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the dawn of recording...
This is a history lesson about the earliest way humans were able to record audio.
It’s crazy to think that all the way back to 1898, that people were able to record audio.
Today I reintroduce the “wire recorder”
Wire recording or magnetic wire recording was the first early magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage in which a magnetic recording is made on thin steel wire.
The first crude magnetic recorder was invented in 1898 by Valdemar Poulsen.
The first magnetic recorder to be made commercially available anywhere was the Telegraphone, manufactured by the American Telegraphone Company, Springfield, Massachusetts.
The wire is pulled rapidly across a recording head which magnetizes each point along the wire in accordance with the intensity and polarity of the electrical audio signal being supplied to the recording head at that instant. By later drawing the wire across the same or a similar head while the head is not being supplied with an electrical signal, the varying magnetic field presented by the passing wire induces a similarly varying electric current in the head, recreating the original signal at a reduced level.
Magnetic wire recording was replaced by magnetic tape recording, but devices employing one or the other of these media had been more or less simultaneously under development for many years before either came into widespread use. The principles and electronics involved are nearly identical.
Wire recording initially had the advantage that the recording medium was already fully developed, while tape recording was held back by the need to improve the materials and methods used to manufacture the tape.
To sum it all up....
The human race has come along way!
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You can hear a crude recording from 1860 here.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89148959
I occasionally see working wire recorders for sale on eBay. It would be quite interesting to use one to record with. They use analog tubes so I bet they sound unique. I’m surprised they are even available
What’s that you say? I can record my show and still play golf when it is on air?
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sorry to slightly drift from the topic, but you mentioned it a couple of times...
Tubes don't have any particular sound on them - it's in the circuit.
All the things about tube warmth are an urban legend.
When the transistor was invented it was a huge progress in size and power requirements, let alone the complicated assembly.
There's a famous German tube preamp V76 by Telefunken which was replaced by the transistor version V676 with an almost identical design - and both sound practically the same. (the first figure of the latter number indicates the manufacturer: 6 Telefunken, 4 Neumann, 3 Tonografie, 2 Siemens)
The minimal difference between tube/transistor version is assumed to depend on the very special input transformer of the V76, but that's just a nuance.
These dicrete preamps were built only for a relatively short time and later replaced by integrated opamps, which were even more efficiently in production.
The discrete versions (tube and transistor) are highly sought today for their sound quality (I have a V676 myself). What's perceived as 'warmth' in these design is a very well defined representation of the lower mid spectrum and smooth highs. The amp stages are completely linear, so it's not something you can just dial in by eq.
That’s really interesting! I always thought that the tubes were what was warming up the sound.
I am always learning🙂
Thankyou for helping me wrap my brain about what’s actually going on under the hood.
I would rather stand corrected, and level up from others than have the wrong information floating amuck.
The older gear definitely gives the sound a different type of flavor and a vintage sound.
I think a lot of the sound has to do with using different components like you mentioned and not making them as commercially.