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== Analog Loop Bin Duplicator ==
An analog loop bin uses a long loop of 1/2" wide tape loaded in a large bin located in the front of the machine, which is read on both sides by the duplicator at a very high speed, either 32, 64, 80, or 100 times the normal speed of playback (1.875 [[inches per second|ips]]) of an audio cassette (60, 120, 150, and 187.5
While this loop is being played back, the audio signals for the A and B side are sent to a "slave" recorder or an audio bus that contains multiple "slaves". The "slave" records the A and B side to a reel of raw 1/8" audio tape wound on a "pancake" reel (similar to [[film|motion picture film]] wound on a plastic core) at the same high speed. After it is recorded, this pancake of tape is then loaded onto special machines called loaders. The loader has cassette shells containing only a leader called C-0 cassettes that are loaded one at a time or into a hopper where the C-0s are fed automatically depending on the type of loader. The tape from the pancake is then spliced onto the C-0 cassette's leader and then wound into the cassette by the loader.
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