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The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
The information leaflet that Sony included in each box of ferrichrome cassette tapes recommended that, "If the selector has two positions, NORMAL and CrO 2, set it to the NORMAL position." [74] (which applies 120 μs equalisation). The leaflet notes that the high frequency range will be enhanced and that the tone control should be adjusted to ...
Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the form of a cassette tape; Digital Audio Tape (or DAT), a digital audio cassette tape format, mainly used by professionals; Digital Compact Cassette (or DCC), a short-lived digital audio cassette format aimed at domestic users; Videocassette, a cassette containing videotape, for use in VCRs
The phrase cassette tape is ambiguous in that there is no common dictionary definition [1] [2] [3] so depending upon usage it has many different meanings, as for example any one the one of 106 different types of audio cassettes, [4] video cassettes [5] or data cassettes [6] listed at The Museum of Obsolete Media.
The microcassette was beaten to market by the Mini-Cassette, introduced by Philips in 1967. The mini-cassette is almost identical in appearance and dimensions to the microcassette, however it has thicker cogs for its reels and a slightly wider cassette. The mini-cassette, despite making it to market first, was less successful than the ...
Also, there is a sliding write-protect tab on the DCC to enable and disable recording. Unlike the break-away notches on analog compact cassettes and VHS tapes, this tab makes it easier to make a tape recordable again, and unlike on analog compact cassettes, the marker protects the entire tape rather than just one side.
“Cassette culture” is an international music scene that developed in the wake of punk in the second half of the 1970s and continued through into the first half of the 1980s (the "postpunk" period), and in some territories into the 1990s, in which a large number of amateur musicians outside the established music industry, usually recording in their homes and usually recording to cassette ...
Cassette decks reached their pinnacle of performance and complexity by the mid-1980s. [citation needed] Cassette decks from companies such as Nakamichi, Revox, and Tandberg incorporated advanced features such as multiple tape heads and dual capstan drive with separate reel motors. Auto-reversing decks became popular and were standard on most ...