Recording studios play a vital part in the music industry. They are where state-of-the-art equipment is used to record musical performances for posterity or for release as a single or album. They may also be involved in other aspects of sound recording, such as manipulating sounds electronically to produce new or unusual effects.
The history of audio recording began with Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877. Edison's original machine used wax cylinders as the recording medium,...