Recording History

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Hey guys,
Ok, i didn't know where to post this, but I guess this'll do. This is definately a subject that hasn't been talked about on this BBS, at least, not in the time I've been here. Soooo, without any further adu..

I'm doing a term paper on the history of recording. I figured if anyone knew about the history of recording, it'd be ya'll. So, if you can please give me any type of info about the history of this great science, i'd be greatly appreciative.

Thanks for your help guys, i know I can count on ya'll...

***Justin***
 
Yo Justin:

Punch up either of these sites and ASK and you shall receive:
www.askjeeves.com

www. dogpile. com

I give these sites to my students and they find almost anything in the entire world, past or present and this, of course, helps them do term papers.

Happy Researching

Green Hornet
 
All you need is Ears by George Martin. (the Beatles guy...)

Also anything by him or any "old" engineer or recorder.

theses guys talk about the old days a lot.
 
I was quite suprised to find out that Bing Crosby (Of White Christmas Fame)was highly instrumental in promoting the use of tape recorders. He purchased one of the recorders captured from the Germans after WW 2!

Do a web search for Bing.... It was very interesting.

Sincerely;

Dom Franco
 
Thanks alot for your help guys, the websites have been very useful. The report's due April 17, so if ya'll have any more ideas pop up, keep em coming...thanks, catch ya'll later...

***Justin***
 
Check out this month's issue of Electronic Musician, as well as last month's. They're running a series of articles about the history of recording. In fact, by the title of this post, I just figured you were commenting on those articles!

Ryan
 
Everyone should get the March issue of Electronic Musician and read it front to back. It has a nice mic comparison of 8 budgetable small diaphragm condensers.
 
Hey Justin,
Do a search for info on Les Paul. He was a huge part of the beginning of multi-track recording (I beleieve he called it "sound on sound" back then)

Hope that helps!
Brad
 
Don't just read about Les Paul - listen to him and Mary Ford make their music. Except for Howlin Wolf and Co, the early fifties were pretty ugly, and the best thing you could do was get beyond it somehow if you could, and Les Paul's pre-space-age space-age guitar against Mary's apple pie vocals makes me think that UFOs didn't just land in Rosswell, but Les Paul's back yard as well. It's joyful stuff, some of it. But how did he manage to track that many times and not have the music disappear in a snowstorm of white noise? I'm glad they named a good guitar after him.

Plagiarize me and you'll get blisters.

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One of the articles I read said that Les Paul would record to acetate, then play along with the record while cutting some more tracks to acetate, then at some point finally go to tape and double track.

I read about it either in the Billboard Guide to Home Recording or a similar book published by an outfit called SAMS - both pretty good references for cassette-based multitracks
 
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