# Home Record Recording **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 1, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-record-recording/790242 "2017-07-01T00:16:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-record-recording/790242/21 "2017-07-03T12:53:52Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I remember seeing a standalone ‘make your own record’ booth at an amusements arcade in the late 70s (it looked a bit like a photo booth). I wonder when they actually died out. My grandmother used one of those to make a birthday record for me. Since she was a dramatic arts teacher, it was natural for her to read/act out a short story. The fidelity was poor, and each playing, since it was an acetate, degraded it further. I think I still have the record in my basement. I wonder if it is playable at all now – acetate oozes and doesn’t preserve its shape like the commercially pressed 78s. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-record-recording/790242/22 "2017-07-03T15:20:23Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I recently saw a review of a hobby kit to make a device that would supposedly record sound onto wax cylinders (actually candles without the wicks, in the kit). Not sure if this is what you are referring to, but there was a “Techmoan” review, [On Wax/Off Wax - Building an Edison Wax Cylinder Recorder Kit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9X2CS4cs8o) a couple months ago. His conclusion: neat idea, works very, very poorly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-record-recording/790242.md?page=1)