Can a Laser Engrave Music onto Records? 

It sounds like if you were standing outside of a club that was playing the music, recording it while there was a storm going on.

As Engelbert's grandson, I'm here to say your thrift store record choices were *top notch*

10x funnier if you don't wear headphones. Looks like Will is just so elated about the speaker static that he puts it up to his ear lol

William - OHMYGOD IT WORKS! subtext - put headphones on if you can’t hear it! Record player - *sounds like the gates of hell being opened and he man partying two realms over*

DUDE HOLY SHIT my great grandma was the leader of the Englebert Humperdinck fan club. I'm dead serious about that and even met him on multiple occasions

William: OH MY GOD IT WORKS Record player: CCCRRREKKKKKKKERRREERRERRAAAEREMKK

I just listened to He-Man encoded from RU-vid onto a cereal box using a laser cutter and played back on a record player through a speaker and then uploaded on another RU-vid video

If you ever revisit this, you have to slow down the music tempo and the rotation speed while recording and also mix the song with higher volume on the higher frequencies and attenuate lower frequencies. Than play it back on normal velocity, this should make the lens vibrate less on higher frequencies giving it more time to engrave it.

God I love this channel.

Here's the thing, when records are cut commercially, the high frequencies are boosted before being sent to the cutting head. The record player compensates by reducing the high frequencies during playback. This was originally done so that the record would have decent playback volume without throwing the needle right out of the groove any time the orchestra hit a kettle drum. So you have the mass of the lens AND the RIAA curve in the playback loop both working against your high frequencies. The solution is in the signal processing. Send the audio through an equalizer (software or hardware doesn't matter) to boost the heck out of the high frequencies.

Without headphones it just seems like Will is getting increasingly delusional.

“No trace of he man” This quote brings me worry, concern, and an emotion I cannot describe.

You should brand this, maybe call it LaserDisc

it sounds like my next door neighbour is listening to he man during the winter storms of the nuclear apocalypse

Could you make a device where when I clap it rotates a laser around and lights all the candles in the room? Is that possible? Would that technically be dangerous?

"Our choices are Englebert Humperdinck, Englebert Humperdinck, and Englebert Humperdinck." As someone who checks thrift stores for obscure music fairly frequently, you have no idea how true this is.

It sounds like I've just been kicked out of a club on a stormy night.

rigging a $50 lense to a $1 piece of trash essentially

"if you can't hear it put on headphones" *Turns up volume* Will: *Screams*

I can’t believe I just heard he man on an Apple Jacks box

Now your CD has Backwards comatibility with record Players

Wow, this is almost like listening to beats headphones.

i found your channel about an hour ago, because your house burning down was in my recommended feed. I don't know why it took your house burning for the algorithm to show me your videos, but boy, am i glad it did! sorry about your house dude, you had a sweet set up.

"I found this broken record player, but I don't know if it works." ... hmm, ok..

This guy deserves waaaay more subs

William and crew are a national treasure. Obviously we wouldn't want any other country to know about them because it's a little embarrassing. But we freaking love them.

I want the track on the burnt CD as a 10 hours Gaming/Learning/Chillout-Mix. It's perfect. It's got a repetitive rhythm and white noise.

What I love about these videos is that it gives you some insight as to the original inventors' processes and (maybe) what they were thinking and such. It's super interesting.

taking burning music onto a cd to a whole new level

It sounds like hell is having a party. Without me!

this isn't really a project but what do you think the dumbest thing you can design and build in 24 hours is?

William: cuts music into record record: Here's a little song that goes like this: [redacted]

2017: makes device to transfer records onto random surfaces 2019: Drinks chlorine gas tea

If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.

You should have tried to move the lens with a piezo speaker, they are designed for higher frequency and are producing quite strong vibrations.

Also you need to use reverse RIAA curve when cutting a record because phono preamp incorporated RIAA curve on playback. That is why there is no top end and lot of bass. You need to set it reverse when cutting.

You should make bass frequencies all the way down and high frequencies all the way up to make RIAA which every vinyl uses.

Idea : gear the record player down to 1/10 speed and do the same to the music so the speaker shifts all those high frequencies that you're losing into the low frequency range while you're cutting

does William know what a RIAA curve is? :o it increases treble and decreases bass before cutting into the record, the player applies the inverse curve. that way it could probably have sounded a lot more correct :o

The intelligence, the silliness, the enthusiasm, and the smile. I found what I'm looking for.

Sounds like I’m living upstairs from a nightclub that loves he man memes.

Fun Engelbert Humperdinck fact: that's not his birth name. He CHOSE that name! He was born "Arnold George Dorsey" which to be fair is pretty boring, so I get why he'd choose a different stage name, just not THAT name. (Thanks Wikipedia! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(singer) )

Nice will! If you cut some frequency sweeps in a given lens and driver configuration you can use some complementary EQ to pre-bias your files before you cut in order to flatten the frequency response. You know, math!

Next can you try making records using things like solidified jelly,uncooked spaghetti and other solid foods or weird things then rank how good they sound from best to worst.

