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The current Issue of In The Groove is pretty cool, it focuses on recording and cylinder making. I have an article on making blanks, and Paul Morris has one too! I was inspired by The Article by Jerry Fabris, on the recording lathes, so much, that I worked yesterday on putting my electrical recorder back together and was working with it until 4am this morning!!. I will be posting some pics and recordings. I had the phono bumping, litteraly last night, I did some test cuts of current hits, like Lady GaGa and Kesha club mixes and I recored them off of digital, and tweeked the driver, It is capable of records of extream qualities in volume and frequency response, from 20-20K, If you want a wide range cylinder, the volume has to be reduced,but The wax will take it for normal playback with a good rebult C you have to reduce the range from 60-150 about 10 db, while keeping the 30 cycles and below flat, as the upper bass is where it throws the reproducer from the groove, but if you reduce theese and keep the very low at 0dbm, it will play back with good deep bass. I decrease the midrange and bring up the upper highs, to compensate the resonances of the acoustic playback system. I can imagine these cyinders would work the best on a Colubia BC or with an O reproducer. I checked them on a 56" horn and it littery goes boom boom on a properly adjusted model C, and will almost make your ears bleed with listening tubes. I use a Fairchild recording head, and drive my cutter with an HK 300-A tube amp with about 10 watts, and the volume on the amp is just a little under half and it cuts records louder than an Edison Gold moulded This is mounted above an automatic style Edison recorder, with a linkage from the Fairchild down to the cutting stylus, basically an electric pantograph,it is as if the electric driver was the master cylinder on a pantograph.

I look forward to reading the new issue. Any idea of when it should be completed and mailed out so I can keep an eye out for it?

Sonny, got mine already so yours should be there soon.

Clay

edisonphonoworks wrote:I did some test cuts of current hits, like Lady GaGa and Kesha club mixes

My god man, you're creating a monster! Lady Gaga is bad enough without her tat being put on to cylinders

Seriously - is this anything like what the Vulcan Cylinder company is currently doing? I just had a look at their site - £220 for one indestructible cylinder is a bit pricey :/

I just looked at the site, the standard indestructibles are £16 to £22.

£220 is for custom work and includes the cost of cutting a master, making a mold, and supplying two (not just one) cylinder. Obviously most of that cost is for set-up, each additional record is at his regular price. So custom recordings only make sense if you make them in some quantity, as Norman has done, and amortize the set-up costs over a larger production. If you just buy Vulcan's off-the-rack cylinders they are not particularly pricey, at least for those who aren't stuck with devalued US dollars...

This is me (in the Hawaiian shirt) recording. I think this "In the Groove" article is talking about some of the cylinders I made. Shawn, isn't that one of your blanks near the phonograph? (The white one).

I also recorded for Vulcan a couple of years ago.

One of my Vulcan records.

Yes, that is one of my white ones, I think form 2001! How did it record?? Some of those blanks were very good, they varied so much, I was in such an early learning stage, there was no information at the time on proportions to make the compound, the aluminum varied quite a bit at this time.