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This is a newspaper article about the spread of the new radio and broadcasting system. This is when people were able to purchase their own radio and different types of music was listened to across the nation. It tells people about how you can easily listen to man different stations and cancel other stations out to get a clear sound. It is advertising how useful and easy to use this radio is so it will draw in more customers. It also tells how if you are living in the northern states you can listen to southern music and different genres that are new. This is a big movement across the nation. People are going to experience new cultures and be able to hear national news faster than it would be heard from newspapers.

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Paragraph 2: How radio influenced the world

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Paragraph 2: How radio influenced the world

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Radio completely revolutionized not only the sound and music industry, but also the news industry.  It allowed the American people to receive information quickly and easily right in the convince of their own home or workplace.  Important people such as the president were able to address important issues that affected the entire nation.  The radio also made it easier for singers and other musical artists share their music with the world.  Music had a large influence on American culture during the 1920s.  Because of the new emphasis on The American Dream and materialized wealth, radios transformed how people were able to listen and dance to music.  Radio transcended social, political and economic boundaries.  Announcements about sports team victories and political election results were able to be shared the day of rather than the next day in the newspaper.  This influence still continues today.  Because of the radio, now revolutionized beyond belief, it has caused a decrease in need for newspapers.  Radios and other similar devices not only effected society during this time but set the bar for future technologies such as iPhone, car radios, and Bluetooth speakers.  I love the 1920s, they were truly inspirational.

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The creation of radio generated from the acoustic era (1877-1925) and was created during the electrical era (192-1945). Telegrams evolved into the new broadcast systems that could be heard live across the nation-called radios. The first radio news station broadcasted on August 30, 1920. In June 1920 Marconi opened the first purpose-built radio factory. It was broadcasted by 8MK station in Detroit, Michigan and the station still exists today. The first college radio station broadcasted across the nation in October 14, 1920 for Union College in New York. Aircraft started using broadcast systems to AM stations to help with navigation. This method continued until 1960 until new systems were invented to help with navigations. Sports broadcasting systems began in 1921 for college football and helped fans hear their favorite teams live. The recording industry was in a major decline until the new invention of radios in the early 1900's. The improving American economy in the 1920's help boost the demand for music and new broadcasting systems. Without the radio our country would be in a different position today.

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1. KDKA-A radio station that was started in post World War 1 era and used for point to point communication and then evolved into a national broadcast station.
2. AM-Amplitude Modulation broadcasts stations in the AM receiver.
3. PSA-Public service announcement tells people listening to the broadcasts and radio a special announcement or current event.
4. Bumper-A song, music, or element that signals a transition to and from commercial breaks.
5. Cans-Slang word for headphones.

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This is Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering one of his fireside chats.  During these 'chats' he spoke directly to the American people.  FDR's radio broadcasts were the most famous in radio history for politics.  This is a photograph of him giving his first fireside chat where he talked about the national banking crisis after he closed all of the banks for 4 days. By using the radio, Roosevelt created an intimacy with the American people. His relaxed approach gave his series it's calm, name.  I think that the radio was a quick and easy way to get information to the public, and people like Roosevelt were able to connect more personally with others.

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This is an Ad for a radio that is batteryless.  This radio revolutionized the radio industry, because radios were now electric.  This type of radio allowed the consumer to reach a wider range and have a clearer sound.  This Ad shows the evolution of radios and the technology at this time.  A simple design was transformed into a better product that was now available to the general public.  This product revolutionized the sound and radio industry.  I think that this invention was very helpful for people and made communication and music easier to reach and was a step in leading us to our modern day radios and music players.

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Nov 2, 1920: First Commercial Radio Broadcast in the U.S.

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The introduction of radios began in 1913, but didn't become super popular until the 1920s.  This website talks about the evolution of radios.  It also goes on to give interesting facts about popular radio stations, radio hosts, and famous radio broadcasts during the 1920s.  Lastly it touches on how radio changed how messages were communicated and the speed at which the general public received important news and gossip.

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What was America's first Radio Station? The first station was KDKA who were issued with the first ever license on Oct. 27, 1920

What was the first radio broadcast in 1920? The first broadcast was an election night broadcast made by KDKA from the Westinghouse Electric buildings in East Pittsburgh which began at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1920. Leo Rosenberg, radio's first announcer, relayed the news to about 1,000 listeners that Warren Harding had beaten James Cox in the race for the White House.

What was the cost of a 1920's Radio? In the mid-1920s, a typical set cost about $150

1920's Radio Facts for kids The following fact sheet contains interesting facts and information on 1920's Radio for kids.

Facts about the 1920's Radio for kids

● The small radio is pictured on the table
● Crystal sets work off the power received from radio waves, so they were not strong enough to power loudspeakers
● The family members are shown wearing earphones
● Crystal sets were the most widely used type of radio until the 1920s, when they were gradually replaced by vacuum tube radios.

Radio drew the nation together by breaking down provincialism. The radio programs brought news, music entertainment, and advertisements to millions of listeners. Important sporting events were broadcast live across the nation increasing the popularity of 1920s Radios 11: Sports in the 1920's.

