Standard tape recording formats for 1/4-inch analog tape as used by the Ampex Corporation. Dimensions listed are in mils. Digital recording also uses magnetic tape as a storage medium, such as digital ...

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. Although tape recording became generally used in North America in the late ...

they must be periodically recopied or the tightly coiled magnetic surfaces may contaminate each other. The major drawback of tape is its sequential format. Locating a specific record requires ...

Machines that record audio for movie film may have a fourth head that writes an inaudible synchronization signal. See magnetic tape. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

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 ...