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#recording

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Simon Campbell

Today, after many months focusing on other tasks, we've finally started mixing our next single release. Hello was recorded ten years ago but due to its progressive nature and considerable length of around 17 minutes, it has previously not fit onto any of our albums, making it a perfect standalone single. It's great to be working on it; the studio has never felt better. #recording #single #music #production #studio #progrock #musician #gearsquad #MastoMusic #FediMusic substack.com/@simonjcampbell/n

SubstackSimon Campbell on SubstackToday, after many months focusing on other tasks, we've finally started mixing our next single release. Hello was recorded ten years ago but due to its progressive nature and considerable length of around 17 minutes, it has previously not fit onto any of our albums, making it a perfect standalone single. It's great to be working on it; the studio has never felt better.
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Douglas E. Welch

Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the University of California-Santa Barbara via Open Culture [Shared]

Long before vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs and MP3s came along, people first experienced audio recordings through another medium — through cylinders made of tin foil, wax and plastic. In recent years, we’ve featured cylinder recordings from the 19th century that allow you to hear the voices of Leo Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Walt Whitman, Otto von Bismarck and other historic figures. Those recordings were originally recorded and played on a cylinder phonograph invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. But those were obviously just a handful of the cylinder recordings produced at the beginning of the recorded sound era.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/16

#recording#history#cylinders
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Magical Grrrl Betty (New main)

i honestly never really fully appreciated the Shure SM57 until using it for recording this album. how little ambient noise it picks up is truly impressive. that's come in clutch with this and recording in our RV. It's too hot to not have the overhead fan on, but somehow that's no problem for the SM57. It was on during the recording of the djembe and the Melodica and didn't get picked up at all.

was actually really surprised how much i liked how the Melodica sounded with the SM57. took a bit more practice when it came to positioning myself to use it versus the Rode NT1 i'd used for it previously. I basically had to close mic the Melodica with the SM57, but I really like how it came out.

#recording#HomeRecording#gear
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Wampus

Hey #musodon people, I’m Mark. Been on Mastodon since '22, starting fresh now on beige.party. I run #Wampus, a little #recordlabel and book #publishing outfit with about 140 releases out. I work in an attic #studio in the mid-Atlantic U.S. where I make my own records and do #mixing and #mastering for other artists. My pro background is in #writing, #recording, #publishing, #graphicdesign, and #artist #branding and #identity.

Shoutouts to #gearsquad and #musicproduction peeps far and wide.

More info in profile links.

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@johncarlosbaez Ooooh!

So ... I've had a theory of ... stuff ... for a while, one aspect of which goes a bit like this:

Phenomena for recording or transmission of information have a modifiable regularity which can usefully generated, preserved or transmitted (for recording or signalling systems respectively), and detected.

Think of Schroedinger's "aperiodic crystals", a notion I'd first encountered ... maybe four decades ago. (Not sure if it was Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach or perhaps Jeremy Campbell's Grammatical Man, but mid/late 1980s, regardless.)

This means that there are certain phenomena which immediately suggest themselves as recording media or transmission channels. The regularity of a smooth stone, clay, or papyrus, parchment, or paper surface, for example, which can be etched or inked. Vinyl and polycarbonate can be etched with analogue waveforms or digital bit-patterns. The regularity of a magnetic medium whose polarity can be reversed. The regularity of a waveform, be it audio, radio, or optical. And the transmission channels of speaking tubes, RF waveguides, or fibre-optic strands.

EMF, masers, and lasers in this view are fairly readily apparent as possible transmission media, I realised after the fact.

And the extreme regularity of graphene suggests that it might be usable as an extremely thin, small-structured recording medium. The challenges I'd seen for this were how it might be transformed, whether or not those transformations were regular over time, and whether or not the transformations were nondestructively detectable. That is, can it be written, preserved, and read over time.

And this suggests to me that it might be one such method for doing so.

(I'm not the first person to think of graphene as a data storage medium. Though I'm not aware that there's been any successful practical demonstration as yet.)

Incidentally, transistor memory is sort of a curious exception to my recording-medium notion in that it consists of states which are (destructively) read, and which aren't particularly reliable, though they can be sustained through a destructive read/rewrite process.

And if not graphene, then perhaps something similar to it in which a regular lattice can be disrupted.

Related notion: the symmetry between records and signals as existing in space-time and energy-matter respectively:

  • Signals act to transmit an encoded symbolic message from a transmitter across space through a channel by variations in energy over time to a receiver possibly resulting in a record.

  • Records act to write an encoded symbolic message from a writer across time through a substrate by variations in matter over space to a reader possibly resulting a signal.

toot.cat/@dredmorbius/10638852.)

Toot.CatDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​ (@dredmorbius@toot.cat)This musing follows on a set of earlier thoughts on the symmetry between *signals* and *records*. **Signals** act to *transmit* an *encoded symbolic message* from a *transmitter* across *space* through a *channel* by variations in *energy* over *time* from a to a *receiver* resulting in a *record*. **Records** act to *write* an *encoded symbolic message* from a *writer* across *time* through a *substrate* by variations in *matter* over *space* to a *reader* resulting a *signal*. Again, there are hybrid forms as well, e.g., endocrine and chemical signalling systems are based on *records* (the encoded chemicals) but distribute much as *signals*. **Edits:** Lightly updated definitions: "reader" rather than "receiver" as end-chain for records, and resulting in their complements, as well as formatting. 2023-5-11.
#graphene#recording#RecordingMedia
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J.M. Payer

I've been helping a local hard-core band record their first EP. Now, I'm mixing and mastering it - which is fun but also stressful. I really want it to be as good as possible, but I'm still pretty new to this whole process. If anyone has some experience and would be willing to check out some tracks, give some feedback, I'd be really grateful.

#mixing#metal#music
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