arrangement for recording or play back an electric signal on a magnetic aufzeichnungstraeger.

摘要

An apparatus for recording an electric signal (A) on a magnetic record carrier (1) comprises at least one pair of write heads (K1, K2) having a mechanically rigid coupling to each other and arranged on a head drum (40). The record carrier (1) is wrapped around the head drum through a wrapping angle alpha . The pair of heads (K1, K2) writes pairs of tracks (T1, T2; T3, T4; ...) on the record carrier. The apparatus further comprises a signal separator (4) for dividing the electric signal into consecutive blocks, after which the signal blocks having odd sequence number (B1, B3, ...) are applied to a first output (5) and the signal blocks having even sequence number (B2, B4...) are applied to a second output (6). In a time-base-correction circuit (7) the signal blocks (A1, A2) are time expanded or compressed. alpha Differs from 180o. Signal blocks having odd sequence number are delayed in time relative to signal blocks having even sequence number (16). Subsequently, the signal blocks thus processed are recorded. Time compression or expansion is effected by a factor of alpha n/180.(M+1), where n is the number of head pairs and M is the number of times within a specific time interval that a head pair which comes in contact with a record carrier during said time interval does not record a signal in the record carrier, which time interval is defined by those instants at which two consecutive track pairs are recorded by one or two head pairs. Moreover, an apparatus is described for reproducing the signal recorded by means of said recording apparatus.