Having an 8 track player as a part of your audio equipment could open up a whole new world of collecting possibilities.
8 track tape machine.
Fostex manufactured many multitrack machines and was one of the few companies that put out an 8 track multitrack machine on tape.
Commonly called eight track cartridge eight track tape and eight track citation needed is a magnetic tape sound recording technology that was popular in the united states from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s when the compact cassette tape which predated 8 track surpassed it in popularity for pre recorded music.
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8 tracks on 2 tape width each track is the same width as a track on a 1 2 2 track machine.
5 5 product ratings vintage akai x1800sd reel to reel 8 track tape recorder built in speakers.
New custom flux magnetic heads w small 9th track for timecode or audio.
The 8 track tape was used for almost 20 years and every major musical artist of the time released a tape version of each album during that era.
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This format put home studio multitrack recording within a budget for every musician due to the low price of these machines.
The 8 track tape formally stereo 8.
These proved extremely useful for popular music since they enabled backing music to be recorded on two tracks either to allow the overdubbing of separate.
There are still millions of recordings available on 8 track tapes.
The upside of all of the fostex 8 track tape.
Despite ampex having created the first 8 track tape machines for les paul and atlantic records multitrack recording was taken up in a more limited way in the industry via 3 track recorders.
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Comes aligned for atr tape at 15 30 ips.
For the last three years i have been using two mara machines on my recording projects both the 24 track 2 and 8 track 1.