The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

[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...

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 ...

Aussie0zborn wrote:Good to hear. Is it on that yellowy/clear vinyl or black vinyl?

regular old black vinyl.
Phil Brown

I just heard a test pressing from them and it blew me away. I thought I was listening to a tape.
Really excellent.
Phil brown

Aussie0zborn wrote:Flozki's website describes the Cybersonic as a "shitty lathe" made in California, USA.

Does anybody actually have one?

We had one demonstrated at Warners. It was made to be used with the Ortofon head. Nuff. said. Futuredisc was the only place I knew who used them.
Phil Brown

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...

[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...

There's a book about King and Sid Nathan. Not well written but full of info.
Phil Brown

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...

[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...

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

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...

subkontrabob wrote:

philbrown wrote:a very important WB artist whose name I won't say but he is associated with the color purple.

TAFKAP i presume

To quote the odious Frencis Urquhart, You might think so, but I could not possibly comment.
Phil Brown

MEK works better for cleaning wayward chip.
It's pretty easy to set vacuum. Just make a test cut, listen to it and adjust accordingly. That is what I did, worked fine on both Westrex and Neumann.
Phil Brown

And then there's Time Fades Away, which would take a book.
Phil Brown

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...