Get Scraped is the debut studio album by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5 , released on July 26, 2005, by the independent record label Zoolook.
83-449: The track title "Bored of Canada" presumably refers to Boards of Canada , a Scottish downtempo and IDM act whom Zimmerman has pointed to as one of his influences. The track itself is a short, interlude-like track that is reminiscent of the Boards of Canada signature. The track is followed by nearly one minute of silence, and then a few seconds of the track repeating from the beginning again. This
166-558: A loudspeaker . The first wire recorder was the Telegraphone invented by Valdemar Poulsen in the late 1890s. Wire recorders for law and office dictation and telephone recording were made almost continuously by various companies (mainly the American Telegraphone Company) through the 1920s and 1930s. These devices were mostly sold as consumer technologies after World War II. Widespread use of wire recording occurred within
249-416: A tape deck , tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder , is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal. Tape-recording devices include
332-412: A 100-hour takeover of online radio station NTS Radio , featuring mixes, radio shows and unreleased music from a number of artists on their roster. This included a 2-hour mixtape from Boards of Canada titled Societas x Tape , aired on 23 June 2019 at 9:00 PM BST, and featured music from other artists such as Grace Jones , Devo and Yellow Magic Orchestra , spliced with spoken word samples and music that
415-413: A 2005 interview with Pitchfork , as they wanted to avoid comparisons with another electronic sibling duo, Orbital . Growing up in a musical family, the brothers first played instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques from around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. In their teens they participated in
498-585: A Blattnerphone at Avenue House in September 1930 for tests, and used it to record King George V 's speech at the opening of the India Round Table Conference on 12 November 1930. Though not considered suitable for music the machine continued in use and was moved to Broadcasting House in March 1932, a second machine also being installed. In September 1932, a new model was installed, using 3 mm tape with
581-418: A dull, loosely mounted stylus, attached to a rubber diaphragm, carried the reproduced sounds through an ear tube to its listener. Both recording and playback styluses, mounted alternately on the same two posts, could be adjusted vertically so that several recordings could be cut on the same 3 ⁄ 16 -inch-wide (4.8 mm) strip. While the machine was never developed commercially, it somewhat resembled
664-596: A faded modernism arising from mid-twentieth-century television, science, public education, childhood and spirituality." Interviews with the Sandison brothers have variously provided insight into their creative process: they have cited several acts that have influenced their work including Joni Mitchell , the Incredible String Band (saying "we have all the String Band records […] our rural sensibilities are similar"),
747-473: A knob fastened to a flywheel . The wax strip passed from one eight-inch reel around the periphery of a pulley (with guide flanges) mounted above the V-pulleys on the main vertical shaft, where it came in contact with either its recording or playback stylus . The tape was then taken up on the other reel. The sharp recording stylus, actuated by a vibrating mica diaphragm, cut the wax from the strip. In playback mode,
830-555: A number of amateur bands. However, it was not until 1986 when Marcus was invited to join Mike's band that Boards of Canada was born. The band's name was inspired by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the government agency whose award-winning documentary films and animation they had watched as children. Their first known release was Catalog 3 , in 1987 on cassette tape , on the brothers' own label, Music70, while Boards of Canada
913-584: A password. Once all six unique codes were entered, a video was shown announcing Tomorrow's Harvest , their fourth studio album . The website showed the cover art, the month and year of release and a short snippet of music. The album was released on 5 June 2013 in Japan , 10 June 2013 in Europe, and 11 June 2013 in the United States to widespread critical acclaim. In 2016, Boards of Canada released two remixes. The first,
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#1733085855362996-434: A patent application in 1931, Merle Duston, a Detroit radio engineer, created a tape recorder capable of recording both sounds and voice that used a low-cost chemically treated paper tape. During the recording process, the tape moved through a pair of electrodes which immediately imprinted the modulated sound signals as visible black stripes into the paper tape's surface. The audio signal could be immediately replayed from
1079-499: A patent for his invention in 1909. The celluloid film was inscribed and played back with a stylus, in a manner similar to the wax cylinders of Edison's gramophone. The patent description states that the machine could store six records on the same strip of film, side by side, and it was possible to switch between them. In 1912, a similar process was used for the Hiller talking clock . In 1932, after six years of developmental work, including