This dude is a foolish genius.

is sounds like someone playing he-man out loud with the windows open on the highway

It sounds like I'm in someone's basement and they're having a party in the middle of a hurricane

As a vinyl record collector, the first part of the video gave me anxiety.

I will buy one of your finest CD records, i have a record player that is destined to play this

"If you wanna vibrate something really quickly, it takes a lot of energy." - William Osman, 2017.

"smells like day 4"

up-load opnly the raw audio cuts as "listening to he-man but through a portal to hell"

I hijacked the stereo at a wrestling tournament and played the 10hr version for at least 20 minutes before someone got wise.

you need to vary the strength of the laser rather than moving it... the groves on the record are varying in depth...

I'm going to start watching your videos without adblock so you can get some revenue to keep continuing making videos, I don't know if it helps, but I love this channel. Keep it up man!

William osman: I built my own laser at home also William osman: time to make salsa in a garbage disposal :)

I'm so glad I found this channel you are like my favorite person now.

Should have done one more but taken the MP3 onto your PC and take everything from like 250Hz and up and amplified it, exported it and use that. End result would have sounded better perhaps? as the highs would then move the lens more as well as the bass. Just a thought xD Sounds cool though as-is: Like your peering out of your window on a stormy night and someone 3 blocks down is having a crazy rave aha!

Getting copyright for the music at the end 😂

I can't believe how much control you have over something so fragile when it fails 4 plus times. I just couldn't be able to laugh by the fourth one, but you just got that unbreakable spirit going kn.

I want a copy of distorted HEYEAYEAYEAYEA

You need to apply the reverse RIAA eq curve onto your audio to preserve the highs. The phono stage is exaggerating the lows too much, and reducing the highs.

Why does that sound sounds like a really creepy heartbeat

7:35 sounds like he’s picking up a distress call

1:07 Welcome to hell

You got to boost the high end before you burn in the grooves. This is working correctly, the record player filters out high end to get rid of surface noise, so the high end is supposed to be boosted when scratched onto a record.

Everyone who did it's own DIY vinil recording do it by slowing music down and slowing rotating disc. Then playing at normal speed. This way it is possible to get higher tones out.

This man really took burning music into a CD literally.

Engelbert Humperdinck was actually his stage name. He chose it since it sounded more interesting than his original name Arnold George Dorsey.

Could you just make a video of you making inhumanly brittle parts, and immediately follow it with a compilation of you breaking them all, raging because they... Oh wait. This *is* that video.

Can you laser someone's skin and show what the scar looks like, almost like a tattoo

This is my favorite video will has ever made. I just love music and record and things like that

I am so happy that I have found this channel.

“More comments is more better.” -William Osman, 2017

Project suggestion: Can you make a really rudimentary laser cutter out of a hacked dollar store laser pen?

"today sucks!" oh boy you did not know what was coming to your house lol

this is dumb **hits subscribe button**

That was entertaining! - SubD!

I wish I found this sooner so I could've got a CD.

Im so shook that it worked like it actually sounded audible even if it wasn’t great considering he made it work it’s fantastic like you can hear some of the words and it’s so iconic

"more comments is more better"

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't records work off of vertical variation, not horizontal?

can I have a CD?

So like I know that was made like two years ago, but I want a cd 😂

The underworld is having a rave

Make a robot that shoots michael reeves when he doesnt upload a new vid within a week of the last one ;)

You just laser engraved music onto a cardboard box, and then played it on a record player you found in the trash and fixed for roughly $20

The final sound in the cd makes me feel. weirdly nostalgic and emotional.

Can you laser cut a tatttoo on To skin

Did I just get reverse rickrolled? _I'm a stranger to this. You broke the rules and stole my bliss._ _Your broken promise confused my mind. My heart is broken and cast to the abyss._

I'd love a CD! Is your major in mechanical or electrical or software engineering or other? I'm a computer science girl myself, and I wish I knew more about building stuff like this.

This is actually amazing, even though I had to put my fancy headphones on

Ozzy Osbourne's long lost genius laser stoner son

you should have honestly boosted the high ends, and lowered the low ends to try and make a more balanced sound. you could probably do the math to find out energy by frequency, but idk that might have been to much

I'll take a disc. I'll toss it on the record player during a house party.

You should look into RIAA equalization. When cutting records they apply an inverse RIAA curve, cutting lows and boosting highs, so the needle can track the grooves better and then the needle cartridge applies the normal RIAA to bring the sound back to what it was intended to be. Thats why you can only hear the lows after laser cutting the cardboard.

So, the result is bass boost, basically?

So, did you look at the RIAA equalization curve for records? They purposely equalize the lower frequencies down, and the higher frequencies up. I could explain it, but google is your friend. Are you playing it through a phono pre-amp (and/or do you know if there is one built into the record player?). If so, you need to burn the music with that in mind, as that follows the RIAA curve.

you could have used an equalizer on your phone to turn down the bass and increased the treble for a better experience

For anyone finding this in 2022, Engelbert Humperdinck's actual name is Arnold George Dorsey. Apparently his manager chose the name for him to reinvent himself, named after a German composer.