Amateur talking pictures and recording (1933)

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SOME RECORDING EQUIPMENT 35 side view showing more details. It will be seen that the recording arm in this case has no attachment to the centre of the turntable, but resembles the ordinary pick-up of an electric gramophone. In previous examples wre have noted that a carrier disc was employed chiefly in order to ensure a flat surface for Tracking (A ) Disc. fcfc _ \, , (B) Tracking Arm. L J SmH r ~"S Fig Tracking (D) Disc. {Wright 4 Wmire, Ltd.) 17. Kingston -Wearite Recorder the record blank. In the case of the Kingston-Wearite system instead of a carrier disc a tracking disc is used. This will be seen in illustrations .4 and C of Pig. 17. The tracking disc has a space in the middle for carrying the ordinary type of blank aluminium disc. To the outside, however, is a spiral having the same pitch as an ordinary gramophone record but free from all recording. In other words, the track closely resembles those in A, Fig. 13.