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48 AMATEUR TALKING PICTURES
gramophone records a more elaborate type of apparatus is necessary.
The inevitable optimism of advertising always forces companies to state that their home recording equipment enables any one to produce records equal in quality to those of gramophone records. Straight away it may be said that no home recording, in the experience of the writer at all events, can be said to equal the best gramophone records. In case this statement is discouraging we may further remark that nevertheless with suitable equipment, due care, and some little experience, really excellent results may be obtained. In fairness, however, it cannot be expected that we, with an equipment costing at the most a few pounds, can produce results equivalent to those obtained by the gramophone companies with their elaborate studios and equipment and the accumulated recording experience of years.
With regard to the system adopted for recording there are, roughly speaking, two choices, the plain aluminium disc and the pre -grooved resin type. Again, in the opinion of the writer, the pre-grooved record can be relied upon to give the more uniform results with less trouble. Nevertheless, excellent work can be done on aluminium discs which, at the time of writing, possess the advantage insomuch as they are easily obtainable in Great Britain, whereas the pregrooved R.C.A. Victor home recording disc has only recently been introduced.
It is naturally a somewhat difficult matter to advise as to what type of recording equipment to purchase. Like most other manufactured articles there are categories of good, bad, and indifferent. Much still depends upon the purchaser. Speaking from a personal viewpoint we must express preference for those home recording equipments which are constructed on general engineering principles, and do not owe their being to ingenuity. The Reylik home recorder shown in Fig. 83 in the second part of this book has been found very useful by a number of amateurs both in the home recording and home talking picture fields. The equipment itself possesses some distinct points of use to the amateur who wishes to experiment. The tracking