Open Reel Audiotape
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| − | '''Open Reel Audiotape''' is magnetic tape for audio recording which comes on reels which need to be mounted by hand on a tape player/recorder, rather than being encapsulated in a cassette. | + | '''Open Reel Audiotape''' is magnetic tape for audio recording which comes on reels which need to be mounted by hand on a tape player/recorder, rather than being encapsulated in a cassette. A number of different formats have been used, with different numbers of tracks and different speeds, monaural or stereo. A difference in stereo formats is whether the two audio tracks are synchronized side-by-side (to be read by two parallel heads) or slightly out of sync because the heads are adjacent lengthways and one is pointing at a spot on the tape further down than the other. |
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| + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHSz9Gi-II Video discussing the various reel-to-reel audio tape formats] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:19, 20 November 2019
Open Reel Audiotape is magnetic tape for audio recording which comes on reels which need to be mounted by hand on a tape player/recorder, rather than being encapsulated in a cassette. A number of different formats have been used, with different numbers of tracks and different speeds, monaural or stereo. A difference in stereo formats is whether the two audio tracks are synchronized side-by-side (to be read by two parallel heads) or slightly out of sync because the heads are adjacent lengthways and one is pointing at a spot on the tape further down than the other.