1162-571: A recording time of 32 minutes. In 1933, the Marconi Company purchased the rights to the Blattnerphone, and newly developed Marconi-Stille recorders were installed in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in March 1935. The quality and reliability were slightly improved, though it still tended to be obvious that one was listening to a recording. A reservoir system containing a loop of tape helped to stabilize
1245-444: A remix of Nevermen 's "Mr Mistake", was released on 12 January 2016, and was followed shortly after by a remix of "Sisters" by Odd Nosdam on 22 February 2016. On 17 February 2017, an instrumental version of the "Mr Mistake" remix was released. On 29 July 2017, Boards of Canada released a remix of "Sometimes" by The Sexual Objects. In 2019, Warp Records kicked off the celebrations for their 30th anniversary, entitled WXAXRXP, with
1328-454: A year. ABC agreed to let him use transcription discs for the 1946–47 season, but listeners complained about the sound quality. Crosby realised that Mullin's tape recorder technology would enable him to pre-record his radio show with high sound quality and that these tapes could be replayed many times with no appreciable loss of quality. Mullin was asked to tape one show as a test and was subsequently hired as Crosby's chief engineer to pre-record
1411-493: Is believed to be an error, since a version without the silence can be found on other releases such as Project 56 . The track "Intelstat" contains vocal samples of the song "M01 Chant I – Making of Cyborg" by Kenji Kawai from the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack. The album has a 2005 demo CD release, which Zimmerman claimed to have been limited to "about 100 copies". Several copies of
1494-543: Is near the Pentland Hills in Scotland. In February 2012, a BBC Radio personality noted that a new album from Boards of Canada was "on the way". A fan asked the duo on Facebook about this comment, to which they responded with "yes". On Record Store Day 2013, a vinyl record containing a short clip of music and a distorted voice speaking a six digit code, which was believed to be the work of Boards of Canada , surfaced at
1577-647: Is rumoured to be unreleased work from the group itself. On July 3, 2021, Boards of Canada released a remix of a second Nevermen song, "Treat Em Right". The music of Boards of Canada has been described as "evocative, mournful, sample -laden downtempo music often sounding as though produced on malfunctioning equipment excavated from the ruins of an early-'70s computer lab ." Critic Simon Reynolds described their style as "a hazy sound of smeared synth-tones and analog-decayed production, carried by patient, sleepwalking beats, and aching with nostalgia" while crediting them with "reinvent[ing]" elements of psychedelia through
1660-458: Is used for the capstan and one for driving the reels for playback, rewind, and fast forward. The storage of an analog signal on tape works well, but is not perfect. In particular, the granular nature of the magnetic material adds high-frequency noise to the signal, generally referred to as tape hiss . Also, the magnetic characteristics of tape are not linear . They exhibit a characteristic hysteresis curve, which causes unwanted distortion of
1743-465: Is usually called a tape recorder or – if it has no record functionality – a tape player , while one that requires external amplification for playback is usually called a tape deck (regardless of whether it can record). Multitrack technology enabled the development of modern art music and one such artist, Brian Eno , described the tape recorder as "an automatic musical collage device." Magnetic tape brought about sweeping changes in both radio and
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#17330858553621826-529: The Beatles (saying "[they] really became enthralling to us through their psychedelism") and My Bloody Valentine (saying "even if we don't sound like them, there's a connection in terms of the approach to music"). They have also named Meat Beat Manifesto as a chief influence, citing their synth sounds. Brief interludes or vignettes feature prominently in the duo's music, often lasting less than two minutes; Sandison has said that "we write far more of [these] than
1909-679: The Branch Davidians . When questioned about their aims in making such references, Boards of Canada have expressed themselves in neutral terms (saying "We're not religious at all [...] and if we're spiritual at all it's purely in the sense of caring about art and inspiring people with ideas.") while remaining fascinated with the ability of music to influence the minds of others (saying, with irony, that "[We] do actually believe that there are powers in music that are almost supernatural. I think you actually manipulate people with music..."). Tape recorder An audio tape recorder , also known as
1992-450: The reel-to-reel tape deck and the cassette deck , which uses a cassette for storage. The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930 in Germany as paper tape with oxide lacquered to it. Prior to the development of magnetic tape, magnetic wire recorders had successfully demonstrated the concept of magnetic recording , but they never offered audio quality comparable to
