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This allows different record and playback head gaps to be used.
During mix down a separate set of playback heads with higher fidelity are used.
The problem lies in the alignment of recording and playback heads.
To show the picture in fast motion, it is necessary to pass the tape over the playback head at high speed.
Unlike the recording head, the playback head has a single core.
Different effects could be created by combining the different playback heads.
That required a special recording and playback head, which is now entirely obsolete."
In order to record high frequencies, a tape must move rapidly with respect to the recording or playback head.
The playback head gap covers both of the tracks created by the record head.
Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds.
Normally technicians would read it by running it over a playback head in the recorder.
A playback head can then pick up the changes in magnetic field from the tape and convert it into an electrical signal.
The length of delay was adjusted by changing the distance between the tape record and playback heads.
It cannot be recorded or deciphered by any linear process, such as magnetic tape running past a playback head.
The machine's playback head was also missing.
He disconnected the erase head from the playback head and installed a simple switch between the two.
For half a minute, we heard only the hiss of unrecorded magnetic tape passing over the playback head.
One problem occurs when iron oxide (or similar) particles from the tape itself become lodged in the playback head.
The sound comes along and it's recorded on this head, and a split second later, it goes to the playback head.
Thus, when tape motion was stopped, only a single segment of the picture recording was present at the playback heads.
This signal was then routed from the playback head of the second machine to a separate fader on the mixer.
A system of rollers guided the tape over the playback head before it wound up on the take up reel.
Franson placed an ad asking for a company that could manufacture seventy standard playback heads.
The typical symptom is squealing when the tape passes the playback head or other fixed parts of a tape player.
As the tape travels on, the newly recorded signal is then picked up by a series of playback heads mounted in line with the record head.