Magnetic tape

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

Magnetic tape · At the radio exhibition in Berlin in 1935, AEG showed the Magnetophon, a recorder that captured sound on a tape with a magnetic coating from BASF. After the war, the American company Ampex rebuilt the technology; the Ampex 200 came onto the market in 1948. Tape was a revolution: you could cut a recording, splice it, play it backwards and record over it again. Composers in Paris and Cologne used it to make new music from sounds and tape loops. Pop studios used tape to join together the best parts of different takes.

Listening

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  How High the Moon · Les Paul & Mary Ford, 1951
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  Gesang der Jünglinge · Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1956
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  Forbidden Planet (Main Title) · Louis & Bebe Barron, 1956

In School of Rock

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See also

• Slapback echo
• Multitrack recording
• Mellotron
• Compact cassette
• 8-track
• Electrical recording and the microphone
• Electronic studio and musique concrète
• Radiophonic Workshop