There was a time in the not-too-distant past when magnetic tape was the primary way of listening to and recording audio. Most of us are familiar with the cassette tape, a four-track system that ...

5 mil where 1 mil = 1/1000 inch) for different purposes, which now include video and digital recording. The tape is coated with an oxide EMULSION, which when exposed to the variations of the magnetic ...

Undeterred, they mailed BASF, the only manufacturer of magnetic tape, and after a month received a 1000m reel of tape. With tape that worked, [Hans] set about improving his recorder with a tape ...

The process of using a TAPE RECORDER for the storage of sound on MAGNETIC TAPE, or the information stored by this process. See also: EMULSION, ORAL HISTORY, MUSIQUE CONCRETE, STEREOPHONIC, TAPE MUSIC, ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio ...

The mechanism that reads and writes magnetic tape as it moves past. Quality tape recorders have three heads: play (read), record (write) and erase. Many consumer products have only two ...

many are unique to extended recording by virtue of the magnetic tape recorder. Probably the most common artifact is that resulting from a loose electrode (Fig. 5) or mechanical "stimulation" of ...