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Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording

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Western Electric licenses the Bell Laboratories microphone-and-amplifier recording system to the two leading American record companies; Victor contracts for commercial use in March and issues its first electrically recorded orchestral sides in April. The usable bandwidth roughly triples. Instruments the acoustic horn could barely register — string bass, bass drum, quiet guitar, an unforced voice — become recordable, so ensembles no longer have to be rearranged around the machine, and a rhythm section can be heard doing what it actually does.

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  2. Western Electric licenses the Bell Laboratories microphone-and-amplifier recording system to the two leading American record companies; Victor contracts for commercial use in March and issues its first electrically recorded orchestral sides in April. The usable bandwidth roughly triples. Instruments the acoustic horn could barely register — string bass, bass drum, quiet guitar, an unforced voice — become recordable, so ensembles no longer have to be rearranged around the machine, and a rhythm section can be heard doing what it actually does.
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  4. Sound recording
  5. Electrical recording
  6. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  7. Connections
  8. Electrical recording
  9. Sound recording
  10. Sound recording
  11. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  12. Electrical recording
  13. Race records
  14. Radio diffusion
  15. Field recording
  16. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
  17. Berliner patents the gramophone
  18. The first jazz record is made
  19. KDKA broadcasts
  20. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  21. The Kumasi Trio record in London
  22. Evidence
  23. Western Electric licensed the Bell Laboratories electrical recording system to Victor and Columbia in 1925; Victor contracted in March and issued its first electrical orchestral recording in April; the Harrison and Maxfield matched-impedance recorder handled roughly 50–6,000 Hz against the acoustic process's roughly 250–2,500 Hz. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this technical history; the article was not opened, no Bell Laboratories or company record was consulted, and the frequency figures should be read as approximate.
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