Recording History: Then vs. Now

[@jamescave7102]

That’s why i love this channel. Yep, Audio University!!!!

[@funkelektroniq]

Thanks for video

[@markgalbraith4655]

actual musicians with talent...compared to a guitarist that needs 100 takes and cant perfom it live caz they dont really no how it goes

[@hueyfreemaniii6214]

It’s just two different types of talent. Also, you’re terrible at spelling

[@aledum1815]

Cheers.

[@goodtimejohnny8972]

I have a music history book the shows how things were recorded in late 1700s . Don't quote me on that as I would have to get the book out and look. While recording an orchestra, there was a weighted system on pulleys that had a controlled drop from the ceiling to turn the record to capture the performance. It was a very expensive and the final product was very delicate because of the material used at that time. I will probably repost when I can get to the book with the details. It is definitely cool to see how recordings were done throughout time. Always a changing industry for sure.

[@shoegazer93]

Kyle! Are you attending the European version of NAMM, the SUPERBOOTH in Berlin next month?

[@franckydookie]

There's something magical about recording on wax, i would love seeing it in real life

[@Bradleybrookwood]

So people actually used wax to record? Are we talking about the same wax that is on candles that you use a lighter to light candles for a birthday cake? Are we talking about that kind of wax? How would you record on wax? how would you make it so that if you had to redo a take you wouldn't hear remnants of what you were raised? if you try to erase a cassette tape and record over it you could obviously hear bits and pieces of what you previously recorded over before it was erased and I've always wondered why that was.

[@AudioUniversity]

This is what he says in the video. You couldn’t play back a wax recording without destroying it. So there was no “recording over it”. Very costly!

[@Bradleybrookwood]

@@AudioUniversity so how easy is it to record over tape without you hearing anything from the recording you erased?

[@gabedom_]

What if they had hooked up one microphone to two wax recorders? That way you have two copies, so you can listen to and destroy one of them and still have a second duplicate recording.

[@danielkarsten1579]

Will a passive Radial DI box work well with a passive bass guitar? And do basses with an active/passive switch work well with it too when it’s in passive mode?

[@T0mmyTune]

Okay. Only thing missing is introducing the time/era that is discussed here. Was this Pre WWII? Or later? When? This kind of info is important to what we do today. Why? We have to know where we've been. That better informs us as to where we are, nay?

[@AudioUniversity]

This would have been the case up until the widespread adoption of tape, toward the end of WWII. However, even tape was expensive. So the “democratization” of recording continued even further with the transition from tape to digital.

[@ebormajaw8064]

Standing Talking No sitting..

[@harmoen]

Yes.. a normal conversation.