The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hi people

Beware with this guy, he is still trying to rip off people, now he apperas to be using other names (fake profiles?) to talk shit about the vinyl recorder t560 and also myshank:
https://www.facebook.com/VinylRecorders/

Kind regards

Miguel

I met the guys who make the VinylRecorders and had the chance to see and hear the machine in action. very cool!

Miguel

Hi! I'm about to take off for NAMM and L.A. in a few hours. I'm going to show our guitar pedals bussiness, and then off to Venice for a few days vacation (until saturday). If anyone is in the area perhaps we can meet there! Or, also I accept recommendations for things to do (besides hunting for LPs)...

I don't think the LED, and even less the LDR, are resposive at audio frequencies. You will most likely get an envelope of the audio intensity, but not the audio itself.

Kind regards

Miguel

Sunkingrecords, when I am not experimenting I am using tungsten cone styli from Farmerjohn. They are pretty good and last very long. When I am rolling my own, I am either using gramophone needles, steel rods or HSS drill blanks, which I spin on a sort of home made lathe while grinding them to form ...

jesusfwrl wrote: What I really like about this process is the ease of making my own blanks and needles.
I guess you can't have everything...

What are you using for needles to emboss the PC?

That sure looks great!

If you use the Realtek it is important to turn off the integrated equalizer- it introduces hell of distortion and noise. At least on the board I tested.

Miguel

Do check the soundcard output. I found that my M-audio Audiophile 2496 in certain settings introduces a two sample delay on one channel. Which is not that audible when the channels mix "in the air", but for cutting may introduce problems in the treble. Like notching of high frequencies. Kind regards...

ahahahahahahaha this machine make me think in create the first LASER DISC... This videos, it's not a recent video, as he said, recorded by this head... this video gone made and i see real months ago when i see it and think to buy this piece of sh.... grace of god... I thinking he's a liar, but now ...

Here are some pics of one of the stylus Angulo sold me, this is before use (I did wear them at some point):

To set the record, I was never able to get good sounding results in any media (vinyl, pC, CDs, whatever) with the machine.
All "improvements" refered earlier were relative to a previous worse cut, but at no point was something worth listening.

Kind regards

I believe the stylus he sells are just imported Transco and Adamant (at least that's what he gave me). I don't know why he called them diamonds when they are in fact saphire or ruby. The blanks I got from him are all warped. They supposedly will get flat with the heat of the cut itself... Kind regards

Yes I paid good money!

I can't seem to find the pics of the interior, have to find them in the other computer which I can't now.

Regards

Miguel

IMG_4559.JPG IMG_4626.JPG IMG_4564.JPG I have to find the photos of the interior of the machine, which now is also pretty much dismantled while we try to rebuilt the thing to operational standards. I never got good results with the system, which until recently I still wasn't sure it was fault of me...

Hi, this are photographs I took at some point of the head I got.
At the moment, the head is in the hands of an engineer which is trying to make some sense out of it: More in the following post

Thank you Opcode and JJG, that was exactly my question!

Kind regards

Miguel

Hi! About the stylus like NSH-2S and I believe Transco 320 models which have a cilindrical shank with no flat parts, and a little square on top of it. It is correct to assume that the cutting facet is aligned to the sides of the square? So aligning the sides is a safe way of correctly pointing the s...

Looks great!

I'm proud of being in the artist page (you cut my only 7" last year "Palmer/Canel"... sounds amazing!)