A Brief History of Recording Sound

[@fredherfst8148]

In 1955, I was recorded playing a piano piece and received a yellow disk that could only be played a few times. I was impressed. Later in life I created my own recording studio.

[@vytkoicaro]

Respect 🙏☯️🎶

[@tsuwaque]

Audiodisc?

[@vytkoicaro]

@@tsuwaque cdtape

[@AmandaabnamA]

Because you saved the disc just to rerecord it?

[@-jeff-]

A great recording on recording!

[@thomosburn8740]

As one of the lunatics who owns a + $500 phonograph cartridge, I'd like to thank you for the overall accuracy and clarity of this condensed description of my insane hobby.

[@stevedietrich8936]

We often think of inventions as being this great leap, like Edison developing the phonograph, or the Wright Bros. developing an aircraft, but in truth invention happens bit by bit, as the "inventor" capitalizes on previous advancements made by others. Another great episode by THG.

[@CheshireTomcat68]

As the famous quote goes, 'Standing on the shoulders of other peoples shoulders on top of more shoulders. Shoulders all the way down!'. Something like that, anyway.

[@donalddodson7365]

Excellent point. We are a species of snapshots: capturing moments in cave paintings, cuneiform tablets, diaries, epistles and theses. Likewise, "history" becomes a collection of edited highlights. In reality, we are truly the product of compounded and aggregated tiny steps forward (or backwards).

[@MultiPetercool]

… Or Elon Musk “Inventing” anything! 😂

[@semigoth299]

So the history says that but I’m reality they’re not the first

[@ryanmccolloch4734]

History is too often simplified for brevity

[@muznick]

I miss browsing through LPs in the record store. The album cover art was all part of the experience.

[@philhawley1219]

Don't forget the sleeve notes.

[@Noubers]

Its still around. My dad is rebuying most of the stuff he bought on CD in the 80s through the 00s on vinyl, and basically rebuilding his childhood collection of artists. A lot of the stuff is new vinyl too! I have to say as someone who DJs and is into electronic music, I love vinyl, but it is nice to have digital media players now because dragging cases of vinyl around is not fun on the back!

[@onliwankannoli]

Somehow the inventiveness to record sound on grooves on a cylinder 140 years ago impresses me more than any modern day technology.

[@stevencooper2464]

I grew up with record players, and yet, to this day, I am fascinated by the sound that comes from a needle riding in a groove.

[@Artur_M.]

When the wax cylinders were mentioned, it reminded me of the story of Bronisław Piłsudski, the older brother of much more famous Józef Piłsudski, arguably a founding father of modern Poland. Bronisław was exiled by tsarist authorities to the far eastern island of Sakhalin (also claimed at the time by Japan as Karafuto and devided in half after the Russo-Japanese War). There, he devoted himself to ethnographic studies of the cultures of local peoples, especially the Ainu (who also inhabitated the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido), including making wax recordings of their language and songs, some of which survived to modern times. He also had children with an Ainu woman, and their descendants still live in Japan. The life of Bronisław Piłsudski would be a great topic for an episode.

[@fatterperdurabo42069]

There's a manga that is heavily inspired by his story, Golden Kamuy

[@donalddodson7365]

Thank you Lance and Team THG! What fond memories this episode brought back. The broken wind up Edison Amberola(tm) cylinder phonograph I disassembled, cleaned and rebuilt in early 1960's, the cassette tapes that kept me connected to family and friends while serving in Vietnam, to the thrill of my first iPod. Well done, as always.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@stuartriefe1740]

Good morning from Connecticut! Our oldest town, Windsor, has a museum dedicated to Antique Radio and other things like early TV, military walk-in-talkies, and early record players and anything else producing sound or pictures. I am trying to donate a 1969 Magnavox “Colonial” am/fm turntable furniture stereo in mint condition as we speak. Plus an early 70s vinyl record cleaner that when you drop the record in, it spins automatically to clean. The museum is wonderful!

[@raycooper3269]

This history is very helpful. My father was a professional musician / bandleader. Born in 1912 he never really understood that recording would aid, not negate , his ability to reach audiences. Now I understand Dad. Thanks

[@nicholas_scott]

One interesting side story was before ww2 when records became affordable, the main way to play “premade music” was through player pianos and barrel organs and other automated devices.

