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Is this possible? plausible?

I took tape out of a cassette, and slowly dragged it across the top of my voice recorder, it was a mozart tape. Anyways, when i played it back, i heard something that sounded vaguely like what was on the cassette. I thought that this might happen because the tape is magnetic, and the magnets in the mic....but then again, I was just bored, and I don't know if anyone else thinks this is possible, or if it's just wishful thinking...

:?: :?: :?:

thanks, Mi.Ne.

I'm not sure how plausible it is. In my opinion, depending on how magnetic your microphone is - all you might actually do is slightly erase the cassette tape.

I wouldn't try it unless I didn't care about the tape.

Freq

upload the sound, let us hear!

Good point Streety... If it looks and sounds like a duck... or in this case Mozart, then why not.

fm

I think I just have very distorted perceptions of reality, that's all. I'll try it, and load the sound...

Interesting!

I'm going to research this a bit. I'll let you know if I find out anything cool.

I would belive that if you can tell me that the microphone is not a condensor but a dynamic one ..
there is a voice coil in there and the magnetic field of the tape will induct a voltage in the coil. The microphone will then act as a magnetic head of a tape machine.

-Erdie

Is that your Olympus voice recorder Flowers? Those don't have a dynamic mike so that shouldn't work. At least it doesn't work with mine.

(can't comment on your perception on reality, though... :wink: )

if it sounds too much like Mozart then you can't upload it...reverse it or something so we can download it and reverse it back...

Aghh! All my files got screwed up last night while I was recording some noise, I guess leaving it at the very edge of a table wasn't a good idea T_T. But I recorded it again, with less success... I'll upload it today.

Erdie: so what you're saying is that if I have the right type of microphone that this could actually work!? That'd be awesome! If so, any suggestions on microphones I could buy to do it?

And also, a method of doing it?