Edison was 30 when he patented his phonograph in 1877, but he wasn’t the first to record sound. That happened 20 years earlier, when French inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created ...

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Low frequencies correspond to deep sounds, like a bass drum; high frequencies correspond to sharp sounds, like a whistle. Controlling where sound goes is difficult because of a phenomenon called ...

James Jamerson and his P-Bass, Jack Bruce and his Gibson EB-3, McCartney and his Hofner 500/1 ... ‘You play really good, but your sound is awful!’ I got mad at him, but he said ‘I have ...

John, 16, was the leader of a band made up of Colin Hanton on drums, Rod Davis on banjo, Pete Shotton on washboard, Eric Griffiths on guitar and Len Garry on tea-chest bass. Article continues ...

Q Acoustics has blessed bass aficionados with a trio of new active subwoofers that cater for different sizes of rooms and levels of stereo and AV set-ups. Sitting above the company’s existing slimline ...