Vinyl Record Grooves Close Up

Well you would be wrong.

Vinyl record grooves close up.

Tactile and textured vinyl is all about psychical character. You would think that if you have an electron microscope and a record player you re most of the way there to being able to record close up footage of a needle traversing the grooves of a long player record. The diamond tip tracks the grooves of a vinyl record and the cantilever which is attached to a rubber mount acts as a damper sort of like a car s suspension to soak up horizontal and vertical. Although less delighted and actually quite horrified to see how much dirt and dust was lurking in between the grooves.

Up next how vinyl records. It was actually quite a challenge as the applied science youtube channel recently demonstrated in vivid and mind blowing detail. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first the discs were commonly made from shellac.

In the mid 2000s gradually records made of any material began to be called vinyl records or simply vinyl. So we were delighted to find these striking photos of vinyl under a scanning electron microscope sem. If you ve ever wanted to know what happens when a needle runs through the grooves of a record then youtube channel applied science has uploaded a video that lets you see close up. And now you ve completed your trip down the microscopic rabbit hole to see just how your records store and reproduce all that great music.

Remember it gets the sound from the sides of the groove and you can see up close thanks to the electron microscope just what your stylus sees. The stylus picks up the waves. This video is unavailable. Vertical groove 4 6 inch discs it recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs 1947 dictabelt memobelt analog medium consisting of a thin plastic belt 3 5 wide that was placed on a cylinder and rotated like a tank tread developed by the dictaphone company in 1947 1948 vinyl lp record columbia.

Starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common hence the name vinyl. Vinyl records repair grooves reconstruction.