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Facts about the 1920's Radio for kids The following fact sheet continues with facts about 1920's Radio for kids.

Facts about 1920's Radio for kids

Mass advertising promoted a vast range of new products in the consumer society of America and led to the general acceptance of buying by installment plans as a way to finance consumption. 70% of radios sold in the 1920's were purchased through credit agreements. For more facts refer to 1920s Radios 19: Consumerism in 1920's America.

Facts about 1920's Radio for kids

Facts about American Consumerism in the 1920s for kids
For visitors interested in the history of American Consumerism in the 1920's refer to the following articles:

1920's Radio - President Warren Harding Video
The article on 1920's Radios provides detailed facts and a summary of one of the important events during his presidential term in office. The following Warren Harding video will give you additional important facts and dates about the political events experienced by the 29th American President whose presidency spanned from March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923.

1920's Radio

● Interesting Facts about 1920's Radio for kids and schools
● Key events and 1920's Radio for kids
● The 1920's Radio, a major event in US history
● Warren Harding Presidency from March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923
● Fast, fun facts about the 1920's Radio
● Foreign & Domestic policies of President Woodrow Wilson
● Warren Harding Presidency and 1920's Radio for schools, homework, kids and children

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What was America's first Radio Station? The first station was KDKA who were issued with the first ever license on Oct. 27, 1920 What was the first radio broadcast in 1920? The first broadcast was an election night broadcast made by KDKA from the Westinghouse Electric buildings in East Pittsburgh which began at 6 p.m.

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Radio broadcasting was starting in 1922 and despite the poor sound quality people were drawn in the new inventions with sound. The invention of radio brought in money through mass advertising and could link stations together. The talking machine industry was in a decline from 1920-1930 because of the massive competition for the lowest prices and the invention of radio and the number of discs sold didn't start to increase again until the late 1930's.

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This website highlights the history of sound recordings in the 1920s.  It also give specific inventions and how they evolved.  It explains how sound was recorded in recording studios for things such as the radio, the television and Hollywood movies.  It also touches on the business aspect of music and sound and how people made money off of this industry.

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There are three major ways to record music across the globe: Acoustic, Electronic, and In the Box recordings. The goal is always to capture a great performance that will transcend into the recording method used. Recording music today takes years of practice and work to become great at it. Across the globe, everyone has been learning how to record music through trial and error and perfecting their style.

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The art of recording music is filled with information that is mostly technical. There is loads of information on miking techniques, what microphones and preamps to use, and how to process them. What is less often talked about are the fundamentals that underly those techniques and choices. The acoustics of the recording space and the quality of the musician will define the sound of the recording more than any mic technique or processing chain ever will.

Behind the techniques lies the real foundation of making great recordings. It's the information you don't often get because most are not keenly aware of its existence. Many have only worked in professionally treated acoustic spaces designed for recording and can often forget that their audience is not working in the same conditions. Many work through the problems that arise with intuition rather than taking the time to really understand what lies underneath all the technical choices they make.

In reality, it usually takes years to become great at recording music. During that time, allegiances to different pieces of gear will come and go and solutions will be based mostly on experience. When problems arise, it is often easier to blame the studio, available mic selection, recording console or the recording space.

If you want to make great recordings, regardless of the recording space and equipment you are working with, you will have to learn something that is more fundamental. Essentially, no two recording situations are identical and each requires a discerning ear and eye. Most of the great engineers learned by experience, trial and error, and working under great engineers before them that understood how sound works. They learned how to use acoustics to their favor, and learned how to work with musicians to get the best performances out of them.

The 3 Types of Recording

In this article I will break down the art of recording music to its most basic elements. The articles that follow in the links at the bottom of the page will get into details about recording specific instruments and the best way to manage those recording situations

Essentially you can break down the types of recording into 3 basic categories:

1. Acoustic Recordings

2. Electronic Recordings

3. In the Box Recordings

Even though, electronic and in the box recordings are not dependent on the acoustic space, the principles of acoustics are still very much at play because that is the only way we know how to perceive sound. Let's take a closer look at each:

1. Acoustic Recordings

Recording music in the acoustic realm is all about capturing sound waves through microphones and converting them into an electronic signal so they can be captured and recorded. Today, those recordings are mostly into computers and onto hard drives. Whether you are recording analog or digital, the basic process hasn't really changed a whole lot of over the last century or so. Music, for the vast majority of its history to humankind, has always been acoustic. It is only in recent decades that music has gone to purely electronic sources.

The concept of recording, came into play in late 1800s with the inventions of Thomas Edison. Music recording soon followed, although the capabilities were very limited. Primarily, all recording was acoustic material. The technical issues of capturing music in recorded form have undergone immense development over the last 100 years or so. In years past, the mechanical limitations of recording devices limited the engineer's options. Today, those options are seemingly endless. The irony is that the greater number of options available today have taken many engineers away from the fundamentals of acoustics and focused them on new gear and plugins instead.

