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1877
Thomas Edison invents recorded sound / Carbon Button Microphones -
1887
Emile Berliner’s disc records -
1889
Wax Cylinders -
1889-1925
The Acoustic Recording Era -
1896
Shellac Records -
1906
Lee De Forest invents the triode -
1916
condenser microphones -
1920
Ribbon microphones / Tape Delay -
1925-1945
The electric Recording Era -
1931
Moving Coil (dynamic microphone) -
1932
Rickenbacker Ro-Pat-In -
1935
Hammond Organ Model A -
1947
Vinyl Records / Fender Precision (P-bass) / Clavioline -
1948
Tape Recording (mono) / Fender Champ & Princeton -
1949
Leslie Rotary Speaker model 122 / Neumann U-47 -
1950
Fender Broadcaster / Gibson Es-175 -
1951
Pulse Technologies EQP-1A -
1952
Gibson Les Paul -
1954
Wurlitzer Model 100 / Volume Pedal / RCA 77DX / Fender Strat -
1955
Tremolo on Guitar Amps / Reverb on Guitar Amps -
1956
Vox AC-15 -
1957
EMT Plate Reverberator -
1959
Fairchild 660 -
1960
Teletronix LA-2A / Univox Uni- Vibe / overdubbing -
1962
Vox Continental / Marshall JTM-45 / Maestro Fuzztone FZ-1 / Compact Cassette / Maestro Echoplex -
1963
Mellotron -
1964
Hohner Clavinet / Farfisa Compact -
1965
Dolby A / Shure SM-57 -
1966
Dunlop Cry Baby -
1968
UREI 1176 -
1969
Ampeg SVT -
1970
Fender Rhodes Mark 1 / minimoog -
1971
New England Digital Synclavier / Parametric EQ / Lexicon Delta – T / Tascam DTRS -
1972
Heil Talkbox / Arp Odyssey / Mutron III / MXR Phase 90 -
1974
Kurzweil K250 / Eventide 910 -
1976
Westrex Method / Stereo Records / DBX 160 -
1978
Lexicon 224 -
1981
IBM Personal Computer -
1982
Digital Multitrack Tape / Compact Discs (CDs) -
1984
Digidesign Sound Designer / Apple Macintosh -
1987
R-DAT -
1988
Akai MPC-60 -
1989
Digidesign Pro Tools / Wax Cylinders -
1990
The Worldwide Web -
1991
Alesis ADAT -
1997
Autotune -
2001
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