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The field covers many areas, from Hi-Fi to Professional Audio , Internet Radio and Podcasting .

Developments in recording and editing have transformed the Record , Movie and Television industries in recent decades. Editing became practicable with the invention of Magnetic Tape Recording but computers and digital processing made it much easier, quicker and more powerful. We now divide the process of making a recording into tracking, Mixing and Mastering . Multitrack Recording makes it possible to capture sound from several microphones, or from different 'takes' to tape or disc with maximum Headroom and quality, allowing maximum flexibility in the mixing and mastering stages for editing, level balancing, Compressing and Limiting , and the addition of Effects such as Reverberation , Equalisation , Flanging and many more.

The Beatles , under producer George Martin, were among the first to experiment with multitrack techniques and effects on the album '' Sergeant Pepper ''.


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