It is placed on the "back" of the tape, directly across from the recording head.

"Before so much as an inch of tape passed through the recording head.

Within he saw a spindle and a recording head.

Photo of an early recording head as part of a wire recorder.

The two most common forms of recording head are:

From there, he and his colleagues found a way to make ferrite recording heads which were in high demand.

The first development in multitracking was stereo sound, which divided the recording head into two tracks.

Unlike the recording head, the playback head has a single core.

This removes smudges and dirt on the recording head.

By 1964, however, Shure announced it would no longer produce tape recording heads due to increased competition.

March 1998 - Seagate produced its 1 billionth magnetic recording head.

It was able to order its own parts factories to shrink the circuitry and produce a tiny recording head for the tape.

The most significant advance is a new type of magnetic recording head known as a magneto-resistive head.

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.

The recorder has a double recording head, similar to a two-track recorder.

A conventional tape recorder uses two recording heads.

A sophisticated recording head reads all nine tracks in parallel, helping to speed the flow of information onto and off the tape.

Maybe the recording head is worn and causing distortion.' '

Permalloy is used in transformer laminations and magnetic recording heads.

Yah had cooked the signal before it reached the recording heads; this was not the first time, and the contamination always got onto the tape.

Signal passes through a coil in a recording head, and that causes a magnetic field to form between the poles of the magnet.

Recording heads are generally classified according to the physical principle that allows them to impress their data upon their medium.

Each of the two cores of the recording head records both the audio signal, and the pilot tone.

The key is the use of mathematical data compression technology, combined with advanced recording heads and sturdier cassette construction.