Recorded music

Recorded Audio

  • Phonautograph

    Phonautograph

    The first device that could record actual sounds as they passed through the air (but could not play them back), by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
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    Acoustic era

    The earliest practical recording technologies were entirely mechanical devices.
  • Phonograph cylinder

    Phonograph cylinder

    It was the first practical sound recording and reproduction device, by Thomas Edison
  • Gramophone disc

    Gramophone disc

    Is an analog sound storage. Were easier to manufacture, transport and store, and they could be louder than cylinders by Emilie Berliner.
  • Phonofilm

    Phonofilm

    It employed optical recording technology, in which the audio signal was graphically recorded on photographic film.Developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case
  • Magnetic tape

    Magnetic tape

    Is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
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    Magnetic era

  • Compact casete

    Compact casete

    Is a sound recording and video tape format that was widely used.
  • Compact disc

    Compact disc

    It have digital information that is descodificate and is transformed to analog sound . is smaller han gramaphone disc.
  • Ribbon Microphone

    Ribbon Microphone

    Was used to convert the sound into an electrical signal that was amplified and used to actuate the recording stylus, it eliminated te "horn sound"
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    Electrical era

    The 'second wave' of sound recording in history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders

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