History of Multitrack Recording

History Of Multitrack Recording

Although General Electric researcher Charles A. Hoxie invented the pallophotophone (a machine that used 35mm film to optically record multiple tracks of sound) in 1922, modern multitrack recording began in 1943 with the invention of stereo sound, which divided the recording head into two tracks.

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