And for the record, there are some pretty unique distortions here. I know a lot of artists who'd be pretty excited about the samples themselves...there's something special about them being a byproduct of a unique process as opposed to a clicked button or three in protools.
Any idea what those ~2Hz distortions are? In the a and c series recordings, they have a very strong pitch change, coming in groups of 4...
Was wondering the same thing, but I've got no idea. Curious if blur from the visual scan of denser grooves has anything to do with it. Really interesting sound.
Coming in groups of four the likely culprit is a slight misalignment in the assembly of the pieces of the scan.
If those distortions were filtered it sounds pretty accurate.
It seems to me that I read once of a device at the Library of Congress which is a purpose built laser scanner for extracting such waveforms from old records, even the drums.
Yeah they're IRENE scanners. Pretty amazing, actually. Able to lift sound off the most delicate old recordings. Probably a lot of possibility for repair of lost fragments visually:
Some time ago I wondered if this could be done with a small CCD (Like the one in your mouse, see the mouse-scanner project: http://spritesmods.com/?art=mouseeye). I tried it once, but it's very hard to do this in real-time.
so, how long before we get an augmented reality app that lets you play your (parents) records just by pointing your iPhone at them?
Actually, that sounds like a pretty good app. Shopping for a CD and want to hear it (or at least previews) now? Scan the barcode or album cover and boom.. music
Reading up on Wikipedia, I think he got the encoding wrong. The samples he plays are the diff between left and right. Now I want to try this... but I don't have a scanner handy. Can anyone scan a record for me?