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For the King's X album, see Tape Head.
Tape head assembly from a compact cassette deck. The compact cassette uses four tracks, two for each side; visible are two heads (the silver rectangles inside the black rectangle) for playing one side of the tape at a time.
A tape head is a type of transducer used in tape recorders to convert electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and vice versa. They can also be used to read credit/debit/gift cards because the strip of magnetic tape on the back of a credit card stores data the same way that other magnetic tapes do. Cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, 8-tracks, VHS tapes, and even floppy disks and early hard drive disks all use the same principle of physics to store and read back information. The medium is magnetized in a pattern. It then moves at a constant speed over an electromagnet. Since the moving tape is carrying a changing magnetic field with it, it induces a varying voltage across the head. That voltage can then be amplified and connected to speakers in the case of audio, or measured and sorted into ones and zeroes in the case of digital data.
A tapehead is a type of transducer used in tape recorders to convert electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and vice versa. They can also be used...
TapeHead is the seventh studio album by American rock band King's X, released in 1998 via Metal Blade Records. A music video was made for the song "Fade"...
A tapehead cleaner is a substance or device used for cleaning the record and playback heads of a magnetic tape drive found in video or audio tape machines...
An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device...
Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording...
recording on tape cassettes, invented in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC). It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period...
A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic-tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival...
Look up tape in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tape or Tapes may refer to: Tape is long, narrow, thin strip of material usually used to stick things...
include the head, capstan, pinch roller, tape pins, and tape guide. The tape transport as a whole is called the transport mechanism. The tapehead is the part...
mechanically operates on a tape. On this tape are symbols, which the machine can read and write, one at a time, using a tapehead. Operation is fully determined...
and stationary heads would require extremely high tape speeds, in most cases, a helical-scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data...
A video tape recorder (VTR) is a tape recorder designed to record and playback video and audio material from magnetic tape. The early VTRs were open-reel...
single tapehead. The three-head mechanism allowed higher quality reproduction as well as the ability to hear a recording in progress - as the tape traveled...
Duct tape (historically and still occasionally referred to as duck tape) is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene...
the tape layer wound on top of it (resulting in dropout), or being scraped off and deposited on the tapeheads while lifting the head off the tape, degrading...
kple mask of the Baoulé tribe of Ivory Coast and the tapehead demagnetizers used on reel-to-reel tape recorders of the time.[citation needed] Positioned...
tempos. At Courtyard Studios, On a Friday recorded the Manic Hedgehog demo tape, named after an Oxford record shop. In late 1991, Colin happened to meet...
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany...
cassette adapter uses a single-sided writing tapehead (similar to the recording head on a traditional tape deck) connected to a stereo minijack connector...
orientation process replicates that applied by a magnetic recording tapehead to the magnetic tape coating during the recording process. The principle was further...
causes a length of magnetic tape to contact a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. As the key is released, the tape is retracted by a spring to...
Pennsylvania, introduced a tape delay system consisting of an external playback head, which was spaced far enough away from the record head to produce a six-second...
for a given state and symbol under the tapehead, specifies three things: the symbol to be written to the tape (it may be the same as the symbol currently...
contents of the tape. The current state of the finite state machine which operates the tapehead. The current position of the tapehead on the tape. Although...
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