The vinyl record that I cut into sections was actually Johann Strauss (The "CBS Masterworks" label can be seen at 0:26). Switched-on Bach remains intact.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
Good to hear. Even though your sputter coaster needs work, you are still a man of culture.
@bryceschug4865 жыл бұрын
i got a little nervous for a moment...
@oovalen5 жыл бұрын
great work by the way - just thinking about having a 12" single with recordings on 45 rpm would have been a more spectacular insight as the grooves are in fact a lot bigger than on LP. but anyway some great insights here.
@joeysplats32095 жыл бұрын
...and that capacitance disc... what a great chunk of history.
@4thdimensiontravels8555 жыл бұрын
Around 1987 a good friend of mine had over 50 of the video discs and player. It actually played very well. Awesome to hear you explain how all of these various techs work. Thanks for a great video.
@ollie22444 жыл бұрын
Every note, every frequency, every volume change, every sound that is on a record is a just a series of bumps. It blows my mind!
@paulkrupa4 жыл бұрын
Well, if you digitize it. In the vinyl, it's analog so you have a continuous variation with infinite changes in between.
@mickeypopa4 жыл бұрын
@Bill Williams You can't understand the love affair with plastic? 2 words: Kim Kardashian. :>
@ChuckD594 жыл бұрын
@@TheGreatGadfly There is a style thing to a return to vinyl, but it's nearly the closest we have to actually capturing the full color of sound. Maybe magnetic tape as well. Even high bitrate, lossless digitizing doesn't capture it completely. Think that doesn't matter? Tell that to a person who can tell the difference between violins, or pianos or cymbals of a drum set. I can assure you there's an appreciable difference.
@lobsterbark4 жыл бұрын
@@ChuckD59 It does capture it completely, denying that it does is denying math is real. Any difference you hear between lossless audio and vinyl is a discoloration or distortion introduced by an imperfect player or record.
@ChuckD594 жыл бұрын
@@lobsterbark Wow. I know "math" and I know music as a classically trained musician, and I know a bit about computers (actually a lot). I have to respond saying if you claim a digital reproduction captures all the nuance of an analog source, you may not know what "digital" means. Higher bitrate/depth reproduction come close, but the very definition of "digital" is ones and zeros.
@noahway134 жыл бұрын
It is mind blowing if you think about it. Any sound, from trumpet, to bird, to glass breaking, (x's infinity) can be etched in vinyl and re-played perfectly. Even a thousand people,saying the exact same words, can be differentiated by tone and timbre. An entire orchestra can be duplicated in one groove. I don't understand it.
@iveharzing Жыл бұрын
It's all related to the property of superposition in waves. And I'm not talking about Quantum Mechanics here, it's just the fact that if you have 2 waves, and you add them together, you get a new wave with a different shape, which in the case of sound would sound like the two original waves together. Now to actually be able to create these grooves, that takes a bit more mathematics. That uses a thing called the Fourier Transform, which is a mathematical operation which "picks out" frequencies. It basically multiplies the original signal/function with a pure sine wave at a specific frequency, and then adds up the entire function (integration), so see "how much" the original signal "resembles" that specific wave with that specific frequency. And then it repeats that for every single frequency to get a "frequency spectrum". So if you record a sound, you can convert that to frequencies, which you can then convert back to grooves by adding up waves with all the frequencies you found.
@AlliSinned Жыл бұрын
One way I can wrap my head around it is if you cut out the tiniest blip of an audio clip in a software like Audacity or any DAW, then played that blip back, it would just sound like a tiny click because it's so quick. It's only when those clicks are not surrounded by silence but the context of other "blips" that make it sound like anything.
@Brain_Juice11 ай бұрын
We all live in one big vibrated field of energy, we are all instruments of the cosmos!
@jianhuang012410 ай бұрын
No matter how many instruments in the record, it's still one wave.
@noahway139 ай бұрын
Yeah, thank you Captain Wikipedia. I don't think it's black magic. @@Manul_palla
@BobSmith1980.4 жыл бұрын
First time I've ever heard 'used needles' in a positive way.
@dlarremore4 жыл бұрын
It's actually in a negative way. You know... because of the electrons.
@BobSmith1980.4 жыл бұрын
touche
@paulkrupa4 жыл бұрын
I don't know that there is a used needle bin at the record store.
@ThekiBoran4 жыл бұрын
If you need some free used needles find your way to a sidewalk in San Francisco.
@wllm47854 жыл бұрын
@@BobSmith1980. ne touche pas
@millroyboy074 жыл бұрын
“Used Needles Bin” has a different definition to 98% of the rest of the world.
@shawnspencer20014 жыл бұрын
I died when he said this. Imagine a blind person listening to this.
@LeeLeeVonMwah4 жыл бұрын
😂
@ArruVision3 жыл бұрын
This is the part of the world you wanna be in!
@lax1dude9403 жыл бұрын
yes
@1mctous3 жыл бұрын
98% biohazardous.
@1boboloco15 жыл бұрын
I like when he says "you know", it makes me feel like he thinks i understand.
@nyakwarObat5 жыл бұрын
You mean you love it when your ego gets a good massage 😱😱😱
@powertotherobots05 жыл бұрын
the state of education in your country is appalling
@RayLewisPitt5 жыл бұрын
@@powertotherobots0 I know, right? I understood every bit of it. The average US adult has a lower math education than the average 8 year old Korean child.
@Pvaeerener5 жыл бұрын
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@James-gk8ip5 жыл бұрын
@@powertotherobots0 yes but we have better pizza so sit on it
@dickclark56566 жыл бұрын
A rare moment when you click a youtube video and actually receive more than you expected
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
No cheesy background music, no ads, no Fortnite...it's brilliant!
@bobbyvinyle33895 жыл бұрын
Dick Clark ..freakin ayyy
@darrenoates43225 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, this is brilliant
@johnbrevard59665 жыл бұрын
@Mason Gilbert ok, Gilbert Einstien!!!
