AET 1380 Survey of Recording Technology

AET 1380 - Survey of Recording Technology
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Links of Interest

Timelines

Technology Time-Line Chart
Recording History Time-Line
Audio / Recording Time-Line from AES (Audio Engineering Society) When Vinyl Ruled

History

The Phonoautograph (the First Machine to Record Sound)
Emile Berliner (the grandfather of it all)
Berliner Microphone Patent (the start of it all)
Early Recording (c. 1890s to 1920s) (photos of early recording sessions)
Edison's First Recording (listen to the original Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Edison Recordings (good Edison stuff from pbs.org)
TinFoil.com (dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds)
great early recordings stuff...check out the Interview link on page two

Beginnings of Magnetic Recording
Reverb Chamber Patent (1935)

Vintage King Article Archives
Recording History

Columbia Graphophone Company: Recording Expeditions Instructions

12 Microphones that Changed History

Articles about the Limitations of Acoustical Recording and the Transition to Electrical Recording.

Edison Ad. Print

Edison Phonograph Museum

A Brief History of Record Production

The NPR 100, A Great Place to Learn About the Biz and the Creative Process
(This is a good place to find some interesting stuff about the
Beach Boys' song "Good Vibrations," Chuck Berry's "Mabellene," and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze")

Nipperhead A Cool Website with Lots of Phonograph/Gramophone Stuff

Early Development of the LP
Recording Technology History - University of San Diego
Recording History - Duke University
Mix Magazine - Technology Hall of Fame
Baking Tapes?
CHARM - A Brief History of Recording
The Last 25 years of Recording
How Classic Album Tracks Were Made
8 tracks

Today & The Future

Modern Music Mastering - The Loudness War
The Future of Audio Pt 1 - Direct Note Access
The Future of Audio Pt 2 - Surround Miking

Other

Introduction to Computer Music: Volume One
A good reference for basic acoustics, MIDI, microphones, etc.
by Jeffrey Hass, Associate Professor, Indiana University

Equal Loudness Perception

How Our Brains "Fill In The Gaps"