04:189:102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sound Recording And Reproduction, Alan Freed, Digital Recording

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Thelandersson

Document Summary

Study guide for exam 2 - intro to media - spring 2019. De martinville - french printer who conducted the first experiments with sound recording; recorded sound but could not play it back (1850s) Thomas edison - had success playing back sound; invented the phonograph thinking it would make a good answering machine (1877) Bell & tainter - furthered sound recording and improved the phonograph by inventing the graphophone; which played back more durable wax cylinders (1886) Emile berliner - german engineer who invented the flat disk and developed the gramophone to play it; labeling system is introduced and sound recording becomes a mass medium (1887) Vinyl records (1940s), 33 -rpm lp record (1948), 45-rpm record (1949) Audio tape - plastic magnetic tape; its lightweight magnetized strands made possible sound editing and multiple-track mixing; led to vast improvement of studio recordings and increases in sales; home dubbing allowed consumers to copy records (1940s)