[@highpath4776]

Indeed a lot of piano rolls emphasised the original cut was played by Scott Joplin for example, useful as lots of bars had pianos and could swap out person for roll depending on who was avalible, and saved buying in and winding a gramophone

[@theemmjay5130]

I've always thought it would be cool to own a player piano.

[@sproctor1958]

What a fascinating dive into a largely ignored subject that I have personally used since before the 8-track tape, Hi-Fi, and color TV. Thank you! (Side note: Quadrophonic! 😊) Let's see... playback devices I have, and have used over the decades: My dads Victrola crank style flat (heavy) disk record player, a 1950's West German reel to reel table-top portable tape player/recorder, an early 1960's battery powered transistor reel to reel recorder from when I was a kid, an under-dash car add-on 8-track player, an in-dash car AM/FM/8-track player (teen), portable cassette & CD walkmen players, stereo & quad record players, mp3 solid state & hard drive portable players, and now... a cell phone & BT speakers/headphones. But, magnetic wire and wax cylinders.... nope. A bit before my time.

[@altonbunnjr]

I'm happy to say I have an Edison cylinder from 1904 that I found in a local antique store. On my last visit I saw they still had several others. I can't play it of course, but its a cool thing to have.

[@MmntechCa]

Physical media is also seeing a bit of a resurgence because people are slowly starting to realize that they don't actually own their digital libraries. Worth noting for the cassette resurgence, there's only one company still making the mechanisms, and they're pretty low quality. They're usually strapped to really cheap and nasty audio gear too. So you're going to have a good time unless you can find a decent vintage player. Lot of the belts have gone in those, though, and can be tricky to replace. Techmoan has done a bunch of videos on it.

[@emilyadams3228]

People are also slowly starting to realize that streaming was invented so the globalists can alter media to suit tneir demonic agenda. Some geek in a cubicle somewhere can touch a few spots and wipe off a line of a song, or a whole verse, or dialogue/entire scenes of movies and TV shows. But every album, tape, CD, and VHS tape still has, for example, the second verse of Dire Straits: Money For Nothing, cos it's impossible to go around and wipe it off of billions of actual recordings all over the world. The second I heard about streaming, I knew exactly why it was invented. Everyone believed the lie that it was for convenience, and when I told them the real reason, they called me a dinosaur that can't adapt, and laughed at me. Now they're figuring it out. Yeah, 20 years later, that was quick.

[@stanleycostello9610]

The only decent cassette player is Panasonic RX-D55. Techmoan has a video on this.

[@bikeny]

Wasn't it Sony that just the other day said to folks, sorry, those songs (or games?) you thought you bought and owned, well, we are deleting them from your libraries.

[@nikburton9264]

Other things changed as media changed. Remember getting a new album, vinyl of course, and getting all your friends over to sit around and listen to it? Maybe smoke a joint, or drink a few beers? Now you just download it and there it is. Took about 85% of the fun out of listening to tunes.

[@shawnr771]

Reading the album cover and liner notes.

[@emilyadams3228]

Now you just download it and find that some of the verses, or entire songs, aren't there cos the globalists cut them out to suit their demonic agenda.

[@Andrewm714]

With some sense of irony I'm watching this episode of THG on a modern TV and listening to it through modern speakers but above the cabinet that holds these is a very old and still functional Victrola that has a bell-shaped horn that spreads like a gigantic tulip to full width of 25".

[@HM2SGT]

*Amazing to think of the evolution of recorded sound. I still have my collection of 45, 33⅓ lps, 8-tracks, cassettes... I even have a couple of mini disks!*

[@thomosburn8740]

All you need now is a small collection of magnetic wire recordings, acetates, cylinders, player piano paper tapes and cylinders, elcasets, broadcast carts, Muntz 4-tracks and some (hopefully 7.5 ips) open-reel !

[@HM2SGT]

@@thomosburn8740 Well, I do have a few victrola 78 that I inherited from my grandmother, some stuff on reel that my pop made in the 60s when he was stationed in Korea, plus a couple of airchecks on cart from when I was a DJ in the 90s. You're right, I am part way to having my own museum! 😅

[@RCAvhstape]

@@thomosburn8740Techmoan has them all.

