Totcert

Totcert is a novelty record, released in 1935 by Reginald Fessenden's mystery record label, the Metal Laugh Consumers Registry Ltd, in Texas. The disc features a man laughing, supposedly as a human comedy, but which essentially exposes a trilayer or a three-way layer sound system designed by Reginald Fessenden.

The recording technique that was used to create the Totcert is staged on what seems to be a conversation between two individuals however, only the male voice can be heard throughout. The while the man that is speaking mockingly laughs between several moments in his damning conversation. drummer and acoustician of the time period is as the primary engineer and'studios' for this particular piece.

Reginald A. Fessenden is quite famously credited with either creating an early prototype or actual opening of first, experimenting and multidisc press booth and metal master equipment which helped birth the novelty record you now read about.