2075-471: The 1950s. Consumer wire recorders were marketed for home entertainment or as an inexpensive substitute for commercial office dictation recorders, but the development of consumer magnetic tape recorders starting in 1946, with the BK 401 Soundmirror, using paper-based tape, gradually drove wire recorders from the market, being "pretty much out of the picture" by 1952. In 1924 a German engineer, Kurt Stille, developed
2158-610: The 1970s, incorporates vintage synthesiser tones, samples , analog equipment, and hip hop -inspired beats. It has been described by critics as exploring themes related to nostalgia, as well as childhood memory, science, environmental concerns and esoteric subjects. In 2012, Fact described them as "one of the best-known and best-loved electronic acts of the last two decades." Brothers Michael Sandison (born Michael Peter Sandison, 14 July 1971) and Marcus Eoin (born Marcus Eoin Sandison, 27 May 1973) were brought up in Cullen, Moray , on
2241-553: The Brush Development Company in the United States, where work continued but attracted little attention until the late 1940s when the company released the very first consumer tape recorder in 1946: the Soundmirror BK 401. Several other models were quickly released in the following years. Tapes were initially made of paper coated with magnetite powder . In 1947/48 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company ( 3M ) replaced
2324-613: The EHX website. Between 1995 and 1997, the duo started recording what would become their debut studio album, Music Has the Right to Children , which was finally released in April 1998. The album was joint-released by both Skam Records and Warp Records . The cover of the album is a family photo that was taken at Banff Springs , with each person's face digitally removed. The album consists of longer tracks mixed with song vignettes. It also includes one of
2407-520: The EMI TR90 and a Philips machine which was lightweight but very easy and quick to use. Bush House used several Leevers-Rich models. The Studer range of machines had become pretty well the studio recording industry standard by the 1970s, and gradually these replaced the aging BTR2s in recording rooms and studios. By the mid-2000s tape was pretty well out of use and had been replaced by digital playout systems. The typical professional audio tape recorder of
2490-451: The New York record store Other Music . Shortly after the release, Warp Records vouched for the record's authenticity. Other codes were hidden through various websites and online communities, as well as being broadcast over BBC Radio One , NPR , and Adult Swim . After much speculation, the official website for the band redirected users to another website which prompted the user to enter
2573-509: The Poulsen wire recorder as a dictating machine. The following year a fellow German, Louis Blattner , working in Britain, licensed Stille's device and started work on a machine which would instead record on a magnetic steel tape, which he called the Blattnerphone. The tape was 6 mm wide and 0.08 mm thick, traveling at 5 feet per second; the recording time was 20 minutes. The BBC installed
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2656-633: The ability to pre-record their broadcasts with the high quality of tape, and the recording ban was lifted. Crosby invested $ 50,000 of his own money into the Californian electronics company Ampex , and the six-man concern (headed by Alexander M. Poniatoff , whose initials became part of the company name) soon became the world leader in the development of tape recording, with its Model 200 tape deck, released in 1948 and developed from Mullin's modified Magnetophons. The BBC acquired some Magnetophon machines in 1946 on an experimental basis, and they were used in
2739-518: The album for The Observer , Simon Reynolds noted that "blurring the boundaries between rock and techno is a smart move, because BoC have always made music that deserved to appeal beyond the electronic audience", and praised "the stereophonic delirium of their production." After the release of their previous studio album and an EP named Trans Canada Highway , Eoin and Sandison "took some time out, and spent some time travelling". The two also expanded their recording studio at Hexagon Sun , which
2822-451: The broadcasts had to be transcriptions, but their audio quality was indistinguishable from that of a live broadcast and their duration was far longer than was possible even with 16 rpm transcription discs. In the final stages of the war in Europe, the Allies' capture of a number of German Magnetophon recorders from Radio Luxembourg aroused great interest. These recorders incorporated all
2905-527: The brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed initially as a trio in 1986 before becoming a duo in the 1990s. Signing first to Skam followed by Warp Records in the 1990s, the duo received recognition following the release of their debut album Music Has the Right to Children on Warp in 1998. They followed with the critically acclaimed albums Geogaddi (2002), The Campfire Headphase (2005) and Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). The duo's work, largely influenced by media and electronic music from
2988-426: The coils of the tape head creates a fluctuating magnetic field. This causes the magnetic material on the tape, which is moving past and in contact with the head, to align in a manner proportional to the original signal. The signal can be reproduced by running the tape back across the tape head, where the reverse process occurs – the magnetic imprint on the tape induces a small current in the read head which approximates
