{"id":7767,"date":"2015-07-28T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2015-07-28T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:30:53","slug":"a-history-of-recording-through-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/a-history-of-recording-through-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"a history of recording through 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/charm.cchcdn.net\/history\/p20_4_1.html\">enjoy a lovely history of recording through 1950<\/a>. Lots of sample recordings you can listen to, including essentially-hifi recordings made live on 78s towards the end of that technology cycle. (Did you know a 78rpm live-recording shellac disc could record 14khz tones? Neither did I. That&#8217;s about where FM radio tops out, for comparison purposes. SURPRISE)<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of illustrative mp3s showing the difference between purely-mechanical recording and &#8220;electronic&#8221; recording &#8211; the move from acoustic horns to microphones, basically. Still no tape or ability to edit; throughout this entire era it&#8217;s still horns-or-live-mics-to-etched-master-disc. But the appearance of electric microphones in 1924 changed everything, and to be able to hear it on from-the-era recordings is just amazing.<\/p>\n<p>(And if you&#8217;re seeing this on Livejournal or Dreamwidth, the Korra icon I&#8217;m using with this post is basically one of the kinds of microphones they&#8217;d&#8217;ve been using in the early electric recordings, preserved here. Cool. huh?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, enjoy a lovely history of recording through 1950. Lots of sample recordings you can listen to, including essentially-hifi recordings made live on 78s towards the end of that technology cycle. (Did you know a 78rpm live-recording shellac disc could record 14khz tones? [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness","category-recording-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}