@MegaDicksplash5 жыл бұрын
Way to much ... but not what I wanted... which was visual gratification of something different
@dyamondbolden59594 жыл бұрын
I literally typed “how records work”. This was more than I expected and I’m not disappointed.
@owendaulton93163 жыл бұрын
Same here :)
@philip65023 жыл бұрын
You literally typed...or typed it?
@dyamondbolden59593 жыл бұрын
@@philip6502 I mean I searched on KZfaq “how records work” and this came up.
@wintersbattleofbands1144 Жыл бұрын
There's more to it than this, but this is Step 1: Needle in groove. It's tiny, but physical, which is why decent equipment and care of your records is vital.
@ScotTheGr8 Жыл бұрын
Holy crap. Let’s take a minute and compliment how well this was done. This is pretty amazing. The way you figured out each type of disk and the way you made the amazing video of the plastic phono record. Super well done! Bravo.
@garymelnyk93705 жыл бұрын
I once glued macaroni on a card and gave it to my mother.
@AmadeuShinChan5 жыл бұрын
[ die I did. :D ]
@aatishr99085 жыл бұрын
Gary Melnyk 😂 so cute n hilarious at the same time..perfect comment in this geek vdo
@ferrumignis5 жыл бұрын
@Roy G Biv It was last week, and he is 48 years old.
@peterpapanestor94035 жыл бұрын
I ate the the macaroni and glue
@kbcoop32495 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@WAQWBrentwood8 жыл бұрын
As soon as I heard "setup this electron microscope in my shop", I was no longer jealous of my neighbor with the Jaguar....... LOL!
@lemonslice22338 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he got it at a yard sale.
@rerollyadice42247 жыл бұрын
Matrix29bear Why does it matter if you're white?
@junglesbongles85927 жыл бұрын
+Okay bcuz science is racist my niggah
@LiyemEanapay7 жыл бұрын
Jungles Bongles WTF is wrong with you?
@joshfilmsstuff97697 жыл бұрын
Jaguars are shitty cars
@Dreamerm62 жыл бұрын
This is incredible. So many times we take small things for granted. How on earth they cut they grooves with accuracy back in the day is beyond me.
@unpluggedtoaster7421 Жыл бұрын
The way it was invented was by recording with the vibrations that then kind of create the grooves but idk if that's how they do it now
@RickrollFoot Жыл бұрын
they molded it to like some sort of master vinyl tihng
@kodinamsinh1267 Жыл бұрын
@@unpluggedtoaster7421they dont use vibrations in the way they did in the early days, as in recording into a horn and letting the vibrations from the sound vibrate the diaphragm and thus the needle. they use massive record cutters that use electronics to make master discs and then stamp all the records using that master.
@klocke5247 Жыл бұрын
The field created by the current of a recorded signal moves magnets mounted on a stylus, pretty much the opposite of a phono cartridge, cutting the signal into a lacquer disk, eventually ending up as a stamper pressed into a hot vinyl "biscuit". Sure it took some work, getting everything to function correctly. But, basically it just replied on physics. The magnet field is an accurate representation of the current that creates it, and a magnet will accurately represent the change in field strength, if that makes sense.
@savage22bolt32 Жыл бұрын
I used to cut my vinyl with a hammer and chisel..
@dexterdexter69754 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I would have given up at the beginning when I realized that the record was an insulator. A great example of how far a person's curiosity can go. Respect!
@KuroHebi Жыл бұрын
It's actually common practice to coat whatever object you're imaging with a layer of conductive material when using an electron microscope.
@tjjt62947 жыл бұрын
I understood some of those words
@typ0446 жыл бұрын
AHAHAHHA!! Killed me with that one !
@rainblaze.6 жыл бұрын
Tyler Jackson i understand the words ok. It's the way he strings them together, that losses me
@ignaciocatalan65925 жыл бұрын
come on it's not that hard
@nicowit88965 жыл бұрын
He goes on like a broken record
@keithrowe10075 жыл бұрын
You had me at, “ever since setting up this electron microscope in my shop...”
@2011littleguy4 жыл бұрын
When you cut a 2 x 4 you must make an amazingly accurate cut!
@makeit75794 жыл бұрын
me2
@kennarajora65323 жыл бұрын
apparently a quick google search revealed they can cost something like up to $1,000,000 in dollars. Not something I'd ever get as a birthday gift, let's put it that way.
@etch31303 жыл бұрын
@@kennarajora6532 not this one. He got it for free and just had to pay shipping. It's an older model anyway so could probably be picked up on ebay for under 10k. Still not cheap but not terrible for the capability.
@paulkrupa3 жыл бұрын
@@etch3130 I was curious about what he meant when he said that cd was approaching the limit of the device . . . For now.
@shinigamilee59154 жыл бұрын
I helped develop optical, electromagnetic and Nand storage so I've seen some of this done before, but this was really well done. There were plenty of challenges to overcome. I think anyone would benefit from watching it if they are studying physics or electrical engineering! Great job!
@D800Lover4 жыл бұрын
Wow! I am really impressed, as an audio R&D technician and audio designer, and also experienced in creating new methods of measurements, I am really impressed and especially with the amount of work required to make this possible. Thank you for letting us watch this and I will recommend/show it to others. Nice to see 4.7 million views so far. As another commentator said, this was not clickbait.
@jamesfarrell83398 жыл бұрын
I cannot believe all of the hurdles that you had to go through to be able too do your video. You have incredible problem solving skills.I would not be able to do something like this because of all the different steps that you had to solve. So many problems to be solved that created new hurdles. I really admired that you showed how you were able to get the amazing image's. Without that information you would not understand the difficulties and problem solving that went into creating this video.
@roddoney75688 жыл бұрын
people mostly think they CANT, when they CAN, if they pay attention to simple things like thermodynamics, expansion and contraction. The most basic, yet observable laws of physics.
@Ben_Dover7538 жыл бұрын
+Rod Doney Or even simply continued further with a problem, not quiting prematurely.
@roddoney75688 жыл бұрын
+Kostantinos Kanelopoulos exactly. life is about energy. Including how you use yours.
