Inside My Head

Vinyl Records

I collect vinyl records from bands and musicians I adore. I've always wondered how the physical music process works with the needle and the disc. So today I am here to answer the question for anyone else wondering.

Sound waves were directed into the diaphragm, making it vibrate. A hand crank turned the cylinder to rotate the tinfoil cylinder while the needle cut a groove into it to record the sound vibrations from the diaphragm. The output side of the machine played the sound through a needle and an amplifier.

Did that make sense to you? Me neither.