Analog recording
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'''Analog (or ''analogue'') recording''' (Greek, ''ana'' is "according to" and ''logos'' "relationship") is a technique used to [[recording|store]] signals of [[audio]] or [[video]] information for later [[playback]].
Analog recording methods store audio signals as a continual wave ''in'' or ''on'' the media. The wave might be stored as a physical texture on a [[phonograph record]], or a fluctuation in the [[field strength]] of a [[magnetic recording]]. This is different from [[digital recording]], which converts audio signals into discrete numbers.
The first successful demonstration of analog recording for audio was by [[Thomas Alva Edison]]. The first analogs of [[moving pictures]] were those of the [[Lumiere Brothers]].
==Examples==
==Audio==
The modern examples of analog audio recording are:
* [[Gramophone record]] (also known as a ''phonograph record'', ''vinyl'', etc).
* [[Wire recording]]
* [[Magnetic tape]], [[magnetic tape sound recording]]
==Video==
The earliest forms of [[video]] recording used analog technology. [[John Logie Baird]] developed a system in the 1920s for the storage of video signals on conventional phonograph records, which he called [[Phonovision]]. In the 1930s, he further developed the [[Intermediate Film Technique]], which provided for an analog method of temporary video storage by using cine film.
==See also==
*[[Analog signal]]
*[[Electrical Audio]] – Analog recording studio operated by [[Steve Albini]]
[[Category:Recording]]
[[Category:Media technology]]