Radek Malcher

 
1.Analyses and eventuate previous and current recording formats :

In half of 19th century people knew that sound waves are more or less dense portions of the air reaching to the human ear. But in 1857 being used phonograph constructed by Leon Scott of France. He was the first person on the world who record phonograph sound. Scott's machine was made from tubes, membrane and paper coated with soot cylinder .When you turn the sound trough the tube the vibration moved membrane through which the needle quivered leaving a trail on a rotating cylinder slowly. But the Scott's phonograph never had wider application . That's why 20 years later in 1877 , American Thomas Alva Edison invented a method that allowed for the practical application of the phonograph . In practical method of using phonograph you could  record and hear the voice or the sound normally . Edison changed phonograph - cylinder was covered with wax or tinfoil . On the beginning phonograph was powered by hand , after that by spring and on the end by electric . Edison machine  was constructed from conical tubes, aiming to strengthen the sound, and the membrane attached to the stylus, which were at the bottom of this tube - the stylus vertically stressed the shallower, the deeper the groove on the surface of a metal cylinder coated with wax, and later in the film zinc thus perpetuating a sound wave .With a very simple solution to a mechanical cylinder moved during rotation along its axis by a constant amount relative to the stylus. Playing back recorded sound was to place the stylus in the groove channelled, and then putting the cylinder in rotation. The stylus with a membrane attached to it move respectively to previously notched groove composed of depressions and elevations. These vibrations transmitting the stylus bonded to the membrane, which resulted in moving the movement of air particles. These particles hit the walls of the tube bouncing up and strengthening, and finally reached the ears of the listeners.

Thomas Alva Edison was the first person who recorded first singing voice, song called ''Mary had a little lamb'' . Phonograph had lots of defects . First one was the sound - was really quite and not very pronounced .
The wax cylinders after few records just clashed . They tried to solve the problems , and they done it in 1897 . Emil Berliner was who solve it and  instead of using cylinders used round wax-coated zinc plate . He used something different than Scott and Edison ; method of forming a lateral groove. His phonograph was working almost this same but however, he applied a special arrangement of levers that move the stylus across instead of vertically. Which make the surface undulating groove .Berliner was as creator of CD pressing. In 1894 he open his first phonograph company : ''The Berliner Gramophone Company'' . Straight after moved the recording and production of gramophone records. In 1909 on the appeared the double side CD's , there were produced synthetic resin or shellac CD's. In 1924 people used first time microphones to record a sound on CD and year after normalized speed of record  to 78 rpm. On this time were using mid line cd from this days and from today - 7'' , 10'' , 12'' . You could record the sound on it  till 5 min . In July 48' company called ''Columbia'' as a first on the world introduce long-playing CD - LP. Those CD could record the sound till half an hour on both sides and the mid line of them was 12'' and were played  with speed of 33 and 1/3 rpm . In 1958 ''Columbia'' presented first stereo CD .


In the end of 80's all metal, wax, shellac, vinyl, magnetic tape was replaced by compact disc with revolutionary digital audio recording and image playback using laser beams. There have been lots of changes :Originally used for sound recording discs replaced the metal rollers made ​​of wax, zinc, and then shellac, vinyl and finally dynaflex . Along the way, for a time, enjoyed popularity magnetic tape / cassette / until we got to the point in the history of the recording industry, the dominant sound carriers have become board with digital recording - CD, CDR, DVD .
 
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Today we learned how to record drums with one mic and with full set of mics. 


Basically we used one condenser mic setting him up on the middle of drums kit , under the ride and next to the left tom .

 Result was amazing like for me , i didn't expect good quality of sound , i was thinking its gonna be distorted but sound as clear and deep. i Love it ! Probably I'm gonna use that method  when i'm gonna record in that way for a my song.

Second Method was to use mic on every part on a drum kit  ( cymbals , all toms etc.) 
 Results was very good. But the sound i need to say was really close to the results from recording with one mic. Of course basically u can't catch full set of drums with one mic so u need to use whole set of mic for it :) 


That how to record drums with one mic (half set of drums) :


How to record full set up of drums (Basic):
 
On this class came time to records Vocals. So i think its obviously how to do it ,right ?  Mic stand, compressor mic, ''pop'' shield and vocal/mic shield. Of course it's a standard set up , but had to check how to record no only compressor mic but dynamic mic as well. Set up for Dynamic mic was this same as for a compressor mic. We tried record talking in the distance and in close position. Even we record two vocals in the same times by using one from the options in the mic called : Figure of Eight .

Here we have a basic Techniques how to do it:
 
Today I didn't done a lot because we had to record a Bass, so I was playing for whole class. But how to record Bass? By using D.I. box , dynamic microphone or condenser microphone setted up on the front of the speaker or on the edge and of course using compressor on the Bass track. To be honest I forgot we had to record bass on that day so that's why I didn't prepared any bass lines and I had to play a random thing during recording.

How its look like , You can check over here :

 
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Today on class we were learned how to record electric guitar. Everyone prepared some ideas and shared between everyone. We've been split into 3 groups and we had to record guitar with maximum 3 microphones. My group decide to make more warmer and deeper sound, so we set up 1 dynamic microphone on the front , middle of the speaker , second dynamic microphone we put on the edge of the speaker and 1 condenser microphone on the back of the amp. Recording goes quite good, sound was really warm , but we could set up condenser mic in the different place.

There is many techniques how to record guitar , thats one from them :

And the Acoustic guitar :
 
Today in class we were talking about two types of microphone - Condenser and Dynamic. 





Condenser

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Dynamic

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