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How does tape recorder work?

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Tape recorders capture sound by catching sound vibrations and creating electric pulse patterns on the moving tape. Metal powder covers the tape causing fluctuations on the magnetic tape in order to produce sound.

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A cassette tape is made out of a plastic material, coated with a substance that reacts to magnetic pulses. When it is being recorded to, the magnetic field alters the magentic substance of the tape, thereby recording it. When you wish to play it back, the motors spin the cassette reel, and the tape passes over what is called the tape head. The tape head uses inductors, and is affected by the field that is on the tape, there by producing sound. Sounds complicated, but it really isn't.

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The magnetic tape runs on to wheels in the plastic cassette tape. The magnetic tape can be rewound or sped forward to reach the proper place in the tape's information.

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