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  2. General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark - Wikipedia

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    American artist James Rosenquist portrayed the aircraft in his acclaimed 1965 room-sized pop art painting entitled F-111 that features an early natural-finish example of the aircraft in USAF markings. The painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [217] The sound of an F-111 flyby is on the Voyager Golden Record. [218]

  3. General Dynamics F-111K - Wikipedia

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    The General Dynamics F-111K was a planned variant of the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark medium-range interdictor and tactical strike aircraft by General Dynamics, to meet a Royal Air Force requirement for such an aircraft. The project was initiated in 1965 following the cancellation of the BAC TSR-2 strike aircraft.

  4. Production of phonograph records - Wikipedia

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    The grooves are engraved into the master disc on a mastering lathe.Early versions of these master discs were soft wax, and later a harder lacquer was used.. The mastering process was originally something of an art as the operator had to manually allow for the changes in sound which affected how wide the space for the groove needed to be on each rotation.

  5. RIAA equalization - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Europe, for many years recordings required playback with a bass turnover setting of 250 to 300 Hz and a treble rolloff at 10,000 Hz ranging from 0 to −5 dB, or more. In the United States, practices varied and a tendency arose to use higher bass turnover frequencies, such as 500 Hz, as well as a greater treble rolloff such as ...

  6. Reel-to-reel audio tape recording - Wikipedia

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    The result was the 3M Digital Audio Mastering System, which consisted of a 32-track deck (16-bit, 50 kHz audio) running 1-inch tape and a 4-track, 1/2-inch mastering recorder. 3M's 32-track recorder was priced at $115,000 in 1978 (equivalent to $537,000 in 2023).

  7. Loudness war - Wikipedia

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    The practice of focusing on loudness in audio mastering can be traced back to the introduction of the compact disc, [3] but also existed to some extent when the vinyl phonograph record was the primary released recording medium and when 7-inch singles were played on jukebox machines in clubs and bars.

  8. Disc cutting lathe - Wikipedia

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    The direct metal mastering (DMM) process uses a copper-coated rather than lacquer-coated disc. Before lacquer discs, master recordings were cut into blank wax discs. Once complete, this master disc is used to produce matrices from which the record is pressed. For all intents and purposes, the finished record is a facsimile of this master disc. [1]

  9. Aardvark (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The aardvark is an African mammal, Orycteropus afer. ... Brazilian aardvark, an example of circular reporting; General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark, a military aircraft;