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- Sat Dec 28, 2013 11:27 am
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Cutting nitemares? Am I alone?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5317
Re: Cutting nitemares? Am I alone?
Always use compressed air to blow dust off a blank you're about to cut, especially if you've just been to the dentist and half your face is numb. Spraying spit all over the blank is not an effective strategy, nor is it polite or elegant. I never used compressed air. It's full of oil and water unles...
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:26 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Best stereo cutterhead for my application
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2770
Re: Best stereo cutterhead for my application
Big money? Depends how hard you want to work really. The Scully platter is not as flat as the platter on Neumann so you would need an advance ball on the head, reason you don't see many SX74 on a Scully. Westrex 3DII has the advance ball and go to head for Scully. If you can sort a Neumann platter ...
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:58 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Audiodisc Name Change (Apollo Dubplates, Reference Lites)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8081
Re: Audiodisc Name Change (Apollo Dubplates, Reference Lites
Do any trolls know of a effective way of stripping old dubs down to the aluminium substrate so that they can then be sent for scrap? recyclers appear reluctant to take them with coating. I have tried boiling water on them but this does not work well. Emidisc I'd use paint remover. The coating is, a...
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 6:44 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Audiodisc Name Change (Apollo Dubplates, Reference Lites)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8081
Re: Audiodisc Name Change
Hi Guys, Sorry I didn't see this thread before. Let me first start out by explaining we really do not manufacture Dubs. A Dub by definition is a Master that has not made the cut. (sorry for the pun) as a Master for either visual or fidelity in our quality inspection. These discs are still very good...
- Sun Dec 22, 2013 6:34 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Cutting Depth
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1394
Re: Cutting Depth
[quote="Dub Bull"]Get yerself a microscope and behold what you are (not) leaving behind. Even if you're strictly impressing, it's a microgroove cutter, after all. Even coarse grooves of 10 mil width and 110 included angle needed microscopy. A monoscope with reticle of known spacings is adequate, and...
- Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:18 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: 100% analog
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7998
Who has one? Even Ampex couldn't figure out how to put a preview head on an ATR and developed a digital delay line for the program signal for cutting. ATR Services, the company that remanufactures the ATR 102 made an ATR 102 preview deck for Sterling Sound. They manufactured an extended deck plate ...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: Plating and Pressing
- Topic: Salina, Kansas, USA plant
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2485
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:38 pm
- Forum: Plating and Pressing
- Topic: Salina, Kansas, USA plant
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2485
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: BIG TIME: Vintage 1980's Columbia / CBS pressing plant video
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4703
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: CBS Labs ASRA / QUASRA Vertical Limiter
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6531
Re: CBS Labs ASRA / QUASRA Vertical Limiter
Does anyone who cut records for CBS in the late 60's to early 70's remember this gadget? It had a bank of 3 Urei 1176 limiters as well as some hidden circuitry and was used to control vertical modulation in Westrex cutterheads. It was followed by the QUASRA for Quad SQ records and was designed by t...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: Cost of Equipment in 1989 : Sony 1630 / Used Neumann VMS82
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4992
[quote="mossboss"]Hey Guys This is quite an interesting thread But it does put a smile on my face as well In 1974 to have anything like a solid state piece of equipment was like dream stuff as valves for high power output was still the rule. Lots snipped. Many chuckles on this thread. I started cutt...
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: 1940's pressing plant - King records
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3002
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:14 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: who cuts masters here?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7190
If I'm mastering an LP on a 14", can I use the otuside .5" to test to make sure I've got the groove depth and other settings correct? Everything outside that will be lost in the plating process, right? yes If not, can I use the back of a lacquer that has been cut? I.e. if I start cutting on one sid...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:28 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: 100% analog
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7998
[quote="TotalSonic"] Preview decks were made by Telefunken, Studer, and Sony/MCI (such as my JH110M - photo below), and I've seen some mod Ampex ATR decks as well. Who has one? Even Ampex couldn't figure out how to put a preview head on an ATR and developed a digital delay line for the program signa...
- Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:55 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Starting a label
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4500
Re: SATX
Know how to make a small fortune in the record business?
(drum roll)
Start with a large one.
Thank you, thank you , tip the veal, try your waitress.
Phil Brown
(drum roll)
Start with a large one.
Thank you, thank you , tip the veal, try your waitress.
Phil Brown
- Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:14 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Funny Disc Cutting Stories... We All Have One!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4786
Re: Funny Disc Cutting Stories... We All Have One!
And then there's Time Fades Away, which would take a book. Phil Brown I am ALL EARS!!!!! Neil Young stories, pleeze!! Got lots but Time Fades Away is pretty well known. No two track master was made. It was cut direct from 16 track using the Quad 8 Compumix system. And the Compumix screwed up so muc...
- Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:59 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Funny Disc Cutting Stories... We All Have One!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4786
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:44 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Too Much Vacuum?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4711
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:19 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Funny Disc Cutting Stories... We All Have One!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4786
Re: Funny Disc Cutting Stories... We All Have One!
And then there's Time Fades Away, which would take a book.
Phil Brown
Phil Brown
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:12 pm
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Funny Disc Cutting Stories... We All Have One!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4786
In the early 80s I worked for Warner Bros at Amigo and was booked one day on a session with a very important WB artist whose name I won't say but he is associated with the color purple. said artist showed up and proceeded to stand in the corner of the studio-and it was a small studio, barely big eno...