In our no-nonsense journey through the world of audio technology we’ve so far have looked at digital audio and the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording ...

Every once in a while, an application comes out that just works. It's so intuitive that anyone can pick it up and use it. A new app from SuperMegaUltraGroovy Software (FuzzMeasure) and Toasty Code ...

Since Sony introduced DAT (digital-audio tape) in 1987, it has been the preferred format option of many journalists, musicians, and live-concert and lecture-audience members, who want to capture a ...

TAPE recorders cost money. As recreational devices, they have found market, so far, among bird-song enthusiasts, sound maniacs, and cocktail-party gagsters. Now, however, that canny character, the ...

Figure 1. The standardized tape recording and playback EQ curves. The next aspect of analog tape recording is an interesting one, for it can also apply to audio transmission on long circuits ...

If this year turns out to be epochal in the history of tape recording, as it may, it will not be by reason of any awesome scientific breakthrough. It will be because of a Japanese invasion, now ...

Today, we live in a world of highly portable, highly functional electronic media devices of incredible capacity. The songs contained on boxes of 45 RPM records of yesteryear can now be downloaded from ...

When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards or paper tape, but most people did have consumer-grade audio cassette ...

Let’s have a look and see why it’s such a fabulous tool and what it can do to your sound. First, the Noise control introduces tape hiss, like white noise, and the Saturation knob introduces ...

Love Isn’t always rational. Witness magnetic tape. The analog technology, which uses a coating of iron oxide powder on a thin strip of plastic film to capture and store live audio, was commercially ...

For users who don't own the necessary analog-centric and analog-to-digital-conversion gear necessary to transform the signals coming out of their microphones or who want to upgrade their setup to ...