@Ben_Dover7538 жыл бұрын
I meant that (more precisely) that it is simply not intelligence or idiocy but the depth and density of thought. Maybe some people just do not have the energy.
@MegaSaunier8 жыл бұрын
+Kostantinos Kanelopoulos Relax man
@multiio14247 жыл бұрын
One of these days this guy will upload a video in which he talks about how he had to use his nuclear reactor to turn toothpaste into gold because his particle accelerator still needed some work.
@magiv42057 жыл бұрын
If I could like this comment multiple times I would
@VhectorDesignStudio7 жыл бұрын
I almost fell of bed laughing with this comment! OMG!!!
@MatthewSmith-sz1yq6 жыл бұрын
multi io dude he's gonna make a tutorial for how to create a fusion reactor. "Now, I'm still trying to get a working heat shield, currently mine is lacking the needed materials as of now because they don't exist, so I had to use multiple electromagnets to try and prevent it from melting itself."
@pepelepar5156 жыл бұрын
multi io you just won the internet for that comment! well done!
@milesmouse726 жыл бұрын
LOLOLOL that would make him an alchemist and I'd love to see that!!!
@jecoharman2 жыл бұрын
This is what the internet was designed for, extremely accurate information and knowledge sharing. Great video.
@AnthonyFrancisJones4 жыл бұрын
Truly magnificent! Aren't we lucky to have videos like this on KZfaq! The 'used needle bin' amused me too! Fantastic work. Thanks so much for making these highly technical but 'no fuss' videos. Other KZfaqrs have a lot to learn from how you do things.
@IAmMyOwnApprentice8 жыл бұрын
That's the best condition under which one can hear the phrase "used needles bin."
@madscientistshusta8 жыл бұрын
indeed
@graytonw52388 жыл бұрын
Yeah, when I heard that I thought "best line in the video"!
@caddyguy53698 жыл бұрын
lol
@Snyde917 жыл бұрын
Or shoot a snowball. Hmm tasty
@Puleczech7 жыл бұрын
Is that a fireball from Magic the Gathering?
@jameszandstra21385 жыл бұрын
"My sputter coder needs some work so I'm using physical vapor deposition" Yeah, me too bro... Edit: numerous replies have corrected me, it's "coater" not "coder"
@DougPoker4 жыл бұрын
I know that feel
@slipperyjk4 жыл бұрын
This guy needs a hobby
@javierantoniosilva84774 жыл бұрын
Don't we all...
@darioorlic19414 жыл бұрын
coater*
@h4724-q6j4 жыл бұрын
@@slipperyjk This is a hobby.
@donlindell1994 Жыл бұрын
Impressed with the experimentation and unique solutions. I can’t believe how simple the CD ended up. Great job
@Yoda89454 жыл бұрын
Great demonstration. I knew how these devices worked but actually being able to see them is a great addition to my understanding.
@XxKINGatLIFExX5 жыл бұрын
This video is the complete opposite of clickbaite
@AngelofDeath14314 жыл бұрын
No, that's exactly what it is but put the words bull and s**t together in front of it and you're dead on the mark. I only saw about 2 seconds of needle on vinyl. Much more was expected, but he seemed to be having a love affair with the shiny discs instead.
@troliskimosko4 жыл бұрын
Charles Franceschini like you even need anymore than 2 seconds to understand what’s going on
@davidom76074 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we got way more than we bargained for.
@FUCKINGENIOUS4 жыл бұрын
I agree with Charles I wanted the video to be only what the title said.
@AngelofDeath14314 жыл бұрын
@@troliskimosko Well, having come from the generation heavily entrenched in vinyl, I know exactly what is/was/should've gone on. If ANY title has specific wording, then whatever is being referenced should contain a greater majority of said subject than only a few seconds, don't you think?
@sybo105 жыл бұрын
This is what a real stable genius looks like
@Treddian4 жыл бұрын
Don't underestimate the POTUS. The Trump family has some very high-profile scientific minds on their tree. John G. Trump, Donald Trump's uncle, inherited Tesla's work. Donald Trump was privy to some now mainstream science before it was mainstream.
@Paid2Win4 жыл бұрын
@@Treddian There is what OP was talking about, and then there is what you're talking about.
@Treddian4 жыл бұрын
@@Paid2Win Ah, I love a good condescending attitude. Thank you.
@Treddian4 жыл бұрын
@Graham Hancucked You're obviously so disconnected from reality that you don't even know conspiracy theory from official government record.
@Paid2Win4 жыл бұрын
@@Treddian Just pointing out the obvious bucko
@cnrspiller3549 Жыл бұрын
Nice to see the old SEM. I used to operate one of those when I was a lab assistant back in the 90s. Once I found a dead bee on the window sill and when nobody was looking I popped him in. I zoomed in on his eyelashes and discovered they were long, splined cones! Who would have thought? I also got a shot of his knees. I printed that one off and labelled it 'The bee's knees' - (obviously) Happy days. This video took me right back. Thanks.
@SarahHogan1003 жыл бұрын
It is absolutely crazy how this stuff works. My mind is blown 🤯
@mollyclock82387 жыл бұрын
what amazes me the most, is not the fact that you are an order of magnitude more intelligent than anyone watching this video, it is simply, that your intention, is to increase the knowledge, of the great unwashed masses, and you speak to us, as some sort of, equals. (...you are very rare...)
@jamescarter31966 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's a lot of pseudo-poetic crap falling over itself with triteness. "you are an order of magnitude more intelligent than anyone watching this video"-- seriously? You really think NOBODY else who sees this could possibly be more intelligent? Wrong. Your limitations of intelligence aren't matched by everyone else. "'great unwashed masses"-- maybe you're a great unwashed mass but speak for yourself. I showered recently.
@ScootaReader5 жыл бұрын
@@jamescarter3196 Somebody's been watching a little too much Rick and Morty. Isn't it past your bedtime?
@dasaauto20245 жыл бұрын
James Carter Yeah, chill out. She’s just passing alone a sincere comment. (We can all imagine that tomorrow’s Einstein might possibly have watched this vid too-but that’s not the point.)
@jamescarter31965 жыл бұрын
@@ScootaReader Despite being in the target demographic for that show, I can't get into it, but I'm sure that wasn't your point. If someone wants to waste space for passively self-congratulatory poetry, they deserve to be ridiculed for it. They were probably drunk at the time; no sober person over age 12 would use a phrase like "great unwashed masses" and expect to be taken seriously. Dasa Auto, how about you just don't make any requests about my behavior since I'm "just passing alone a sincere comment" also. Why should stupid people get to waste space in public without retaliation? How about you get your priorities straight?
@jumbo64985 жыл бұрын
Thanks,
@trentonr.84287 жыл бұрын
Of course, physical vapor deposition, obviously.
@sqlb3rn6 жыл бұрын
hmm yes indubitably. I use this method all the time to butter my croissant.
@yonidellarocha94126 жыл бұрын
butter vapor is something i never considered, i guess that with a vacuum chamber, some high heat and a very fine butter spraying device you could coat your croissant. now im wondering if all the air in the croissant is going to escape making it look like a balloon under a vacuum. this is what keeps me awake at night, deflating croissants
@hanloncaldwell85715 жыл бұрын
@@yonidellarocha9412 dear God. You have just given me great anxiety
@soggycereal165 жыл бұрын
@@yonidellarocha9412 Great, now I'm contemplating whether croissants deflate in a vacuum. Nothing in the world will be right until I know! DAMN YOU SCIENCE!
@joseluis.colungag5 жыл бұрын
The CVD is a common technique in material coating. It usually involves fusing with the substrate and making the coating part of it instead of just a layer on top.
@markw42063 жыл бұрын
Brilliant production here. Probably more work went into the content of this video than any video I've ever watched. Wow, thank you for this!
@hipstarchild4 жыл бұрын
I still find it fascinating that music can be produced by a needle wiggling up & down along one bumpy groove on a vinyl record. Especially when musical compositions and the different sounds of the instruments can be so diverse. I understand that it's all to do with either a negative or positive voltage changes as the needle vibrates, but it's still beyond me.
@missasinenomine4 жыл бұрын
I'm the same. But think about what beautiful sounds you can make by dragging some horse hair across some thin strips of sheep's guts stuck onto a wooden box. Did I say "Stradivarius"?
@slipperyjk4 жыл бұрын
I'm hip... boggles the mind
@fakiirification4 жыл бұрын
Its not that far out. you can see it in action in an audio editing ap. when you play 2 sounds together their waveforms mix. music, and really all sound we hear every day, can be represented by this mixed waveform. a record is simply a physical copy of that waveform produced by an etching needle on a record lathe and pressed into vinyl.
@leomadero5624 жыл бұрын
Its the same as how a microphone works, its "recording" the grooves' waves instead of air pressure waves
@fakiirification4 жыл бұрын
@Spike Flea this channel is called "applied science". Taking the mystery and intrigue out of things is sort of the point of science. Haha
@mozkitolife54379 жыл бұрын
"OK, see you next time.".... ya frickin' genius. "What did I do last weekend? Oh, nothing much, just imaged some storage media with my electron microscope." O.O
@jimbeam97888 жыл бұрын
where did you get the electron microscope? I've been to three different Walmarts looking for one
@Port8ble8 жыл бұрын
LOL. Thank you, kind stranger, today has been rough this comment was the first lol I've had all day.
@kayveevee8 жыл бұрын
:D
@MisterLepton8 жыл бұрын
You can often find used ones one eBay (usually in pieces and you'll probably need to buy a few more parts), many of them functional anywhere from $500 USD to $100,000 USD. With enough knowledge and skill I bet you could get one functional in your home for $1000 (maybe less).
@MisterLepton8 жыл бұрын
The device itself is really not as complex as you think at the basic level. It just becomes exponentially more complex as the image quality/res you want increases. I mean, think about it this way: the electron beam part of the microscope is just an advanced version of an old TV CRT. The sensor and the electronics that interpret the signal are probably the most complex parts (unless you're using some super-vacuum pump or something).
@xiangyu15798 жыл бұрын
Lmao what?! Did a double take haha
@TorrentUK4 жыл бұрын
"okay, see you, bye!" - how all youtube videos should end! (and some should start)
@rasmuslundin199 Жыл бұрын
I have watched this 20 times since it was released, still golden.
@rockenrollbass9 жыл бұрын
This guy is BRILLIANT, he understands physics/engineering and audio/video and graphics, well balanced left and right brain activity.
@rdizzy18 жыл бұрын
+rockenrollbass No such thing as left and right brain activity. He is extremely intelligen though.
@gui18bif7 жыл бұрын
rockenrollbass fucked IT up with the brain thing
@Tesseract18877 жыл бұрын
Well I mean he does have an electronic microscope so he is probably with sine kind of university electron microscopes are expensive and it is very difficult to buy one yourselg
@brett84c7 жыл бұрын
rockenrollbass I agree. Speaks intelligently and clearly and is able to explain stuff in lamens (for the most part, heh).
@phrenzy18 жыл бұрын
This is the geekist thing that ever happened. I have no words, it's so pure, it's almost zen like geekery. I am so deeply impressed as to not even try and enunciate an actual comment on the video. just wow.
@SamiJumppanen8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's one way to put it. Similar feeling!
@WAQWBrentwood8 жыл бұрын
+1!
@Vlican8 жыл бұрын
+1 awesome geek is awesome!
@etiennecouture15527 жыл бұрын
He's not a Geek, he's a Nerd.
@Duncan_197111 ай бұрын
Most people are listening to digital files or streaming these days but records are still fascinating even for new millennials I think. They are pretty close to magic. Thanks for you work!
@AutumnWhite-8882 ай бұрын
This guy absolutely blows everyone's mind and then casually says "ok, bye!" Stupendously interesting and well made video, thankyou!
@4200timeB5 жыл бұрын
This is the guy that can make real flux capacitors.
@Stay___Strong6 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand anything he’s saying, but I’m still fascinated.
