Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, tape deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal. Tape-recording devices include reel-to-reel tape deck and the cassette deck.

The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930. Magnetizable tape revolutionized both the radio broadcast and music recording industries. It gave artists and producers the power to record and re-record audio with minimal loss in quality as well as edit and rearrange recordings with ease. The alternative recording technologies of the era, transcription discs and wire recorders, could not provide anywhere near this level of quality and functionality. Since some early refinements improved the fidelity of the reproduced sound, magnetic tape has been the highest quality analog sound recording medium available. As of the first decade of the 21st century, analog magnetic tape has been completely replaced by digital recording technologies for consumer purposes, although some still record audio by analog.

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Empire 30 Jan 2025
Ke Huy Quan On Blowing Up, Kicking Ass, And Turning Leading Man. by. on30th January 2025 at 3.58pm. People. ... EMPIRE ... We shot it on film, 8mm, and we would splice the film on this tiny machine. And I would have all these different takes taped to the wall ... .
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AV Club 29 Jan 2025
Even if their actions were raging against a machine ... Especially if you have walls and walls of VHS tapes, as Conor does, and a karaoke machine that allows you to sing your own synthy Gary Numan lullaby.
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State electoral board requests removal of Waynesboro electoral boardmember

News Leader - Staunton 27 Jan 2025
... program being used to count the ballots is recording the true and accurate count; and/or that the voting machine record tape accurately represents the ballots cast,” reads the initial complaint.
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Abilene Reporter News 27 Jan 2025
Mold-like substance was seen on the upper interior of the ice machine.Priority violation ... Observed a mold-like substance on the inside of the ice machine in the back of the kitchen.Priority violation.
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Independent online (SA) 27 Jan 2025
He made his mark in mobilising African scholars to study demography at the University of Pennsylvania. Zuberi undertook to lead the revival of African census data, which was stored on rolls of paper and tapes that were no longer machine-readable ... .
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Kiwi musician Finn Andrews on being a songwriter and aspiring poet

RNZ 26 Jan 2025
"I lean on the songs for that." ... It's a beautiful thing." ... "The pianos are amazing, the microphones, the desk and the tape machines I wanted to really exploit that, I suppose, so we recorded it all live to tape, which solved a lot of problems as well.
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CMRL’s recharge machines defunct at many stations

The Times of India 24 Jan 2025
However, with most machines now out of order, the slots for card and cash payments have been sealed with plastic tapes, limiting their use to validating online recharges.To complete an online ...
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To the unknown child: I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me

The Observer 24 Jan 2025
I comb your forehead with my fingers, removing the harsh hospital tapes ... Modern medicine has made machines that allow me to control how many seconds a patient ... Shush the beeping machines around us.
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2025’s Quantum Frontier

Money and Markets 23 Jan 2025
His machine only ever existed in the abstract, as an imagined reel of tape with a few simple commands printed at fixed intervals. Despite its utter simplicity, the Turing machine is still capable of implementing any algorithm we’ll ever conceive.
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Hudson, The Band’s last survivor, dies at 87

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 22 Jan 2025
Additional details were not immediately available ... Helm departed midway ... Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band recorded more than 100 songs, for years available only as bootlegs, that became known as "The Basement Tapes." ... .
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Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

Journal Gazette 22 Jan 2025
... Day THE THROWBACK MACHINE ... Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band recorded more than 100 songs, for years available only as bootlegs, that became known as "The Basement Tapes."
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Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies

Chatanooga Times Free Press 22 Jan 2025
Hudson had been living in a nursing home in upstate New York ... Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band recorded more than 100 songs, for years available only as bootlegs, that became known as "The Basement Tapes." .. ....
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Garth Hudson, last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87

Chicago Sun-Times 22 Jan 2025
Additional details were not immediately available ... Related ... Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band recorded more than 100 songs, for years available only as bootlegs, that became known as "The Basement Tapes." .. ....
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Garth Hudson dies at 87; master instrumentalist was last surviving member of The Band

The Mercury News 22 Jan 2025
Hudson was in charge of the tape machine as Dylan and The Band recorded more than 100 songs, for years available only as bootlegs, that became known as “The Basement Tapes.” Often cited as the ...
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How Windmill Lane changed the game for Irish creatives

RTE 21 Jan 2025
When I was clearing up, Brian McCue pointed to a box of tapes that had just arrived in and asked me to look through them and log the footage. The tape ops set me up on a beta machine and I made note after note, describing shot after shot.

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