Wax cylinder recording - He's In The Jailhouse Now

[davrosteleman]

Amazing, Where do you buy the blank cylinders from now days?

[EmmetEarwax]

Sound quality is good -but that's because it was just cut. 10-11 playings and you'll hear definite deterioration. Best to tape record the cylinder before it becomes a surface roar mess.

I was in the Edison labs in NJ, and, while they did sell albums of Edison disks and cylinders in the gift shop and had a cylinder player for a visitor to run, there was no actual recording being demonstrated.

[mandelcorny]

vinyl vs. cylinders in sound quality are the same. but vinyl can be pressed, while wax cannot

[edisonphonographfan]

@mandelcorny

Actually edison cylinders after 1901 where pressed in molds up until 1929.

[mandelcorny]

@edisonphonographfan still more difficult, and also, phonographs can have 2 sides, should have specified phonographs over vinyl my b. vinyl is such a fail though, i was at a store selling old 78 rpm's made of shellac and they felt so much better

[edisonphonographfan]

@mandelcorny

yeah I never really much liked vinyl the old celluliod cylinders wouldnt break and lasted better than any other medium we have. and phonographs and graphophones were cylinder machines (most of the time) it was gramophones that played 2 sided records which didnt catch up in quality until the 1910s and 20s

[deltaleader37]

3:10 THATS WHAT SHE SAID

[2agray]

Now that's just fascinating! Who would have ever thought we'd go back and do this again commercially? What a wonderful idea to recreate cylinders. A lot of the original material was crap and this is more hand picked with jazz tunes and such. Would love to see a video of your transfers from whatever media. The ones I've heard on youtube are stunning in their clairty and quality. They must be electrically transfered.

[misanthropicagenda1]

this is so amazing

love this song

and recording on wax cylinder - too cool

i love old recording talking machines

[BlackHoleSun1921]

Vinyl is too mainstream--- I have the new Radiohead album on Wax.

[ufoengines]

Have you ever tried to record video on your machine, using the standards from the Narrow Band T.V. folks ? ..... " Mechanical T.V."

[milkygear]

too cool, always been interested on how this works.

[souzabrito1]

s to send me the draft of the recording head?

I have here a dictaphone and I want to turn it into a phonograph ... but you have to manufacture the bottles and burn too ...

I would like if possible the design of the recording head and other details please

hugs

Souza Brito

souzabrito@msn.com

[CassetteMaster]

Is there a way the wax is hardened after the recording is done? Cause it seems like playing it would wear down the wax into just wiping out the original recordings.

[EmmetEarwax]

The cutting needle IS pretrty sharp, and so it has no prob in recording a perfect lo-fidelity cylinder.

Also the "wax" is actually blue amberol, a shellac-like substance that works very well. Wax was used prior to 1890 ,mostly for home recording and it wore with each playing. Prior to 1878, there were experiments with tin foil and lead. Tin foil records are now unplayable (after 3-4 playings they wore out and they had to be scraped off the cylinder !) and a lead cylinder still survives.

[HyruleanaZeldin]

Oh my God! :O I want one of those!

[Ziplock74]

who would of guessed the first microphone looked like that?

[realgoodbread]

Two thumbs up.

[Zefrenm]

Epic! XD

[coldplays179]

i thought 8 tracks were old

[rweerakkody4565]

i love all primitive recording devices and media. this is great. i see it from recording to playing. nice sound quality. i only saw this in the books. and very nice song. i can use this song on some occasion or something. 5 stars.

[Max0Inq]

Awesome!

[gregoryagogo]

So cool! We want more videos of using these old machines to record!!

Thanks for showing the act of recording, and the finished output!

[AAErikCO]

Really neat to watch! It's interesting to hear how a brand new cylinder sounds to compare what the original wax cylinders must have sounded like 'hot off the stylus' :)

[W2QYVkz789]

It's great!!!!!!!!!!!

[paragraphthree]

This is excellent.!

[bluenote71]

Just amazing.

[darksound1973]

Nice recording machine! Finally someone with an advance ball to adjust the depth of cut.

[Fonograf1877]

Great song !! 5/5