Vinyl record under the microscope

[Davey]

http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/

pretty cool if you ask me

[Denim n Leather]

Photos are fantastic, but as scientists you would think that they should know an LP only has one groove!!!!!

[Afghan Dave]

Photos are fantastic, but as scientists you would think that they should know an LP only has one groove!!!!!

Who said all the photos were taken of the SAME LP?  PDT_008

[Philly Q]

I must admit I am geeky enough to have a pair of 3-D glasses.... but in fact it's less impressive than the other pictures.

Amazing how something that seems so smooth and precisely made actually resembles a rocky lunar landscape when you magnify it enough.

[Oli]

I had the chance the other week to be involved in a live vinyl cut at the studio, and got a chance to inspect a freshly cut laquer under a microscope-- great to see these pictures along the grooves, really neat :)

[Denim n Leather]

I had the chance the other week to be involved in a live vinyl cut at the studio, and got a chance to inspect a freshly cut laquer under a microscope-- great to see these pictures along the grooves, really neat :)

Neumann lathe? Where did you do this?

[gwEm]

Photos are fantastic, but as scientists you would think that they should know an LP only has one groove!!!!!

though there are those fancy records which have two tracks on a side with the grooves in parallel with each other - you're never quite sure which track will be played

[Denim n Leather]

Photos are fantastic, but as scientists you would think that they should know an LP only has one groove!!!!!

Who said all the photos were taken of the SAME LP?  PDT_008

Says the site:

Chris has decided to look at the relatively boring grooves of a vinyl record using the institute’s electron microscope.

[Afghan Dave]

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Ah.. F**k you Ben.  PDT_021  :lol:

[Denim n Leather]

Ah.. F**k you Ben.  PDT_021  :lol:

That's more like it!

[Ratrod]

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Ah.. F**k you Ben.  PDT_021  :lol:

That has to be the best use of 'smileys' I have ever seen.

[Fourth Feline]

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Ah.. F**k you Ben.  PDT_021  :lol:

That has to be the best use of 'smileys' I have ever seen.

+ 1 to that !

Performance art at it's best.  :D

[Fourth Feline]

http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/

pretty cool if you ask me

Brilliant photos Davey,  :)

It feeds my existing affection for the days of magic Vinyl.  Oh  those happy days, when  Vinyl was the norm, and CDs a mere novelty. Even the scratches sounded good !   And who can forget the fun of reading the messages scratched / burned in the central area of the record, where the needle ran off to the middle.  I seem to remember my old Deep Purple albums having some humorous scrawl placed there by someone at the pressing stage.  :)

[Oli]

I had the chance the other week to be involved in a live vinyl cut at the studio, and got a chance to inspect a freshly cut laquer under a microscope-- great to see these pictures along the grooves, really neat :)

Neumann lathe? Where did you do this?

Yea, Neumann lathes :) We (Metropolis Studios, London) have done it twice, once with Duke Special, and the latest with Ellie Goulding-- there's a couple of little videos on YouTube of both those events, just little promo type things, nothing that gets into the nitty-gritty too much. It's really cool to see the artist in the live room playing, and then going up to the mastering room and see the laquer being cut at the same time-- you hear the band playing on the speakers, but also you can hear the sound coming from the cutter making contact with the laquer... not a A/D process in sight! :)

[Bainzy]

sick.