# Introduction

This free course, Recording music and sound, provides an historical introduction to music and sound recording and offers some guidance about making your own recordings, should you wish to do so. Many of the processes that have been developed and the issues that have been raised in the first 150 years of recording are still relevant today, and a solid grounding in them will help you understand the wide range of recording techniques currently in use.

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A232 Music, sound and technology.

OpenLearn - Recording music and sound
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