Lateral Recording

Lateral Recording The process—also known as lateral cut or needle cut—of cutting records in which the vibrations are represented by sidewise deflections in a groove of uniform depth. It was developed commercially by Emile Berliner and was accepted widely in the U.S. and Europe by 1900. The other system, vertical cut, or “hill-and-dale,” was preferred by a few labels, such as Pathé and Edison, into the 1920s, but the industry had standardized on lateral recording by the beginning of the 1930s…