Home Made recorders

[Girl Toes]

I've asked it before but never under its own thread, but I need to know.

If I can make a pin hole camera out of an oatmeal box, how come I can't make a crappy home made recorder?? Just for fun, and I figure I can learn from it, and put directions inside my next record. WHat do I need, what's around the house???

Some one posted a few weeks ago those ones from japan that can cut sound into plastic cups and blank CDs. I want to make one of those my self.

[joel hamilton]

Go for it!

[Professor]

Guess you missed this link in that post a couple days ago. Oh and this one too.

Gramophone or phonograph, your choice, and recorded onto a CDR or a plastic cup.

-Jeremy

[joel hamilton]

I LOVE the plastic cup one. Amazing.

I asked for one for christmas from everyone I know by sending them that link...

[Girl Toes]

No, I saw those. I want to make my own recorder though, not some thing i have to order from Japan.

[housepig]

No, I saw those. I want to make my own recorder though, not some thing i have to order from Japan.

okay, so do some research. the nice thing here is that, unlike Edison, you have 100+ years of information available to you in how other people have done it.

go back to the start - look up Edison's patent on the phonograph. Look up old Ampex patents for early tape systems. Look into wire recorders. Read up on Les Paul and his homebrew systems.

if you want to do it, do it. start with a) deciding on a format, and b) researching it.