Make your own vinyl records at home | Teenage Engineering PO-80 & Gakken Record Maker

I also have some "Home" recorded records of my Israeli great grandmother reading up the Torah.

I found it randomly laying around when I was sorting my records, and its quite fascinating hearing it!

(I say "home" because it was recorded in some sort of shop)

Actually the record has a single groove, it's not "covered with grooves"

The samples you made at the end... I know you are trying to show people that you have recovered the costs and have a usable thing. But you haven't you could have just made them on any laptop. You are just adding a few extra steps with some junk you wasted cash on when you can get the same result with free software.
Also, there's 100s of vinyl record makers that will put anything, within reason, onto a 12" vinyl record for £50 ($70 USD. Last time I used a service I put 4 different tracks on a 12" record. 2 on each side. And they didn't just take my 4 files and cut them on. It was a personal service where we'd talk over the phone about the levels, the bass, the highs. A full personal service to get the best out of the music you gave them. And it was just £50. Admittedly it was just a test pressing that wouldn't last longer than a couple of hundred plays. But even if you wanted to get it made onto a more robust disc then it was still cheap, depending on how many you wanted.

Think about how the invention of audio recording took 50 years to come up with a record player that can be sold for comercial music.

Lol
Wow u guys put sooo much energy and time into trying to get that thing to work! I was really hoping u we’re gonna say u found some weird substance u were able to make blank records from because my god, u guys deserved it after all that frustration!

🎉 awesome I’d like one premade if anyone has one foresale?

Just loved how you presented and explained Vinyl pressing in a few minutes. Definitely worth a like and subscribe..

Keep it up, Dave.😊

Jamaica still have blanks. They call the dubplates.

which is better the p80 or original gakken?

I would like to make some records that are just talking. Will this unit at least decently reproduce a human voice?

lol making a vinyl record on a cd just roasted new things in 1000 ways

BTW your old record cutter needs restorarion and probably cutting head restoration. That’s why your cuts sounds so bad compared to original 50s made ones, the machine is just not working right. There are lot of videos how thoose cutters could sound really well, even today. Also when cutting heat the plate with lamp, it will soften the plastic and lower the noise floor.

Vocal fry makes this unlistenable.

OMG! What is that low feedback rumble throughout this video?? I desperately want to watch this video but it's like nails on a chalkboard!

Can these records be played on a phonograph?

I love learning things god damn.

Can you send me a link for this product? For some reason I can share the link via the video. Thank you!

You win! I subscribe and some pretty great stuff here.

😅 that's sound scary 😨

i wonder what music you use in the intro, i love it

I can't get enough of your videos. Great work!!

It was always my understanding that the 1940s home recorders were for voice recordings, not music.

Hi, Do you have a link where I can try this product for free. I have to try this out an experiment.

Great find.

I wonder if running a stereo compressor before the cutter input would help. I know for sure that a LOT of popular records were cut with some form of compression, and getting the level towards the peak of what the hardware can handle is essential to reducing the noise. A big record lathe has a heavier arm, so it can cut a deeper groove, which in turn can handle a "bigger" sound to get a better signal to noise ratio. Oh, and the medium being cut can also make a HUGE difference. You could try heating and pressing sealing wax into a flat plate then cutting it to a circle for a medium that would take a better groove. That's essentially what the original Edison wax cylinders were made from.

Thinking out loud. Could you determine the frequency of noise in the cut recording. Then put the output through a soundcard with RIAA filter and inject the noise out of phase to cancel out some of the noise? There's software that'll clean up a vinyl recording being transferred in to a digital file. I mean if you're using test tones anyway...

Just imagine if we somehow can create a machine with a LASER that can engrave DISCs and then read theam that would be awesome!

Apparently theirs still only one company in the world that makes the lacker for vinyl records and they are in Japan? Why 🤔 would the entire world do that

i clicked expecting nothing but instead i got everything

the song you made was so wonderful. even though it was just a sample i would love to be able to listen to the full thing one day on spotify

Yo that sampler-synth you made is actually pretty cool

Why make that warbly sound waves pack free when u can sell it for a $1.35?😂

Th recording wasn’t “terrible”

It was trve kvlt

Is there a full version of the music you wrote and used on the first part of the video? I'm inlooooove with it

I didn’t know you had a wife! I hope you have kids. You seem like you’d be great and patient dad,

Old science projects books used to give instructions for homemade phonograph players and recorders. I think they suggested smoked glass disks and sheets of hard wax for the record material. Keep in mind also that a higher record speed in the pre-microgroove (16/33 13, or 45 rpm) era normally produced a higher sound quality. When people cut their own, 78rpm was standard and the French used 90 rpm for better fidelity.

The King's Speech record?

Couldn't you print new blank records with a 3d printer?

Why do people insist in always have an obsession with obnoxious amounts of bass…

Where can i buy one and any ideal how much the cost?

Make a record out of other strange materials!

Try cutting off a piece of ice cream tin and use its softer plastic as a recording meadium

Would it sound better if you spin it twice as fast? I mean, the more data the better right?

I LIKE VINYL SOUND

Could it be possible that code could be put on records?
Like imagine playing a video game from a record, of course it would proabbly work just like a floppy disk.