And via the magic of a Kickstarter project for only e999 these guys are promising that you can. The machine itself looks gorgeous but really? A breathless Wired article (is there any other sort?) says this excitedly:
The Phonocut is an analog vinyl lathe, the first consumer device capable of making custom records immediately, right there in your home (assuming you’re willing to pay $1,100 for the privilege).
The device cuts 10-inch vinyl records, which can hold about 10 to 15 minutes of audio on each side. It’s a connected device; a companion app helps with formatting and song arrangement to better fit your music onto the two sides. But at its core, the Phonocut was designed for simplicity. All you have to do is plug in an audio cable, like from a headphone jack, and press Play.
“It has to be idiot-proof,” says Florian “Doc” Kaps, an Austrian analog enthusiast and Phonocut cofounder. “Even I myself should be in a position to cut the records.”
The machine works in real time. As the music plays, a diamond stylus etches the sound wave straight into the surface of the vinyl. Theoretically, you could put any audio you want on there—a custom playlist, your own embarrassing electronica experiments, whale sounds—whatever. After a half hour of playback, you have a physical saucer of sound ready to pick up, hold, and toss on a turntable.
Who wants to have a go here? Could it oust @fentonsteve from his Fiio obsession?
Oddly enough, a young man with a beard asked me about pressing records last week.
His girlfriend is a big Against The Current fan, they’ve never issued anything on vinyl, and it is her birthday soon.
I explained how vinyl records are made, and acetates, and the costs and timescales involved, and he decided to buy her some gig tickets instead.
I am not obsessed with my Fiio. Not as much as I am with my LP12 – “I use it every night” as the Linn advert used to say.
Seeing that a lot of UK-released vinyl is currently being cut, pressed and packaged in the EU, vinyl-philes had better get themselves ready for a sizeable price hike, if we don’t reach a trade agreement post-Brexit with the EU.
Bands/artists wishing to release their stuff on vinyl may find it takes much longer than it already does to get it to market if they have to rely on UK-based companies in order to release a reasonably-priced quality product.
Some of us have already started panic buying.
Ah but then you can whip out your big ten inch…. record of a band that plays the blues.
You can press your own ten inch in your own home….I’m sure you can finish this one off for yourselves.
Oh go on, finish it off for me…. Porky always did…
Vinlys going up … eh? even more expensive than vinlys are now? … in price.
Finally, something good has come out of that Referendum!
CDs will be going up too. They’re mostly not manufactured in the UK either.