tape machine

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They also retrieved Paul’s Ampex 5258 Sel-Sync multitrack tape machine, familiarly known as the Octopus, which sits alongside the console, and was the first-ever eight-track.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

In 1957, he produced her first album, “Negro Folk Songs and Tunes,” recorded on a portable tape machine at her house; it introduced “Freight Train” to the world.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest,” Urie says.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

It's got shag pile carpets on the wall, and not set up for modern digital recording at all; there's an old tape machine.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2021

I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom