Why do so many musicians, engineers and producers still prefer to make their recordings in the pure analog domain on magnetic tape? Well, it just sounds different than digital recording, and in many ...

Audio recording formats and techniques have come a long way since the gramophone. By the early 20th century, we were able to record sound on magnetic tape, which became the standard up through the ...

John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

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 ...

The current resurgence of vinyl shows that the digital age never did snuff out analog listening. Analog recording methods, however, are effectively DOA. To find that old dinosaur, you might have to ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

Through the passage of time, there was one format that could rival the sound quality of any other, the analog reel-to-reel tape recorder, and this is her story.

The Les Paul Recording Studio features the recording console "The Monster," at left, and the first of its kind multitrack tape machine, "The Octopus," right, both named by Les Paul, photographed in ...