Vinyl Record Grooves Close Up

Tactile and textured vinyl is all about psychical character.

Vinyl record grooves close up.

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. Close up photography of record grooves in the picture below notice the fifth groove from the top. In the picture below the same program has been cut with a 70 hz crossover blend reducing frequencies below 70 hz to mono.

Although less delighted and actually quite horrified to see how much dirt and dust was lurking in between the grooves. 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. This video is unavailable. It was actually quite a challenge as the applied science youtube channel recently demonstrated in vivid and mind blowing detail.

So we were delighted to find these striking photos of vinyl under a scanning electron microscope sem. 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. A stunning and scary close up of vinyl record grooves. A phonograph record also known as a gramophone record especially in british english or simply a record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove.

Starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became. Yes we still make vinyl records. 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. 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.

Up next how vinyl records. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first the discs were commonly made from shellac.