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Why do you need a tape monitor facility as the sound going in surely is the same as the sound being recorded or am I missing something
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Silly question time
Why do you need a tape monitor facility as the sound going in surely is the same as the sound being recorded or am I missing something
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It is mate, so much so i don't understand the question, have you been smokin those funny mushrooms again
But if you're asking why you need a tape monitor on your amp simply speaking think of your amp as the hub that everything goes in and out of, if you want to record from CD then you simply press the button and it's done, without a tape monitor output you would need to disconnect the CD player and plug it directly into the tape input, there are probably loads of technical reasons why you do it that way but to my mind it's simply for convenience.
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I'm Allen.
i'm refering to a reel to reel machine not a amp
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lets you monitor the sound levels that are going directly onto the tape, as the playback head is directly after the record head(3head machine). Allows gain etc to be selected .. has other uses too..
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Tape monitoring is usually t allow what is being recorded to be monitored off tape, that is, to check that your recording is happening and to assess its quality and level. Monitoring what is going into the recorder, its I/P, is different from monitoring what is on the tape, the tape recorder's O/P.
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Tape monitoring, as Dennis and Grant have said, is used to check the quality of the recording. The quality of the recording depends on the recording electronics, the recording head and the tape used. To hear what has been recorded, the tape is monitored by the replay head (along with the replay electronics) as the recording is being made.
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Originally Posted by Barry
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What is it you don't understand Al?
Barry
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It just seems pointless to me , You have 2 heads seconds apart , I have seen videos of the monitor switch being used " This is the sound coming in " flick the switch and " This is the sound being recorded " what can you do about it in those nanoseconds
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