A set of inputs and outputs that allows audio information to pass from one component to another and back again Typically, amplifiers, tape decks and Minidisc decks have tape loops for recording a source that is fed into the amplifier, and for listening to the recorded sound when played through the recorder The Tape Loop is used in Home Cinema to connect a Processor to a stereo hi-fi amplifier
A musical device used during the experimentalistphase of twentieth- century classical music by electronic music composers A tape loop is, literally, a loop of magnetic tape which creates a recurring sound as it cycles through the tape recorder When several tape loops are combined, unusual musical textures can result
A length of tape with the ends spliced together so that the recording will continuously play