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Cigarbox Record Cutting Lathe: Meena Cryle - Try Me

Posted by Elmar Zeilhofer on November 24, 2012 at 8:15pm

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Experimenting on cutting audio tracks into obsolete CDs. The cutting lathe was built around cigar boxes.The previous cutter heads were crap - this time i kept it as simple as possible: A Visaton EX 45-S Exciter with a sharpend drill glued on it. That loudspeaker doesn't have membrane but a plastic mounting plate which vibrates.The soundfile was equalized with the Audacity program; high frequencies above 6kHz were cut off, the rest was equalized with an inverted RIAA filter. The next step is to install a feed screw (the cutter head was moved by hand for this recording).The track I used for experimenting is "Try Me", taken from Meena Cryle. Check them out, they're great! www.meenacryle.com

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Sharecropper November 25, 2012 at 12:53pm

Neat and sweet !!
RTZGUITARS November 25, 2012 at 11:08am

its kinda oldnew tech.
Elmar Zeilhofer November 25, 2012 at 8:30am

Feels good to be in company ;-)

hmmm... what about a "Cigar Box Records Label", diy reocrds for homemade instruments...?
Mike Breen November 25, 2012 at 8:15am

Elmar

You are becoming the mad scientist of Cigar Box Nation, that is very cool
Tim Fleischer November 24, 2012 at 10:11pm

pretty damned amazing!
Elmar Zeilhofer November 24, 2012 at 9:28pm

kinda.. or leaving the car and to start walking
smilingdog1 November 24, 2012 at 9:25pm

Kinda like recharging a smart phone with a potato?
Elmar Zeilhofer November 24, 2012 at 9:25pm

hahaa, yea... but wait till you see the next step. I'll use old x-ray photos to make bigger records. In the Soviet Union the young folks copied non available Western music records... stay tuned :-)
the anonymous pick November 24, 2012 at 9:19pm

crazy stuff man .. i likey .