I really love your nerd kind of lab! Great job on the program, too! I've also created my own program to fully-automate my lathe but still need to tweak a few things. Great job!
The blanks are sourced from recordlatheparts.com If you're looking to get your own music cut I am now doing short runs. Checkout my website for more info fprecordings.com Releases from FPR can be found on Bandcamp
will you be ever let people download the auto groove spacing program or would you give a tutorial for the process? that seems really awesome, also thank you for the video!
Yeah I'd need to screenrecord it. Basically the pi pico that controls the lathe goes through an array of numbers 0-9 (0 being stopped and 9 being the most spaced out). It increments at 5 values per second and the value changes the speed of the stepper motor. The program creates the array that can be sent to the pi pico. I wouldn't mind sharing the code for the python program and the pi pico.
@@fprecordings that would honestly be lovely, i have never tried to make a lathe before so its probably a steep learning curve, where would you reccomend searching for advice or instructions on how to make one? also thanks!
@@PR0EST The concept is simple. Make a needle vibrate with a speaker. But it took me years to get it fine tuned. I would say that lathe trolls is the only good forum for this type of thing but it's full of old dickheads that aren't nice to newbies. If you do digging you can piece together what you need.
I use a cone tipped sapphire embossing stylus. I use microfiber cloths to polish the blanks now and that has greatly reduced surface noise. The angle of the stylus and groove depth/head weight also affect noise level.
What do u use to know how much weight to put down when the cutter head goes Down? Counter weights at the back sort that kinda thing? I've bought a stepper motor and micro stepping driver I will pair with an arduino. Do u recommend using the extra thing u had on your arduino...the red one..
Yeah I have counter weights on back but haven't actually weighed it. I just got it right with trail and error. The red board consists of a Pi Pico, LCD, and bluetooth transmitter.
@@fprecordings Do you mean, it sounds like a hard high cut? Or is it something, where 16 kHz are 10 dB less? Because this would be normal, that higher frequencies are a bit discriminated. Someone tested companies, where you can order a lathe cut and one of them had a sound like a digital wave file, what has a rate of 14 kHz.
@@robfriedrich2822 There's a significant drop from 8 to 10kHz. Around 10 -12db, then it kind of levels out until around 16khz before there is another big drop. Cut at half speed it gets up to 16kHz before there is a drop and still does a good job before I apply low pass at 18kHz.
I really love your nerd kind of lab! Great job on the program, too! I've also created my own program to fully-automate my lathe but still need to tweak a few things. Great job!
great to see enthusiasts around the world with similar interests! it is very important for me .
Yeah I have cut records for a long time and it is it awesome seeing folks doing home lathe cuts.
I even like the novelty toy cutters too.
One of the coolest vids I’ve seen on TH-cam, so fucking sick. It’s awesome seeing smart people use their powers for good
Very nice!!
Woow next Kevin Gray on the works. Amazing job.
We can we find them black 12"inch polycarbonate records bro??? Please let us know
The blanks are sourced from recordlatheparts.com
If you're looking to get your own music cut I am now doing short runs. Checkout my website for more info fprecordings.com
Releases from FPR can be found on Bandcamp
Very good job and thank you for the informations 👍
Like your shirt too 😉
will you be ever let people download the auto groove spacing program or would you give a tutorial for the process? that seems really awesome, also thank you for the video!
Yeah I'd need to screenrecord it. Basically the pi pico that controls the lathe goes through an array of numbers 0-9 (0 being stopped and 9 being the most spaced out). It increments at 5 values per second and the value changes the speed of the stepper motor. The program creates the array that can be sent to the pi pico. I wouldn't mind sharing the code for the python program and the pi pico.
@@fprecordings that would honestly be lovely, i have never tried to make a lathe before so its probably a steep learning curve, where would you reccomend searching for advice or instructions on how to make one? also thanks!
@@PR0EST The concept is simple. Make a needle vibrate with a speaker. But it took me years to get it fine tuned. I would say that lathe trolls is the only good forum for this type of thing but it's full of old dickheads that aren't nice to newbies. If you do digging you can piece together what you need.
Nice lathe cutter!
Hi. Can I ask what kind of stylus you use. And how do you solve the noise problem. Thank you
I use a cone tipped sapphire embossing stylus. I use microfiber cloths to polish the blanks now and that has greatly reduced surface noise. The angle of the stylus and groove depth/head weight also affect noise level.
@@fprecordings Thank you
Good job 😇😎🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕
Awesome man! 👊👊👊👊
Love the A500 !!! is it being used in any way?
Not for the lathe. I use it primarily to run OctaMed
@@fprecordings haha I thought so Octamed :)
Your website doesnt work, would love to check it out
Power went out. Back up now
What do u use to know how much weight to put down when the cutter head goes Down? Counter weights at the back sort that kinda thing? I've bought a stepper motor and micro stepping driver I will pair with an arduino. Do u recommend using the extra thing u had on your arduino...the red one..
Yeah I have counter weights on back but haven't actually weighed it. I just got it right with trail and error. The red board consists of a Pi Pico, LCD, and bluetooth transmitter.
@@fprecordings i bought an arduino rev3 today, people are telling me i dont need to use a pico, do you think its worth having the pico aswell?
@@Stefan.X. I'm sure an Arduino would be fine. I just had a couple picos lying around so that's what I used.
You don't use RIAA-style back and forward re-equalization for less space between grooves On the bass?
I apply RIAA and the EQ specific to my cutter head digitally.
Brilliant bud, well done, I’m glad I saw this. I’m planning to buy a German TS560 lathe. Gonna be happy dayz!
🪬🌀👽
unfortunately you can't buy it because you want to and have the money, to get the German machine is a one of a kind experience
but why mono? have u tried cutting with diamond stylus?
Polycarbonate just doesn't get good stereo separation for some reason. I've switched to cutting lacquers with a sapphire stylus.
Hi there. Do you make custom records on vinyl ? Thanks.
They are embossed poly-carbonate discs.
The most important question is, are frequencies above 7 kHz properly recorded?
There's a drop-off that starts at 8kHz. I've started cutting at half speed to combat that issue.
@@fprecordings Do you mean, it sounds like a hard high cut? Or is it something, where 16 kHz are 10 dB less?
Because this would be normal, that higher frequencies are a bit discriminated.
Someone tested companies, where you can order a lathe cut and one of them had a sound like a digital wave file, what has a rate of 14 kHz.
@@robfriedrich2822 There's a significant drop from 8 to 10kHz. Around 10 -12db, then it kind of levels out until around 16khz before there is another big drop. Cut at half speed it gets up to 16kHz before there is a drop and still does a good job before I apply low pass at 18kHz.
when will Paul drop???????
That was just a dubplate for the mix
@@fprecordings nah we need the raw drop dawg
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