The Sound Archive Project

Test Cylinder Recording

Details

A wax cylinder recording was produced for purposes of assessing the quality of the recovered signals. The cylinder was recorded at Poppy Records. The recording stylus was not driven by acoustic pressure, but was directly cut by an electrical transducer. Pure tones (sinusoids) in the range of 200Hz – 5 kHz were recorded onto a cylinder at 160rpm with a pitch of 100 tpi.

 

Stylus Reproduction

Optical Reproduction