Can You 3d Print Vinyl Records

You decide what music you want on your record and create your own cover art.

Can you 3d print vinyl records.

Affordable custom printed records ready in 8 weeks. In order to explore the current limits of 3d printing technology i ve created a technique for converting digital audio files into 3d printable 33rpm records and printed a few functional prototypes that play on ordinary record players. Vinylify makes personalized vinyl records on demand. Is a 3d printed record or turntable accessible to makers.

I chose to modulate the grooves vertically for the 3d printed records because the vertical axis is the most precise axis on the machine resolution of 16 microns. Does not include a test pressing. Vinyl is coming back. The 3d printed albums are thicker and stiffer more like the old school 78s than the latest version of vinyl recording and it may be that 3d printing never becomes the standard way of releasing.

Take a look at this projects and see for yourself. The needle drops and a series of high repetitive whines come from the album. Stereo 2 channel vinyl records are cut both vertically and laterally this way it s possible for two isolated channels of audio to fit into one groove. Create your own custom vinyl record.

But the quality of the records produced is way better than i would have imagined and all it needs to equal and surpass conventional vinyl is a higher resolution printer. So you could potentially print a record that you could throw on a deck and have a needle follow the groove all the way through but there wouldn t be any music there. If you compare 3d printing to printing from a computer onto sheets of paper we are probably at the daisy wheel stage of evolution. We ll take care of the rest and deliver the record to your door so you can start spinning.

Finally kurt cobain s voice. The actual grooves in a vinyl record could probably be printed but the variations in those grooves that make up the sound recording are only a couple of microns at most.