Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

I've recorded live music events on DAT tape for years and recently started thinking about ways to modernize the process and skip the tape altogether. I've been looking for a portable audio recorder to ...

Connect a microphone to your computer; type "Sound Recorder" in your Start menu, you're ready to record using your Windows Sound recorder. Computer-based recorders are useful, but they have ...

There's a world of recorded sound embedded into daily life — from bedside white noise machines, to music playlists, to voicemails. And yet, the technology behind recorded sound has only been around ...