Vertical Cut

Vertical Cut The name given to a recording process (also known as hill and dale) that utilizes a vertical modulation or pattern made in the spiraling groove on a cylinder or disc. Vibrations are cut into the medium perpendicularly to the surface. This was the method of the Thomas Edison phonographs. Both lateral-cut and vertical-cut recordings were made in the Volta Laboratories in the early 1880s. First used on commercial discs by Neophone Co., Ltd., in 1904, it was popularized by Pathé from…