As the quality of recording technology increased, so too did the importance of the acoustic recording space. The decisions made about how to manage the recording space became critical to the quality of a music recording. If you want to achieve a very big live drum sound, you are not going to get it by recording in a small dry space. In the end, no mic will make a recording space sound bigger than it is.

Managing Acoustics

When you place an instrument in a recording environment, that instrument will sound different, sometimes radically different, depending upon how and where you place it in the room. This is especially important for recording music in spaces that are smaller than 20 x 20 feet. There is no microphone that will solve all of the problems with a bad acoustic environment. Even with the best gear all you will get is a very accurate recording of very limited acoustic environment.

This does not mean you have to spend thousands of dollars on acoustic treatments. Even professionally treated recording studio environments require careful placement and attention. The most important thing, in any recording situation, is to listen carefully as you move the instrument around room. Find a place in the room that enhances the sound of the instrument without making it sound unnatural.

Acoustics is really the key to capturing great recordings and is often overlooked by most novice engineers. If you just dump an instrument anywhere in the room and throw a mic in front of it, you are basically rolling the dice and hoping that a good sound comes up. If you're a bit more conscious about how you place an instrument in a recording space, then you will get significantly better results, with much less effort, and be much happier in the end, even if you are using inexpensive recording equipment.

How you choose the right acoustic environment, and how you treat the immediate space around the instrument is unique to each instrument and the sound you are trying to achieve. These guidelines and methods will be covered with more detail in the individual recording instrument links at the bottom of the page.

2. Electronic Recording

The second method of recording music is electronic recording. Electronic recordings go back to the invention of keyboards and synthesizers, and also with basses and guitars. The idea of using a direct electrical signal is that you are bypassing the acoustics altogether. For many instruments like bass and guitar, the amplifier is a huge part of the sound you are trying to create. Without the speakers and acoustic environment, you have to count on the electronics you are using to create the sound for you.

The typical method for capturing electronic audio is through a DI box. The DI box will take any signal that comes from a high impedance unbalanced source, like from a guitar or bass and convert it into a balanced signal so it can be plugged into a mic preamp and recorded. The balanced lines help to keep the signal quiet with a minimum of degradation. Long guitar cables will pick up loads of noise and you can end up with significant signal degradation. Always keep unbalanced cables to a minimum in terms of their length.

When recording music with keyboards, you are dealing with electronics that are controlling oscillators to generate synthesized sounds that are sometimes meant to emulate acoustic instruments. The older ones are typically connected to a DI although many of them now have balanced line level outputs. This allows them to be brought directly into a line level input in a recording console. They can then be recorded without having to add a significant amount of gain, thus keeping noise to a minimum.

The only issues from a technical perspective are selecting the sounds and editing them until you get it to sound the way you like. If it is a bass, you will need to change pickups, adjust the tome knobs or switch between picks or fingering methods to get the sound you're looking for. Many direct boxes, designed for bass, have pre-amplification stages that include distortion equalization and tube components that allow you to add some character. The same can be done with guitar using pedals and effects to add warmth and depth to the sound before gets recorded.

Otherwise, the only other issues that you are making sure the signalpasses cleanly, is full frequency, and that there are no buzzes, hums or noises. Most DI boxes have ground lift switches that help to eliminate these problems.

3. In the Box Recording

The third method of recording music is in the box recording. In the box recordings are primarily referencing to computer recordings where all of the recording work is done inside the actual recording application. There is no audio coming in externally into the recording device. Recording music inside the box is most often, or at least to some degree, MIDI recording. Essentially, you are capturing the technical aspects of a performance through a midi keyboard or other midi instrument.

Once you have captured the performance, you have the ability to grab any sound from the vast number of software synths and sample libraries available and edit them till you get the sound you want. A performance played with a flute sound, can easily be changed or adapted to be a clarinet or oboe sound. This, of course, is not possible with acoustic recordings. The art of this types of recording lays in the ability to make these artificially generated sounds seem like the real thing.

When recording music in the box what you are actually recording is MIDI control signals, not the actual audio. This allows you to edit your performance, fix wrong notes or sloppy passages. You can also change the dynamics if you play a note too loud or soft by adjusting the velocity. You can change the length or sustain of notes and countless other parameters until you to get exactly the performance you desire.

When dealing with loops, you may be dealing with audio loops or MIDI loops. Audio loops are essentially acoustic recordings or electronic ones that are premixed and effected. You will have limited control in affecting audio loops, which is why the libraries are typically so vast. MIDI loops, by contrast, can be edited and manipulated in exactly the same way that any MIDI performance can including quantization and sound selection.

Moving On

All these methods for recording music are still primarily about capturing performances. To make great recordings, the goal must always be to capture great performances. Great performances will transcend the recording techniques used. Sometimes a low fi recording captures the essence of a performance better than a squeaky clean full frequency one will. Playing with this concept, is truly the art of recording music.

Select from the list below for the detailed recording techniques of specific instruments.

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The art of recording music is filled with information that is mostly technical. There is loads of information on miking techniques, what microphones and preamps to use, and how to process them. What is less often talked about are the fundamentals that underly those techniques and choices.