Tape recorder conection error

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On simple consumer tape decks there's usually just two heads: one for erasing and the second for both recording & playback.

Like said numerous times: the Radio connector is for input & output, on different pins, in stereo.

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Revox might be expensive.
Cheaper might be an Akai GX4000 if you can find one. 3 head and can also do sound-on-sound recording.
http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/akai- ... -reel/4155
It was certainly my first recording studio before cassette based ones. I only stopped using mine when it became almost impossible to find decent blank tape for it locally.
I have a 3 head cassette machine by Sony, it doesn't have to be open reel.
Incidentaly, any tape recorder can be used in your projects. A modern recording DAW can make re-recording relatively easy as you can time stretch out the timing errors caused by tape fluctuation. You may not be able to hear the result in real time without a 3 head machine, but you can certainly make use of the "sound" of tape.

If I had an open reel, I use it for loops. Looping tape is tricky, but because of the effort required, you tend to play with what you have instead of endless twiddling in a DAW.
If you have 2 open reel machines of similar spec, you can go mad and have a single tape off one machine spooling up on the other - really long delays.

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Thanks, I will continue looking for a new tape machine and i will keep all of this in mind. this is very helpful

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