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Noise Floor
The inherent noise of a recording medium, a noise floor typically sounds like hiss and differs with the makeup of different types and qualities of tape and film. For example, a consumer grade cassette tape has a higher noise floor than a professional 1/4” tape, and a high quality digital

Advanced Intelligent Tape
AIT, or Advanced Intelligent Tape, is a high-speed, high-capacity magnetic tape data storage format developed by Sony to compete with the DLT, LTO, DAT/DDS, and VXA formats. AIT uses a dual-reel cassette similar to 8mm Video8 or Exabyte formats. Super AIT (SAIT) is a higher capacity variant

Bleed Through
Magnetic tape or film stores audio information via metal particles applied to one side of the tape or film. A record head applies a magnetic flux to those particles, which then orient themselves to represent the audio information. A playback head reads the magnetic flux stored on the tape to