The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

JP, usert560: Both of you are right at some points. Souri is a very nice guy, but don't deliver good customer service. Yes, he's bad at it. He lives in age of CD-Players (what?), he has no audio computer software probably. He can't help with most questions. And most questions remain unanswered. JP, ...

I agree about the RCA being worse solution than balanced connections, but it will not improve sound of T560, because it is not a high end unit.

I have also tried to bypass main riaa unit (feedung power am from D/A convrter only) but ended with no success. The cutterhead seems to be unusual design and the standard riaa curve does not work well.

If anyobdy wants to help with it it would be great.

I've got around 20 cutting needles for Recordette laying around and I wonder if I can try them in VR. Possible?

JP, I'm cutting without the mixer. It's quite simple and less noosy. If you want that you should buy second meter. But you can live without it too. Why measure input voltage if you can just cut a sine wave on "mixer situation" and the remove it and cut sine wave again with different volumes and got ...

The record player is logic x, which in theory goes to a mixer but after thinking routing realized we could do without the mixer and thus eliminate unnecessary noise. Logic then sent it directly to the "IN" of the mainunit. From the mainunit goes to the amp, the amp to the cutter head. If I want to ...

I wonder if there is any ideal formula for loop-ending wihout so much crac-crackkling (that I always do..), how many spins.. or just a touch.
My endings always cracked as hell...

Yep. Well I just want to get the most simplicity using only equipment that is needed. I don't think that the unbalanced RCA cable splitter going out from mixer it's a high quality idea... So, experimenting.

Tried to run my VR without that mixer/spltter and the main unit's EQ (well, less gear = better sound), so I made almost ideal RIAA curve and sent it directly to the lathe power amp. I was listening to the cut while cutting. No bass. So slowly raised bass. It ended up... +3dB on broad Q around 50Hz (...

Sunbears! Thanks a lot for your time, bro! 1) When you've got the Spacing Dial all the way at zero, you shouldn't try to cut higher than -6db. You will get grooves slamming into each other which can, in turn, produce a number of artifacts: skipping, distortion, echo, and so on.. Now it's kind of cle...

Well, I'm heating my discs to 40-45 degrees, but I set the stylus heating at 35-45 (transparent ones 45, black 35-40) it really is the less surface noise. But the stylus heating is a lot compared for what I've read here. This photo I attached was with groove spacing on zero (normal). But the audio w...

Well, I remember cutting at Souri's place very hot records with good quality. Now I have some problems, maybe some of you can help 1) I can't cut at higher volume than peaks reaching -6dB with minimal spacing.. and when I do, and get the spacing more, I'm getting distorted cuts even when I set deess...

Is there anyone in EU selling whole, let's say, "a pressing plant", small but complete one, ready to cook its own blank vinyl discs and of course, press them, rather than cut? I remember seeing one in the past for around 10000 EUR, but really don't remember where. The main question will be - are the...

Want to buy a Recordette-like lo-fi cutter, preferably 33rpm and in Europe but I can deal with US also (have some friends living there).