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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
process of converting the acoustic energy of sound into some form in which it can be permanently stored and reproduced at any time. In 1855 the inventor Leon Scott constructed a device called a phonautograph that recorded tracings of the vibrations of sound. Thomas Edison, starting about 1877, made great improvements in mechanical sound recording and was the first inventor to achieve the actually audible reproduction of recorded sound. The greatest advances, however, were made after the adoption in 1925 of electromechanical systems using electronic amplifiers (see record player ). Generally (since the 1920s), in recording, the sound waves impinge on a microphone or set of microphones and are converted into an electrical signal that is used to make a recording. Originally, the signal was recorded directly on a master phonograph disk. Later, magnetic recording tape and then digital computer files were used to record the signal. Both magnetic tape and computer file recordings can be…
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Conversion of sound waves into a form that can be stored and reproduced. Thomas Edison 's phonograph (1877) recorded sound vibrations as indentations made by a stylus on a revolving cylinder wrapped in tinfoil. Another US inventor, German-born Emile Berliner produced a gramophone that improved the…
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Full text Article sound recording

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
process of converting the acoustic energy of sound into some form in which it can be permanently stored and reproduced at any time. In 1855 the inventor Leon Scott constructed a device called a phonautograph that recorded tracings of the vibrations of sound. Thomas Edison, starting about 1877, made…
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Full text Article double-system sound recording

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Full text Article single-system sound recording

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Full text Article sound recording

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Full text Article sound recording studio

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Full text Article sound recording film

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The mechanical method of recording sound was invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877. With the help of mass production of recorded copies for entertainment, cylinder phonographs, and then disk phonographs developed into a major industry during the first quarter of the twentieth century. However, …
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Full text Article re-record; rerecord

From A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms
1 . Literally, to record again. The post-production process of taking all of the previously recorded sound tracks, mixing them into a single combined soundtrack, and recording the resulting mono, stereo, or multichannel mix. The re-recorded mix becomes the audio program that accompanies the visual…
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