@tcb97755 жыл бұрын
@MDS 😂 it's 50 microns
@Gregorio4164 жыл бұрын
MDS for the technical aspects going on he is most definitely using layman’s language. There’s no reason to insult him just because you feel insecure
@nathanwahl92244 жыл бұрын
@@Gregorio416 Yes, it is indeed sad when people celebrate their own ignorance proudly in public.
@JLange6424 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to do such an in-depth presentation of these different media formats!
@67kemo4 жыл бұрын
This was so fascinating, I sent the link to my artist/metallurgist wife. She almost went into anthropological art (the art of reassembling skeletons and stuff, whatever that field is) and I think she would find the mix of technology and art in this just as compelling. Great work!
@TheDeadSource8 жыл бұрын
So i started writing a comment about 5 times before I realised that I actually have very little in the way of words to describe the satisfaction I got from your video. So i just liked and subscribed and wrote this instead. Thanks man.
@mitcht10268 жыл бұрын
jesus. Listenning to this guy discuss how to use this equipment makes me feel dumb... then I start thinking about the people who actually designed and manufactured the equipment.. now I feel really dumb
@diegodelafuente21427 жыл бұрын
But then you read the comment section on youtube videos and you somehow feel smart again...
@chavakano547 жыл бұрын
You nailed it Diego
@mylesbishop12407 жыл бұрын
Diego de la Fuente hahah nice!
@ArtemLokhovitskiy7 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily dumb, but uneducated. And yes, I'm with you.
@blushingbunny30747 жыл бұрын
lets all be dumb together!
@uba24 жыл бұрын
I'm glad there are still people like you in the world (smart, curious, generous, good educators).
@Peter-pv8xx4 ай бұрын
Thank you Mr Edison for so many remarkable inventions, i think you'd be amazed and proud to see your work used and improved on through the years.
@mickblock8 жыл бұрын
I made a bird house in my garage once. Out of a coffee can.
@WSADKeysGaming8 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@FerociousSniper8 жыл бұрын
I made a megaphone once out of a dead squirrel, some rope, and a mega phone.
@madscientistshusta8 жыл бұрын
+Quintus Aurelius Symmachus serial killer art
@theawecabinet8 жыл бұрын
I made a snake house in my garage once. Out of cardboard tube.
@WSADKeysGaming8 жыл бұрын
I made a slightly successful KZfaq channel with a keyboard and my hands... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@SuperPhexx7 жыл бұрын
"My sputter needs some work, so I am using physical vapor deposition." I also want to do stuff where saying things like that is perfectly normal.
@whatsup72026 жыл бұрын
Lol
@theknacke5 жыл бұрын
Haha, right! I want to do some things where things like "physical vapor deposition" is just the norm. lol
@Sunjammr5 жыл бұрын
Just get a job in a resistor or capacitor factory! You'll be saying it 100 times every hour.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
Flirt with a girl by using that phrase. And let's see if she craves your conductive carbon glue.
@nyakwarObat5 жыл бұрын
@@CaveyMoth 😆😆😆conductive carbon glue
@Slickskelm2 жыл бұрын
I am speechless. You sir, have blown my mind with your novel approach to dissecting various media for the benefit of folks that would never come into contact with an Electron Microscope. For this I thank you ....awesome video.
@DavidMcMillan8882 жыл бұрын
Great to see someone making things, creating devices, solving problems and presenting all that as images. Good to be a human sometimes, and congratulations.
@im1who84u5 жыл бұрын
I love the way you end this video. You just explained and showed something way over most peoples head and then you just simply say, "Okay, see ya next time."
@tone83013 жыл бұрын
ahah for sure
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
Yeh
@lolmysteries6 жыл бұрын
In a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, the data information is molded into one side of the polycarbonate substrate. The aluminum, silver or gold metallization is used mainly to reflect the three lasers (two tracking, one data) as they go thru the smooth polycarbonate side, then bounce off the metallized data side, and back to the laser heads. The lacquer coatings are purely for protection of the data side of the polycarbonate. Your method of tearing the aluminum is giving you only an embossed image copy of the data that is imprinted in the polycarbonate substrate. Retired Media, Manufacturing Engineer and Equipment Designer for Technicolor.
@whatsup72026 жыл бұрын
Huh. Didn't know that.
@cliffstanich34015 жыл бұрын
That's what I say
@wyldanimal25 жыл бұрын
What is really interesting is that all of the Media he tested is Stamped or Pressed. A Gold of Nickel coated master plate is made, From this a negative image is made, and then used to make positive duplicates in a press. This is called surface replication. The Replicated surfaces, depending on how it will be read, might need a reflective and or protective coating.
@Dubz04085 жыл бұрын
Cool, a lady yelled at me and got herself fired at Technicolor. Not going to go into detail on that one lol. Funny thing is i learned what you just said, not from technicolor, but from researching playstation 2 discs and trying to figure out why they were black when I was a kid lol.
@Dubz04085 жыл бұрын
Tyrant Patrol No prob!!! I will even spare you the research lol. He talks about it about 4mins in: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrunhrKXtpeoY5c.html
@francis36032 жыл бұрын
Wow the sheer dedication and expertise this guy has in order to make this work
@accordingtotodd Жыл бұрын
My dad was an electron microprobe microscope operator and did analysis on the Apollo moon rocks. They also goofed around with all kinds of other materials and it was awesome. This makes me think of my dad. Thank you.
@cizzlen079 жыл бұрын
"Ok. See ya next time. Bye." Lol great video
@AwesomeRobot158 жыл бұрын
Yeah the ending was kind of abrupt, wasn't it.
@brehoffm8 жыл бұрын
+cizzlen07 By far the greatest part of this video! Haha, great video though, very informative.
@MrChhetri8 жыл бұрын
yea, it sounded odd maybe because he didn't say "click subscribe button" or similar shits we see in every videos these days.
@animamundii7 жыл бұрын
I love these kinds of youtubers. Quick and to the point. Unlike most youtubers reminding you to subscribe in the intro, outro and 5 times in between. Great channel really!!
