- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- 2000 Year Old Man
- 44,100 Hz
- 45 rpm adapter
- 8-track cartridge
- A Change Is Gonna Come
- A Child's Christmas in Wales
- A Prairie Home Companion
- A-side and B-side
- A-weighting
- Acetate disc
- Acoustic circulator
- Acoustic cleaning
- Acoustic foam
- Acoustic transmission line
- Acoustical engineering
- Active noise control
- Active sound design
- Adagio for Strings
- Adaptive biasing
- Adaptive noise cancelling
- ADAT
- AES11
- AES47
- AES64
- AES67
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Album
- Album era
- All I Want for Christmas Is You
- All Things Considered
- All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff)
- Almost periodic function
- Also sprach Zarathustra
- Aluminum disc
- Amazing Grace
- Ambience (sound recording)
- Amen break
- America's Town Meeting of the Air
- American Pie (song)
- Ampex 601
- Ampex ATR-100
- Amplitude panning
- Appalachian Spring
- Arch Oboler's Plays
- Archival Disc
- Artificial crowd noise
- Atlanta Exposition Speech
- Attack time
- Attenuator (electronics)
- Audio analysis
- Audio bit depth
- Audio bus
- Audio crossover
- Audio equalization
- Audio forensics
- Audio frequency
- Audio interface
- Audio letter
- Audio mixing
- Audio mixing (recorded music)
- Audio networking
- Audio normalization
- Audio power
- Audio restoration
- Audio signal
- Audio signal flow
- Audio system measurements
- Audio tape specifications
- Audio time stretching and pitch scaling
- Audio tour
- Audiophile
- Audiotape
- Audiovisualogy
- Automixer
- Aux-send
- Bach: The Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould album)
- Backing track
- Backmasking
- Balanced audio
- Bam Bam (Sister Nancy song)
- Bass management
- Bass reflex
- Beatmatching
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls (song)
- Binaural recording
- Birdsong in music
- Bit rate
- Bitrate peeling
- Black Angels (Crumb)
- Bloom County
- Blu-ray
- Blu-ray Disc recordable
- Blu-spec
- Blue Book (CD standard)
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)
- Blueberry Hill
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Boogie Chillen'
- Book music
- Bristol sessions
- British Library Sounds
- British Tape Recorder
- Buy Quiet
- Cakewalk by BandLab
- Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)
- Camouflage (Chris Sievey song)
- Capellen Orchestra
- Cardboard record
- Casey at the Bat
- Cassette (format)
- Cassette adapter
- Cassette deck
- Cassette demagnetizer
- Cassette tape
- Cathy's Clown
- CD single
- CD Video
- CD+G
- CD-i
- CD-R
- CD-RW
- Celebration (Kool & the Gang song)
- Chances Are (song)
- Change the Beat
- Chemirocha
- Chicago (musical)
- Chromium(IV) oxide
- Clarinet Concerto (Zwilich)
- CLASSICS Act
- Clipping (audio)
- Clyde Broadcast
- Coal Miner's Daughter (song)
- Compact Cassette tape types and formulations
- Compact disc
- Compact Disc Digital Audio
- Companding
- Comparison of analog and digital recording
- Compression artifact
- Conservation and restoration of vinyl discs
- Constant angular velocity
- Constant linear velocity
- Contact microphone
- Cow Thief Skank
- Crazy Blues
- Cross of Gold speech
- Cross-field head
- Crosstalk
- Cue (audio)
- Cut-out (recording industry)
- CX (noise reduction)
- Cylinder Audio Archive
- Dakou
- Dancing in the Street
- Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
- DataPlay
- David Tranter
- Day of Infamy speech
- DBFS
- Dbx (noise reduction)
- DC-International
- De-essing
- Dear Mama
- Decca tree
- Demo (music)
- Denon dl103
- Despacio (audio)
- Deterministic Networking
- DI unit
- Dictabelt
- Dictaphone
- Dictation machine
- Digital Audio Broadcasting
- Digital Audio Stationary Head
- Digital Audio Tape
- Digital biquad filter
- Digital cassettes
- Digital Compact Cassette
- Digital eXtreme Definition
- Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act
- Digital recording
- Digital room correction
- DigiTech JamMan
- Direct metal mastering
- Direct Stream Digital
- Directive 2011/77/EU
- Disc jockey
- Discomix
- Discrete Universal Denoiser
- Dither
- DJ mixer
- DMG Clearances
- Dolby noise-reduction system
