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Revox was adopted as the brand name for amateur recorders, while the professional machines retained the Studer name. [1] The first Revox-branded tape recorder was the T26, in 1952, successor to the Dynavox 100. The T26 was also made available as a radio-recorder combination unit. 2500 T26 recorders were made, priced at 1395.00 Swiss francs. [1]
Carbon-fiber tape is a flat material made of carbon fiber. It weighs one-seventh as much as steel for a given strength. The carbon fiber core lasts longer than conventional steel cable. The material is resistant to wear and abrasion and, unlike steel, does not densify and stretch. [1]
Stellavox is a company based in Switzerland best known for its compact portable reel-to-reel magnetic tape audio recorders of extremely high mechanical quality, used by radio and TV-stations [1] and motion picture location sound mixers as an alternative to the Nagra recorders. The company, founded in 1955 by Georges Quellet, was developing and ...
TASCAM also introduced the first low-cost mass-produced multitrack recorders with Simul-Sync designed for recording musicians, and manufactured reel-to-reel tape machines and audio mixers for home recordists from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. Since the early 00's, TASCAM has been an early innovator in the field-recording and audio ...
The Ampex VRX-1000 became the world's first commercially successful videotape recorder in 1956. It uses the 2″ quadruplex format, using two-inch (5.1 cm) tape. [4] Because of its US$50,000 price, the Ampex VRX-1000 could be afforded only by the television networks and the largest individual stations. [5]
Ampex ATR-100. The Ampex ATR-100 is a multitrack tape recorder, designed by Ampex Corporation, of Redwood City, California, United States.It was introduced at the Spring 1976 AES Conference in Los Angeles, [1] and was geared towards the ultra high end studio market.
Fostex X-28H , a 4 track cassette recorder. In the 1990s, analog tape machines were supplanted by digital recorders and computer-based digital audio workstations (DAWs). These new devices were designed to convert audio tracks into digital files, and record the files onto magnetic tape (such as ADAT), hard disk, compact disc, or flash ROM. [8]
Scully 280 eight-track recorder at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. In 1961, recognizing the limited market for professional disc cutting lathes and facing increased competition from Neumann, whose disc cutting lathes were no longer restricted from being imported to the United States, [5] Scully Recording Instruments entered the tape recorder market.