I've been producing club music for around 15 years, and lately I've been trying out mastering my own music for digital releases. I've always left the vinyl mastering of my own music to the pros, but as the latest update of Perfect Groove is out and free, I'm trying to learn more about the cutting process. My goal is to create productions/masters that cuts well to vinyl, without the need to adjust the frequency response before cutting. Mainly, what I don't want is to have a lot of treble cut out of my productions by acceleration limiters or filters when the track is cut to vinyl - I want to try and fix this directly in my productions.
I'm managing to pass the tests in Perfect Groove, except for the "Stylus Velocity warning" which is currently set to 10 cm/s. I'm aware that both lowering the gain of the cut, and also lowering the treble, will decrease the stylus velocity, and I can get it down to 10 cm/s by using a very low cutting gain. However when leveling the club track so it fits like it normally should on a 33 (max 15 min) or 45 (max 11 min), the "stylus velocity" warning goes off, even at VERY conservative amounts of treble.
Now I've might not be understanding this correctly, but when reading the specifications for the Neumann VX74 cutting head I can see that the maximum velocity at 10kHz is 16 cm/s without cooling and 28,5 cm/s with cooling. Allowing bursts of 10ms at 105 cm/s. With these numbers in mind, 10 cm/s seems like a very conservative setting? So my question is, can I get away with around 20 cm/s for a normal cut, or will I get needle jumps on playback?
Any input here would be very helpful! I know this can be a "leave it to the pros" matter but then I wouldn't learn much about treble cutting either
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