Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
8 thoughts on “How-To: Duplicate Records Through Casting”
Edward Pisarskisays:
The only problem i could see with this is that you would have a one sided recording. The opposite side would just be smooth.
MusicMansays:
Uh… why? The copy will sound pretty bad compared to the original and probably won’t last very long. If you have a good turntable, tonearm, and cartridge, the copy could be damaging to the stylus since the material the copy is made from doesn’t have properties identical to the original. All you need is a wrecked diamond stylus on your expensive phono cartridge. There’s no way the copy can retain the high-frequency detail present in the original. AND… any damage present on the original (wear, scratches, warps, etc.) will be present in the copy.
This is a perfect example of just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it.
It would be far better to play the record you want to copy one more time on excellent playback equipment (so it sounds half-decent, cheap phono gear is VERY unimpressive sounding). Send the output to a high quality analog-to-digital converter, and save it in a lossless digital format. This will last “forever” (if you backup) with no worries about wear or damage to your phono playback gear.
Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
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The only problem i could see with this is that you would have a one sided recording. The opposite side would just be smooth.
Uh… why? The copy will sound pretty bad compared to the original and probably won’t last very long. If you have a good turntable, tonearm, and cartridge, the copy could be damaging to the stylus since the material the copy is made from doesn’t have properties identical to the original. All you need is a wrecked diamond stylus on your expensive phono cartridge. There’s no way the copy can retain the high-frequency detail present in the original. AND… any damage present on the original (wear, scratches, warps, etc.) will be present in the copy.
This is a perfect example of just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you SHOULD do it.
It would be far better to play the record you want to copy one more time on excellent playback equipment (so it sounds half-decent, cheap phono gear is VERY unimpressive sounding). Send the output to a high quality analog-to-digital converter, and save it in a lossless digital format. This will last “forever” (if you backup) with no worries about wear or damage to your phono playback gear.
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