Milestones in Sound Recording

These technological advances helped make sound a necessity in films because they created this sensation that got better over time, and could be manipulated to the likes of the producer. I think the three most important advances to video and film are audio manipulation, layering audio, and digital audio. Audio manipulation allowed for sound to be versatile, which inspired sound engineers to create more unique sounds, which eventually lead to sound effects in cinema. Another important advancement was the ability to layer different audio tracks, as it allowed for vocal and instrumental parts to be overdubbed over each other, which is a technique used everywhere in sound editing to create depth in the audio. In addition, digital audio was crucial for the development of modern films because it put workstations in the hand of consumers, and any household could record and edit their own music, which raised the bar for movies and got more people into creating sound for the big screen.