tape machine

Burnett told me he captured the session on a restored Nagra tape machine as well as a digital recorder.

“Negativland” buzzes with a distorted twang created by Plank manually phasing two recordings of Dinger playing the shamisen, a Japanese banjo, standing between two tape machines and slowing down one tape and then the other.

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

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

Ellsberg, feeling absurdly out of place, hurried behind with his date’s heavy tape machine.