My homemade Gramophone Horn - preview

[WDC]

Wow, this is really impressive! You could like fill a theater with music by that. And the attached reproducer does its part in volume too, a truly perfect team!

[Odeon]

"Your home BECOMES the speaker...

This is one of the benefits if you are unmarried - you can share your bedroom with a big gramophone

I tried a lot of reproducers with this phonograph, also Columbia Vivatonal, HMV No5b and so on - but the Orthophonic is the best sounding with it.

I would really like to know, how it may sound with a EXPERT soundbox, but they are exorbitant - at least to me.

When the beast is ready, I will restart working on a selfmade soundbox on the base of a almost destroyed HMV No5b - but this is another story...

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[reboot31]

the sounds are not bad.. actually as they have said, it's good! ... i salute you for doing this great work... I can't do that alone...

[GMEMG]

What you're aiming for is one of these - this is the first EMG Wilson Horn Conversion Made by Mr Ginn in 1927 - and as you see VERY LOUD It blows most people's socks off !

http://youtu.be/lYFPtmzMCHE

[Nat]

Wonderful machines - but the camera work gives me a headache!

[Odeon]

Now I have the next steps ready...

The mouth of the horn is painted. I also put several layers of hard lacquer to the inside of the horn - this gives me a little better treble response.

I also solved the problem how to pick up the sound:

I picked up the sound with two condensor mices: one in front of the horn and a second in the lid of the gramophone - so I get more of the sound like you hear it in the room.

Afterthat I mixed it to mono, and "married" it with the video.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTr2MdlwRk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5J2omnyJA[/youtube]

[edisonphonoworks]

That sounds Awsome! Great Job!!! This sounds like the way to transcribe 78s, much better sound than any of the modern archive machines, such a balanced sound, good bass, bright and crisp highs, this is how 78s are supposed to sound!

[AllWoundUp]

That. Sounds. Fantastic.

Love that second tune, now on my list of records to find!

[OrthoSean]

Indeed, I'm impressed! Great job!

Sean

[WDC]

Superb, and the late records with high volume do bring that horn to its full performance. And well done with the audio capture. Finally someone else who has used microphone at a fixed position!