In the DJTT mailbag this morning was a link to a brand new project featured in the Daily Mail that’s worth sharing – laser-cut wooden records by Amanda Ghassaei (from our own town of San Francisco!). The records are surely aren’t the best for your needles, but they look pretty awesome.
The Daily Mail notes:
Ghassaei created a digital waveform file from the MP3 and converted into a PDF.
Because the resolution of the laser is thicker than the vinyl record presses so Ghassaei had to make the grooves twice as larger as they would be on a vinyl record. This means that a wooden record can only fit around three minutes of song onto one side, and this means the song becomes more distorted as the needle moves towards the centre of the record because the sampling rate decreases.
Watch the wooden wax Radiohead track play out below:
PRINT ME A RECORD!
Amanda has also previously made records from a 3D printer that were a buzz a few months back – which although it suffers a similar issue with quality, is most certainly a sign of music purchasing (or pirating!) of the future:
Want to try either of these designs on your own?
Amanda has posted instructions on Instructables for her laser-cut record and the 3D printed record.
DIDN’T YOU SAY CHOCOLATE?
We decided to throw this awesome video in this news article as well – a throwback to September of last year of a custom run of Breakbot records printed on 74% dark chocolate. They only have a few limited plays before the sound quality degrades beyond recognition, but after that, they’re delicious!
