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The ‘Nostalgia’, re-releasing albums that were recorded on vinyl. As well as recording new albums on vinyl to recreate the listening experience. Music originally recorded for vinyl being remastered for digital downloads!

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From studios to home recording, from physical gear to plugins!

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From iPods to cell phones and from downloading to streaming music.

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iPod is a portable media player developed by Apple, the first version was released in 2001. Its initial purpose was just to be a compact audio playback engine.

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Mp3s and other digital audio formats have caused several problems such as music piracy, illegal music downloading online and file sharing.

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Mp3 is a digital coding format for audio. The first non physical audio format. Although you do require something physical to play it through.

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From Analog Studios to Digital

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The compact disc is a digital data storage format  co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Another massive change to the listening experience was the fact that you could carry your music with you and private listening was made possible

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From the development of the cassette onwards technology gave us the opportunity to repeat and skip tracks. Changing the listening experience of music albums.

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The compact audio cassette was developed by Philips, in Belgium and was released in 1962. It uses analog magnetic tape for recording and audio playback.

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The Vinyl Lp (Long Play) and single were developed in 1948 and 1949 respectively and were analog sound storage disks to be used with gramophones. 

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Magnetic tape was a massive innovation in recording as multi-tracking was made possible. The creation of studio effects, such as tape delay, was also made possible through the use of magnetic tape.

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The follow up to the gramophone was the magnetic tape developed in Germany in 1928. Tape recorders used magnetic tape to record and playback audio.

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Emile Berliner invented the flat discs. In 1887 he was granted the patent for the first ‘gramophone’.

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The ‘graphophone’ was the next invention in sound recording, which essentially was an improved version of the phonograph made in  Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory.

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Recording music with a phonograph was a complicated process. Correct positioning was essential to achieve the best possible outcome.