Chapter 5 The Analog Tape Recorder
From its inception in Germany in the late 1920s (Figure 5.1) and its American introduction by Jack Mullin in 1945, the analog tape recorder (or ATR) had steadily increased in quality and universal acceptance, to the point that professional and personal studios had totally relied upon magnetic media for the storage of analog sound onto reels of tape. With the dawning of the project studio and computer-based digital audio workstations (DAWs), the use of two-channel and multitrack ATRs has steadily dwindled, to the point where no new analog tape machine models are currently being manufactured. In short, recording to analog tape has steadily become a high-cost, future-retro, specialty ...
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