quarter-inch tape

Quarter-inch tape cartridges come with different capacities, and some can store several gigabytes of data.

St.Croix proposes to build a special tape machine with 200 separate heads that would read the piece of quarter-inch tape.

They finished the painstaking work of cutting and sequencing the quarter-inch tape of their final album just three days before Noah died.

The two quarter-inch tape reels from that session were later destroyed by EMI.

And the tracks went on quarter-inch tape and the tape went in a box and the box went in a closet.

(Foley stage floors lift up to reveal patches of marble, cement, sand and piles of crumpled quarter-inch tape that, when stepped on, sound like fallen leaves.)

A growing number of PC users are turning to tape drives, which can store the contents of a hard disk on a single quarter-inch tape cassette at high speed.

A radiophonic tribute to Trinity Square, produced by Langham Research Centre, the programme was made entirely from the sounds of the carpark, processed and treated on quarter-inch tape.

Lines of bright red quarter-inch tape had been stretched across it, all starting at Bear Station, reaching along several distinct paths through several doglegs, and terminating at various points inland.

Roy Wood: I started by putting a click track down, just a cow bell, on quarter-inch tape, then I played the arrangement on acoustic guitars, then double-tracked that.

Some time prior to recording, Endino found old rolls of quarter-inch tape at a garage sale, and some contained recordings of a Christian preacher giving sermons in the early 1950s.

The format utilized only a quarter-inch (6.25 mm) of the half-inch tape on a given side, and so it is occasionally referred to erroneously as a quarter-inch tape format despite its physical tape width.

This was a mono tape recorder with just one track across the entire width of quarter-inch tape; thus, the recording was "destructive" in the sense that the original recording was permanently replaced with the new, mixed recording.

The album was recorded on a two-track BTR tape recording machine, with most of the instrumentation on one track and the vocals on the other, allowing for a better balance between the two on the final quarter-inch tape mix-down in mono.

Known to Dylanologists as the Minnesota Party Tape, the single reel of quarter-inch tape made on a $50 deck includes 12 folk songs recorded when Mr. Dylan, then still known as Robert Zimmerman, was a student at the University of Minnesota.

According to the album's detailed liner notes, in November 1998 Columbia Records producer Bob Belden stumbled upon two quarter-inch tapes in Columbia's Los Angeles vault whilst gathering material for a remastered reissue of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's 1972 album Birds of Fire.