I used to maintain one of those CD making machines for a living back at Technidisc, a facility in Michigan. Fun stuff.

The fact that this is 16 years old, and it still seems like something out of the future. Absolutely incredible.

i never thought that cd's were made the same way vinyl is made

Well most of my records I got from my parents. Who grew up in the 60's. I've got Hindrix, the Beatles, etc all the classics. I play them on my classic Sansui QR4500 amp that my dad got back when he was in the marines. That stereo, despite being 45 years old, still kicks the shit out of almost every new home stereo out there! 500 watts, and a clarity that will just blow you away.

@muchico8600

2 жыл бұрын

are u alive?

Surprising how similar this method is to making vinyl records. I didn't know they were just molded.

What they failed to mention is that the glass master wears out after 2000 or so pressings (depending on the plant config). They also forgot the whole quality checking every 1000 CD's and the fact that the discs at the end of the run contain quite a few errors and an plant will produce CD's full of errors if they are in a hurry to get units out the door and don't have time to make another master ;-) Good video though!

the music is SO 90's :D

CHEESE. A story of milk, curds and whey.

I used to work as a dvd/cd rw machine operator, but also handled cd-r machines for 2 months, and I can tell that the processes presented here are exactly the same processes that I monitored... RW discs follow a distinctively different flow, and much less arduous to monitor and maintain.

I'm watching this at work in D.C. at 3:51 pm wednesday, 4th of April 2012

i was once a stamper man and a machine operator for 5 years, not easy job but fun.

God those robot rotating thing are AWESOME. Could watch them for hours.

@artifactingreality I think it helps with how much the cd can hold the capacity.

i love this. such fine vibes

About 10 years ago, AOL gave free discs with their dialing program, so they advertised their products this way, since many had dial-up connections. Actualy tou didn't ask for an AOL CD, they used to stuck them on your mailbox or under the door about once, twice or more in a week. Sometimes even once a day you got one of these discs that we (in that time, kids) used as frisbies.

Love the music in this video....

Awesome video !!

They kind of skipped over how the information got on the CD. How are the "pits" etched in? Laser?

this was magical - thanks!

wow, i did not expect labels were printed by good old fashioned silk screening

@cosmojude CD-Rs will play in most newer (and older) CD players as long as they are compliant with the audio CD format or hybrid CD/CD-ROM format. It will sound the same if not similar to a regular CD depending on whether the source material for the CD was compressed, uncompressed, or compressed in a lossless format. But for many people it will sound exactly the same.

At one time. I could have sworn that the music was recorded on the SILVERY part of the disc until someone had told me, that the music is ACTUALLY recorded on the clear plastic part of disc. The silvery part of disc is for the laser to be able to reflect back (or something like that)

The fact is though, CD can produce sound better than your ears can pick up, but this doesn't get shown if you are serious about sound. Vinyl may sound more natural on a good system, but is due to the quality of the mixed audio. CD's are superior to vinyl, but vinyl is more flexible in its uses (scratching). Before vinyl went out of common use, master recordings were already done on DAT (digital audio tape) and transferred to vinyl for stamping.

Wow, this is pretty cool.

am waiting for this to be on my recommendation in 5 or 2 years XD

the best part for me is it's sooo..............user friendly

Was this narrated by David Schwimmer?

How cool!

@otharennaur CDs aren't "recorded" per se, they are molded. Think of it as a footprint you pour plaster into. When the plaster dries you get what's called a negative image, and you can then use this to produce copies of the footprint. CD-production works the same way, only on a much smaller scale. You have a "footprint" in the form of a metal die, you inject molten plastic into the die and let it harden, and then yank out a plastic disc with all the data of the original die on it.

its amazing to think that people figured out that a piece of plastic could hold data and that a laserbeam could somehow read it

This is from a very early season. There was a host in the very old episodes.

It may be illegal, but it's the only way I would have ever come across this movie.

Coool. I have an RCA victor console from somewhere around 1960, but It hums when I use phono, I can't seem to figure out why. Probably a dead capacitor. So Instead, I use a Technics Deck. I have some old school Roger Miller and Andy Williams as well. I'll Upload some since some never got put onto CD!

I saw the master disk drying after the photo resist coat, but does not explain how data is recorded on the disk (like using a laser)? When is the Aluminium deposited on the disk, when data side is in a vacuum chamber? Carl

Madblaster: Nope. Process is exactly the same until today. Photochemical Glass Master fabrication, then negative imaging from that master disc (can be done multiple times, as often as required from one master, because those metal foil pressing negatives undergo heavy usage thread in the pressing department/s), then making positive copies of it from polycarbonate material. Coating, finishing and printing remains as is also.

omg the computer at the begining made me remember the computers in my elementary school

nice .... very nice

one of those things you always wonder about

Kinda makes you want to listen to your cds after knowing this....

Heck yeah. You must collect records. I collect drum and bass. I like the frequency response of records, considering my 1g tracking force. Senneheiser tube amp & Ortofon cart. for Xmas.

i can't believe there's a "master" produced in the process. this is laborious. sad thing is, those wonderful silver cds are just as prone to damage as a home burnt disc which is just a bunch of burned pits rather than impressions. very cool to see the "ultimate" commercial process.

