In the 30s, record companies were focused on producing and selling soundtracks to the film industry. The music industry never looked back, and Victor, Colombia, and HMV were among the first record labels to seize on the ability to record electrically and organize an industry to produce and market the records that were now mass-selling products. The big transformation in that decade was when microphones and amplifiers could be electronically mixed to form a single signal. Photo: Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division, Brady-Handy CollectionĪt that time, musicians would be recorded as they played or sang in real-time, and the performance would be captured directly on master discs. ![]() ![]() Thomas Edison, pictured with one of his earliest phonographs, in 1878.
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