TAPE recorders cost money. As recreational devices, they have found market, so far, among bird-song enthusiasts, sound maniacs, and cocktail-party gagsters. Now, however, that canny character, the ...

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 ...

Weighing in at 15-pounds-plus, it seems like such a clunky thing to be carrying around in the digital age. But, twice at least, lugging this particular Marantz Superscope cassette deck with its ...

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 ...

PLAYISM has announced that MotionRec, the tape recorder-themed puzzle action game developed by HANDSUM, will launch for PC on ...

One of the towering figures in the evolution of computer science was Grace Hopper, an American mathematician, academic, and Naval reservist, whose work gave us the first programming languages, ...

The history of VCRs. The technologies behind the creation of VCRs. The VCR’s eventual decline. In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions.

Tunde Adebimpe's debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, had an unlikely origin: a break-in. After someone stole hard drives full of demos from his garage, Adebimpe began to rummage through his old things ...

Editor's take: YouTuber Kris Slyka recently revisited the concept behind an odd piece of kit that toy maker Fisher-Price put out way back in the 80s. In short, he was able to figure out how to record ...