Loop Bin Master
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The endless loop of tape used for the high speed duplication of cassettes.
It contains both tracks of the cassette material, one going in the reverse of the other.
Usually ½ inch tape which is recorded at 3¾ ips and then run (typically) at 96 times speed to one or more slave machines loaded with a "pancake" of cassette tape the length of which usually allows some 30 copies to be produced of C60 duration. At the splice of the loop a sub audible tone is introduced which controls the cutting and splicing during the subsequent loading process into C0 cassette shells.