3071-586: The creation of 400 song fragments and 64 complete songs, of which 22 were selected (possibly 23, if the final track of complete silence is included). Eoin has said about the duo's discography that "the idea of the perfect album is this amorphous thing that we're always aiming at […] the whole point of making music is at least to aim at your own idea of perfection." The duo have expressed interest in themes of subliminal messaging , and subsequently their work has incorporated cryptic messages, including references to numerology and cult figures such as David Koresh of
3154-591: The decades spanning from 1940 until 1960, following the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology ). These two organizations licensed dozens of manufacturers in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Wire was also used as a recording medium in black box voice recorders for aviation in
3237-497: The deliberate misuse of technology. Their distinctive style is a product of their use of analogue equipment, mix of electronic and conventional instrumentation, use of distorted samples, and their layering and blending of these elements. To achieve their evocative and "worn down" sound, the duo have made use of outdated brands of recording equipment, such as tape machines manufactured by Grundig . They also make use of samples from 1970s television shows and other media prevalent in
3320-467: The demo have since been rediscovered by fans. A revised digital download was released on June 12, 2006. Two tracks "FlashTV" and "Messages from Nowhere" were omitted from the digital release. However they were digitally re-released in 2006 by Nicholas Da Silva, the owner of Zoolook Records on his since removed album Hitless . In March 2017, Zimmerman himself re-released "Messages from Nowhere" on his compilation album Stuff I Used to Do , which also included
3403-473: The duo that the album was a response to the September 11 attacks . As early as 2002, the duo began working on sketches for their next studio album, The Campfire Headphase , however studio work didn't begin until 2004. After releasing two singles from the album exclusively onto Bleep , and a music video for the track "Dayvan Cowboy", The Campfire Headphase was released on 17 October 2005. When writing about
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3486-466: The duo's most popular songs, "Roygbiv". Music Has the Right to Children received widespread acclaim upon release, with it being featured at No. 35 on Pitchfork 's "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s" list. The duo began recording their next studio album, Geogaddi , between 1999 and 2001. It was described by Sandison as "a record for some sort of trial-by-fire, a claustrophobic, twisting journey that takes you into some pretty dark experiences before you reach
3569-1166: The early 1950s used 1 ⁄ 4 in (6 mm) wide tape on 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (27 cm) reels, with a capacity of 2,400 ft (730 m). Typical speeds were initially 15 in/s (38.1 cm/s) yielding 30 minutes' recording time on a 2,400 ft (730 m) reel. Early professional machines used single-sided reels but double-sided reels soon became popular, particularly for domestic use. Tape reels were made from metal or transparent plastic. Standard tape speeds varied by factors of two: 15 and 30 in/s were used for professional audio recording; 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in/s (19.1 cm/s) for home audiophile prerecorded tapes; 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 and 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s (19.1 and 9.5 cm/s) for audiophile and consumer recordings (typically on 7 in (18 cm) reels). 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 in/s (4.8 cm/s) and occasionally even 15 ⁄ 16 in/s (2.4 cm/s) were used for voice, dictation, and applications where very long recording times were needed, such as logging police and fire department calls. The 8-track tape standard, developed by Bill Lear in
3652-498: The early 1990s, the band had a number of collaborations and the band put on small shows among the Hexagon Sun collective, along with the releases of albums Play By Numbers and Hooper Bay , both in 1994, which, similarly to Acid Memories, were only released to friends and family and had sub-1 minute excerpts of two songs ("Wouldn't You Like To Be Free" from Play By Numbers and "Circle" from Hooper Bay ) released from both albums on
3735-484: The early stages of the new Third Programme to record and play back performances of operas from Germany. Delivery of tape was preferred as live relays over landlines were unreliable in the immediate post-war period. These machines were used until 1952, though most of the work continued to be done using the established media. In 1948, a new British model became available from EMI: the BTR1. Though in many ways clumsy, its quality
3818-463: The era of the brothers' shared childhood, especially the nature-inspired documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada . The duo's preoccupation with memory, past aesthetics, and public broadcasting presaged the 2000s electronic movement known as hauntology . Theorist and music critic Adam Harper described their work as "a simultaneously Arcadian and sinister musical hauntology based on cut-up samples, vintage synthesiser technology and
