tape recorder

"Don't know if I'm really wanting the fame / Something tells me I'm a bit smarter than that," she sang into her tape recorder.

"We managed to con an afternoon with this new studio in King Street – it was a guy with a mixer and tape recorder."

He had been given a tape recorder and he soon learned the art of overdubbing, a vital part of what would become the trademark Beach Boys' sound.

“We sounded like a bunch of college frat boys singing into a tape recorder,” Marsh says.

During one interview, she wrote, detectives repeatedly stopped the tape recorder to remind her what to say, sometimes yelling or making threats.