Reel-to-Reel to Digital Conversion

Transfer Reel to Reel Tapes to Digital                                      Before cassette tapes, there were reel-to-reel audio tapes. Think of reel-to-reel audio tapes as giant audio cassette tapes, but with the protective cassettes removed. Doing anything with open reels was a lot more involved, from recording and playback to storage. Reel-to-reel, or open-reel audiotape, was the earliest form of magnetic tape used for audio recording. The supply or feed reel containing the tape was mounted on a spindle, the end of the tape threaded through mechanical guides and tape head assembly, and attached to a take-up reel. The earliest reel-to-reel recorders used steel tape. Reel-to-reel tape was used in early tape drives for data storage on mainframe computers, videotape recorder (VTR) machines, and high-quality analog audio recorders. Inexpensive reel-to-reel tape recorders were widely used for voice recording in the home and in schools before the compact cassette gradually took over star