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Digital Needle - Playing phonograph records with a scanner
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- leed25d 16y agoIt seems to me that I read once of a device at the Library of Congress which is a purpose built laser scanner for extracting such waveforms from old records, even the drums.
- jessevondoom 16y agoYeah they're IRENE scanners. Pretty amazing, actually. Able to lift sound off the most delicate old recordings. Probably a lot of possibility for repair of lost fragments visually: http://irene.lbl.gov/ http://irene.lbl.gov/ And there are laser turntables for commercial purposes as well. Not a visual product, in interesting still...
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- qq66 16y agoRelated: http://www.elpj.com/ http://www.elpj.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
- tintin 16y agoSome time ago I wondered if this could be done with a small CCD (Like the one in your mouse, see the mouse-scanner project: http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye). I tried it once, but it's very hard to do this in real-time.
- jessevondoom 16y agoAnd for the record, there are some pretty unique distortions here. I know a lot of artists who'd be pretty excited about the samples themselves...there's something special about them being a byproduct of a unique process as opposed to a clicked button or three in protools.
- rflrob 16y agoAny idea what those ~2Hz distortions are? In the a and c series recordings, they have a very strong pitch change, coming in groups of 4...
- jessevondoom 16y agoWas wondering the same thing, but I've got no idea. Curious if blur from the visual scan of denser grooves has anything to do with it. Really interesting sound.
- J3L2404 16y agoComing in groups of four the likely culprit is a slight misalignment in the assembly of the pieces of the scan.
- nopassrecover 16y agoIf those distortions were filtered it sounds pretty accurate.
- cubicle67 16y agoso, how long before we get an augmented reality app that lets you play your (parents) records just by pointing your iPhone at them?
- tibbon 16y agoActually, that sounds like a pretty good app. Shopping for a CD and want to hear it (or at least previews) now? Scan the barcode or album cover and boom.. music I'd pay $4.99 for that app.
- jorgem 16y agoPeople still shop for CD's in stores?
- michaelbuckbee 16y agoSimilar, but for DVD+Netflix - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097527 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097527
- wakeup 16y agoThats why you will burn in hell.
- phreeza 16y agoReading up on Wikipedia, I think he got the encoding wrong. The samples he plays are the diff between left and right. Now I want to try this... but I don't have a scanner handy. Can anyone scan a record for me?