- Don't Stop Believin'
- Don't Worry, Be Happy
- Double album
- Double MS recording
- Double tracking
- Double-density compact disc
- Down by the Riverside
- Drifting Intervals
- Drum replacement
- DualDisc
- Dubplate
- Dust My Broom
- DVD
- DVD-Audio
- DVD-RAM
- DVD-Video
- DVDplus
- Dynagroove
- Dynamic binaural recording
- Dynamic Noise Limiter
- Dynamic range
- Dynamic range compression
- Earmuffs
- Earth Angel
- EBU R 128
- Echo chamber
- Edison Disc Record
- Edison's Phonograph Doll
- Einstein on the Beach
- El Cantante (song)
- Electrical network frequency analysis
- Electrical transcription
- Electromagnetic diaphragm
- Electronic mixer
- Eltro information rate changer
- Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound
- Enhanced CD
- Equal-loudness contour
- Error concealment
- EtherSound
- Experimental Talking Clock
- Exploito
- Extended Resolution Compact Disc
- EyeHarp
- Fade (audio engineering)
- Fader creep
- Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
- Fast forward
- Feedback suppressor
- Feliz Navidad (song)
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Fidelipac
- Field recording
- Fight of the Century
- Flanging
- Flashdance... What a Feeling
- Flexi disc
- Fonopost
- Footloose (song)
- Fortunate Son
- Four Saints in Three Acts
- Free to Be... You and Me
- Front of house
- Frozen Peas
- Fulton Speech
- Gain before feedback
- Gain stage
- Garfield Electronics Doctor Click
- Gasolina
- German Phono Museum
- Global Recording Artist of the Year
- Go Rest High on That Mountain
- Goniometer (audio)
- Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical
- Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
- Gray Audograph
- Green Onions
- Guitar speaker
- Guitar tech
- Guys and Dolls
- Gypsy (musical)
- Haeco-CSG
- Half-speed mastering
- Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)
- Happy Trails (song)
- Harmonic mixing
- Harvard biphase
- Hazel Reeves
- HD DVD
- He Stopped Loving Her Today
- Headphone amplifier
- Headroom (audio signal processing)
- Headshell
- Helical scan
- Hi-MD
- Hidden message
- Hidden track
- High Definition Compatible Digital
- High fidelity
- High Fidelity Pure Audio
- High-resolution audio
- HiPac
- History of multitrack recording
- History of sound recording
- HitClips
- Hitler and Mannerheim recording
- Hitsville U.S.A.
- Hollywood Studio Symphony
- Holographic Versatile Disc
- HoloLens 2
- Holophonics
- Home recording
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- Howl (poem)
- Hybrid disc
- Hyper CD-ROM
- I Am Woman
- I Feel for You
- I Feel Love
- I Have a Dream
- I Will Always Love You
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston recording)
- I Will Survive
- I'll Fly Away
- I've Been Loving You Too Long
- IEC 62379
- Imagine (song)
- In Another Room
- In C
- In the Midnight Hour
- Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
- Inertial audio effects controller
- Instantaneous phase and frequency
- Institute of Professional Sound
- Interaural time difference
- International Sound Version
- IRENE (technology)
- Iron(III) oxide
- Irv Teibel
- Isolation cabinet (guitar)
- It's a Small World
- ITU-R 468 noise weighting
- J-card
- Japanese edition
- Jecklin disk
- Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
- Jog dial
- John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation
- Jole Blon
- Jukebox
- K-system
- Kansas City standard
- King Biscuit Time
- King Studio
- Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Ko-Ko
- LANDR
- Laser microphone
- Laser turntable
- Latency (audio)
- Laugh track
- Legitmix
- Let's Stay Together (Al Green song)
- Lexicon JamMan
- Light's Golden Jubilee
- Line level
- Line-in recording
- Linkwitz–Riley filter
- Lip sync
- Live sound mixing
- Livewire (networking)
- Livin' la Vida Loca
- Logic Pro
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Lone Ranger
- Long Black Veil
- Loop bin duplicator
- Loudness monitoring
- Loudness war
- Loudspeaker enclosure
- Lovesick Blues
- LP record
- LUFS
- MADI
- Magic Mic
- Magnetic-tape data storage
- Magnetite
- Magnetophon
- Magnitizdat
- Make the World Go Away
- Mama Tried (song)
- Mapleson Cylinders
- Marantz PMD-660
- Margaritaville
- Marshall Plan
- Martyn Stewart
- Master recording
- Mastering (audio)
- Matrix mixer
- Meagher Electronics
- Mechanical filter
- Mechanical Workshops Wilhelm Albrecht
- Microcassette
- Microphone practice
- Microphone preamplifier
- Microphone stand
- Microphonics
- Midnight Train to Georgia
- Mini-Cassette
- Mix automation
- Mix-minus
- Mixing engineer
- Modulation transformer
- Monty Python's Tiny Black Round Thing
- Mult box
- MultiLevel Recording
- Multisided record
- Multitrack recording
- Music piracy
- Music source separation
- Music streaming service
- Music technology (electronic and digital)
- MVI
- My Girl (The Temptations song)
- My Heart Will Go On
- Nagra
- Nakamichi Dragon
- Napkin ring cylinder
- National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
- National Recording Preservation Plan
- National Recording Registry
- Neve 80 Series
- NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories
- Noise Emission by Equipment Used Outdoors Directive
- Noise gate
- Noise in music
- Noise print
- Noise reduction
- Noise reduction coefficient
- Noise shaping
- Noise weighting
- NOS stereo technique
- Ocean Way Recording
- Odyssey Studios
- Oh, Pretty Woman
- Oklahoma!
- Old Carpet Factory
- Once a Day
- One small step
- Optical disc drive
- Optical recording
- Orchestra hit
- ORTF stereo technique
- Otari MTR 90 MKII
- Othello
- Overhead microphone
- Pale Blue Dot (book)
- Panning (audio)
- Panning law
- Parallel compression
- Parametric stereo
- Passive radiator (speaker)
- Patch panel
- Pattison Waltz
- Peak programme meter
- Percussion Concerto (Higdon)
- Performance Rights Act
- Personics
- Phantom power
- Philomel (Babbitt)
- Phonautograph
- Phone connector (audio)
- Phono input
- Phono stage
- Phonodeik
- Phonograph cylinder
- Phonograph record
- Phonorecord
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
- Piano Man
- Piano roll
- Pickup group
- Picture disc
- Pinch wheel
- Ping-pong recording
- Pirates Press
- Pitch control
- Pitch correction
- Pitch detection algorithm
- PlayTape
- Pocket Disc
- Pocket Rockers
- Pop filter
- Porgy and Bess
- Portastudio
- Power alley
- Powered speakers
- Poème électronique
- Prague Symphony Orchestra
- Preamplifier
- Precedence effect
- Pregap
- Presence (sound recording)
- Preservation of magnetic audiotape
- Print-through
- Pro Tools
- ProDigi
- Producing Great Sound for Film and Video
- Production of phonograph records
- Professional audio
- Professional audio store
- Public address system
- Pumping (audio)
- Punch in/out
- Put Your Head on My Shoulder (song)
- Pyrox Wire Recorder
- Quadraphonic open reel tape
- Quasi-peak detector
- Quiet Mark (certification)
- Quiet-22
- Race record
- Radio Free Europe (song)
- Radio music ripping
- Rapper's Delight
- Rare groove
- Rat Sound
- RCA tape cartridge
- Re-amp
- Re-recording (music)
- Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes
- Record press
- Record restoration
- Record sales
- Record sleeve
- Record Store Day
- Recording House of Radio Ukraine
- Recording of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
- Recording practices of the Beatles
- Recording studio
- Recording the Beatles
- Reel-to-reel audio tape recording
- Related rights
- Remaster
- Remote recording
- Respect (Aretha Franklin recording)
- Respect (song)
- Reverse echo
- REX2
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Rhythm Is Gonna Get You
- RIAA equalization
- Ribs (recordings)
- Rick Hall
- Ricoh Synchrofax
- Rigler-Deutsch Index
- Ringing out
- Ripping
- Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Robinson–Dadson curves
- Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations
- Root mean square
- Rose Room
- Rowe Customusic
- Rumble (instrumental)
- Run-length limited
- Sabamobil
- SAE Institute
- Safe listening
- Sample-rate conversion
- Sampling (music)
- Sampling (signal processing)
- San Antonio Rose
- SAP (file format)
- Schaffer–Vega diversity system
- Scratching
- SD Blu-ray
- Second inauguration of Calvin Coolidge
- Sel-Sync
- Self-publishing
- Send track
- Sending loudness rating
- Share Our Wealth
- Shock mount
- Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)
- Show Boat
- Signal subspace
- Silencer (firearms)
- Singin' the Blues (Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, Con Conrad and J. R. Robinson song)
- Single (music)
- Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
- Sitting on Top of the World
- Sleeper hit
- Slicer (guitar effect)
- Solid State Logic SL 4000
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
- Song of the summer
- Sonic soot blowers
- Sony Multimedia CD-ROM Player
- Soul Man (song)
- Sound level meter
- Sound on tape
- Sound quality
- Sound recognition
- Sound recording and reproduction
- Sound recording copyright
- Sound recording copyright symbol
- Sound reinforcement system
- Sound transmission class
- Soundboard recording
- Soundfield microphone
- Soundproofing
- Sounds of North American Frogs
- SoundScriber
- South Pacific (musical)
- Spill (audio)
- Squidgygate
- Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc
- Stage box
- Stage monitor system
- Stage wash
- Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)
- Stem mixing and mastering
- Stem Player
- Steno-Cassette
- Stereo-Pak
- Stereophonic sound
- Sticky-shed syndrome
- Straighten Up and Fly Right
- Studio City Sound
- Stump microphone
- Sub-band coding
- Super Audio CD
- Super Bit Mapping
- Super tweeter
- Suspense (radio drama)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
- Sweet Lorraine
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Tactile transducer
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Tampongate
- Tape bias
- Tape cartridge
- Tape head
- Tape head cleaner
- Tape hiss
- Tape recorder
- Tape trading
- Taper (concert)
- Tapete
- Teach Yourself Heath
- Teardrops from My Eyes
- Tefifon
- Telediphone
- That'll Be the Day
- The Beatles' Christmas records
- The Champ (The Mohawks song)
- The Churkendoose
- The Conet Project
- The Cradle Will Rock
- The Devil Went Down to Georgia
- The Fall of the City
- The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
- The Fred Allen Show
- The Giant Pool of Money
- The Holy Book of Hip Hop
- The Jack Benny Program
- The Little Engine That Could
- The Lodge (audio mastering)
- The London Session Orchestra
- The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)
- The Microsoft Sound
- The Peanut Vendor
- The Tracks of My Tears
- The Troggs Tapes
- The Twist (song)
- The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)
- The Wiz
- Thiele/Small parameters
- Time-domain harmonic scaling
- Time-Sensitive Networking
- Tipitina
- TonePort
- Tonmeister
- Tooth Tunes
- Tosca (1953 EMI recording)
- Total harmonic distortion analyzer
- Total Hi Def
- Tracklib
- Transmission line loudspeaker
- Transport (recording)
- Trident A Range
- Triggerman (beat)
- TTM 57 SL
- Tubby the Tuba (song)
- Tube sound
- Tuner (radio)
- Tutti Frutti (song)
- Twelve-inch single
- United Kingdom patent 394325
- Unreleased Bitterness
- Unusual types of gramophone records
- Variations for Orchestra (Carter)
- Verband Deutscher Tonmeister
- Vertical cut recording
- Vessel Orchestra
- Vesti la giubba
- Vic and Sade
- Victor Orthophonic Victrola
- Video denoising
- Video Single Disc
- Vinyl data
- Vinyl rip
- VinylDisc
- Virtual mixer
- Voice confrontation
- Volta Laboratory and Bureau
- Voyager Golden Record
- Walking the Floor Over You
- War Requiem
- Waterfall plot
- WAVINCITY
- We Are Family (song)
- We Hold These Truths
- Weighting curve
- Were You There
- What the World Needs Now Is Love
- What'd I Say
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- White Book (CD standard)
- Who's on First?
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
- Wichita Lineman
- Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
- Wire recording
- Wisconsin Folk Song Recording Project
- WJSV broadcast day
- Wolfbox
- Wow and flutter measurement
- XDR (audio)
- Xenochrony
- Y.M.C.A. (song)
- Yamaha M7CL
- You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
- You're No Good for Me
- You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
- Your Love (Jamie Principle song)
- Zoom H4 Handy Recorder
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