Production of phonograph records
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This article is about coding for master recordings and sessionography of record labels. For a related article on coding more specific to record label and disc runout, see Matrix number. For other uses, see Matrix (disambiguation).
In the production of phonograph records – discs that were commonly made of shellac, and later, vinyl – sound was recorded directly onto a master disc (also called the matrix, sometimes just the master) at the recording studio. From about 1950 on (earlier for some large record companies, later for some small ones) it became usual to have the performance first recorded on audio tape, which could then be processed and/or edited, and then dubbed on to the master disc.
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