Analogue Tape Machine

Music Tech || MT CA1 - Introduction to Music Technology and the Music Business

What is the tape covered in?

Magnetized particles.

As the tape passes through the machine, what three things can it be?

Erased, recorded onto, & played back.

What are these three things on the tape known as?

The heads on a tape machine.

Construct an analogue tape machine.

When an audio signal picked up by a microphone is sent to the record head, it’s in the form of what?

A very small electrical voltage.

What does the record head convert the electrical voltage into?

A varying magnetic field.

How does converting the voltage affect the magnetic particles on the tape?

It changes their position.

List the order of the process of converting an audio signal picked up by a microphone to a continuous magnetic signal.

1. Microphone.

2. Electrical Voltage.

3. Record Head.

4. Magnetic Signal.

List the order of the process of playing back the signal picked up by a microphone from a continuous magnetic signal.

1. Magnetic Signal.

2. Play Head.

3. Electrical Voltage.

4. Speakers.

What does it mean to amplify?

To increase the volume of a signal.