idea if I've used a lot because I start running out of spares in certain lengths - but normally that means I've been a bit lazy with not picking the optimal lengths and I can redo some connections with shorter cables to free up some longer ones. Some day I should probably add up how much I've spent on the cables... maybe that's another competition!
I know some people who use modulars just always use long patch cables and let them droop down. I think that's ok for sound design but because I'm playing hour long live sets/radio shows on it I need it to be at least tidy enough that I can get to most of the controls (and that's where velcro cable ties come in - though that's probably for another post!)
Anyway thanks loads for participating and good luck with your guess!
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😱 Friday is the BIG day only?! Will be waiting with anticipation for the next 5 to 6 days. Not sure if I have the patience 😂😂😂
I can imagine it didn't come cheap with the patches. The whole Modular setup isn't inexpensive as well.
NJOY your Sunday 🙇
The 5 days will go quick! Just don't think about the number of cables in my modular any more till then!
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Oh man, so you counted them all haha! I say 121.
I did! I counted each of the 4 cases separately and the cable hanger. And then I counted them all again to double check!
A nice guess - thanks so much for taking part and we will see on Friday if you are the winner!
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Haha! I can´t wait what the right number is. So hard to guess that right. :D
Honestly I would haven't been able to guess it right myself if I hadn't painstakingly counted them twice! They are semi countable by eye from the picture... but not really so there must be at least a partial guess involved! Only a few more days to go - will see if I can get a few more people to enter!
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Hmmmmm.... So many cables! You deserve a prize yourself for counting them all. I'm guessing that there are 243 of them. :)
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A super guess - thanks loads for participating! Not long to go we find out the winner on Friday!
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How exciting! Now I really want to know the answer.... :)
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