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line6bassman
07-22-2012, 08:34 PM
Recording: The History of Recorded Music!!

How It All Began

From cave paintings to the Dead Sea Scrolls, information has been written down and preserved for all to see. Recording sound has been around only since the late 1800s. Sadly, much of the history of sound itself has been lost because it occurred before the ability to record it was available. Imagine being able to hear Mozart play his own piano pieces, or to hear Abraham Lincoln speak. These memories survive only through written words and recollections of the events. Recording sounds has served not only as an important historical tool, but also as a way for music to be preserved and enjoyed.

A Brief History

In 1877 an inventor working in New Jersey single-handedly invented recording, the art and science of capturing sound. Thomas Edison recorded the tune “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on a tin cylinder and subsequently played it back. Edison's system recorded sound as indentations on a rotating tin cylinder, and the sound was then played back via a needle that felt the grooves and replayed the sound. This was the beginning of sound recording as we know it. However, tin was not a durable medium to record sound because it deteriorated upon playback. Tin was also limited to three minutes of recording time. The fidelity of the sound wasn't exactly beautiful either, but it was a start.

Edison was not the only inventor working on sound recording; he just got there first. In the late 1800s, after Edison's original invention, many inventors sought to build a better mousetrap, so to speak. Other inventors devised different disks and cylinders made of various materials to improve sound quality, recording time, and durability.

Edison

Edison pioneered the first audio recordings and brought them into people's homes. Edison's invention of the disk phonograph in 1914 was one of his most significant achievements as an inventor. His disks were more durable, produced immeasurably better sound quality, and could record longer pieces than anything else available. After mass-production of phonographs began, their price fell and allowed them to enter the homes of the common person, no longer a toy just for the wealthy. Record companies started popping up everywhere! This was the beginning of the revolution of bringing sound into the home. Unfortunately, making your own recordings was an expensive and time-consuming operation, and very few companies had the capital or the equipment to do so.

Now for some fun!! The video of this is just the trailer for the film that is in a 7 part Series which is about 70min long at this link. I love this stuff!! The video is in 5.1 Dolby so run it through some speakers there if you can.
http://recordingthehistory.com/video/

Note!! Be aware that there is some crude language here and there in these videos that I wasn't aware of before I put this up. Thanks

Here's some instruction for when you get to this link. You need to click on the Client Area to the left of the screen and register, once you do that you can sign into the Client area and watch the videos.

Also if I can fit it here there will be 2 links or videos to The History Of Hard Disk Recording. I know some of the young here might find some of this a little weird?
Enjoy the Show!!

Line6bassman


http://youtu.be/UC8RQINT22U

The Hard Disk Series


http://youtu.be/khio359hthM


http://youtu.be/ci8-Bsrf_wY

Basslad
07-23-2012, 10:53 AM
Splendid L6B! I will definitely watch it.

Basslad
07-24-2012, 08:58 PM
Enjoyed The History of Recorded Music. Thanks for the link, L6B.