Edison Wax Recording, Guitar & Vocals 

How will work if there is no electricity?

@@mba6154 It uses a coil spring. Similar if not the same as those wind up toys you played with as a kid. Basically, the coil is like a spring so that when compressed will try to go back to its original shape. We take advantage of that by converting unwinding metal into rotational force. “The governor” mentioned early in the video is a piece that governs the speed the system plays at. It has large wings that create air resistance forcing the system to run slower.

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A lot of things didn't use electricity, for example a gramophone

​@@mba6154a megaphone doesn't use electricity

On Earth.

not for space and other planets

Only a bit over 120 years to pretty much destroy the oceans and most forests. Imagine the damage humans can do with another 120.

@@user-vt9ce4cv8w most forests have not been destroyed, for example the entirety of northern Canada lay untouched by humans

@@muzhikforchaplin1203 have you lived in Northern Canada or Siberia, like I have? If not, your opinion is nothing.

I was interested in this video for the historic quality of the process and I'm 59, hardly a hipster.

@@toonman361 it was a joke bro

Already happening. In 2022 bands are actually releasing new wax cylinders for novelty value.

Lmfao

Hipsters when they discover cylinder is now becoming mainstream again

Gosh imagine hearing all those old Gilbert and Sullivan wax recordings updated to make them sound like new! Agh! That would be amazing

YES!

Very cool

Almost impossible, would need AI tech for a simulated projection for most acurate reproduction, but will never be anywhere near exact since too much info is lost via the original recording processes. Some information can never be certainly known

They did this decades ago with old opera recordings, back in the 1970s. Developed algorithms to "add what was missing" from the old wax cylinder and shellac recordings. People preferred the originals.

I agree😄

@ShymFan2007 You can actually get toy phonographs that record on plastic cups and candles

Three companies make hard resin cylinder records, that don't wear out. Three of us make the wax blanks they are using in this video. I live in Princeton IL, The other lives in Waynsville, IL, the third in Exeter, England.

It's about history, buddy. Not sure why you're so salty

The sounds 😂😂😂

It didn't seem to make it into the actual recording, thankfully.

i love to listen to 16kbs mono 8bit mp3 sometimes - they sound like bad bootleg recordings of concerts but there's some magic in it

talentless drone music? What the hell is even that lol

I'm exactly wondering aswell trying to research this.

@@Iselus someone tried explaining it to me, but I don’t really think there is an explanation. They just explained the process of what’s happening which I understand.

@@Iselus let me know if you figure anything out. It’s crazy that someone came up with this in 1877.

If I may try, it might be easier for you to imagine a vinyl record (LP, 45 RPM, 33RPM, etc.) where the black (or whatever colour) material is hard and you can ‘see’ the groove in the record itself. There is one long groove that winds around and around, just like this wax cylinder. The recording groove (on both the vinyl LP record and the wax cylinder) looks like a jagged crack if you looked up close or magnified it [i personally think it looks/is just like a waveform (sound) opened in audio editing software (DAW)!] this groove is etched into the material via vibrations when ‘recording’, and on ‘playback’, the groove moves/vibrates the reading/playback needle around while it is being played back (the needle being pushed around through the groove) and this shaking, these vibrations of the needle, are amplified, either through a horn/bell shape as shown with the wax cylinder, or amplified electronically in a ‘modern’ vinyl record player. Once amplified to the range a human ear can ‘hear’ it (receive the sound waves in the ear/eardrum/etc, where the vibrations are passed to the inner ear and interpreted by the brain as ‘sound’), the entire recording process is complete (recording and playback enjoyment).

No because the only way Audio can get onto the cylinder is the diaphragm vibrating the needle so the slight air moving won’t do anything

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You can hear part of the wax recording simply by watching the video.

Have you seen the video? You can hear the recording...

Well at the end of the day if you can master the wax cylinder sound why not u know.

2:18-2:40 for example

They did...

That wasn't clear to me, I thought we were just hearing the sound coming out of the horn. It would have been better to actually show it played back