The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

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I can confirm that I never have had any tracking problems with soundscriber discs on modern turntables. Sometimes it can be neccesary to adjust the weight a bit. On the Model 200, it is actually also possible to adjust the embossing depth - a neat feature! I am talking about the newest soudscriber m...

the whole issue of embossing was 'solved' many years ago by the soundscriber corp. Their latest portable models embossed with a tiny tiny diamond stylus, permanently installed. ie. it could be used for many many hours of dication. Frequency response of these are up to around 8 khz, and could possibl...

x ray sheets, I believe, are not suited at all for embossing
what could lead some to think that is of course the many russian embossed x ray sheets.
But none of these were embossed, they were used a medium for a flexidisc ie. stamped in hot letterpress type machine from a cutted master

was just some thoughts regarding this I imagined a hill and dale record (mono) as most suitable. But if you have a recording head done that's awesome! Going to be exciting to see what come out of this! I have seen picures of, I belive 24 inch records, used on broadcasting, never seen anything bigger...

skip all the problems involved in cutting and either lasercut/ or CNC a hill and dale record (made of plastic) This will be low fidelty and mono, but, I think fine for this project. Then the challange is to make a playback device, a standard pickup could be used, and some motor as turntable. You wou...

nice find I have the exact same machine it was missing the tape though I made a 'belt' out of long strips of standard reel to reel tape and adhesive tape - works fine! fidelity is low, but probably the same as with a orginal belt A nice feature is the repeat function (mechanical stop) which allows l...

still looking!

I have since seen a large collection of these types of blanks - many colours, thickness differneces etc.
in perfectly good shape, opposed to the ones in the picture.
Conclusion must be that they have been fairly common around ww2

btw: if you use the large soundscriber model, wihout external amp, the frequency response is restricted to 200-4000hz
not a lot

well, there is still a lot to learn. Depending on what model you have, I would recommend you to use an external amplifier - simply attatch the wires directly to the head. You should of course only use mono signals. I recommend you to eq, first cut off everything above 8-9khz, then apply the RIIA cur...

100+ years of vinyl and the format continues to be developed thanks to efforts like this!

still generates a 18 minutes long completely silent audio file here
windows 7 xp mode, using net framework 4

maybe I'm doing something wrong?

thanks!

great project

I have the framework, still getting just empty files no matter what
It takes some time to process so something is happening.

I use WIN7

this is great!

However - when I use the software it generates empty files with only silence
Am I doing something wrong?

no idea, but they are quite stiff, not 'flexi'
packet only mentions 'gelatine foil'

could be a very cheap source for laquers to experiment with, if somebody has an idea how to make them

just to be precise. these are 'laquers' to be recorded on:-)
Closest thingh to a meat record yet

it's two danish women artists
see: http://vinylterrorandhorror.com

does great stuff

Came across these, German brand, 'Gelatine Foil Records' Never seen or heard anything like it. Looks like 30'ties, 4o'ties. And as you can see they are not really playable anymore:-) Cover says: 'Both for amatuear and finest studio recordings' 'Store cool and dry' 'Two sided, wide frequency response...