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n. A machine that records sound onto, or plays sound from, tape wound on one reel, by feeding it through to another reel.
Usage examples of "reel-to-reel".
White House tapes, including Dictabelt phone recordings of his conversations with Barnett and others during the crisis, and Cabinet Room and Oval Office reel-to-reel tape recordings of White House meetings on September 30-October 1, 1962.
He circled a finger and Alf opened more of the red oak cabinetry to reveal a large reel-to-reel tape recorder, a stainless steel Grundig that began turning at once.
Where once cases of lima beans, truck axles, plumbing pipes, and other cargo had been stored, the earphone-clad intercept operators now sat in front of racks of receivers and reel-to-reel tape recorders.
Many analysts have reel-to-reel tape recorders for listening to the intercepted voice conversations.
Many employees have two separate computer terminals on their desk and some, especially voice analysts, also have reel-to-reel tape recorders to listen to voice intercepts.
To illustrate his point, he played each jingle three or four times on the reel-to-reel before resorting to his other museum piece, the oldest functioning micro-cassette player in existence, for a tinny rendition of the offending lines or bridge from the suspect song.
He let the opened bottle sit while he made an adjustment with the voice-tone knob on a microwave receiving set that was plugged into reel-to-reel tape decks.
The microphone was set up, and the reel-to-reel tape recorder set to turning.
Jack could see Casey crouched over an extremely professional-looking sound-board, reel-to-reel tape recorder close to his right hand.
In Reduktor's compartments they were busy with their reel-to-reel tape drives-probably all made in Japan-recording every word, peep or chirp on every radio frequency that the U.