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Keeping It Reel T-shirt - Retro reel to reel machine
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Keeping It Reel T-shirt - Retro reel to reel machine
The term 'reel to reel tape recorder' is a good example of a retronym, which is a new name given to something to differentiate it from a more recent version of the same thing - for example, a guitar was a guitar until the electric guitar was invented, when it became an acoustic guitar. Similarly with the invention of the cassette in the 1960's a tape recorder became a reel to reel tape recorder. These days digital recording is very common but many retro-minded folk still prefer using tape - after all, digital recordings can suffer from clock jitter, improper wordlength conversion and lack of correct dithering, all of which sounds a lot more serious than your tape breaking. And anyway, tape is cool! You can watch it going round and round and everything, and you can't do that with millions of naughts and ones can you? We'd rather have naughts and crosses - which is why we've produced this t-shirt.