Open Reel Ensemble doesn't play conventional instruments, like guitars, drums and keyboards. Instead, the Japanese band uses reel-to-reel tape recorders built by Pioneer and TEAC in the 1970s and '80s ...
Responding to what it calls a phoenix-like rise in demand for quarter inch tapes, high-end audio brand Thorens has announced a new reel-to-reel developed with Germany's Ballfinger. The TM 1600 will ...
Today, we live in a world of highly portable, highly functional electronic media devices of incredible capacity. The songs contained on boxes of 45 RPM records of yesteryear can now be downloaded from ...
Following on from the previous geeky clocks we showed you that featured some recycled retro gadgets, like the Recycled Turntable Clock and the Recycled Super 8 Camera Clock, now there is a new ...
You won't see anybody at The Tape Project using anything as vulgar as an iPod. For those guys, even CDs and vinyl aren't good enough, so they've started selling music on reel-to-reel tape. The ...
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There's no doubt that digital music formats offer a convenient way to listen to lots of music on the move. Factor in on-demand streaming services and you don't even have to worry about running out of ...
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2020 — Crooner Bing Crosby knew a thing or two about sound. In 1947, recognizing that recorded music sounded better on magnetic reel-to-reel tape than on vinyl records, he ...
[Kadah]’s solution for storing short tapes of SMT parts is as attractive as it is clever. The small 3D-printed “tape reels” can double as dispensers, and stack nicely onto each other thanks to the ...
In September 1961, a 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan had no apartment and no record deal. He was, more or less, a complete unknown. One fateful gig at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village ...