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I just don’t understand how running the needle over the disk would make it play music.

Sound is all about vibrations which travel through the air as waves. To understand how records are played back, take a moment to think about what happens when sound waves reach your ears…they vibrate a diaphragm called your ear drum.

When the earliest recordings were made, there was a diaphragm which vibrated when sound waves bounced against it….much like an ear drum. These vibrations were transferred to a cutting needle which cut vibrations into the grooves of a record. In this way, an image of actual sound waves was copied into the grooves of the record. Later on, this technology improved to use electronics and microphones, but the result was the same….sound waves cut into the grooves of vinyl.

Playback was simply the reverse process. A needle running through the grooves would bounce and transfer the waves to an amplifying device. In the electric phonographs, the needle was mounted to a cartridge that acted like a microphone. The vibrations were converted to electrical signals and sent through an amplifier and speakers. And what are speakers? Yup, they’re big diaphragms that vibrate to create sound waves.

When I was a kid…back in the dark ages of the 1960’s, somebody had built an ingenious record player for our school library. Instead of electronics, the playback needle was mounted to a stethoscope. The head of the stethoscope was mounted on the turntable’s arm, and connected to tubing with ear pieces.

Actually, when you play back a recording, if you put your ear very close to the needle, you can hear the sound as the needle passes through the grooves. The electronics and diaphragms are simply ways to amplify the sound.

I hope I haven’t made this sound too complicated…it’s really a primitive analog process. Sometimes I think it’s harder to understand how you get music out of CDs….just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.

“When It’s Love” performed by Van Halen
available on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/y9o3gjq
Album: OU812
Label: Warner Brothers Records
Year: 1988

This official music video is copyright 1988 Warner Brothers Records. I do not claim ownership to this video or song. All rights reserved by copyright holders.

Vocals: Sammy Hagar
Guitar: Eddie Van Halen
Bass: Michael Anthony
Drums: Alex Van Halen

The lyrics are posted below:

Hey!

Everybody’s lookin’ for somethin’
Somethin’ to fill in the holes
We think a lot but don’t talk much about it
‘Till things get out of control, oh!

How do I know when it’s love?
I can’t tell you but it lasts forever
Oh! How does it feel when it’s love?
It’s just somethin’ you feel together
When it’s love

You look at every face in a crowd
Some shine and some keep you guessin’
Waiting for someone to come into focus
Teach you your final love lesson
Ooh!

How do I know when it’s love?
I can’t tell you but it lasts forever
Oh! How does it feel when it’s love?
It’s just something you feel together

(Oh oh oh oh) Oh, when it’s love
(Oh oh oh oh) You can feel it, yeah!
(Oh oh oh oh) Nothin’s missin’, yeah!

(Guitar Solo)

(Oh oh oh oh) Yeah, you can feel it
(Oh oh oh oh) Oh, when it’s love
(Oh oh oh oh) When nothin’s missing, ow!

How do I know when it’s love?
I can’t tell you but it lasts forever
Ooh, how does it feel when it’ love?
It’s just something you feel together, hey!

How do I know when it’s love?
I can’t tell you but it lasts forever
When it’s love
Ooh, when it’s love
Hey! It’ll last forever

(Na na na-ah na na)
When it’s love
(Na na na-ah na na)
(Na na na-ah na na)
(Na na na-ah na na)
You and I, we’re gonna feel this thing together
(Na na na-ah na na) (repeat to end)
When it’s love, ooh
When it’s love, baby
You can feel it, yeah!
We’ll make it last forever
Ooh-ooh, when it’s love

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New Music Tuesday

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Finally got around to uploading this massive release from fantastic Chase & Status, featuring none other then Plan B himself! Available now on their LP More Then Alot on Ram Records. Please support the artist and keep this scene alive, if you like this music, please pay for it Click the below link to buy Ram Record mp3’s https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/label/detail/395/RAM%20Records

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Some software (like Finale) can record and transcribe notes played on a MIDI instrument (like a keyboard). Is there any software that will do this for acoustic (non-MIDI) instruments?

Basically I am looking for software that will listen to what I am playing and transcribe it into sheet music or tabs. Please let me know if this actually exists. Thanks!

The Melodyne program can analyze recorded soundfiles andconvert it into midi. A midifile you can convert again into a score.
However, none of this is foolproof, because programs dont know what you want to see if you play it.
For example, if you play a line of notes very staccato, hte program will write it as 16th- dottet 8thspause, 16th- pause, because that is ecatly what you played. But you want read on your score just quarter notes with a staccato point.
Or , if you play something with swinging 8 notes, it will write down everything rythmically very complicated, but you wanted to see just a line of 8th notes- but the program couldnt know that, because it doesnt compose music-and so forth.
So, in my point of view, you always have to edit the score after you played it, if you dont play it completely unmusically, so that the machine understands it, and the editing is so timeconsuming, that you just can write down everything.

Music video by Timbaland performing If We Ever Meet Again. (C) 2010 Mosley Music Group / Blackground Records / Interscope Records

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Britt Nicole – The Lost Get Found (Official Music Video)
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Perfect…

Out now as part of Hospital Records’ compilation album ‘Sick Music’!

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