{"id":706,"date":"2013-01-03T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:32:21","slug":"a-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/706","title":{"rendered":"A new record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a new spin on the long-playing vinyl record, an editor at Instructables has devised <a title=\"3D Printed Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/3D-Printed-Record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new method for producing LP records using a rapid prototyping &#8220;3D printer&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Working directly from a digital audio file,\u00a0<a title=\"Amanda Ghassaei, 3D printed record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amandaghassaei.com\/3D_printed_record.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amanda Ghassaei uses the waveform profile to create a 3D computer model of the familiar LP groove<\/a>, which is then built up in physical form by a UV-cured resin printer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the cutting-edge 16-micron resolution of the printer, the end result is rather crude, with a frequency response and audio quality as yet far beneath a typical analog vinyl record. \u00a0The all-digital noise introduced by the discrete print (in time,\u00a0<a title=\"Wikipedia: Aliasing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aliasing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aliasing<\/a>, and in amplitude,\u00a0<a title=\"Physical quantization error\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantization_error#Other_fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quantization<\/a>) is also harsh compared with the traditional &#8220;warm&#8221; analog distortion sought after by vinyl enthusiasts and audiophiles. \u00a0Even so, one could foresee a niche market for one-off, just-in-time pressing of records to keep alive long out-of-print material (or new material that might be in limited demand). \u00a0Even though this can be accomplished with .mp3 files or CD-R discs, sometimes there&#8217;s simply nothing like setting needle to vinyl!<\/p>\n<p><em>[via <a title=\"Wired Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/12\/3-d-printed-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting a new spin on the long-playing vinyl record, an editor at Instructables has devised a new method for producing LP records using a rapid prototyping &#8220;3D printer&#8221;. \u00a0Working directly from a digital audio file,\u00a0Amanda Ghassaei uses the waveform profile to create a 3D computer model of the familiar LP groove, which is then built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,57,5],"tags":[45,49,51,52,44,30],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-fun","category-technical","tag-art","tag-audio","tag-demonstrations","tag-frequency","tag-music","tag-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}