3901-452: The era, transcription discs and wire recorders , could not provide anywhere near this level of quality and functionality. Since some early refinements improved the fidelity of the reproduced sound, magnetic tape has been the highest quality analog recording medium available. As of the first decade of the 21st century, analog magnetic tape has been largely replaced by digital recording technologies. The earliest known audio tape recorder
3984-460: The fact that Zimmerman was unknown outside of the Internet at the time, there are no reviews that date near the album's initial release. However, as Zimmerman gained popularity during the late 2000s, online articles looking back on the album's release have emerged. All tracks are written by J. Zimmerman Boards of Canada Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of
4067-437: The first widespread sound recording technology, used for both entertainment and office dictation. However, recordings on wax cylinders were unable to be easily duplicated, making them both costly and time consuming for large scale production. Wax cylinders were also unable to record more than 2 minutes of audio, a problem solved by gramophone discs . Franklin C. Goodale adapted movie film for analog audio recording. He received
4150-425: The flutter the more noise that can be heard causing the quality of the recording to be worse. Higher tape speeds used in professional recorders are prone to cause head bumps , which are fluctuations in low-frequency response. There is a wide variety of tape recorders in existence, from small hand-held devices to large multitrack machines. A machine with built-in speakers and audio power amplification to drive them
4233-516: The innovative pop music studio-as-an-instrument recordings of artists such as Frank Zappa , the Beatles , and the Beach Boys . Philips advertised their reel-to-reel recorders as an audial family album and pushed families to purchase these recorders to capture and relive memories forever. But the use for recording music slowly but steadily rose as the main function for the tape recorder. Tape enabled
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#17330858553624316-565: The introduction of the first commercial tape recorder, the Ampex 200 model, launched in 1948, the invention of the first multitrack tape recorder , brought about another technical revolution in the recording industry. Tape made possible the first sound recordings totally created by electronic means, opening the way for the bold sonic experiments of the Musique Concrète school and avant-garde composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen , which in turn led to
4399-527: The key technological features of modern analog magnetic recording and were the basis for future developments in the field. Development of magnetic tape recorders in the late 1940s and early 1950s is associated with the Brush Development Company and its licensee, Ampex . The equally important development of the magnetic tape medium itself was led by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) corporation. In 1938, S.J. Begun left Germany and joined
4482-455: The major radio networks didn't permit the use of disc recording in many programs because of their comparatively poor sound quality. Crosby disliked the regimentation of live broadcasts 39 weeks a year, preferring the recording studio's relaxed atmosphere and ability to retain the best parts of a performance. He asked NBC to let him pre-record his 1944–45 series on transcription discs , but the network refused, so Crosby withdrew from live radio for
4565-553: The mid-1960s, popularized consumer audio playback in automobiles in the USA. Eventually, this standard was replaced by the smaller and more reliable Compact Cassette , which was launched earlier in 1963. Philips 's development of the Compact Cassette in 1963 and Sony 's development of the Walkman in 1979 led to widespread consumer use of magnetic audio tape. In 1990, the Compact Cassette
4648-496: The modern magnetic tape recorder in its design. The tapes and machine created by Bell's associates, examined at one of the Smithsonian Institution 's museums, became brittle, and the heavy paper reels warped. The machine's playback head was also missing. Otherwise, with some reconditioning, they could be placed into working condition. The waxed tape recording medium was later refined by Edison's wax cylinder , and became
4731-566: The northeast coast of Scotland. From 1979 to 1980, they lived in Calgary , Canada, while their father, who worked in construction, took part in the project to build the Saddledome . The brothers attended the University of Edinburgh , where Michael studied music and Marcus studied artificial intelligence. Marcus dropped out before completing his degree. The duo did not reveal that they are brothers until
4814-501: The open air again." Geogaddi was officially released by Vivid on 8 January 2002 in Japan, and by Warp Records on 18 February 2002 in Europe. Critics noted a shift in mood within Geogaddi ; Mark Richardson of Pitchfork commented that "the atmosphere on this album is a shade darker than on previous releases, and comparatively tense with a noticeable thread of paranoia." It was later noted by
4897-498: The original signal and is then amplified for playback. Many tape recorders are capable of recording and playing back simultaneously by means of separate record and playback heads. Modern professional recorders usually use a three-motor scheme. One motor with a constant rotational speed drives the capstan . Usually combined with a rubber pinch roller, it ensures that the tape speed does not fluctuate. The other two motors, which are called torque motors, apply equal and opposite torques to
