Magnetic recording device

A magnetic recording device for recording an FM luminance signal the frequency corresponding to a sink chip of which is a frequency fs and the frequency corresponding to a white peak of which is a frequency fw on a magnetic tape, comprising:

• a frequency modulation circuit for generating a modified FM luminance signal that is an FM luminance signal the frequency of a carrier wave of which is set to a frequency higher than the frequency of a carrier wave of the FM luminance signal when a minimum frequency of the frequency band of said FM luminance signal is a frequency fa, the difference between the frequency corresponding to the sink chip and the frequency corresponding to the white peak of which is equal to the difference between the frequency fs and the frequency fw and the relationship between the frequency corresponding to the sink chip and the frequency corresponding to the white peak of which is reverse to the relationship between the frequency fs and the frequency fw;
• a filter circuit for removing a signal component higher than a cut-off frequency of signal components included in the modified FM luminance signal when a frequency higher than a maximum frequency of the frequency band of the modified FM luminance signal by a frequency acquired by doubling the frequency fa is the cut-off frequency;
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• a frequency conversion circuit for generating the FM luminance signal by converting the frequency of the modified FM luminance signal sent from said filter circuit by using a local oscillated signal of a frequency higher than the frequency of the carrier wave of the modified FM luminance signal.