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It makes your eardrum wiggle in the same shape as the grooves.
It’s actually quite straight forward. Inside the record player there’s a small group of highly trained goblins. They watch the needle move side to side and they perfectly recreate the music using their tiny instruments.
Simple.
I heard their team-building theme song was Madonna’s Into the Groove.
Ah, very similar to the camera (iconograph) filled with fast painting imps.
That may or may not have been my inspiration
It’s so simple
I got the knockoff version that had an understaffed team of mostly complacent fairies using thrift shop keyboards. I tried playing Hocus Pocus by Focus and they burned down my house and flew off with my neighbor’s cat.
It’s because you played the boring album version, instead of the one and only 1973 live version.
GNU Sir Terry
A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.
Death can’t have him.
Consider this: every record I play has a faint recording of the room, every time it has been played, since no turntable or cartridge is perfectly isolated, and, being diamond rubbing against vinyl, will leave some trace of the room sound behind.
A cello is just a bit of wood with some stringy Bois, but it sounds like heaven and hell and everything in-between when played right.
It’s really simple.
Sound is air vibrations at different strengths (volume) and frequencies (pitch). Taller waves are loud. Thinner waves are higher pitched. The math looks like this:
Volume * sin( Pitch * time)
Generally, low pitch sounds are louder and easier to see in a sound wave. A kick is really easy to spot. The rest of the weird janky movement of the sound wave is like a bunch of these equations added up to create the sound… generally.
The trick to understanding sound is that it’s a difference over time. The change in pressure is registered by your brain. A record player is literally just the physical transcription of this math and the speaker is just oscillating back and forth to reproduce the sound.
Okay maybe it’s not super simple, but I hope this helps.
tl;dr: magic
Beep bop beep boop beep
What’s that a picture of? Doesn’t like a needle and vinyl to me
It looks like an electron microscope image, hence it being black and white and so close up
A microscope? That must be a tiny record player. The needle arm looks like it’s made of clay
I’m a microbiologist. That’s pretty normal. Things that look smooth and even when viewed normally frequently look different when significantly magnified. Your eyes can’t resolve the fine details so your brain fills in the gaps.
If I’m not mistaken it’s from a shot by the YouTube channel Applied Science. Ben is an absolute genius
Anything sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
I’m convinced this is magic.
It’s only weird once electrons get involved.
things get weirder when your get rid of those electron bois
I agree, I’m still amazed that this shit works as well as it does.
Add quantum science to the list.
I’ve watched some yt videos about quantum mechanics. I am FAR too dumb to understand even a few words of what they were talking about lol
Nobody understand Quantum mechanics, scientifics only know what it do, but not how.
Quantum mechanics are the dreams that stuff is made of.
That’s Gold, Jerry!
How about this one to blow your mind further:
Because of how it was made, they could play back the sounds around the potter who fabricated it.
I thought they had done the same with some Roman parchment, but all I can find are links to stories on that one.
Interesting, but I think this is largely discredited from the brief research I did?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoacoustics#Discredited_theories
Cool idea nonetheless.
Doesn’t really discredit it based on that, but thanks for the article
Holy crap that’s wild
What the hell are the sounds supposed to be?
The description says it’s a violin
Someone playing a recorder or flute like instrument?
Or some one was being tortured.
That’s a lot of screaming!
Actually this is one of the coolest things I have ever seen or heard, thank you!
Calvins’ dads’ explanations were very influential to my shitposting career
I mean it’s pretty easy if you understand that sound is just a wave of vibration through a medium.
Everything is easy to understand if you believe in mediums I guess.
Ghosts are just vibrations of the past that can only be heard through spirit mediums. 😌
Im more of an extra large.
You hear about the dwarf psychic that escaped prison?
He’s a small medium at large
Sound is vibration. A record is a vibration frozen in place.
yhea, i can bs, those vynils are usually at room temperature
Digital music is just 1s and 0s.
And it must be converted to analog before it goes to a speaker
Enters the class D amplifier.
For what I understand, it uses the 0 and 1 directly, and just filters the result slightly.
Digital jazz man!
It be what it be.
Aww, c’mon - some digital music surely deserves a better rating than that!
Some is 10/10
I still only see two ratings.
Yeah, 10/10 or 01/10 which is 2/2 and 1/2 in decimal respectively.
Some day, I’ll get my (20) albums turned into vinyl.
That day moved a little closer, seeing this.
What’s crazy to me is that this technology was used for only a few dozen years before it was replaced and for thousands of years beforehand there was nothing like it
It’s also interesting that it has made somewhat of a comeback after some newer technologies have faded away