4980-461: The other recording and broadcast standards of the time. This German invention was the start of a long string of innovations that have led to present-day magnetic tape recordings. Magnetic tape revolutionized both the radio broadcast and music recording industries. It gave artists and producers the power to record and re-record audio with minimal loss in quality as well as edit and rearrange recordings with ease. The alternative recording technologies of
5063-406: The paper backing with cellulose acetate or polyester , and coated it first with black oxide, and later, to improve signal-to-noise ratio and improve overall superior quality, with red oxide ( gamma ferric oxide ). American audio engineer John T. Mullin and entertainer Bing Crosby were key players in the commercial development of magnetic tape. Mullin served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and
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#17330858553625146-465: The radio industry for the first time to pre-record many sections of program content such as advertising, which formerly had to be presented live, and it also enabled the creation and duplication of complex, high-fidelity, long-duration recordings of entire programs. It also, for the first time, allowed broadcasters, regulators and other interested parties to undertake comprehensive logging of radio broadcasts for legislative and commercial purposes, leading to
5229-411: The recording industry. Sound could be recorded, erased and re-recorded on the same tape many times, sounds could be duplicated from tape to tape with only minor loss of quality, and recordings could now be very precisely edited by physically cutting the tape and rejoining it. In August 1948, Los Angeles-based Capitol Records became the first recording company to use the new process. Within a few years of
5312-504: The rest of the series. Crosby's season premier on 1 October 1947 was the first magnetic tape broadcast in America. He became the first major American music star to use tape to pre-record radio broadcasts, and the first to master commercial recordings on tape. The taped Crosby radio shows were painstakingly edited through tape-splicing to give them a pace and flow that was wholly unprecedented in radio. Soon other radio performers were demanding
5395-504: The same recorder unit, which also contained photoelectric sensors, somewhat similar to the various sound-on-film technologies of the era. Magnetic recording was conceived as early as 1878 by the American engineer Oberlin Smith and demonstrated in practice in 1898 by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen . Analog magnetic wire recording , and its successor, magnetic tape recording, involve
5478-521: The signal. Some of this distortion is overcome by using inaudible high-frequency AC bias when recording. The amount of bias needs careful adjustment for best results as different tape material requires differing amounts of bias. Most recorders have a switch to select this. Additionally, systems such as Dolby noise reduction systems have been devised to ameliorate some noise and distortion problems. Variations in tape speed cause wow and flutter . Flutter can be reduced by using dual capstans. The higher
5561-442: The so-called 'full-on' tracks, and, in a way, they are our own favourites". Boards of Canada have written an enormous number of such fragments as well as full-length tracks, most of which have been held back from release, and it does not appear that their music is made exclusively for commercial release; rather, albums seem to be the result of selecting complementary songs from current work. For instance, Geogaddi allegedly involved
5644-504: The speed of the recording. Despite these drawbacks, the ability to make replayable recordings proved useful, and even with subsequent methods coming into use (direct-cut discs and Philips-Miller optical film the Marconi-Stilles remained in use until the late 1940s. Magnetic tape recording as we know it today was developed in Germany during the 1930s at BASF (then part of the chemical giant IG Farben ) and AEG in cooperation with
5727-404: The speed. The tape was 3 mm wide and traveled at 1.5 meters/second. They were not easy to handle. The reels were heavy and expensive and the steel tape has been described as being like a traveling razor blade. The tape was liable to snap, particularly at joints, which at 1.5 meters/second could rapidly cover the floor with loops of the sharp-edged tape. Rewinding was done at twice
5810-498: The standard in recording rooms for many years and was in use until the end of the 1960s. In 1963, the Beatles were allowed to enhance their recordings at the BBC by overdubbing. The BBC didn't have any multi-track equipment; Overdubbing was accomplished by copying onto another tape. The tape speed was eventually standardized at 15 ips for almost all work at Broadcasting House, and at 15 ips for music and 7½ ips for speech at Bush House. Broadcasting House also used
5893-525: The state radio RRG . This was based on Fritz Pfleumer 's 1928 invention of paper tape with oxide powder lacquered onto it. The first practical tape recorder from AEG was the Magnetophon K1 , demonstrated in Berlin, Germany in 1935. Eduard Schüller [ de ] of AEG built the recorders and developed a ring-shaped recording and playback head. It replaced the needle-shaped head which tended to shred