@NoEgg4u6 жыл бұрын
When my sputter coder was being serviced, rather than loading the slide into a vacuum chamber and evaporating silver metal onto the pieces of the LP... ... I interaxelated depolarized tri-polymer plasma into a recursion matrix, by way of a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (with the promo-dynamic module set for differentially charged polaric ions), which left a quantum signature in the vinyl. This gave me zeta particle derivation compliance, and allowed for precise flow rate adjustments of positronic neural peptides.
@tomeverett22126 жыл бұрын
Perhaps I gotta put my hip boots for this one.
@peterbustin86046 жыл бұрын
Perhaps do what ?
@rigidfinger6 жыл бұрын
I find that hard to believe. Where is the video?
@CrazyPigeon8346 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you knocked that one off an episode of star trek
@buddyclem73286 жыл бұрын
CrazyPigeon834 Or possibly Rick and (BURP) Morty.
@clairekholin6935 Жыл бұрын
What I want now is a poster with all four images scaled, so a massive lp groove, a medium sized CED groove, a small CD track and an almost microscopic DVD track. . . Seeing all of them together at the same scale would be awesome!
@gsau30004 жыл бұрын
The fact that vinyl works the way it does is amazing.
@RimstarOrg9 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Just seeing how the needles fits in the groove is interesting on it's own.
@jeffmojica99347 жыл бұрын
When looking for a video to fall asleep too, this actually made me stay awake instead because it's so damn interesting.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
I'm just LMAOing to all the comments.
@JT_82835 жыл бұрын
Exactly I tried changing the channel but the batteries in my remote are dead so I'm stuck watching this but now I'm intrigued and am going to finish watching it
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
Look up a video
@dorcol7257 ай бұрын
I worked at Hi Fi Haven in New Brunswick NJ in the late 70’s through the 90’s . A scientist audiophile who had access to an electron microscope ran a series of pictures for us to check the wear by both MC and MM cartridges. Great to see people still studying these issues.
@24theMoney Жыл бұрын
So cool. Its amazing how good the fidelity is on vinyl...an analog system. Loved the SEM pics and video. Thank you!
@rideswithscissors6 жыл бұрын
This was fascinating! Thanks for going to all the trouble. Wikipedia explains it, but you _show_ it.
@gayxor5 жыл бұрын
rideswithscissors wikipedia doesnt even manage to explain most scientific things due to terminology
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
@@gayxor what’s that
@calvinscheuerman8 жыл бұрын
the one thing i know i will never fully comprehend is how grooves in a record can actually produce complex sounds. that's always going to be witchcraft to me.
@calvinscheuerman8 жыл бұрын
***** no, i mean i understand how it works; i'm just really incredulous that it actually works. every time i think about it, it just blows my mind.
@daviddrake68757 жыл бұрын
What blows mine is the Reed-Solomon Code and error correction!!!!
@calvinscheuerman7 жыл бұрын
+David Drake - What is Reed-Solomon Code and error correction?
@skierpage7 жыл бұрын
Calvin Lee The groove walls oscillate exactly as the sound wave compresses-expands the air, so all you have to do is amplify the signal (well there's an "RIAA equalization" to the sound because the vinyl medium is better at capturing some frequencies than others). It's an elaboration of the earlier gramophone and Edison cylinders in which the oscillating needle is simply connected to a horn, no electronics. What is impressive is how good such a crude method can sound.
@skierpage7 жыл бұрын
Calvin Lee The groove walls oscillate exactly as the sound wave compresses-expands the air, so all you have to do is amplify the signal (well there's an "RIAA equalization" to the sound because the vinyl medium is better at capturing some frequencies than others). It's an elaboration of the earlier gramophone and Edison cylinders in which the oscillating needle is simply connected to a horn, no electronics. What is impressive is how good such a crude method can sound.
@dhebert1114 жыл бұрын
I still can't get over the fact that you made your own sputter coater, not to mention everything else you did. That's genius level creating. You'd have to have a PHD level of understanding in the various sciences used in this video. Hat's off to you and thanks for your video.
@ashmandom97932 жыл бұрын
I just finished my masters in engineering and yet as I come across this video, I am amazed and in awe of this technology. How many great minds that this must have passed through and given their value. Goes to show that I'm always learning and I am so grateful for that. I can only dream that one day when I am gone and forgotten I may leave some progression in technology that will be used for decades.
@seabulls696 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. For those not well versed in small stuff, a human hair can be anywhere between 17 and 180 microns. When I worked at HP, we had "dicing" saws that would "singulate" die from an 8" diameter silicon wafer. Those blades varied in width from 10 microns to 250, or wider. Imagine being able to literally "split hairs".
@jamescarter31966 жыл бұрын
Funny, someone else left a goofy pseudo-poetic comment about how 'nobody else seeing this video could be as smart as this guy' and you just proved that comment wrong. Some people think their own low bar is everybody else's. I'm not a scientist but did get to use an electron microscope at HP in Corvallis one time in the '80s (middle-school enrichment class) and saw some of what you're talking about. We got mis-printed wafers to cut up and look at.
@andrewosei3285 жыл бұрын
I feel like an arts student that stumbled into the wrong lecture hall and got stuck
@akicitaa.82335 жыл бұрын
And yet my HP printer can't finish a job without a jam.
@barneyboy77715 жыл бұрын
You think about a meat slicer, then, there is such fantastic equipment built by fantastic people out there. Love it.
@ferociousgumby5 жыл бұрын
Peeling and separating that DVD was my "satisfying moment of the week" (if not the year).
@markpenrice62535 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know it was possible. I'm going to have to buy some random terrible (but still dual-layer) movie that I don't care about down at the thift shop and see if I can scalpel that apart the same way. Make a couple of conversation-piece coasters out of it.
@philip65023 жыл бұрын
@@markpenrice6253 I already own some like that, unfortunately.
@notasstupidasilookprobably4 жыл бұрын
I only clicked to see a close up of a stylus running over a vinyl. Being a DJ I was interested. Boy did I get more than I expected. Great video.
