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tape machine

NOUN
video cassette recorder
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They also retrieved Paul’s Ampex 5258 Sel-Sync multitrack tape machine, familiarly known as the Octopus, which sits alongside the console, and was the first-ever eight-track.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2025

I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest,” Urie says.

From Seattle Times Aug. 15, 2022

As chance would have it, his elder brother was the singer in a band - so Stewart took his microphone, borrowed a reel-to-reel tape machine and made his first recording, of an Eurasian Blackbird.

From BBC Dec. 1, 2021

It's got shag pile carpets on the wall, and not set up for modern digital recording at all; there's an old tape machine.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2021

A tape machine in the basement began rolling.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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