Dubbing apparatus for audio equipment

A dubbing apparatus for audio equipment comprising:

• a reproducing device for reproducing a plurality of pieces of music recorded on one of an optical disk and a digital audio tape and outputting the reproduced music as music signals;
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• a recording device having a magnetic head circuit for dubbing the reproduced music signals to a magnetic tape, said recording device stopping a recording operation each time the reproduction of each piece of music is completed, rewinding the magnetic tape for a duration equal to the sum of a reduction time of the recorded piece of music and a cross fade time, and restarting the recording operation form the rewound position, wherein the music signal of a next piece of music is reproduced by the reproducing device while at the same time gradually lowering the recording level of the previously recorded piece of music for the duration of the cross fade time, thus overlapping the two adjacent pieces of music in the cross fade time, said reduction time representing a portion of each reproduced music piece which is deleted from each corresponding recorded music piece, to enable all of said reproduced music pieces to be re-recorded.