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What (who) is tape deck - definition

MACHINE FOR RECORDING SOUND
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  • reel-to-reel tape recorder]] from [[Akai]], c. 1978
  • EMI BTR2 machines in a BBC recording room, 12 November 1961.
  • Marconi-Stille steel tape recorder at BBC studios, London, 1937
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  • Size comparison of Elcaset (left) with standard Compact Cassette
  • This tape recorder of Dr. Goodale is exhibited in the private Phonograph Museum in Mariazell, Austria.
  • WDR]] radio archive with a broadcast tape from 1990. This is a centre hub with only a very short length of tape wound round it.
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  • Solidyne GMS200 tape recorder with computer self-adjustment. Argentina 1980–1990
  • Otari MX-80 24-track with 2-inch reels
  • Size comparison of RCA tape cartridge (right) with the more common Compact Cassette
  • A typical portable desktop cassette recorder from [[RadioShack]].
  • [[Compact cassette]]
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  • Early model Studer professional tape recorder, 1969
  • Tape deck in operation
  • Editing magnetic tape
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  • Magnetic wire recorder, invented by [[Valdemar Poulsen]], 1898. It is exhibited at [[Brede works]] Industrial Museum, Lyngby, Denmark.
  • Magnetophon from a German radio station in World War II
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tape deck         
also tape-deck (tape decks)
A tape deck is the machine on which you can play or record cassette tapes.
N-COUNT
tape recorder         
¦ noun an apparatus for recording sounds on magnetic tape and afterwards reproducing them.
Derivatives
tape-record verb
tape recording noun
Tape recorder         
An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal.

Wikipedia

Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal. Tape-recording devices include the reel-to-reel tape deck and the cassette deck, which uses a cassette for storage.

The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930 in Germany as paper tape with oxide lacquered to it. Prior to the development of magnetic tape, magnetic wire recorders had successfully demonstrated the concept of magnetic recording, but they never offered audio quality comparable to the other recording and broadcast standards of the time. This German invention was the start of a long string of innovations that have led to present-day magnetic tape recordings.

Magnetic tape revolutionized both the radio broadcast and music recording industries. It gave artists and producers the power to record and re-record audio with minimal loss in quality as well as edit and rearrange recordings with ease. The alternative recording technologies of the era, transcription discs and wire recorders, could not provide anywhere near this level of quality and functionality.

Since some early refinements improved the fidelity of the reproduced sound, magnetic tape has been the highest quality analog recording medium available. As of the first decade of the 21st century, analog magnetic tape has been largely replaced by digital recording technologies.

Examples of use of tape deck
1. Mr Mann said yesterday: ‘The taxi had one of those tape deck things that plugs into your digital music player.
2. The high street firm also plans to stop selling hi–fi systems with a tape deck included, possibly as soon as Christmas this year.
3. I went home to Tucson and his tape got stuck in the tape deck of my truck for four months, but I never much cared because it always fitted the mood somehow.
4. This was back when all the RAC needed to do in order to start a spluttering motor on a cold winter‘s morning was shove a Best Of Thin Lizzy cassette in the tape deck.
5. "My father brought it home together with a tape deck, a disk drive, a printer, and a couple of games...I used to sneak home during lunch to play [on it] with my friends." Learn about the components of the C64 system» Wallstrom is the webmaster and designer for C64.com, a Web site dedicated to preserving the games, demos, pictures, magazines and memories of the Commodore 64.