Hello, I am just getting into the DIY audio stuff. I have decided to make a record player out of a sewing needle, a toy motor, a dimmer switch, and a battery, as well as a cardboard plinth. I plan to better everything once I have the time, money, and concept down. I work as a blacksmith, so manipulating and bending metal is nothing new to me (no, I will not make you anything). Because of that, I am wondering what a metal plinth would sound like. I'd play literally all kinds of records, from Balkan and klezmer to reggae to punk to rockabilly to country/western. I know that metal and wood and plastic and all other materials sound different, so could anyone show me a video or explain what it will sound like?
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Metal Plinth???
Hello, I am getting into the DIY thing with record players. I am building a record player using a small toy motor, a dimmer switch (for speed), and a battery, as well as a cardboard box. I have slight prior experience in the electrical field, well enough I don't harm myself and/or others. I am also a blacksmith, so I have knowledge on how to manipulate metal into the shape and size I want it. Once I have the money and time, I plan to upgrade my record player to something more sturdy and permanent. I know that wood, metal, plastic, and other materials have different ways they sound, and I am wondering what it would sound like as a plinth. Would it be recommender, or not?
Hello, I am getting into the DIY thing with record players. I am building a record player using a small toy motor, a dimmer switch (for speed), and a battery, as well as a cardboard box. I have slight prior experience in the electrical field, well enough I don't harm myself and/or others. I am also a blacksmith, so I have knowledge on how to manipulate metal into the shape and size I want it. Once I have the money and time, I plan to upgrade my record player to something more sturdy and permanent. I know that wood, metal, plastic, and other materials have different ways they sound, and I am wondering what it would sound like as a plinth. Would it be recommender, or not?
I admire your enthusiasm and, yes, it might work, you might get some sound and you may be able to play your records with a sewing needle at least once.
but,really, I'll be gentle here... it is like asking you as a Blacksmith 'if I dig up some clay from the ground and hit it a lot with a rubber mallet and I make a pair of gates, would they keep Wildebeast out ?'
There is a great thread here on various peoples builds of turntables and tone-arms... you might be wise to study it a while...
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but,really, I'll be gentle here... it is like asking you as a Blacksmith 'if I dig up some clay from the ground and hit it a lot with a rubber mallet and I make a pair of gates, would they keep Wildebeast out ?'
There is a great thread here on various peoples builds of turntables and tone-arms... you might be wise to study it a while...
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um, how will you amplify the vibrations from the very tiny groove oscillations? - take a look at the early work by TA Edison (cylinder) and Emile Berliner (disc) for hints at the mechanical diaphragm and horns used - also note that "needle" (stylus) must be sized and shaped to contact the groove walls themselves, otherwise you'll not recover much at all
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