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Hi guys,
I'm preparing customs disc for my Beosound 9000 and I wanted to share if anyone has ideas or comments…
You mights already have seen the original set from the stores and the custom Late Night Tales discs, here we go with three new designs:
67's Danish Design Center Expo
Beogram Platters
B&O Styluses
matador43:You mights already have seen the original set from the stores and the custom Late Night Tales discs, here we go with three new designs:
BS Moment, BS Core, BG 4002, BC 4500, BS1, BL18, BL19, BL8000 + RCV1, A6, M5, M3, A1, P6 (tks Botty), H5, TR1
Awesome !!
In your previous thread on this topic (https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/t/40389.aspx) you said, "--- The one with painted singer, piano, sax, guitar etc, in two versions (See Discogs).--- The second with pictures of the BS9000 different placement options." I found one of the first on discogs "A New View on Music": https://www.discogs.com/Various-Bang-Olufsen-Vol-VII-A-New-View-On-Music/release/7828772
The other B&O release, "The Art of Seduction" (https://www.discogs.com/Various-Bang-Olufsen/release/10771556), photos do not show the CD labels. Do you have a link (or a photo to store here) for those, or the BS9000 placement pix you mentioned?
Of your sets, I like the platters the best. But wishing for some color... Think I'll load my copy of "Abbey Road" and spin the apple, now... P.S. Ralf @kallasr had a couple examples (https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/t/4774.aspx) and he mentions a thread on the archive site, which neither he nor I can find...
Good night trackbeo,
My previous topics was in fact on a slightly different subject: it was more on "filling" the discs first and then decorating them."A new view on music" was quite easy to recreate: very common standards and disc art available at enough quality for jet ink printing.
In my search I of course came across "the art of seduction" serie, but as you have seen, its more difficult to find the art, not even mentioning recompile the content.
The BS9000 placement option serie, I've seen it in my searches at that time, but didn't find it interesting. I dont even know if it really did exist or if it was for some marketing shots only. You can see it in the beoworld product page of the 9000 and I've found another picture, attached here.
To be honest, the problem with the platters serie is that once printed they should loose their shinny metallic aspect. I will give it a try as soon as I know how to fill the 6 disc and let the forum know
My favorite is the Danish exhibition series, not really for the full rendition of the set in the unit, but more because I love this graphic serie. I've used it to make a little framed artwork in a corner of my office, like a private joke. By the way, if anyone should have any information about that art, i would be greatly interested. I also wanted to do something since a long time with the stylus shape art on MMC cartridge boxes but I reckon that's not the best way to use them and the dark blue background echoes nothing, so…
Didn't see Kallasr's work before, thank you to pointing me to that. I've thought and still thinking on using packshot pictures too, but since B&O media bank closed I feel like stripped. It was a great source of Hi-Res pictures. I'm also thinking in reconstructing the B&O 2006 catalog cover or amore thematic serie like Beolab, or remotes (even if it did already exist) etc…
So new ideas to come next and maybe some with colors!
I love the Beogram platters, and the ones with the various catalog ways to display the 9000. Something is definitely lost when going away from physical media.
Jeff
I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus.
Night Inspiration…
2001 A Space Odyssey
Lina Cavalieri
Supertramp
All designs are based on materials which enough resolution to be actually printed.I use matt paper CD stickers from eBay, the only one I could find with small central hole.If anyone interested I can (freely obviously) provide the A4 sheet with the artwork ready to print (2 disc per sheet).If you use different paper and are not handy with graphic tools you'll need to provide the template of the sheet and except some tries and adjustment.
That one was inspired by Beocool.
matador43: That one was inspired by Beocool.
And a very cool look - but possibly the "S" to the far left so it doesn't say "SLEE" in the parked position
So true! (Does SLEE have a special meaning?)
matador43:(Does SLEE have a special meaning?)
I just bought Richter's single-disc "From Sleep", because I didn't think I could concentrate enough to listen to the 8 hours. Perhaps that misses the point...
trackbeo:yes: Graham Slee,
Thank you trackbeo, and because it is also a very similar font type, I understand the awkwardness!
trackbeo:Perhaps that misses the point...
Well, I'm listening to Sleep, right now (currently around the 80th minute) and so far it sounds a lot like From Sleep but with each track looped 5 or 6 time.Maybe I'm missing the point too. From the three (actually four) albums derived from the concept, maybe Sleep Remixes is the most accessible.
