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Vinyl Pioneer Passes Away
Tuesday 9th October 2012 | Jacob
It’s with no small amount of sadness that we pass on the news of Howard H Scott’s death, aged 92.
Scott was a key part of the team of sound engineers that developed vinyl into the workable format that remains more or less unchanged to this day. Prior to his team’s efforts whilst working for Colombia in 1948, records were made of the much less durable material shellac and couldn’t hold more than four minutes of audio on each side.
The process to move music across to the new discs was extraordinarily complex, and required someone with Scott’s level of musical training to oversee the syncing of tracks from the old 78r.p.m. format onto the new 33 1/3r.p.m. speed records. He remained at the head of the game in later life too, helping to change formats once more in the late seventies with the advent of CDs.
We’re sure that tonight people all over the world will be dusting of their favourite LPs and giving them a spin in honour of one of the founding fathers of vinyl.
By Jacob Guberg.