5976-516: The supply and take-up reels during recording and playback functions and maintain the tape's tension. During fast winding operations, the pinch roller is disengaged and the take-up reel motor produces more torque than the supply motor. The cheapest models use a single motor for all required functions; the motor drives the capstan directly and the supply and take-up reels are loosely coupled to the capstan motor with slipping belts, gears, or clutches. There are also variants with two motors, in which one motor
6059-696: The tape. Friedrich Matthias of IG Farben/BASF developed the recording tape, including the oxide, the binder, and the backing material. Walter Weber, working for Hans Joachim von Braunmühl [ de ] at the RRG, discovered the AC biasing technique, which radically improved sound quality. During World War II , the Allies noticed that certain German officials were making radio broadcasts from multiple time zones almost simultaneously. Analysts such as Richard H. Ranger believed that
6142-422: The tracks "Sometimes I Fail", "Support", "Try Again" and "Unspecial Effects" from the album as well. In 2018, the digital download version of Get Scraped was removed from all major streaming and digital download services for unknown reasons, making the album unavailable to listen to in full. In December 2018, the track FlashTV, later known as "Shift", appeared on the compilation album New Year's Eve 2019 . Due to
6225-416: The use of a magnetizable medium which moves with a constant speed past a recording head. An electrical signal, which is analogous to the sound that is to be recorded, is fed to the recording head, inducing a pattern of magnetization similar to the signal. A playback head can then pick up the changes in magnetic field from the tape and convert it into an electrical signal to be amplified and played back through
6308-449: Was Bing Crosby's technical director, Murdo Mackenzie. He arranged for Mullin to meet Crosby and in June 1947 he gave Crosby a private demonstration of his magnetic tape recorders. Bing Crosby , a top movie and singing star, was stunned by the amazing sound quality and instantly saw the huge commercial potential of the new machines. Live music was the standard for American radio at the time and
6391-464: Was a non-magnetic , non-electric version invented by Alexander Graham Bell 's Volta Laboratory and patented in 1886 ( U.S. patent 341,214 ). It employed a 3 ⁄ 16 -inch-wide (4.8 mm) strip of wax-covered paper that was coated by dipping it in a solution of beeswax and paraffin and then had one side scraped clean, with the other side allowed to harden. The machine was of sturdy wood and metal construction and hand-powered by means of
6474-401: Was a chance visit to a studio at Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt while investigating radio beam rumors, that yielded the real prize. Mullin was given two suitcase-sized AEG 'Magnetophon' high-fidelity recorders and fifty reels of recording tape. He had them shipped home and over the next two years he worked on the machines constantly, modifying them and improving their performance. His major aim
6557-485: Was good, and as it wasn't possible to obtain any more Magnetophons it was an obvious choice. In the early 1950s, the EMI BTR 2 became available; a much-improved machine and generally liked. The machines were responsive, could run up to speed quite quickly, had light-touch operating buttons, forward-facing heads (The BTR 1s had rear-facing heads which made editing difficult), and were quick and easy to do fine editing. It became
6640-471: Was posted to Paris in the final months of WWII. His unit was assigned to find out everything they could about German radio and electronics, including the investigation of claims that the Germans had been experimenting with high-energy directed radio beams as a means of disabling the electrical systems of aircraft. Mullin's unit soon amassed a collection of hundreds of low-quality magnetic dictating machines, but it
6723-429: Was still a band (it was later re-pressed in 1997 on CD on the same label). By 1989, the band had been reduced to Mike and Marcus, and they released Acid Memories in the same year. Both albums have only been heard by the band's friends and family, except for a 24-second excerpt of "Duffy", released on the EHX website in the late 1990s. Acid Memories is the only early album the brothers have mentioned in interviews. Later, in
6806-465: Was the dominant format in mass-market recorded music. The development of Dolby noise reduction technology in the 1960s brought audiophile-quality recording to the Compact Cassette also contributing to its popularity. Since their first introduction, analog tape recorders have experienced a long series of progressive developments resulting in increased sound quality, convenience, and versatility. Due to electromagnetism , electric current flowing in
6889-462: Was to interest Hollywood studios in using magnetic tape for movie soundtrack recording. Mullin gave two public demonstrations of his machines, and they caused a sensation among American audio professionals; many listeners literally could not believe that what they heard was not a live performance. By luck, Mullin's second demonstration was held at MGM Studios in Hollywood and in the audience that day
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