I also wonder if the fact that the music was also sold as "Morgan OST" is not an attempt to get some money back for an interesting but not so easy selling work.
But in the end still tic music to listen to.
matador43: So true! (Does SLEE have a special meaning?)
'Slee' in Dutch (one of native languages) means sled or sleigh and it's also slang for a big luxury car. Apart from Graham Slee, there's also a Dutch writer by the name of Carry Slee. The word 'Sleep' is also known in Dutch and it means the thing you haul behind you, or something like that.
Vähintään yhdeksänkymmentä prosenttia suomalainen!
The custom discs look terrific. Great idea
2006 catalog front cover
(not 100% accurate and not the best quality, best fit a white Beosound 9000!)
A set based on the iconic Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon album cover would be cool, the light and spectrum going from one prism to another on each of the discs. Could be quite striking. I also love the 2001 themed one. Play disk 3, I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.
With One Prism so far
Dark Side Of The Moon
matador43:With One Prism so far Dark Side Of The Moon
Ooooh, me likey!!! Stunning on the 9000, the prism and black discs and colors.
Also, these are mostly aligned for horizontal mounting, what about vertical? I long waterfall picture would be interesting for that. Any other vertical ideas? Maybe a rocket, something iconic like a Saturn V, with the top disc being stars.
Jeff:Also, these are mostly aligned for horizontal mounting,
You're right! mine is just next to my desk so vertical mounting didn't even cross my mind, need to work on this :-).
That one is for fun:
Hollow discs
Great!
matador43:If anyone interested I can (freely obviously) provide the A4 sheet with the artwork ready to print (2 disc per sheet).Hey, @matador43, sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I just saw your post in the newer "B&O promo CDs vol I-XIII" thread and wondered... (1) The "SLEEP" discs are your custom drop-outs on the original art, correct? (I just checked on discogs and they all appear to be "mostly cloudy" with no differences across the set.) (2) Confirming that your turntable platters do not stand up to conventional printing because of no silver ink? And (3) yes, if you are willing to upload it to "my files" here, I would be interested to print a set of Fornasetti (Lina Cavalieri) labels, for when I don't have "real" discs in my (new-to-me) 9000. Thanks in advance!
matador43:If anyone interested I can (freely obviously) provide the A4 sheet with the artwork ready to print (2 disc per sheet).
Hi Trackbeo,
Congratulation for your new 9000.
1 - Yes, It's a "rework" based on original elements.2 - Yes, I've tried to add enough shine for them to be nice at glance, but you'll need silver ink or transparent sticker on naked CD's for best results.3 - The art are on a hi res PDF and I provide a link to buy the paper that fit the layout. I can also send you the raw art if you wanna do your own layout. I rather send them by email as the files are quite large and to be honest I don't know enough about legal issue to let them online at Beoworld.
Regards.
(The 9000 is a gift. Hopefully it works for a long while, and won't be "the gift that keeps on giving"!-) Apparently stock Avery 8960 sheets have a small die-cut center circle, and they are matte, vs. 8944 glossy. The white film 8962 look like the right thing to use, alas they are large-hole. I can scan the plates, so I'm off, unless you have any specific caveats about printing. Looks like the die-cut provides an easy "bleed" to simply print across. (For people wondering WTF, here is a photo of Piero Fornasetti with just a few of his many renderings, on china: https://www.gramilano.com/2014/01/face-soprano-fornasettis-obsession-lina-cavalieri/ )
trackbeo: I can scan the plates, so I'm off, unless you have any specific caveats about printing.
Sorry Trackbeo, can get what you mean. If you're saying you can scan the plates by yourself and dont need the art, it's fine.If you use a flatbed scan, you may have some focus issue since the plates are not flat.
Anymay you need a (very) high res scan (3x or 4x printing size) to kill the effect of the screen pattern which might interfere.`Also, keep it all B&W, to avoid any fringing problems.
Today, I made up my mind on how to fill 6 another blank discs and tried the Beogram Platter collection to celebrate my again silent BS9000 sledge.
Printed on mat paper, the unit is not in direct light so the result is satisfying to me.
Stop posting this stuff matador43 - now I need to get one of these mighty 9000s also .
Looks amazing!