[@williamscoggin1509]

A lot of people forget about how easily the vinyl got scratched. What we did in the 70s and the 80s were to buy the vinyl record and then make a cassette copy and just play the copy while the vinyl set safely on the shelf to be used the next time you need a copy. 👍🏻

[@yensid4294]

Hard core audiofiles used an actual reel to reel tape machine (like a big tape recorder) to record the first play off vinyl. I had so many records warp or get scratched or actually broken. Remember taping a quarter to the needle head of your record player so it wouldn't skip?

[@Harriet-Jesamine]

Until we discovered that this is actually more likely to encourage the formation of large colonies of the Vinyl Eating Bacteria, which would totally snafu the record😅

[@theemmjay5130]

I remember being a kid in the Eighties and being told to stay still when a record was playing, so the disc wouldn't get scratched.

[@AmandaabnamA]

​@@theemmjay5130😂😂😂

[@raymondsix4694]

​@@theemmjay5130In the early 1980s, we had a stereo turntable that was sensitive to vibration. We also lived (practically) next to a busy railroad track. Every time a train went by, it would literally bounce the stylus and tone arm right off of the record.

[@Tmanaz480]

This is the first time you've tackled a subject in my wheelhouse. I immediately clicked on it to see if you got it right. You aced it!

[@RealSaintB]

These old recording methods still have their mark on the radio industry. We still call commercials carts, music is still tracks, longer time programs are still called tapes, and we are called Disc Jockeys. The industry standard in radio is WAV files because while MP3 is great for use in home it loses too much quality due to compression for commercial uses.

[@jamesowens7148]

Owning physical media is crucial to preserve history.

[@robinj.9329]

As a child, we all had a portable record player with two detachable speakers. A left and right channel "Stereo" system. This was my first introduction to recorded music in the late 50's! Later on, I built up a sizable collection of cassette tapes! (Still own them!) I've never really taken to the compact disk format for my music. And I still occasionally listen to vinyl records on a machine I've owned since the late 80's. Many genuine Hi Fi hobbyists insist on using an amplifier with "Tubes" for at least part of the sound producing electronics. They claim a better, more natural and mellow sound! So, the latest, greatest "Technology" isn't for everybody 🤔

[@HM2SGT]

Bing Crosby saw the advantages and potential of tape and invested generously. Not just a swell guy and a terrific singer, but a Visionary who helped further music and it's portability

[@ikefrye847]

@@reallyseriously7020 i've read his history, what you're referring to is a bunch whiny complaining from sniveling son Gary, refuted and denied by his other sons and daughter. his malicious attempt to cash in book was 'enhanced' by publisher who didn't feel it was sensational enough. Gary himself came close to retracting those stories of abuse. Crosby was not father of the year. He was usually detached from his children because he was out working or playing golf. He was neither saint nor monster. Gary Giddens, now at work in his second installment of Crosby's biography, was certain that his research would reveal Crosby as an absolute jerk. But the opposite occured. He found Crosby to be more complex than has been previously written. Bing could be cold, unforgiving and distant, but he was also away from home bringing in the bacon 300 days out of the year. He was also a product of the times, when children weren't as indulged as they are now and the saying "children should be seen and not heard" was the rule of thumb. You judge somebody who was born a century and a quarter ago to people who didn't believe in wearing their hearts on their sleeve through the lens of modern experience and of course they're going to come up short. Bing wasn't perfect, but who is? He was better than most and he did the best he could to keep his kids from turning into Hollywood brats, with a Christmas housefire that resulted in the loss of everything and an alcoholic wife who died of cancer. "There but for the grace of God go I" He had a lot going for him, but he worked like mad to earn it and he didn't have an easy time of it along the way.

[@Mrshoujo]

Fred Astaire in comparison invested in videotape recording so he didn't have to perform the same things repeatedly for television.

[@HM2SGT]

@@reallyseriously7020 I have. I've been a fan for decades. I remember when Gary wrote that garbage- & when his five brothers and their sister from two marriages thoroughly denounced it. The reasons Gary did it don't bear exploring at this juncture, but it boil down to a malicious tantrum for Bing not being who Gary wanted him to be & behaving as someone other than himself as Gary wanted him to do.

[@HM2SGT]

@@Mrshoujo I did not know that. Thank you kindly, I learned something tonight.