@TheAyrCaveShop Жыл бұрын
Very cool..Enjoyed ! It's amazing how well the old LP record technology actually worked...
@cekdark9 жыл бұрын
This has got to be my favorite youtube channel. No waste of time, 30 second long intro; every video is extremely interesting and novel; no begging for subscriptions or thumbs. Keep up the good work, I'll be supporting your Patreon. Thanks
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
cekdark Thank you!
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
@@AppliedScience sup
@flufanga5 жыл бұрын
Good GAWD I hope that you're on OUR side!
@LichaelMewis Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. To me it's more amazing how an LP (analog) works than a CD (digital). When that first came out it must have been like magic for the people.
@stevenpike785711 ай бұрын
It's amazing looking at those grooves and how it captures a person's voice, music, and melodies.
@stuey21125 жыл бұрын
Always assume that if someone owns a sputter coater , they are really smart . Knowing how to jimmy rig something else into a working version of a sputter coater ? ... priceless
@DougPoker4 жыл бұрын
Hard to find a reliable sputter coater repairman nowadays. They all just want to sell you a new one instead of fixing it.
@dixonpinfold25824 жыл бұрын
@@DougPoker Just more horseshit from the big sputter coater repair companies.
@kendallevans40794 жыл бұрын
I have one. They run the gamut on complexity (and thus price). The concept is pretty basic. Pull a vacuum, melt or evaporate material to where it is vaporized and is deposited on a part, usually some sort of sub-straight. Complexity/price go up dramatically depending on the vacuum needed, measured in negative atmospheres and size.
@xcvsdxvsx6 жыл бұрын
Who doesn't have an electron microscope in their shop?
@cratecruncher497411 ай бұрын
That stylus/LP closeup really brings home the notion of physical wear.
@JakeBiddlecome3 жыл бұрын
I go back and rewatch this video every few months. One of my favorite videos from this channel. I'd love to see more from his SEM - even if it doesn't have the resolution of modern scanning electron microscopes, it's still cool to see what he does with it. If I had this machine I'd be spending all day every day just putting random things in it.
@ImplodedAtom7 жыл бұрын
This guy just Tony Stark'd the shit outta this!
@lmeza19837 жыл бұрын
Andy Hale Stark is fake as fuck
@arasgeylani3 ай бұрын
What's more impressive is this guy's equipment and tech knowledge :)
@typhoon320i4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing that 100 years ago people knew how to engineer these devices. Looking at it with the scanning microscope, you get a new appreciation for it.
@MajorHavoc2149 жыл бұрын
Though I have seen electron microscope images of a phonograph needle on a record before, this was the first time I have seen them in motion.
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
Mok214 Me too! I've been really interested in seeing stop motion and also realtime video from a SEM. I've got some projects on the way to show more of this.
@AliMirjamali9 жыл бұрын
Applied Science It was really beautiful to watch. Looking forward to watch 3.5" Floppy and specially the MO Disc. I wonder if it would be possible to see helical scan patterns of VHS tape.
@whitcwa9 жыл бұрын
Ali Mirjamali In the early days of videotape editing , we used Edivue tape "developer" on 2 inch quad videotape to see the tracks. The developer was a suspension of carbonyl iron particles in carbon tetrachloride. With a Smith splicer, you used a microscope to align and trim the ends before applying splicing tape. The tape ends had to be trimmed so that the splice was made just after vertical sync. There was always some disturbance on playback. Luckily they invented electronic editing after a few years.
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
Ali Mirjamali I haven't actually tried to view magnetic media in the SEM yet. The MO disk and floppies are for another project. But I can't believe I didn't realize that the magnetic areas would interfere with the beam in such a way that the information would be visible. I'll bet it will work! Thanks!
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
Anvilshock That's a good point. Having true high-speed SEM video would be incredibly useful!
@noshok74365 жыл бұрын
You are thee coolest nerd on this planet my friend. Very interesting stuff, keep up the good work.
@CashewBestofNuts4 жыл бұрын
I believe he is a true or two above your standard nerd, definitely far beyond spazzoid too.
@MrAaronbill4 жыл бұрын
'i evaporated sliver onto it inside a vacuum' 1000000 respect points ,probably the coolest thing anyone ever said . i love this type of content . its so much better than tv . thank you
@tmatheson54 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Being involved in engineering for over 40 years I immensely enjoyed that. Great job!!!
@volcomstoned8768 жыл бұрын
There's something about used needles that just doesn't sit well with me
@hg2.8 жыл бұрын
wise guy :)
@bbutc8 жыл бұрын
AIDS?
@lemonslice22338 жыл бұрын
I know man, the needle gets clogged and the cocaine barely gets through.
@w2aew9 жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff as always, Ben!
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
***** Thanks! And thank Tek for sending me the oscilloscope. I've been planning to build a direct-to-computer digitizer for the SEM, but using the oscilloscope has been so convenient and adjustable, I'll probably continue with that for a while.
@blacksquirrel4008 Жыл бұрын
Opened this just to watch a few seconds of a needle moving in a groove but I learned so much I never even considered. BTW, RCA wasn’t the only one who lost money on CEDs, we had a bunch of them.
@curtisrodriguez9384 жыл бұрын
Originally "Switched-On Bach" was attributed to Walter Carlos who was actually a woman, Wendy Carlos, but record executives believed that no one would buy this album if people thought a woman had created it. Reality was acknowledged in the CD release. That aside, this was a fascinating look at our media and how they actually reproduce light and sound. Thank you. Subscribed.
@njones420 Жыл бұрын
Old comment I know, but needs a correction. Walter Carlos _was_ actually a man ... but he had a sex-change in 1972 (5 years after recording this album). This was pretty well known at the time, I certainly knew about it in the 80s before the CD-release. It's one of my first LPs and still gets played occasionally. You might notice the LP-cover of Switched-on-Bach doesn't say Walter or Wendy Carlos, the first line is "Trans-Electronic Music productions" , I don't think that's coincidence. ;)
@curtisrodriguez938 Жыл бұрын
@@njones420 Thank you for that. As I have both the original LP and the CD, I will check it out. More than that I will see if Wendy ever wrote a autobiography. I think it would be fascinating. She changed how the world heard classical music.
