The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00071
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THETALKIES 43 record would be so terrific that the needle would either collapse or split the track. The only thing to do is to see that the sound is kept between limits of loudness and softness, which are not by any means always those dictated by the musical values. The gramophone record of to-day, however perfect it may sound, is not within many miles of perfection. It is a brilliant series of compromises against the enormous difficulty of making a saleable record : i . Which will record real notes below those an octave above the bottom of the piano, and up to those vibrations which are just sufficiently rapid to give anything more than a suggestion of the consonants in speech. 2. On which it is possible to give accurate contrasts of loudness and softness. It is small wonder that recording engineers have turned to light-recording on film as a wTay out from these problems which they have been trying to compromise with for so long. It must not be thought, however, that the gramophone record companies are not making progress. The comparatively enormous frequency of 15,000 vibrations a second has actually been "cut" satisfactorily. The problem, of course, is to