[@mspysu79]

BCE (Bing Crosby Enterprises) with its chief engineer Jack Mullen (The man who brought captured Magnetophones back to the US), used an Ampex model 200 audio tape recorder (The machine made using Bing's investment in Ampex) as the basis for the first Videotape recorder in 1951, but the high tape speed and instability made the system and similar machines by RCA and the BBC impractical ( 15 min of recording using 5 miles of tape). It was the "Team of 6" in the Ampex Skunkworks in Redwood City that introduced the first practical videotape recorder to the works on April 11 1956 at the NAB convention in Chicago to CBS executives and affiliates. Ampex figured they might sell 16 of the machines in a year, instead, they took orders for 50 that day. Quadruplex videotape recording would remain the broadcast standard for 20 years.

[@tammihackley4349]

Love your podcast. Always learn something interesting & new. Thanks

[@stein1385]

This is excellent, Ty History Guy 👍

[@retrieversqbd]

Great piece! My hometown of Richmond, Indiana is considered to be the birthplace of recorded jazz music. For a short while the list of who’s who in jazz music came to town to record at the Starr Piano Company under the Gennett label.

[@Mrshoujo]

There are also images recorded in an audio format on the Voyager records. Hopefully whoever finds those records can figure out the mathmematic symbols to rotation speed and playback duration.

[@grene1955]

Physical media are coming back, in part, because of streaming service canceling and deleting your purchased songs or movies (DVD and Blu-ray)

[@harryschaefer8563]

Thanks for another great history lesson. One of my favorite CDs is titled "The Piano Rolls" subtitled "Gershwin Plays Gershwin", piano playing by the hands of George Gershwin transcribed onto player piano rolls then digitized so they could be played on a Yamaha Disklavier, "a computer driven desendant of player piano. Included on the recording are "Rhapsody in Blue", and "An American in Paris". Gershwin was an amazing pianist!

[@tomh6183]

Still have my albums and cassettes and my Pioneer QX 8000.Still sounds great after all these years.

[@Af1st1]

Great overview of the history of recording sound!

[@Dansbandchannel]

This video is a great resource for music, science and history teachers.

[@HBrooks]

another fantastic video from my favorite history guy! thank you. speaking of digital audio, this episode has an audio volume considerably lower than most of the others i've watched, causing me to have to 'crank it up' by around 25% comparatively to get to a normal volume. whoever edits your videos should pay attention to the output levels for audio. relatively easy to 'normalize' it. keep the history alive.

[@josephbenson6301]

That was really fascinating. Listening to music has been a constant in my life. That said... The much maligned laser disc seems like it would be an interesting story in and of itself. At least from where I sit, it looks like a step in the right direction towards CDs.

[@Geeksmithing]

I love how a video about the history of recorded music doesn't get the levels right and blasts everyone with the outro music!

[@allendyer5359]

ah but music to them two ears of THG fans! What if I put my speaker behind a fan? Psychodelic, far out man.

[@williamdonnelly224]

Thanks!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you!

[@Thereis1]

10/10 video right here! Man those old mp3 players before the iPod were not only hard to use they sounded HORRIBLE. Also very cool how vinyl records have surpassed CDs in 2022, their sound is really the best a consumer can get realistically with it's quality only being surpassed by medium and large format reel-to-reel tape machines used in recording studios. In my old studio we had a Studer A800 2" 24-track recorder with Dolby SR noise reduction and it's still to this day the best and most lifelike sound I've ever heard. People can say 192kHz/32bit recordings are better but that simply isn't the case. Cheers everyone

[@DrBismuth]

Great video! For a more in depth history that includes how a lot of the technology works, you can check out the "History of Artificial Sound" series from technology connections!

[@joegordon5117]

As a young boy in the 1970s, a good friend of my father fave me his old portable tape recorder, the type that came in a rectangular leather case with strap (making it look like Mr Spock's tricorder!), and my young brain was delighted at being able to record my own voice and sounds from the world around me, then play them back. It was a wonderful gift.

[@stu-po]

16:30 vinyl renaissance. The statement of LPs surpassing CD sales is often sited in audiophile forums. The truth is, CDs are just one means of digital storage. LPs are nowhere near the sales of all the digital distribution going on today. When you buy an LP today, make sure it comes with digital rights. That LP can wear out over time, but the digital rights are permanent.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

One thing that isn't as widely known is that you could use your Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) as a tape recorder to record and playback sound. The wide tape format of VHS and the precise timing of the VCR gave pretty good recorded sound.

