Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/02/cut-and-play-your-own-vinyl-re.html
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I saw this over at Gawker, er I mean Gizmodo.
Does anyone know where I can order one of these without knowing how to read Japanese?
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This isn’t exactly new tech. Edison’s original 1877 cylinder phonograph recorded too. In fact, that’s what he thought it would be used for – he didn’t predict that people would want to buy already made recordings.
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Sadly these “dub plate” records can only be played a few times before they degrade. Fun toy for sure!
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Seconded!
Yeah, these devices keep popping up, and they’re not exactly new, I have piles of old recordio-discs from decades past where someone saved very lo-fi bits of TV and radio broadcasts, grandma singing, baby’s first words, etc. As an avid vinyl collector I have no use for discs that degrade by a noticeable amount every time you put in the turntable, except as a curiosity. The whole limited-edition-lathe-cut vinyl scene is outside of my interests.
The only value these things might have to me is one-off dub plates for mixing or DJing, where you would use it for one gig and dump it.
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Given that, one could use it to add a certain ‘vintage/hipster/cool’ "ambiance to your own recording that could then be saved to digital media. Then again, there IS music software out there that can do that already.
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Didn’t Portishead make samples from sounds they pressed to vinyl?
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Could you make a record with a laser CNC machine?
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cut and play your own (very) lo-fi 5" albums!
(very) lo-fi
So, vinyl.
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The 1857 phonautograph also recorded sound (but did not play it back).
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I think the best story I have heard along these lines was Bass Generator (a bouncy techno/gabber DJ from Newcastle, UK) hearing something he liked on a multi-generation tape of a Lenny Dee DJ mix, copying it to another tape and getting it cut to vinyl.
Lenny Dee did a DJ set at the same event as Bass Generator a few months later, heard it and asked him what it was and could he get a copy. During the Vinyl>Cassette>…>Cassette>Vinyl process it had mutated into something different.
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In the 90’s I did the bedroom DJ thing and what I enjoyed most was experimenting with samples to hear unexpectedly new things burble out that had no resemblance to the source.
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I love how he never actually plays the record! It could be terrible!
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Well, he never demonstrates any audio on his channel-- the subtleties of the sound are sure to be removed by youtube’s codec (and the user’s speakers), so he doesn’t bother. It’s just like reading an audio review in a magazine., and trying to figure out “cold”, “warm”, “velvety” and “analytic”.
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Thanks - that was quite convincing even though the entire time I was thinking to my self “this is F’ing impossible”. I like Steve Guttenberg too and have way too many turntables in my collection so I was quite skeptical but borderline believing him …
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i really want a nice piece of software to convert audio to stl ; low fi would be ok , pla might not take more than 2 or 3 plays , not so much as a replacement for real pressed vinyl , more as a replacement for the sort of record that sometimes came on the back of cereal boxes ; a novelty more than a product
< there is a very old program in c , i think , maybe i should really look at that again ! https://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Record/
https://github.com/amandaghassaei/3DPrintedRecord
http://www.amandaghassaei.com/projects/3D_printed_record/ >
something like that , only with a nice gui , maybe on thingiverse or as a plug in for blender or slicer or some such !
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