Preparing Pre-Masters for cutting..

This is where record cutters raise questions about cutting, and trade wisdom and experiment results. We love Scully, Neumann, Presto, & Rek-O-Kut lathes and Wilcox-Gay Recordios (among others). We are excited by the various modern pro and semi-pro systems, too, in production and development. We use strange, extinct disc-based dictation machines. And other stuff, too.

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descent
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Preparing Pre-Masters for cutting..

Post: # 46332Unread post descent
Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:21 pm

Hello brothers and sisters!

Many tests by my side, just to find a solution for cutting without big changes comparing with the original audio source.

Many problem everytime with middle frequences, a lot of distortion on human vocals or on middle range instruments (like guitar) :!:

What's your conclusion?

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Post: # 46341Unread post Aussie0zborn
Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:54 pm

How long is a piece of string??

How about letting us know.....
Which cutting system? Cutterhead? Source Files? Blank Discs?

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Post: # 46345Unread post descent
Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:38 am

here we are:


Lathe cut machine: T560

Myshank or vinylrecorder blanks

I drive the music from my laptop.

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Post: # 46405Unread post concretecowboy71
Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:03 pm

You may be overloading the head and causing it to resonate. Use EQ to get rid of the problem. Lower the level until the problem goes away. Then raise level until it comes back and use the EQ to tame the bad frequencies and raise the level a bit.
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