[@JuanRodriguez-km9hl]

Good morning from Tampa Great show guy❤

[@GRWINNER]

Thank you, sir Lancelot! Is the mug on your shelf that looks like Robin Hood the same as the one on the television show : "Twelve O'clock High" ?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Yes, it is.

[@GRWINNER]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel\ That might make an interesting THG episode!

[@richardmcgowan1651]

The written word is up there with fire as one of the most important developments in human history. I think recording sound and in turn recording speech connects more with the freedom of a person. If "freedom of speech" is taken away from you. You are no longer free.

[@shadowraith1]

Thanks for mentioning the much overlooked 4 track tape.👍

[@goodun2974]

This video completely skipped over the rapid evolution of mono tape recorders to stereo tape and then to 4, 8,16, 32 and even 64 track tape recorders, technology pioneered by Les Paul and quickly finding its way into recording studios. Revords such as the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon would have been impossible without multitrack recording. The other thing about tape that should not be forgotten is that when you hit analog tape with a lot of signal it compresses and colorizes and fattens the sound in a unique way and adds character to the recording.

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

Because, as he said, he already covered that in his 8-Track episode.

[@zounds010]

14:00 Digital tape recording began in the 1970s. The first such recorders were based on broadcast video recorders (U-matic), as those were the only ones capable of recording the high-bandwidth digital signal. The first digital recorders were used for mastering of music recordings. DAT was introduced in 1987, DCC followed in 1992.

[@erinm3585]

I'm currently a music recording and sound engineering student and this was a really great and helpful overview. Thanks!

[@RetiredSailor60]

Good Wednesday morning History Guy and everyone watching....

[@Mr.Guild1971]

of course this was amazing.I think that maybe our attempt at replaying music physically came with the organ grinder and player piano's. Those might have deserved a small mention. NOTE: I have the first cassette I made a recording on from 1985.It has survived fire and flood and still plays.I have hundreds of tapes that perform just fine.I always hated with cds that I'd make a new one and play it 3 times and for no apparent or visable `reason would ski[p. I have always preferred Albums.Unfortunate that I lost my largest collection in the fire but I have been collecting and rebuilding my library with new and old music.

[@laserbeam002]

For me vinyl albums sound more real than CD's or streaming. Great post. Thank you.

[@frankgulla2335]

Thank you, THG, for an excellent summary of the history of recorded sound

[@AveryMilieu]

It was in the late 1950s when my 4th grade teacher (Three Rivers, Michigan) brought a "wire recorder" into class and played a few famous speeches that her family had recorded from over the radio during WW2. I was fascinated - not by the speech content (all crackles and static and slightly tinny to the ear) but by the concept of recording on wire. The machine fascinated me. Less than a decade later I had an early cassette tape recorder with an odd wobbly playback. This has been a fun one for me...

[@michaelnovak4035]

I still have the cassette tapes I bought from the Navy Exchange from 1978-1982

[@paulholmes672]

And the Pioneer CTF-1250 cassette player I got at the AAFES Exchange at Yokota, Japan I got 1985! Appreciate your service sir!!

[@alwallace4538]

A friend,years ago, was a musician and an apartment maintenance guy. When one of the tenants died and the guy's family didn't bother to come get his stuff, my friend ended up with a Victrola and about 80 78s from as far back as the 1920s. Loved that machine. Also, it's amazing how many college kids I see buying vinyl these days.

[@kristenhurst683]

My husband's relative, Jep Bisbee, was 'found' by Henry Ford in Paris, MI. Jep played the fiddle. Henry Ford loved it and sent him to be recorded by Thomas Edison. Recordings can be found online and CD now. It's a very interesting history that deserves to be remembered!

[@av_oid]

You mentioned in passing LaserDisk (popularized by Pioneer), but LaserDisk started as MCA DiscoVision - now that is actual forgotten history.

[@mspysu79]

DiscoVision associates still exists, as a standards body for optical media.

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@romad275]

The recently released last Beatles song "Now and Then" is available on cassette tape, vinyl disc and downloadable digital formats but NOT as a CD!

