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A recording head is the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium. Recording heads are generally classified according to the physical principle that allows them to impress their data upon their medium. A recording head is often mechanically paired with a playback head, which, though proximal to, is often discrete from the record head.
Usage examples of "recording head".
Changing tapes was only a matter of slapping a new reel into place, dropping the tape into the recording head, and threading it into the empty reel.
Signal passes through a coil in a recording head, and that causes a magnetic field to form between the poles of the magnet.
In the kitchen, the sound of tape running through the recording head was audible .
For several minutes, there was nothing but the hiss of the tape coursing past the recording head, and that damned dog.
Trembling, Anderton rewound the tape and clicked on the recording head.
A fresh spool of tape lay in the output deck, its end threaded through the brake rollers and recording head to the empty takeup reel.
Thirty seconds after he had called for power, the multichannel tape began to whine through the recording head, its reels blurred and roaring.
If he'd wiped the dynamite out with racing, boasting he'd poured millions down the drain (or past the recording head) he still surely had whatever he needed for a clone.