Can You 3d Print Vinyl Records

In order to explore the current limits of 3d printing technology i ve created a technique for converting digital audio files into 3d printable 33rpm records and printed a few functional prototypes that play on ordinary record players.

Can you 3d print vinyl records.

100 custom vinyl records for 1 390 get pricing. I chose to modulate the grooves vertically for the 3d printed records because the vertical axis is the most precise axis on the machine resolution of 16 microns. Bundle includes 100 200 standard black vinyl record pressing full color or black white lp labels unprinted inner sleeves full color jacket w spine shrinkwrapping and us domestic ground shipping. Take a look at this projects and see for yourself.

The needle drops and a series of high repetitive whines come from the album. Finally kurt cobain s voice. We ll take care of the rest and deliver the record to your door so you can start spinning. If you compare 3d printing to printing from a computer onto sheets of paper we are probably at the daisy wheel stage of evolution.

Then a crackling sound and a muffled guitar riff. The 3d printed albums are thicker and stiffer more like the old school 78s than the latest version of vinyl recording and it may be that 3d printing never becomes the standard way of releasing. Create your own custom vinyl record. Affordable custom printed records ready in 8 weeks.

The actual grooves in a vinyl record could probably be printed but the variations in those grooves that make up the sound recording are only a couple of microns at most. Does not include a test pressing. Stereo 2 channel vinyl records are cut both vertically and laterally this way it s possible for two isolated channels of audio to fit into one groove. So you could potentially print a record that you could throw on a deck and have a needle follow the groove all the way through but there wouldn t be any music there.

You decide what music you want on your record and create your own cover art. But the quality of the records produced is way better than i would have imagined and all it needs to equal and surpass conventional vinyl is a higher resolution printer.