[@HM2SGT]

4:52 *Sounds like a horror movie sound effect* 😰🙀

[@markwriter2698]

I obtained a 1924 RCA spring wound victrola with several albums and now recently a 1905 Edison with six tubular records . They both work and the recordings still produce amazing sound. The Edison also has a hand crank spring but the earlier models had a battery and DC electric motor. The batteries were prone to leak and were recharged at the store of purchase. The Edison Company eventually dropped the batteries and went to springs but kept the original box for the motor and battery.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Great video. Another good review of a similar topic is “The Secret Life of Machines - the Video Recorder (1991)”.

[@bobair2]

I learned some new things today! Thank you!

[@DougGrinbergs]

11:46 magnetic tape recording 12:57 cassette 13:35 8-track 13:55 DAT 14:11 Sony Phillips CD format 14:46 MP3 15:24 Apple iPod family (15:45 original iPod) 15:58 2007 Apple iPhone

[@dirtcop11]

When I was in graduate school I worked on the school's radio station. I enjoyed playing the music programs that were recorded on VHS tape. That may sound odd but the audio portion of VHS tapes were very good. My biggest achievement was when I was playing music from two different big bands. There was applause in the intro and outro of both records. I started the second recording while the outro of the first was playing and potted the first down and the second up so that it sounded like both bands were in the same studio.

[@johnpetrakis379]

OMG! The depth of research you do is incredible! Discovered recently on a vid ur/we're neighbors? Us, Chesterfield The debt(s) owed to Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon is inconceivable. Everything digital is mainly and I emphasize mainly due to their insight (with a little help from their colleagues and Boolean Algebra), they are the true Giants A little bit of info, digital has to be converted via a DAC chip to analog as a speaker driver can't play digital. Been doing this since '71 and glad I'm done with it all. Just streaming and an HD No more moving parts, no more "Rice Krispys" (of course snap, crackle, pop record noise) all sold off, all of it is a pain in the, u know...Lots of nostalgic "Luddites" it seems, Oh well records will fade away like buggy whips did, it's just taking a bit longer. Thank You Lance (ya must have a great research team to get all the info, etc, No?)) and do love your bit of an oversized bow tie!!!!

[@HM2SGT]

*Remember when you could go into the local music store and record a record? Usually just a 45 and it was for birthday & holiday greetings, really just a novelty.*

[@derekisthematrix]

Physical media and the means to play it is pretty important in this digital age where music you "own" is actually being leased from the owner, subject to disappear at any time (unless you download it and store it locally of course).

[@markkovach1992]

BTW Lance, using Balanced Life as your theme song was a pure stroke of genius.

[@justanotherhumanhereok]

very interesting! recently got a record player and cassette player at a yard sale and have had a lot of fun messing around with analog physical music and recordings, they really do feel different then just streaming.

[@josephgaviota]

I'm really surprised at how _recent_ all these sound developments were.

[@samuelgibson780]

2:50 Hey, writing is awesome! 🖊️

[@HM2SGT]

In the 70s cereal companies would put records on the cereal box for you to cut out.

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

This wasn't what I had in mind when my mom waxed nostalgic about the snaps, crackles, and pops of a record player.

[@paulholmes672]

I take exception to your statement about the Laserdisc being a "failure". Yes, it did not replace an earlier technology, but it, like Reel to Reel Audio Tape recorders were considered and thrived as niche item for Audio and Videophiles for many years, and had over 50% of the Japanese video/audio market at one point before DAT and CD's 'arrived'. I still have my Pioneer RT-909 Reel to Reel and my Pioneer DVL-909 Laserdisc/DVD player with approximately 100 laserdiscs to feed it. Alas, my Reel to Reel system is currently defunct due to that pesky pinch roller rubber drying out problem AND the blank Tape is no longer sold. The point is, there are quite a few of us out here. Take Care Lance!!!

[@drakefallentine8351]

THG kind of ran past the era of wire recorders quickly, but it should be remembered for several innovations that led us to magnetic tape recording. Norelco always takes credit for developing the first cassette tape, but I have a Peirce 265 wire recorder that has an ejectable metal "cassette" which contains two metal spools for the wire medium as well as a gear driven mechanical timer on its face showing the runtime in minutes. There were two lengths available, 30 and 60 minute cassettes. The microphone has a remote "Run/Pause" slide switch built-in. It was designed for office dictation. The metal cassette is approx 4" wide x 10" long x 1-1/2" thick. Spare cassettes were available.

