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AMPEX 440 (two-track, four-track) and 16-track MM1000 Scully 280 eight-track recorder using 1 inch (25 mm) tape at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Multitrack recording of sound is the process in which sound and other electro-acoustic signals are captured on a recording medium such as magnetic tape, which is divided into two or more audio tracks that run parallel with each other.
The TEAC 2340, a popular early (1973) home multitrack recorder, four tracks on ¼ inch tape Korg D888 eight-track digital recorder. Multitrack recording also allows any recording artist to record multiple takes of any given section of their performance, allowing them to refine their performance to virtual perfection by making additional takes ...
4-track or 4-track tape may refer to: The 4-track cartridge as an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1950s; A 4-track tape for multitrack recording used in professional recording studios; 8-track tape, which has 4 stereo tracks and so was sometimes colloquially called "4-track tape" A quadruple track railway line
Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...
The first two Beatles albums, Please Please Me and With The Beatles, were recorded on the BTR two-track machines; [3] with the introduction of four-track machines in 1963 (the first 4-track Beatles recording was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" [4]) there came a change in the way recordings were made—tracks could be built up layer by layer ...
Portastudio refers to a series of multitrack recorders produced by TASCAM beginning in 1979 with the introduction of the TEAC 144, the first four-track compact cassette-based recorder. A TASCAM trademark, "portastudio" is commonly used to refer to any self-contained multitrack recorder dedicated to music production.
Phase 4 Stereo was a recording process created by the U.K. Decca Records label in 1961. [1] The process was used on U.K. Decca recordings and also those of its American subsidiary London Records during the 1960s. Phase 4 Stereo recordings were created with an innovative 10-channel, and later 20-channel, "recording console". [2]
The Muntz Stereo-Pak, commonly known as the 4-track cartridge, [1] is a magnetic tape sound recording cartridge technology. The Stereo-Pak cartridge was inspired by the Fidelipac 2-track monaural (audio & cue tracks, later 3-track for stereo) tape cartridge system invented by George Eash in 1954 and used by radio broadcasters for commercials ...