In 1948, half of the recorded music played on the air was by Bing Crosby. ... you probably don’t associate him with the use of magnetic tape. ...

The crackly, hiss-laden sound of magnetic tape is an increasingly popular aesthetic in modern music production, as producers eschew the polish of the contemporary DAW for the retro colour and lo-fi ...

Hard drives gained popularity over spooled magnetic tape as digital audio workstations, mixing and editing software, and the perceived downsides of tape, including deterioration from substrate ...

Matthew Leifheit’s “No Time at All,” culled from recordings made at the height of the AIDS crisis, plays through speakers nestled in the New York City AIDS Memorial.

A silent film showcasing techniques for splicing film and magnetic tape, both by hand and using a splicer. A look at vintage industrial classroom equipment.

Magnetic tape’s capability to evolve with technology, as brought to light with recent IBM innovation, renders it perhaps as necessary in the decades to come.

National Audio remains the only US producer of magnetic tape for audio cassettes. ... And the next time you listen to some of your favorite music it just may be on a cassette tape manufactured there.

Dublin, Oct. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Magnetic Tape Market by Base Materials (Synthetic Rubber, PVC and Others), by End-Users (Data Storage, Packaging & Labeling, Consumer Appliances and ...

For a generation that’s grown up with streaming music, ... I didn’t push my luck by explaining it was a convenient analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

While the use of magnetic tape to record and play music dates back to the 1930s, it wasn’t until 1963, at the Berlin Radio Show, that Philips introduced the two-spool cassette.