🪄 The MAGICAL SOUNDS of ANALOG TAPE 🪄

There's nothing quite like the sounds of an Analog Tape Machine - both with the machine and sound recordings!!

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[notmanatee]

It sounds like a fan when you hit rewind.

[pimas]

One of the highest quality formats but so so so expensive it’s wild

[chrislj]

A beautiful recording from one of my favorite artists. That tape really brought out the clarity and sound staging.

[OneRoomShed]

I love these sounds. The hum of the motors, relays, solenoids and just the internal sounds of mechanisms moving. This is good ASMR right here.

[johnmccree]

magical sounds of reels spinning. Sounds great 👍

[Coblasteus]

Ahh yes, my favorite song "..."

What is the model of this tape recorder?

[RobertShakur]

Bro I don’t know why my brain just tricked me into thinking like I was deadass feeling a cool breeze all cuz they sound(ed)like fans.

[claudemir]

Maravilhoso equipamento, obrigado por compartilhar.

[Obsidian-Hearts]

Reminds of that scene on LA Bamba when they keep redoing the intro to Come on Let's go.lol.its so cool to see these working

[InitialStates]

I've owned 3 of those over the decades. I miss them so much.

[gunnarMyTube]

I agre the rewind operation is among the last to stop functioning. I have four such A-3340S and only one of them has full functionality. But all can wind/rewind.

Those made for the U.S market are fixed 120V/60Hz so if you live elsewhere best to hunt for the international version which can do all voltages and 50/60 Hz. Tape speed is governed by the mains frequency so for the U.S ones not simply a matter of getting an external 220/120V trafo. But those multi-size belt wheels is a key to conversion. They 3340S can be converted looking up spares on Ebay; but only a plan if you are the patient electronics repair guy.

[magikjoe]

I have a 3340S, its a beaut of a machine. I'd take it over an Akai 747 anyday

[lucaspipolo]

What's the stand you have it on ? Do you know if the angle will effect the durability of the motors ??

[JoeJ-]

I was like "WHAT SOUND??" when I was expecting you to actually play some beautiful sounding music or something... THEN I realized what you were actually talking about here, LOL!... It's more of that "ASMR" stuff... NOT really of any concern of mine, but for some people I guess it's like "euphoric" or something... ? (To each their own, I guess...)

[VolumetricTerrain-hzci]

Allow me to introduce a new unit of measurement for sound volume,
which I call vovol* (abbreviated: volume voltage).

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS: You use two pre-stages, one with positive volume values, and the other negative.
For example, so has the pre-step with positive values
a measurement from +0 decibels up to +20, while the one with negative values, has from -0 decibels down to -20 decibels.

The highest voltage occurs when the value is
+20 and -20 decibels (or: 20 vovol),
while there is low voltage, when the value is on
+0 and -0 decibels (or: 0 vovol).

You can possibly also combine two different values with each other, by adjusting the value to +10 -20 vovol, which gives a crisper effect. Have experimented with this myself at work and at home.
The adjustment can of course be set to taste.

More information about Vovol:

When the sound has high volume voltage, the speaker membrane is stretched like a guitar string, so that the sound becomes more sharper, realistic and noise-free.

This can be achieved by using an equalizer with a preamp. First, all frequencies are lowered, to, for example, -12 decibels.
Then you raise it up to +12 decibels, with a preamp.

This is how I usually experiment, with vovol, because currently there are no tools, or apps, to do this.

If you, or other who reading this, have an equalizer with a preamp, I think you should try it too.

And thank you all for reading!

:-)

Great video!

[dailaffin]

I still have my b&o the quality of sound is possibly only equalled by 5d surround.
What the hell they were proving here tho?? Got me lost!

[kendom]

The world is analogue. People forget that

[christophercarrera]

Cockpit Voice Recorder comes to my mind

[caretta]

Do you know when the pause icon was first used?