@njones420 Жыл бұрын
@@curtisrodriguez938 I'm sure there's a lot more to the story. I have no idea what the views were in the 60s/70s, but I did read she was having to wear fake side-burns etc for interviews and appearances. There must be a documentary somewhere... Sorry if that first comment sounded snarky, it wasn't meant to, but I just read it again :)
@curtisrodriguez938 Жыл бұрын
@@njones420 No worries on the snark account. It did not come off to me like that. The back of the album cover of "Switched-on Bach," at the top left corner it says, "Electronic Realizations and Performances by Walter Carlos with the assistance of Benjamin Folkman. There was no mistaking that the label was holding out the performer as a man. The CD notes indicated that the label was reluctant to credit a woman because people would not buy it. When I first saw the CD, I thought that either Walter underwent a profound change, a sex change. But after reading the CD notes, I understood them to say that Carlos was always a woman. The attitudes about women not being commercially viable has been a factor in the entertainment business for decades. One of the Star Trek writers was D.C. Fontana, a woman. Even today I wonder why the Harry Potter books were credited to J.K. Rowllng. I was around in the 1960's and 1970's. Sex changes were rarely written about and were not part of normal cultural interactions. The movie "Myra Breckenridge" was one movie about a transexual. It was a very different world.
@curtisrodriguez938 Жыл бұрын
@@njones420 You are correct. Wendy Carlos was indeed born a man who transitioned to a woman. The record label did not note the change for marketing reasons. I never saw any interviews with Wendy before or after her transition. Apparently she wore fake sideburns when she met Stanley Kubrick (She did the soundtrack for "The Shining.").
@anim8torfiddler8715 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the Bloody Details, for us tech junkies! Sir, you have successfully recreated in EXTREME miniature scale, almost EXACTLY the methods I used to create Traditional animation almost four decades past. The industry in the 70s (in Hollywood, New York, Europe, etc.) was using room-sized Camera stands aimed downward at an art stage with pins ("pegs") precisely matched to holes punched in the animators' paper and acetate sheets, to _register_ the art under a camera with carefully angled lighting. Some were gorgeous collections of exquisite interconnected slides, with smooth gearing and locking levers and scales, knurled knobs and pointers and post-it notes... I used 18"square polarizing filters mounted in front of the lamps, with small glass polarizing filter on a 25mm focal length lens. This suppressed glare and dust, And increased the saturation of the colors. The procedure was frame by frame, just as you were describing, especially for pans and zooms in a sequence. Expose one frame, change the art, move the background one increment, close the glass platen to press everything in place, then repeat those steps until you'd shot all the art, and positions for that sequence. An individual shot in a story, that might have a running time of a few seconds, might take eight hours just to SHOOT one or two sequences, after a hundred hours to create the art. Fun stuff. My little studio started with a fer-Pete's-sake 16mm Swiss Bolex on a hand-built stand. I started working with "hi-end" CGI 35 years ago. You'd like to think that stream-lined everything, wouldn't you? Ask me about doing individual PIXEL surgery on the art for a driving game at Atari...
@speciesunknown82795 жыл бұрын
So damn cool!! I always wondered what the vinyl grooves looked like up close... Thanks fine sir!
@JayDee-xj9lu4 жыл бұрын
I took apart a cassette tape once and I was looking closely at it. And I told some one that you can see the words if you look close enough. It fooled a couple of people. lol
@--Traveler--2 жыл бұрын
@@JayDee-xj9lu lol
@scotthullinger46842 жыл бұрын
In many ways, the old ways of doing things are far more sophisticated than the current ways of doing things. The talents and knowledge required for this sort of engineering is something which seems to be quickly disappearing.
@tonybowers94904 жыл бұрын
Seeing this years after it was published. Have watched many of your videos and have always been impressed. This video is no exception. Amazing to see the image at 5:02. Thanks for going through your process, explaining a bit how a record player works, and sharing the information. Thanks!
@nuqwestr6 жыл бұрын
I worked in a mastering lab and we had a 100x microscope which was sufficient magnification to check the groove. Notice no plural, there is only one long groove. Anyway, you are correct about the stereo channels and the needle moving side to side depending on the dynamic range of the sound, the mastering engineer would have to make sure that the channels were properly balanced or the needle would actually jump right out of the groove. the best engineer could maintain both tracking and high dynamic range, really an art.... saw lots of lacquer masters trashed by one channel too hot and the needle jump, that's why the microscope was better than an oscilloscope, which we also had.
@MarkTillotson6 жыл бұрын
A porky prime cut! Actually Porky (George Peckham) could do more than one groove on a side...
@barneyboy77715 жыл бұрын
It is a good trivia question. correct answer is 2, one either side of a record.
@kenolsen87746 жыл бұрын
I used some tomatoes, olive oil and onions to make spaghetti sauce today. I feel somewhat inadequate.
@williamvandervalk83695 жыл бұрын
Haha...:-)
@matthewb.71725 жыл бұрын
Well, look at Mr fancypants over here with his fresh spaghetti sauce, making the rest of us look bad!
@Beatlefan675 жыл бұрын
Yeah I know ho you feel. I need a lie down.
@MrTruth1115 жыл бұрын
yes rightly so, you should have also used parmazan and basil, :)
@ae41645 жыл бұрын
@@MrTruth111 More like garlic!, basil, oregano, and a few bay leaves. The _parmesan_ goes on top of the finished product while it's fresh.
@scudder9914 жыл бұрын
Not only were the video results fascinating, but your explanations of how these LPs & storage disks work were interesting. Yet your problem-solving processes were best of all! Well done sir.
@chettyvendetti32532 жыл бұрын
This is genius...on like every level. This dude's a genius. And almost as intricately concise as a SEM. I agree about the "rare moment when you click a youtube video and actually receive more than you expected" comment below. fire