MAKING SOUND

How the gear in a recording studio
actually works. A working style-frame.

FIG.001 — ¼-INCH REEL-TO-REEL TAPE MACHINE

The machine that writes sound
onto a moving ribbon.

A tape machine stores sound as a magnetic imprint on a thin ribbon of tape. As the tape travels from the supply reel to the take-up reel, it passes three heads in turn — erase wipes the tape clean, record writes the new signal, and playback reads it straight back.

DRAWN IN TRUE ISOMETRIC · ONE ACCENT FILL MARKS THE WOUND TAPE · ALL PARTS FROM A SINGLE PROJECTION ENGINE

hover a head to see its job