-continued from above- What you prefer is a whole other thing. I prefer mp3s as they are much more portable, but sometimes it's fun to throw on a LP for retro's sake, and also have fun scratching and pitching it, which is much harder with mp3s. This is a comment for Kirke182

Oh my God!!! I watched this with my sister and she pointed out this thing in a faster reaction LOL...

is this process the same for recording artists like U2 when an album finishes and has to be pressed up ??? if so what's the time frame until the album is released to the public

cool!

How does the data get on the disc. Have I missed a step of have they?

The guy speaking in this vid sounds a lot like Nicolas Cage.

the process here is very simlar to how they made the master disc for stamping vinyl records

it wouldn't even be the slightest bit ironic if this was AOL CDs

I love factory tours

i've always wondered. what machine makes the machines that make those stuff. and what machine makes that machine?

@rrrohan2288: Of course you can make a "production master" using a CD-R first. But this is a "non-permanent" prototype master, also called a "transfer master", finally. For mass-production, CD-R is not rentable and too slow. The CD-R is to be sent to the factory then and therefrom a glass master is produced, which is the basis for the polycarbonate/aluminium coated and printed mass product, the physical CD.

Well I sure learnt how to make cheese in this video.

I must say, it's quite amazing what our brains can do.

Whoever invents stuff like this deserves to be a millionaire.

I am digging the elorganic muzak

I think that this process is how music CD are made, it seems that vinyl and CDs are made very much the same. It is difficult to make a master but easy to replicate off it. And blank CDs are easier again because there is no data etched onto them, hense 50 blank CDs are like $5.

best music ever. X]

does anyone know what the name of the song playing in the background is?

@Gnomleif thank you, that explains a lot =)

omg so much work it is to make a cd disk :o

CD crew in the age of streaming music, this comment is your like button. =)

well the fact remains that the "music" or data ir recordet to teh SILVER part of the disk that why if the plastic part gets scratched it can grindet with a extreamly fine gringder until the scratch is gorn and the cd will work as new again. however if the silverlayer on the top is scratched nothing can save it.. whitch is also the reason that you mush nevar write on a cd with a ballpen. (it simply ruins the 1,0,1,0 data pattern the laser have made)

Now I feel like a jackass for scratching some of my disks when I was younger purposely, look at how much they go through to make one friggin disk

looks like a record player!

@3nasacova What you mean is burning a cd, so actualy writing data to it. What is shown on this video is the actualy making of the cd, so users like you can use it to burn them.

That would be because if there isn't a coding the laser used to read the disk just passes right through it.

Every time I see this it amazes me that CD's work at all after all that crap the data has to go through...

@bombman1012

6 жыл бұрын

i would try to explain this but... 9 years... yeah.

@aeronautisch

3 жыл бұрын

@@bombman1012 please, do go on..

Those are like so ancient I think my dad had some

good job

Lawl, thats the Paasta guy xD

@MrSlurpiee i think the dye is glass, the disk is plastic

That's how I found it as well!

If you think that they went through all those steps for one disc your not the brightest light on the xmas tree. They made a master and then made thousands of discs from that master (70 Discs in 1min) . Also think that isnt the only place that does it !

I like the part where he starts talking about cheese.

Lol I remember those old apples

The disc he held up at the start was a DVD-R, not a CD-R, DVD-R's are blue/purple on the underside, CD-R's are more green.

its crazy to think that what use to take a factory can now be done in a 5 1/4 " drive!

Wow, I mean, U gotta be fucking genius who invented this

Oh wow i thought each disc was pressed and then the data was burned on like we do at home, I didnt know that copies were simply just pressed. I always wondered how they were made and now i know

damn, how did we think of this?

Sweet music

How do you think is your CD-R made? It's almost the same procedure. Burning each CD separately is MUCH slower. These guys make one CD every second.... on one machine. How long do you have to burn a CD or DVD?

Dawkins did a piece comparing it to the surface of a moth's eye, that was quite informative, you might do well to try that.

Ok, i've a question... so the "Original" cds are recorded while produced? or they make them blank and then burn them normaly with a computer?

@turity you my friend...just blew my mind

2:46 Looks like me taking a morning piss

what is the name of the beautyful music in the background?

where do i buy these machines (i know they are ALOT of money)

Nice 1980s Computer you got there...

Hahaha it happens, a friend of mine though tha Fecal Matter was a movie LOL

I am watching this in 2012!!

I like CD's I don't know why people are all about digital downloads. Usually they are about the same price. If it's a bit more, what odds, at least you get the mp3 AND a CD, If you're fortunate, the artist put lyrics in as a bonus. More or less you end up paying more for the downloads if the album is more than five years old and the artist isn't mainstream. I hope CD's don't become "obsolete". That's bullshit. Discs are just plain better. If the hard drives crash, I can always re-rip.

Where is the step where the data is written to the etched surface? Developer application is shown, but not the means by which the coating was modulated with data.

"Many people like a little cheese in their lives."

I bet they're made differently now a days.

they didnt even show how they engraved the disk..

CD=Compact Disc. DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are just another types of discs.

the guy's voice sounds like Edward Current

i still dont understand how they are able to put the info into a piece of plastic