{"id":82210,"date":"2022-09-29T23:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T23:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teenage-engineerings-po-80-record-factory-both-cuts-and-plays-vinyl\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T23:14:47","slug":"teenage-engineerings-po-80-record-factory-both-cuts-and-plays-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teenage-engineerings-po-80-record-factory-both-cuts-and-plays-vinyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Engineering’s PO-80 Record Factory both cuts and plays vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teenage Engineering is best known these days for its electronic music-making gear, but now it has an option for creating physical copies of those tunes. The Swedish brand has released a PO-80 Record Factory that, as the name implies, lets you cut vinyl records at home in addition to playing them back. The extra-cute orange and white design is part of the draw, but the real appeal is the simplicity \u2014 you just need to plug an audio device into the 3.5mm jack and start recording.<\/p>\n

You’re limited to monophonic sound, and you won’t be cutting more than a single with a B-side. The included five-inch blank records (complete with sleeves) allow for about four minutes of audio per side at 33RPM, and three minutes at 45RPM. There’s an adapter for playing seven-inch records, and all power comes over USB.<\/p>\n

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If the concept looks a bit familiar, it should. Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki initially explored the idea with a record-cutting machine he built in tandem with the magazine publisher Gakken. Suzuki is a friend of Teenage Engineering, and teamed up with the company to develop a new version with the “Pocket Operator mentality” and a revised design.<\/p>\n

The Record Factory is available for $149. While that’s not trivial, it’s not a lot to spend if you want to produce tangible copies of your lo-fi music. Just be prepared to look elsewhere if you intend to release whole albums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Teenage Engineering is best known these days for its electronic music-making gear, but now it has an option for creating physical copies of those tunes. The Swedish brand has released a PO-80 Record Factory that, as the name implies, lets you cut vinyl records at home in addition to playing them back. The extra-cute orange …<\/p>\n

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