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating!

[@shawnr771]

Thank you for the lesson.

[@NoelleTakestheSky]

In the room I’m standing in, I have a hand-winding Victrola (model VV-XI), and a more recent Victrola. I actually regularly play 78’s (the needles are good got about 5 minutes of play though, so do need to be swapped every play) and 33’s, though also sometimes play 45’s. The resolution of anything digital will be limited, but analog, like records, are infinite, and so get richer sound. I’ll take the pops and skips to have that full sound over clear sound that’s just…in a sense, less real. I also have a record player in my bedroom. I’m looking into getting an Edison player since I have some Edison Diamond disks, and also want to get a cylinder player. My young daughter also has a collection of records. She loves the Beatles, Queen, Madonna, etc.

[@madcapmagician6018]

The resson vinyl trcords are making a come back.. is because it sounds better than digital .. it dounds warmer ... The analog sound captures every frequency that music creates, amazingly the human ear can tell the difference and detect those very subtle changes, it comes across as a richer sound.

[@edwardrhoades6957]

17:29 That's if they even realized what they were and could figure out how to play them, let alone hear sound the same way we do (Evolved in a different type of atmosphere with different pressures, for instance).

[@vgfxworks]

amazing content, would love to watch how recording studios evolved over time.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

I was born in 1999, and have been fascinated by records and CD’s since I was a very young child. When I was a little girl, for either my 11th or 12th birthday, I recieved a record player from my parents as a birthday gift. In middle school and high school, I would often go to the local Urban Outfitters store with my mom/dad or sister and whilst they shopped for clothes, I would immediately go to the record section and leaf through their records collection until I found one that caught my eye, then I would buy it, go home and listen to it (god they always had GREAT selections of records) I still have that record player as one of my most prized possessions, and I am not planning on getting rid of it anytime soon.

[@williamdonnelly224]

There so many things in this episode that I had never heard of before...

[@zillsburyy1]

young students in school should be made to watch this channel

[@richardmcdonnell5367]

Hi History Guy, Just thought I should add to your list of Media, Mini-Disk!

[@georgeperkins4171]

My dad while in the air force, went to Thailand for a year during the Vietnam War. One of many things he brought back was an Akai machine that had reel-to-reel, cassette, and 8-track. I spent alot of hours with head phones listening to things like ccr, and our first 8 track, the pip kins, gimme Dat ding.

[@keithswindell6212]

While digital audio tape (DAT) didn't take off in the music world, it did find a home as a backup media in IT. 4mm DAT was extremely common in the 1990's and early 2000's.

[@mattgeorge90]

Thank you for sharing!

[@teacfan1080]

Rivermont Records still presses 78's. They do big band style music. Even their labels look like 1930's labels and the sleeve. I have a 2019 recorded 78 rpm from Rivermont. It's also in stereo! Recorded in microgroove format.

[@donaldpetersen2382]

Great talkie!

[@yensid4294]

It's crazy how quickly audio format changed. I still have a stack of 78s, 45s & LPs that can't be replaced by CD. Records, 8 traks, cassettes, CDs, MP3s & now it's just all digital downloads. I've often suspected it's just a ruse to get us all to buy The Beatles & Led Zeppelin's entire catalog *again* lol.

[@PhantomLover007]

I used to love my grandparents flip top console stereo. My grandmother would play her albums or 8tracks. Vividly still hear Nat King Cole’s Christmas album playing. I’m now looking for a small one to have in my house.

[@dimebagdave77]

Manythnx History Guy🤘

[@divarachelenvy]

Even the tenacity of the recycling of Xray images as recording media in the USSR for banned music is amazing..

[@HM2SGT]

5:05 *Now I know where the idea for my play school music box records came from*

[@jasonkesser]

Excellent video

[@skyden24195]

I believe a couple of audio recording/playback devices that pre-date the 1800s are missing, the dictabird and the tortoise/long-bill-bird combo record player. These two devices were found in the modern stone-age. 🤭😉

[@jasonkesser]

You mentioned another video expounding on the subject around the moment you showed Lear Jet company’s ad for the 8 track. Would you link that video?

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

Growing up in the 70s I used to listen to my parents old spool to spool tape player. These days kid's don't know what to do with a CD.