Dates Flashcards
1st recording machine for audio recording sound (That cant play back)
- The earliest known attempt to record sound was the phonautograph, invented in France in the mid 1800’s, it recorded vibrations as a trace on a carbon blackened glass cylinder.
- This was used to investigate the wave nature of sound, amongst other things.
1st recording and reproduction machine
- 1877, Edison, Cylinder mechano acoustic
- Edison, drawing on his vast experience in telegraph equipment, in July 1877 conceived of the idea of using a sensitive electromagnetic device to inscribe telephone messages on a strip of wax-coated paper.
- Edison used a sheet of thick tinfoil, wrapped around cylinder, indented by a stylus attached to diaphragm.
Tone Tests
Behind of the curtain comparing the singer (singing the same as the reproduction)
- 1954
G. A. Briggs stages a live-versus-recorded demonstration in London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Who invented stereo and when
- Alan Blumlein
- Early 1930’s
Alan Blumlein, of EMI in London patents stereo & a “45-45” cutting system for stereo disks.
- Bell Labs in New York experiment with a vertical-lateral stereo disk cutter.
Who invented multi tracking and overdubbing and when
- Les Paul
- Early 1950s
1st Cardioid mics and when were they invented - where was it made
How: Omni and bi-directional capsules put together and wired them
Early 1930s
1932 - The first cardioid ribbon microphone is patented by Dr. Harry F. Olson of RCA
When did disk records become more popular than cylinder records
1909 - Disk records become more popular than cylinder records.
When did people start recording with tape?
1945 - Two Magnetophon tape decks are sent back to the U.S. In pieces in multiple mailbags by U.S. Army Signal Corps Major John T. (Jack) Mullin.
When did electrical recording start?
1925 - Bell Labs develops a moving armature lateral cutting system for electrical recording on disk.
Commercial digital audio starts
1986 - The first digital recording and mixing consoles appear
DAWs taking over from tape
Mid 1990s
The first commercial 2-track stereo tapes are released.
1954
Shure Bros. engineers a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern,
called the Unidyne, Model 55, the basis for the well known SM57 and SM58 microphones.
- RCA develops the first column loudspeaker array.
1938
The first commercial stereo disk recordings appear.
1958
MIDI is standardized as the universal synthesizer interface.
1981
