ABSTRACT
From its inception in Germany in the late 1920s and its American introduction by Jack Mullin in 1945, the analog tape recorder (or ATR) had steadily increased in quality and universal acceptance to the point that professional and personal studios had totally relied upon magnetic media for the storage of analog sound onto reels of tape. The process of recording audio onto magnetic tape depends on the transport's capability to pass a precise length of tape over the recording head at a specific and constant speed, with a uniform tension. Equalization (EQ) is a term that's used to denote an intentional change in relative amplitudes at different frequencies. A form of deterioration in a recording's quality, known as print-through, begins to occur almost immediately after a recording has been made. Modulation noise is a high-frequency component that causes sonic "fuzziness' by introducing sideband frequencies that can distort the signal.
