The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I know loads here that use them. As far as. aware the plant is GZ. They are just brokerage. No problems from what I hear here. Cannot speak of their overseas option though. They placed a note on their web about using some German plant for pressing vinyl records. There's been no cutting for them in ...

Not re-listed. How much is he asking? The last asking price we received 2 days ago was incredible high, but Dietrich should write the exact price if he is allowed to do it. There isn't many people in the world who would be able to properly back-convert it to DMM. Moreover, the DMM cutting is quite ...

There are two reasons why some DMM cuts may have less bass than lacquer cuts. 1) The source audio contains a lot of low frequencies panned or shift to one channel or completely out-of-phase. Then a lot of vertical modulation occurs. Most DMM blanks have the standard 100um copper layer allowing 35 um...

... Mark, thanks it is always a good thing when you chip in Ill take your comments as stated To your question it is really simple The excursion of the cutting stylus on lacquer can be as much as 34 degrees or a bit more where with the very best copper plates one would be lucky to get past 32 And th...

The hard reality is that at best we can only have an educated and well deserved or earned guess rather than know! that what we have cut is fine perfect etc It is fair to say it is an assumption not a fact Sure we know our machine we know the input we listen to the feedback we do the right thing as ...

Not great news when a plant in the music game goes up in flames There was a fire at the plant It seems that the Vinyl production side was not affected The group has been in the pressing game since the late 40"s A very respected manufacturer of records for many years standing Here is a link to an ar...

... Regarding those German copper plates with more than 100 um thick copper layer which we tested: They seem to have two layers of copper on one steel plate (a doubled electrodeposition process?). I think they were probably wrongly produced, because it shouldn't be possible to split the upper layer...

...Well if 100 microns thick is called plating it is a very thick electroform than isn't it? or is it plated? But Ziri you and I know that some DMM plates are electroformed as you can peel off the copper coating like the ones sitting on the window sill in Zbyneks office Yes? Or the ones you electro...

Hello guys, well, we produce our own copper plates for DMM. They are steel plates with a 100 micrometers thick layer of copper on them. Could this process be called electroplating? It shouldn't be possible to separate both layers. So we do both - electroforming and electroplating, OK? We will probab...

I understand Serif's exactness, but many of us are in business and should offer products and services that most people knows under often used names. We cannot change the name of one of our service to Electroforming when most of "partially educated" customers know it as Plating. We have a company her...

Hello Pat, there were probably some troubles starting new domain names, but it should be good now. If you are not able to contact your sales representative or your customer service person using their personal emails, try this email: info at gzmedia.cz or our tech-help email to our premastering studi...

I hope that the following videos from November 2012 will play from any IP address. DMM cutting with our new system + all the other processing parts in GZ Tezka drina III (17) | PrimaPLAY... http://play.iprima.cz/all/301690 A separate video showing the cutting stylus simulator only: Tezka drina III (...

A new article with latest photos and video from GZ Vinyl (in Czech language):
http://technet.idnes.cz/lisovani-desky-blazinec-0wz-/tec_audio.aspx?c=A120830_171953_tec_audio_nyv

Unfortunatelly, Google Translate isn't very successful translating this article into English

Chris knows it, but for others (Steve B., Flo...): since this week we operate 3 DMM lathes and one lacquer VMS70 lathe. It seems that we will be some kind of rarity

He was here. Try to search posts/topics created by "danteellis". Everything was about DMM VMS lathes. Also interesting posts and replies by CA guys Dante Ellis and Ben Richards regarding DMM plating technology on another forum: 2009: http://www.finishing.com/527/86.shtml 2010: http://www.finishing.c...

Hi Chris and everybody here, why nobody mentioned the newer technology for preparing copper plates for DMM? I mean the one without need of refrigerator, where the copper plates can be transported and stored with normal boxes in normal temperature... Is it a top secret knowledge? :o The older method ...

The second title (double album) with laser etched sides can be found here:
http://piratespress.com/rotw/?p=683

Welll there you have it... Get them pressed or get small quantities lathe cut. You can get them pressed in Europe by Phono Press, Italy, in South America by Retro-Activo Records, Mexico, or in the USA by Erika Records. There are a couple of German plants that press them too. Hey, and what about our...

I think you would have a major fire on your hands way before you could cut the lacquer. The etching laser would most certainly ignite the lacquer coating. Hello guys, We cut to 8 such etched/engraved lacquer foils on our modified VMS-70, but not over the etching, only the rest of space was used. It...

An official press release from a local fire department + some photos + videos:

http://www.pozary.cz/clanek/49227-video-pozar-haly-v-lodenici-skoda-20-milionu/

It is in Czech language so please use a translate service (Google or similar).