What are some recording techniques?

Sound-recording techniques

  • Optical recording. Until the early 1950s the normal recording medium was film.
  • Magnetic recording. Magnetic recording offers better fidelity than optical sound, can be copied with less quality loss, and can be played back immediately without development.
  • Microphones.

How were songs recorded in the 1950s?

Magnetic tape transformed the recording industry. By the early 1950s, most commercial recordings were mastered on tape instead of recorded directly to disc. Tape facilitated a degree of manipulation in the recording process that was impractical with mixes and multiple generations of directly recorded discs.

What is the standard recording and playback medium from the 1950s through the turn of the century?

From 1950 onwards, magnetic tape quickly became the standard medium of audio master recording in the radio and music industries, and led to the development of the first hi-fi stereo recordings for the domestic market, the development of multi-track tape recording for music, and the demise of the disc as the primary …

What microphones were used in the 50s?

Throughout the 50’s and 60’s the 4035, along with its Bakelite cousin the STC4032, were amongst the BBC’s primary outside broadcasting microphones. Apart from the casing and switching on the 4032 these two microphones were identical.

What is the Blumlein technique?

The Blumlein Pair technique utilizes two microphones with a bidirectional (figure-of-eight) pickup pattern and positions them on top of – and 90 degrees off axis from – one another. Positioning the microphone elements as close together as possible will help phase coherence.

What does a comb filter do?

Comb filtering creates peaks and troughs in frequency response, and is caused when signals that are identical but have phase differences — such as may result from multi-miking a drum kit — are summed. An undesirably coloured sound can result. The same effect can be harnessed deliberately to create flanging effects.

What are types of recording devices?

There has perhaps never been as wide a variety of equipment available for making audio recordings as there is today. There are analogue recorders, digital recorders, tape recorders, disk recorders and memory recorders, not counting laptops and PDAs.

What are the 4 eras of sound?

When thinking about the history of recorded sound, it’s best to split things up into four categories: The Acoustic Era (1877 to 1925), The Electric Era (1925 to 1945), The Magnetic Era (1945 to 1975) and The Digital Era (1975 to present).

What is ORTF recording?

ORTF is a common stereo mic technique. Stereo recording uses two microphones to capture a single sound source; each mic then gets panned to either side of the stereo field. Over the years, engineers have developed tried and true methods of stereo recording that best mimic how our ears perceive sound.

Can you hear comb filtering?

This phenomenom is called comb filtering because the effect acts as a filter with a frequency response looking like a comb for the hair. This curve shows the resulting filter response of a direct sound and a delayed sound when added.