Analog recording
Analog recording is like drawing with crayons on a piece of paper. Instead of using a computer to save sounds, you use a special machine to make a copy of the sound waves on a piece of tape or a vinyl record.
When you talk or play music, the sound waves move through the air and into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound waves into electricity which is then sent into the recording machine. The machine records the sound by making wavy lines on the tape or record. These lines are like a picture of the sound waves.
When you want to listen to the recording, you put the tape or record on a special machine, and it changes the wavy lines back into sound waves. It's just like coloring a picture with crayons, and then looking at it again later. You can hear the same sounds over and over again.
Analog recording was used a lot before computers were invented, and many people still use it because they like the way it sounds. It's kind of like how some people still like to draw with crayons even though there are fancy programs on computers that can do it too.
When you talk or play music, the sound waves move through the air and into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound waves into electricity which is then sent into the recording machine. The machine records the sound by making wavy lines on the tape or record. These lines are like a picture of the sound waves.
When you want to listen to the recording, you put the tape or record on a special machine, and it changes the wavy lines back into sound waves. It's just like coloring a picture with crayons, and then looking at it again later. You can hear the same sounds over and over again.
Analog recording was used a lot before computers were invented, and many people still use it because they like the way it sounds. It's kind of like how some people still like to draw with crayons even though there are fancy programs on computers that can do it too.
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