Computers Quote by Robert Wolff

When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from…

— Pauline Oliveros

Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can…

— Lenny Kravitz

My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to…

— Pauline Oliveros

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option,…

— Dave Grohl

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and…

— Beck

I think the whole obsession with old gear is completely overblown. You don't need old-fashioned gear to make a great-sounding record. You don't even…

— Tony Visconti

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and…

— Beck

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

— Robert Harris

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned…

— Bryan Ferry

When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.

— Adrian Younge

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter…

— Terry Riley