How to Use reel-to-reel in a Sentence

reel-to-reel

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• The person had transferred the reel-to-reel to DAT and then got rid of it.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 9 July 2024
• And then the reel-to-reel tape machines were, like, two thousand bucks.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 July 2024
• Seven places to listen to the reel-to-reel tapes and 14 machines running.
  — Mary Zahn and Bill Janz, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Galileo had been built in the eighties and used a reel-to-reel memory system.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• Her words are often heard over footage of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, in a way that draws attention to the power of her voice.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
• Elyea said, pointing to an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape player.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Everything was on reel-to-reel before, and so all four of us would have to be in the recording studio to get something down.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
• Unlike a record player—or the reel-to-reel tape player—the boom box was both portable and commensurate with the scale and the volume of the city.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• Teenager John Bloomfield, a boarder at Stowe in Buckinghamshire, tested out his new reel-to-reel tape recorder at the show.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
• Of course, that doesn’t include the cost of a working reel-to-reel machine, which, if eBay is any guide, could add a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.
  — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
• At some point, the reel-to-reel moved across town from Ohmit's studio to songwriter Black's Butler-Tarkington home.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2024
• Doc Watson might be my earliest memory, hearing him on my dad’s big reel-to-reel tape recorder.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
• The younger Penders, who has seen reel-to-reel highlights of that team, would like to have his own Omaha adventure to bring to the next holiday gathering.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
• One place his vision is most evident is in his reel-to-reel tape box collages, rarely displayed publicly until now.
  — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The photographer returned to Chicago with a portable reel-to-reel recorder to capture the voices and stories behind the black-and-white images.
  — Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• To us denizens of the digital age, the state-of-the-art eavesdropping technologies in these movies, with their dials and levers and reel-to-reel tapes, look quaint bordering on otherworldly.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
• The visual exceptions are the clichéd, recurring establishing shots of an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape recorder, next to a martini glass.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• Fifty years before TikTok appeared in the app store, Hagin began broadcasting his sermons over the radio and selling reel-to-reel tapes to anyone willing to pay for them.
  — Laura Bullard, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
• Each of these capsules sported a bed, a fold-out desk and a reel-to-reel tape player, and they were marketed toward businessmen who regularly overnighted in Tokyo.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• Krapp emerges onstage, coughing and doddering, into a dusty study and sits down at a desk to rehearse an annual ritual: recording a monologue on a chunky, reel-to-reel tape recorder.
  — Houman Barekat, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
• While sorting through storage in their Rhode Island studio to prep those reissues, Ivy stumbled upon a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes and old hard drives with unused material.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
• Keith Owens, a preservation lead, operates a reel-to-reel microfilm scanner to digitize records.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• The Boston location will utilize two projectors and play reel-to-reel.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2025