TOP 20 Inventions that CHANGED Music

[Rednaxela]

1)Electric amplification
2) see one

It changed so much, that people forgett it and just see it as normal.
No keyboards, no synths, no e guitar, no huge concert, no cd..... name it.

No crooners.

 

[Rednaxela]

Didn’t watch the video, so maybe it’s mentioned as part of another one, but Spotify should be on the list IMO.

 

[phoenixdogfan]

1. Pianoforte
2. Electric guitar
3. Stereo recording
4. Analog vinyl stereo disk records
5. Digital PCM recording
6. Radio and television broadcasting
7. Vacuum tube and transistorized amplification devices
8. Acoustically designed music venues (concert halls).
9. Streaming music distribution
10. Mixing board and multitrack recording
11. Rolling Stone & Gramaphone Record Reviews
12. Ripping Software
13. PC & Smartphone Music Players
14. Multi Gigabyte music storage
15. Printing press for sheet music
16. Moog synthesizer
17. Symphony orchestra
18. DSP for music playback
19. Rock N' Roll
20. Jazz & Blues

 

[Prana Ferox]

This all feels very recency biased. You have The Walkman but also the iPod, the Internet but also Napster. Meanwhile if you were being honest you could add things like 'perfecting strings made from gut' or 'shellac wood preservation' or 'bellmaking'. Doesn't even mention stereo or spandex.

 

[DanielT]

1. Pianoforte
2. Electric guitar
3. Stereo recording
4. Analog vinyl stereo disk records
5. Digital PCM recording
6. Radio and television broadcasting
7. Vacuum tube and transistorized amplification devices
8. Acoustically designed music venues (concert halls).
9. Streaming music distribution
10. Mixing board and multitrack recording
11. Rolling Stone & Gramaphone Record Reviews
12. Ripping Software
13. PC & Smartphone Music Players
14. Multi Gigabyte music storage
15. Printing press for sheet music
16. Moog synthesizer
17. Symphony orchestra
18. DSP for music playback
19. Rock N' Roll
20. Jazz & Blues

Did you create that list yourself? If so, I'm impressed.

You have Stereo, and also Parna Ferox, with whom Rick Beato did not pick up. I agree with that. Stereo should still have been on the list if we address what improved the sound reproduction.

This all feels very recency biased. You have The Walkman but also the iPod, the Internet but also Napster. Meanwhile if you were being honest you could add things like 'perfecting strings made from gut' or 'shellac wood preservation' or 'bellmaking'. Doesn't even mention stereo or spandex.

I agree with that, even in Rick Beato's list some inventions made way back in time crept in. He still puts Music Notation/Printing Press in first place.
The Printing Press may still be considered one of the most important inventions of all time.

What Mr. Rick Beato doesn't like is Auto-Tune, BUT he actually says at the beginning of the video below that he is not anti Auto-Tune , if being used very sparingly. OR if Auto-Tune is used to create a distinct effect, then it's an atristic expression that he might like.
He explains why from the perspective of a music producer:

 

[DanielT]

Didn’t watch the video, so maybe it’s mentioned as part of another one, but Spotify should be on the list IMO.

You can also, for example, study the development of different music formats:

Most Popular Music Formats 1972 - 2022

Perhaps no news for those of you who are active here, but this video was a pedagogically sensible compilation regarding the development, I think.:)

audiosciencereview.com

 

[Soniclife]

No mention of sampling theorem? Without it half the list does not work.

 

[Soniclife]

What Mr. Rick Beato doesn't like is Auto-Tune

He is not alone, give me people that cannot sing any day over people that cannot sing mangled by a computer.

 

[fpitas]

No mention of sampling theorem? Without it half the list does not work.

True. Although on other forums we could sell dart boards with Shannon's picture

 

[Sokel]

The volume knob.

That's early,see my 1913 gramophone solution (has a knob on the size to adjust them) :

 

[Astoneroad]

Several millions of years of evolution to develop a membrane that senses vibration. (... and only one Dead show in the '70s to F..k it up for life)