cutting music records with a self-build record lathe 

haha ..

@@alexrex7382 All kidding aside, this is one of the coolest things Ive seen on youtube! Very nice 👏. What do you use to cut into the cd? I'm curious how the new version will turn out. Subscribed 👍

@@Davitamon76 thanks for your comment and your kind words. please check out my new video for some updates and way better results! maybe this will clear thinks up for you! check out my new video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

Quanto saia um projeto desse prontp

😂😂😂😂😂😂👍

changed the system now, with better resulution. see more details in my new video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

LOL

yeah! i like those bone-records! never seen one in real life though :(

I had 4 of soviet bone record

thanks! I'm quite busy at this time now with other art-projects. so i will not have the time to make a good tutorial. but there are a lot of videos of self-built semi-professional lathes out there on RU-vid and other blogs. it took me two afternoons to search for a good overview and input for my project. so i think anyone can get all the informations needed, to start this project. - now i also own a lot of books on this subject. - maybe one day i will do a small tutorial. but until then, i hope you guys just start, as i started two years ago with my project: just do it! :D - viele Grüße! Danke für dein Kommentar.

Me gusta tu maravillosa maquina yo estoy haciendo algo parecido pero creo que necesito de conocedores de esto como tu es que ami no me sale el audio del todo bien no see que utilizar de aguja para crear los zurcos con mejor sonido me suena con bastante ruido te pido el favor y me des una idea de que material utilizaria yo para mejorar audio te lo agradeceria enorme mente

@@nycpny8396 no books about embossing records exist, just about cutting! i gathered all information needed from forums and communitys. the rest is self-thaught

@@alexrex7382 what books on this subject do you own? Maybe I will manage to find them and educate myself :D

if your willing to get one older then the 50's you can get away with one for around $1000 to $400 i'd be weary of anything cheaper then a grand though make sure it has the stylus for recording.

thanks .. i sometimes work in vinyl pressing plant next town. so i'm familiar with the process. i also made updated cutter head .. you will find it in a new video i made, maybe you check that on out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html i also thought about solonoids, but did'nt had the time to test! do you got any good results with solonoids? cheers

I was thinking about those new soldering irons with the ceramic heating elements.... They have a technology that hasn't really ever been introduced introduced into record cutting lathes. The upshot of it is that the ceramic ceramic elements actually heat the eyeat the iron or in this case cutting stylus up very quickly and are able to manage the temperature the temperature and without changes even if there are very loud or complex programs being cut. In essence I think that this hasn't been considered enough. That louder programs and deeper grooves mean that the stylus has to maintain proper heat and that can change dramatically over the span of just a few seconds or portions of a second when a deep or loud program is being cut because of the amount of vinyl it has to come in contact with. I think one of these new ceramic elements and the technology that they used with the hollowed out tip with ceramic inside, Could indeed make a very efficient and very high Fidelity inexpensive cutting leave.

yeah! RIAA is applied :)

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Build me too please

nostalgia per eva

@@smokedkid4777 thank you!!

yes. stepper motor and arudino controlled!

the rubber-loop and the straight linear metal rods are taken from an old scanner i found on the street in front of my home one day. exept the arudino and the 3D-printed parts you can get everyting for free on the street or the junkyard! :D -- please check out my new video for some improvements!

Nostalgia per Eva

A simple $20 heat gun would do the same thing as the hairdryer without the possibility of adding excess noise to the speaker based cutting mechanism.

check out my new video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html .. there are some answers for your questions

good question, i was looking for somthing like this too some years ago. There are only pvc-records on the market! And some rare "vinyls" could be produced in different plastic materials. but nothing as strong, to withstand the +100g needle pressure of a grammophon. :( as far as i know. BUT maybe one way could be, to cut a "deep groove" master onto a METAL-Master out of copper. With deep grooves and wider space inbetween the grooves. You could ask your local vinyl-record pressing plant, if they would cut you a METAL MASTER .. its not fashion in the us, but in europe there are alot of master studios doing metal-master cuts.

@@alexrex7382 interesting... I have also thought about, would be possible to make film with a copy of a 78rpm from vinyl, and then try to press it in a warmed up harder material

@@ivar7076 yeah .. but its hard to get a good result via pressing at home. You could try to just use Copper-Blanks and let the Vinyl-Master-Studio cut you some grooves in 78rpm ..

