#vinyl disc

[stimboardboy]

x - x - x | x - x - x | x - x - x

[axxonn84]

Slipknot: Iowa (2001)

[mrsheo]

Our homework in art school was to make a vinyl disc cover for a song we chose (the disc is fake) 🎻

[academicelephant]

The history of analog sound recording and reproduction technology

Phonograph was the first device for recording and reproducing sound. It was invented by Edison in 1877 and were sold until the 1920s. Phonographs could record sound for about three to four minutes at a time, which by the way might explain the length of the songs. The device used wax cylinders on which speech or music could be recorded and played back. 

The operating principle of phonograph is that the sound to be recorded causes the needle of the device to vibrate, and as the cylinder rotates, the needle draws a sound pattern on its surface. The recording is played back by pulling the playback needle along the grooves of the cylinder, which creates the same vibrations as during the recording phase. By amplifying the sound, it becomes clearly audible. Before the 20th century, a cylinder could not be duplicated, so the performance had to be repeated as many times as the number of cylinders wanted was.

A gramophone resembles a phonograph. It was invented by Emil Berliner in 1887. Gramophones work pretty much in the same way as phonographs, except they use discs instead of cylinders. Because discs are flat, they can be duplicated more easily. To make copies one just needs to create a matrix from the original recording, which is then used to duplicate the original recording. Until the 1960s, shellac discs were used in gramophones, but later they were replaced by vinyl discs made of PVC plastic because they were more durable and had a larger storage capacity.

Tape recorder was invented in the 1930s in Germany. It uses a magnetic tape on which sound is recorded and played back. At first, magnetic tapes were open reels, but in 1958 someone got and idea to put it in a case. The C-cassette was invented a few years later, in 1963 and has two reels, while the earliest tapes (reel-to-reel tapes) were on one reel. Tape recorders become popular as music playback devices in the late 1970s and stayed mainstream until the 1990s after which they were replaced by digital recording devices.

When recording, sound waves are converted into an electrical signal inside the tape recorder. This signal goes into the head, where it changes the polarity of small magnets. Tape moves past the head at a constant speed, and its magnetic particles are rearranged by these magnets to a pattern that represents the sound wave. When a tape is played back, it runs past a playback head which reads the magnetic patterns of the tape and converts them back into an electrical signal. The electrical signal can then be converted into sound waves.

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[trollstale]

TROLLS VINYL DISKS AESTHETICS

THE HISTORY OF THE SIX STRINGS told by Prince D and the Funk Trolls

❝We started off a team. Party til' we fall asleep even on the street, when we disagreed we did it on beat.❞ —Prince D

see part one

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