The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

As far as I gather, Apollo used to supply Transco with the plates in the first place, and then Transco would coat them in-house. So really the merger isn't all that important in the grand scheme of things. I guess if someone really wanted to coat their own they could buy them uncoated from Apollo ju...

An easy way to measure the depth of the groove is to measure the width of it and divide that by two. You can get eyepieces for microscopes (ideally x40 or more) that enable you to measure small fractions of a millimeter. You definitely need to get a way to measure the weight of the head on a vinylre...

and if you really wanted to add a feedback system you could, PM me for details. Hmm interesting... did you add your own feedback? Let's explain to us please. No, I am quite happy with the system as it is, but the feedback system is based on the principal of negative feedback so I reckon it would ju...

use it to cut directly from an M/S microphone setup, bypassing it's own conversion to sum and difference signals, which should then produce a perfect L/R normal stereo recording when played back by a normal stereo cartridge. Just another experiment I would love to try someday..... Waves do a really...

PVC is a different story..it might be better to dont heat the styli? (hey you souri-cutters outthere: what do you use?) Well with the vinylrecorder there is a heating coil which has a bit of thicker copper attached to each end with what looks like solder. Not sure what the heating coil is, but its ...

yeah you can still buy them, I bought volume one this year. You can also buy all the papers separately which is cheaper if you only want one or two.

Also, if anyone is thinking of getting a vinylrecorder or has one already, I highly recommend getting the precision plate. It might seem a lot of money for what it is but its definitely worth it to keep the turntable moving at a steady speed. Not sure if the DubCutter has one of these?

It's pretty easy to do this in the digital realm using the pitch shift/ time compression features of most sound editing programs. Just make sure you simultaneously time compress and up the pitch. (Sometimes this feature is simply called "pitch bend.") I think if you time stretch or pitch bend more ...

Re: Dub Studio last, The Vestax is not feedback nor are the Presto cutters etc. All pro units for stereo and some mono ones like the Grampian use feedback as a way of lowering distortion and increasing bandwidth (frequency response) and also flattening that response. No, it is not 100% foolproof. T...

Oh yeah one other thing, with the vinyl recorder you can either adjust the pitch manually as you cut, or add a module which takes the signal and uses it to tighten or loosen the space between each groove, which can give you more space on each plate for cutting, and reduce the need to cut too far int...

to make some points clear...dubstudio asked... the kingston cutter doesnt have suction yet. thats true. but you need a regular vacuum cleaner, a glas jar, some tubes, hot glue and in 10 minutes you have added your suction system...you can even buythe suction system it if you dont want to buy yourse...

you can plug in the cd player. set the levels and cut the plate. and the sound is damn good. remember the first time, when look the kingston cutting from a cd, without any sound processing, and a track with a lot of hi-frecuency component...her sound are incredible! compare the kingston and the vin...

Thanx for your input. I guess its a matter of what you want to cut. The Vinylrecorder will probably take a little longer getting used to and it "colours" the sound, this can be changed by applying eq/compression etc. The Kingston cutter has, I have understood it, a more linear response. Especially ...

what do you like to listen? a real cutterhead feedback? yes please, I would like to hear a cut from a Kingston Dubcutter, and also I am interested to see if any fellow disc cutters are using the Dubcutter as part of a business (please provide website details). i believe you dont understand what is ...

Garbage Cutter wrote:Ive done it before but not for a long time... and I dont have any 1 sided records lying around to do some tests on cutting on pre-pressed vinyl with no grooves (blank plates)

Anyone have good luck with this??

Don't bother, its a very tough material, and the signal to noise ratio is very bad

Try this one: I bought it, its got loads of papers on all sorts of stuff and if you buy this book it saves you a lot of money buying all the papers separately: "Disk Recording, Volume 1, Groove Geometry and the Recording Process, An anthology on disk recording from the pages of the Journal of Audio ...

Do you know anyone using the Kingston Dubcutter / Vestax as part of a business? If so give links

Yeah this system is brilliant. Check my feedback page: http://www.dubstudio.co.uk/dubstudio/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=88 I wouldn't want to comment about any other new system out there (Kingston, Vestax), mainly because I dont know anyone that uses one. Does anyone else? An...

Hold your horses, the Vinyl Recorder is a really good system. Check out my feedback page: http://www.dubstudio.co.uk/dubstudio/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=88 and if you really wanted to add a feedback system you could, PM me for details. BTW Flo, who are the people you know t...