SIGNAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEM

PURPOSE:To make the recording and reproducing of a digitized sound signal possible with simple constitution by oscillating and driving a head at the sample frequency of the sound signal or the frequency of a fraction of its integers. CONSTITUTION:A magnetic head provided with a gap 2a of a direction parallel with a running direction of a magnetic tape 1 is oscillated and driven at the sample frequency of the sound signal or the frequency of a fraction of its integers. Thereby, intermittent recording regions 5, 5'... recorded with one set or integer sets of the digital sound signals such as PCM corresponding to samples are formed in the track 3 formed by the loci 4 of the head 2 of the tape 1. At the same time, the control signal of the frequency corresponding to the oscillation frequency of the head 2 is recorded in a control track 6, and the phase of the reproduced digital signal is servocontrolled by the reproduced control signal. Hence, the recording and reproducing of the digitized sound signal are accomplished with the simple constitution without using any multichannel head, VTR, etc.