"NN" <davidla***@aol.com> wrote in message
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>I remember is the days of cassettes for audio,  you could get a three
> head tape system where audio could be recorded and split moment later
> it would pass by the playback head.  If you switched back and fort
> between playback and source, you could see if there is much of a
> difference.  Do VHS players and camcorders have this option while
> recording? Or does anyone remember this old stuff.

> VHS players and tape-based camcorders do not use linear heads, but a rotary
> drum.  No consumer unit allows the kind of monitoring you're describing.
>

> PTravel wrote:
> > VHS players and tape-based camcorders do not use linear heads, but a rotary
> > drum.  No consumer unit allows the kind of monitoring you're describing.
> >
>
> Every VHS Camcorder and Deck ever made  had linear audio heads, even
> the HiFi units also have linear audio heads. I do not know of any
> outside of perhaps high end professional Cams that had "Confidence
> Heads" to read what was just recorded.