Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels. To prepare for use, the supply reel containin
A reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), typical of a 1970s audiophile device.
Magnetophon from a German radio station in World War II.
Unitra ZK-147, a vintage Polish-made reel-to-reel tape recorder
7-inch reel of 1⁄4-inch-wide (6.4 mm) recording tape, typical of non-professional use in the 1950s–70s. Studios generally used 10+1⁄2 in (270 mm) reels on PET film backings.
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An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player, tape machine, or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using m
Reel-to-reel audio tape recording
…bomb testing of the early 1950s. The reel-to-reel format was used in the first magnetic recording systems, wire recording and then in the earliest tape recorders, including the pioneering German-British Blattnerphone (1928) machines which used steel tape, and the German Magnetophon machines of the 1930s. Originally…
A reel-to-reel tape recorder from Akai, c. 1978
An early experimental non-magnetic tape recorder patented in 1886 by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory.
Prototype of the Goodale tape recorder. The patent is based on this machine.
This tape recorder of Dr. Goodale is exhibited in the private Phonograph Museum in Mariazell, Austria.