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Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the form of a cassette tape; Digital Audio Tape (or DAT), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals; Digital Compact Cassette (or DCC), a short-lived digital audio cassette format aimed at domestic users; Videocassette, a cassette containing videotape, for use in VCRs
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
The phrase cassette tape is ambiguous in that there is no common dictionary definition [1] [2] [3] so depending upon usage it has many different meanings, as for example any one the one of 106 different types of audio cassettes, [4] video cassettes [5] or data cassettes [6] listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
Noise and print-through are interrelated, and directly depend on the size of oxide particles. A decrease in particle size invariably decreases noise and increases print-through. The worst combination of noise and print-through occurs in highly irregular formulations containing both unusually large and unusually small particles. [43]
Digital audio cassette formats introduced to the professional audio and consumer markets: Digital Audio Tape (or DAT) is the most well-known, and had some success as an audio storage format among professionals and "prosumers" before the prices of hard drive and solid-state flash memory -based digital recording devices dropped in the late 1990s.
“Cassette culture” is an international music scene that developed in the wake of punk in the second half of the 1970s and continued through into the first half of the 1980s (the "postpunk" period), and in some territories into the 1990s, in which a large number of amateur musicians outside the established music industry, usually recording in their homes and usually recording to cassette ...
Cassette equipment needs regular maintenance, as cassette tape is a magnetic medium that is in physical contact with the tape head and other metallic parts of the recorder/player mechanism. Without such maintenance, the high-frequency response of the cassette equipment will suffer.
C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from British independent record labels of the time. [1] As a term, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based music genre characterized by jangling guitars and melodic power pop song structures, although other musical styles were represented on the tape.