Chris Penycate and Rick Boatright
The Mechanical Reproduction Of Sound: Developing A Recorded Music Distribution Industry
From: Grantville Gazette, Volume 7
Sound, no matter how complex, is just waves like the ripples in a pond. It can be considered as the displacement of molecules from their place of rest. A more technical definition would be: Sound is a series of compression and rarefaction waves in a substance, solid, liquid or generally in our experience, gas. Our aim in recording is to precisely reproduce these waves in another place and/or at a different time.