Floppy Drive Reverb. Recording Analog Audio on Floppy Disks
April 272010
Jeri Ellsworth describes how she attached a floppy drive to a tape deck recorded and then played back audio. A simple circuit stepped the head automatically using the spindle index pulse. A push button was used to control the direction. The drive head wrote to more than one track at a time, causing an interesting reverb effect. ***Erasing the disk with rare earth magnets while spinning in the drive was not mentioned in the video.
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April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
This is awesome!
This is awesome!
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Man, it’s rare to …
Man, it’s rare to see girls interested in electronics. I have been mucking around with electronics since 1970, I’ll have to dig out an old floppy drive and try this.
From what I can tell, the tape recorder was used to drive the heads on the floppy drive. Oh I like your full size Tempest game
I used to have one years ago, now I have to use ROM images and MAME.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Sounds like it.
Sounds like it.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Is that “Still …
Is that “Still Alive”?
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
amazing…go jeri.. …
amazing…go jeri…you inspire us all!
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Why does the tape …
Why does the tape recorder underneath need starting/stopping? Surely the analogue audio can amplified and played without any other mechanics? I didn’t understand that bit.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
what is is it?
what is is it?
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
this was a triumph, …
this was a triumph, im making a note here, HUGE SUCESS!!!
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Mabye you could …
Mabye you could play back some old computer data disks into a digital recorder and write a program that recovers the data in software. There are many Amiga and Apple II disks out there rotting away with seemingly no way to save the data on them.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
AAAAAAARRGGGHHH …
AAAAAAARRGGGHHH JERI THIS IS BRILLIANT!
I want my seagate optigan. Now.
Wait, what do data disks sound like?
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
I still have some …
I still have some 8inch floppys and drive….
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
They need to make …
They need to make more girls like this ;_;
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Well of course you …
Well of course you could record more by making the disk spin slower. The magnetic wavelengths should still be small enought for decent audio.
The “bleeding” effect is actually also found on tapes which have been stored badly. There the magnetic information diffuses into the other layers of tape.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
But wouldn’t that …
But wouldn’t that partly spoil the fun as you would no longer get the signal bleeding into adjacent tracks?
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
to do what?
to do what?
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
i need this girl in …
i need this girl in my dark lab
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Try to modify …
Try to modify harddisk into a microwave!
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Nerd! I’d like to …
Nerd! I’d like to sleep with you…
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
I am so doing this! …
I am so doing this!
I wanted to do the same thing with analog video when I was a kid. Good luck on that!
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
k, now can you make …
k, now can you make a video on how to make this or is there a link i can follow to make this?
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
i think i recognize …
i think i recognize the song xD also the cake is a lie
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Jeri! Give us …
Jeri! Give us something! Where are you going with this? Will there be a short how-two to get people going in the right direction?
Anything! We demand….. something!
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Your very pretty …
Your very pretty and tech savvy….. so you must be the perfect girl : )
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Who is this woman? …
Who is this woman? I’m so in love. *swoon*
April 27th, 2010 at 4:06 am
MINIDISC FOREVER!!! …
MINIDISC FOREVER!!!!!!!