So the interesting part, how they get sounds onto metal, was completely skipped, and the part everyone already knows, that they're created by being pressed into vinyl, was shown. For about 90 seconds of a four and a half minute video.
The records have little grooves that vary. When the arm detects a groove, it turns a speaker on. When the arm doesn't detect a groove, it turns the speaker off. This constant turning on and off very fast causes the speaker to vibrate very fast at a varying frequencies, causing varying pitches to be heard. (When the speaker vibrates, the air molecules around it do so as well, creating sound that your ear drum interprets) Thats a simplified version, but thats the basic concept. Basically anything that can have 2 states (on or off, or up or down, etc) can be used to store sound. It just needs a mechanism to turn the on/offs into vibrations, which is sound
Sam B There are SO MANY of these KIND of videos, but this is a very abbreviated version and 4:26 of our life we can’t get back.😫If you’re going to do YET ANOTHER “How Vinyl Records Are Made” video, give details and specifics all the way through. Too many out there as it is.🙄🎧
The most important thing was skipped over. How you make the groves and how often the master needs to be changed. As a mechanical manufacturing process, the quality of die and mold drops after each press
This did NOT tell, how vinyl records are made. It told only tiny part of the process. This was more like an ad of that company. I was maintenance engineer in a company which made vinyl record on 70’s and all the cut vaste vinyl was reused. So that is nothing new. Why not to reuse the vinyl?
Yeah, the most interesting part is the production of the masters and stampers. I'm especially curious how modern HD vinyl stampers are made, I mean, using lasers to etch the stampers... man that's fancy! Plenty of videos on the process of making a master out of a lacquer though.
This video doesn't really explain much. I was hoping it would show the process of using a cutting lathe to cut the grooves onto the master, and show a close up detailed view of how the groves from the master is impressed onto the vinyl.
@@fion3943 same can be said for nearly all blue-collar jobs but it can even be applicable to many of the white-collar jobs It depends on the pay, the hospitality, and many other things
@@ratplaga9845 I don't know, she seems more irritated than hopeless, if you do the same shit every day you will lose hope or direction in life but her frustration seems immediate.
Do y'all think running your own business is constant adventure and excitement?? Like any job, there are necessary tasks that you perform by rote. Not sure why so many people are pointing this scene out.
Maybe she didn't really want to be filmed. Maybe her cat just died. Maybe she just got turned down for a home loan. Maybe she just realized she could have been saving 15% or more on her car insurance if she had just switched to GEICO. YOU DON'T KNOW HER STORY...
She looks like she is focused and concentrating on doing her job correctly. Have you never seen that before? What is she supposed to be doing, dancing and singing while she works?
I just found my Grandpa's vinyl collection and his old turntable that thankfully still works today, I played it and I was fascinated how a spinning circle with a needle riding on it produce great music! Surprisingly we have the same music taste which wad great so I can jam to it anytime. 😀
It takes 1:10 before they even start addressing the question and doesn't explain why vinyl needs to be mixed and mastered differently. What is so wrong with making informative and to the point videos?
Not a whole lot of inspecting going on. Which strengthens my case that new vinyl is not being pressed at top quality. I’d say 70% of the brand new vinyl I purchase has warps and most of all scuffs and scratches.
I, a 19-year old who got a gramophone yesterday, consider a gramophone record the most fragile object in the world. My father who got all the records in his younger years taught me how to hold them too.
First, you take the dinglepop, and you smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then repurposed for later batches. Then you take the dinglebop and push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it
Far too little real information. When you make a "how" video, leave out the personalities and present only what strictly pertains to the subject matter.
I also love vinyl I still unsure the hifi I got when I was 14 I'm in my 40s now back then things were made to last lol. I'm still using vinyl, cassette tapes and cds. I do have a lot of music on my kindle but if hime i tend to togo old school. I also live that even toady amny bands sell their albums on vinyl and cassette tapes 😃 if available ill always buy new albums on nit only on download and cds ill always get it on vinyl too 🎶 🎵
This video taught me one thing: hydraulic presses are used for more than just stupid RU-vid videos. A shame that the video doesn't discuss how the master audio is actually converted into proper physical data.
I always wondered what the process was like in making a record, it is interesting The part were the record is trimmed at the side and the way the label is pressed.
Flac rulz! Just kidding, I appreciate both formats😆. I am glad that vinyl has made a comeback over the last few years. Nothing like owning an album I can actually hold in my hands.
I think this is so great. Something from the past is revitalized for today's consumer all because it's unique to the point where it stands the test of time. I bought a new record player all because I found some old classic vinyls that my sister inlaw have had, and i"m so enjoying it.
@@catsinwonderland7473 Just came home from a fum trip. Lost some money at the casinos, but just can't revel on it . Looking forward for tomorrow. The weather is going to be fair, and riding my bike for a couple of hours on my route will be fum, and enjoying. Tonight though I'm going to have to go setup my rack system. I use to use zip ties, but meow Ive changed it since it's costing me money. Right meow I'm using tention straps. It's really useful and reusable so meow I don't have to waste anymeow money.
They don't show the master fabrication and the absolutely enormous amplifier they use to crave the the tracks. It's not a joke it's actually made like this.
technically yes, but also no not really. theoretically, you could use the master to create a model disc, then recreate that disc onto a 3d program where you could then print it out on vinyl. however, 3d printers don't print smoothly- if you've ever held a 3d printed piece, you can feel the texture. it would be very complicated and time consuming to make a master disc, recreate it digitally, and figure out a way to print the vinyl smoothly/sand it down. i think the way that vinyl is produced now is probably the most efficient way we can make it. you could precut the vinyl and use a laser to cut the grooves- but at that point, its a cd. hope this answers your question
As a 3d printer expert: no. The level of detail and miniscule differencs the 3d printer would need to print, is not available today. Even if they were, Tom's machines are the more rational way of doing it. Doing it with a 3d printer would be like carving a wooden statue with a fork.
To me records seem like a futuristic technology. Stamping wave files on a big disc and then playing them with a needle while it spins. Yet it’s been around 100 years.
Me scrolling though my RU-vid home page at night before I wake up in the morning to go to a dentist appointment Me seeing How vinyl records are “Interesting”
Putting the music into grooves is quite complicated. For exemple, the bass frequencies are removed because they would make the grooves so big the needle would skip continually. Then the record player (the one you have at home) boosts back the bass frequencies so you can hear them. And that is just a part of it...
I know a huge company that prints the covers for Vinyls. They have a large grab of the industry. Would be a neat video to follow up. BTW...this company recently won two Emmys for covers.
@@l.398 yes, but I guess I miss buying them at *Tower Records* and *Wherehouse Records* There's a great line in movie *Almost Famous* by Miss Penny Lane _If you ever get lonely go to the record store,and visit your friends_
Yeah, I get it. The "feel" of it is kind of gone, since you can download songs way more easily, and it's less of a thing now. I really love collectinh vinyls, but miss that kind of community around it tbh, that it had back in the day.
I would LOVE to own this business! Looks SO cool.............glad to see vinyl records are still around, the sound of analog records is far SUPERIOR to digital sound.
She did not look happy 'blowing' those used vinyl bits before they got recycled. AND she also DID NOT really inspect the finished vinyl before it went out to the customer. Fired.
This material kindles deep intellectual curiosity. A book I read with related ideas was highly stimulating. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