@@alexrex7382 you think a company that press vinyl are able to press 78 in copper? What are they called or where can i buy the blanks? 😁

@@ivar7076 the company must have some blanks. just ask a record cutting master studio or vinyl company in your country. they will know --

Bwoy It's on a CD (poly carbonate) not vinyl ;)

you will find more details in my new video! : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html Maybe next year i will do a tutorial or some manual on how to build one!

yes!

but with some gently modification

I was going to ask the same question! 😀

thanks for your thoughts. in the moment i'm involved in another project. but if i came back to embossing .. i will remember your advices!

thanks, but this was just the first prototype .. heck out my new video for some improved technical update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

Thanks for your comment! yeah i noticed the bad needle-joint (cube). There are also some more problems on the cutter head i have to fix some day! I also have to change the connection from the "cube" to the case of the cutter head. I made that connection-rod out of strong wire - but i should better use flexible wire - i would like to take a bowden cable from a bicycle! Maybe i get this fixed till the end of the year :D Then the moving of the needle must be much stronger, then now.

Maybe a plotter blade. I just bought some from ebay.

@@CHARLIEtheCATofficial what degree should to blade be?

no! you have to invert one chanal!

​@@alexrex7382 increible proyecto, puedes explicarme lo de invertir un canal? ademas veo que grabas en mono, si no me equivoco. gracias

@@alexrex7382 what do you mean by inverting one channel? inverting it's polarity? if so, are both speakers playing the same audio with one speaker inverted? or are both speakers playing different audio?

thanks for your interest .. maybe i will do a schematic next year. or maybe a tutorial-video. the hairdryer doesn't effect the recording, but currently i switched over to use a warm light bulb instead! find out more details about the cutter head on my new video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

thanks for your comment! the second prototype is muche better, as you can see/hear: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

just a stepper and some arduino controller!

different speed - dunno the exact one. just found out by try and error!

no, the noise of the hairdryer is not recorded! but i skipped over to use a heating light bulb instead now.

If you were to use a serve direct drive 1200 style turntable, those motors are quartz locked AND ADJUSTABLE to any speed... and enough torque that you may not even NEED to compensate, as they will try to. But if you disable the quartz lock then you just have the static speed of the servo if you wanted to figure out what speed. The Technics SL-1200 in its many iterations would do this best, but there is a cheaper version of it made by audio technica. Not as much torque tho.

I knew it, but I wanted to recommend something easy. The result isn't good, the home recorders of the 1930's and 1940's did a better job, well, they couldn't record frequencies above 4 kHz (and shellacs were able to play frequencies up to 10 kHz), but there were no catches and pops.

check out my new video for some improved technical update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html // looking for next year, to do a video with more information

i can cut in stereo, but embossing doesn't provide a good chanal seperation .. sooo : it's acually some wierd mono

heating the plastic surface for better embossing results. but now i use the heat of a lightbulb instead ... check out my new video for some improved technical update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

please try! would be nice to see someone do their own

@@alexrex7382 thanks for answering, i'm 16 years old and i've done several things like robots, drawing machines and revolver, i would love to make a disc recorder like this, but i didn't understand very well how the shaft that holds the needle in the head works machine, could you explain, your videos didn’t make this part very clear, I’m grateful

it's not the disc - it was the shitty cutter/embossing head i used in this video - much better results can be found in my new video, with my updated cutter-head: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

thanks, check out my new video for some improved technical update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

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thanks .. watch my new video for more groovieness :D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

thanks for your comment .. check out my other video and you will see some more details. The stylus is not heated! doesn't make sense for embossing! a hairdryer or a old hot light-bulb will do!

Danke, bitte schau dir mein neues video an: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html Hier findest du den Apparat mit besserem Schnittresultat

yeah .. would be nice. but there are many tutorials out there. if i ever have time to do one, i will post it! thanks

haha .. would be nice, to get the sound of the hairdryer on record! but the noise doesn't disturb the recording at all. :D with my updated machine i was switching over to use a light-bulb instead, thats much better than the hairdryer ..

@@alexrex7382 infra red heat lamp (french fry light. Jk about hair dryer being recorded ;)

@@RyshusMojo1 infra red would be good. but a normal light bulb will do it as well!

just amp the sound and then send it through the cables to your cutter head. depends on what kind of cutter head you got. if it is a old mono-one .. then its easy. stereo cutter heads are a bit more compicated

It's just a mono. So I run sound from my computer to an amplifier and then use the output on the amplifier to connect those wires to the mono cutter? I'm guessing I would use a L/R RCA cable for the output and then shave the insulation and connect the red to the red and white to white? I have a tube guitar amp but am not sure if that would work. Any suggestions on cheap modern amps or amps that I should be looking for? The cutter head is reading at 5 ohms. Thank you very much for your response!!!

the updated prototype produces much better records, as you can see/hear here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html

just a sharp sewing needle - thats it :D

You are from chile? Wena perro

I Also did it .. to have stereo sound you have to polish an iron pin 45degr . But the most difficult part was to find the perfect balance of vibration and weight ..

watch my update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3CVEroUJidI.html