Lathe Vinyl Forum

The price was cheap with quick turnaround.

Lathe vinyl forum.

Unfortunately most of the records were thrown in the dumpster when sennheiser took over. I was thinking about having a few pressed of some demos and i made some years ago and was wondering if they were worth the money or waste of time. If you are willing to cut mono instead of stereo a head ought to be fairly reasonable. We are excited by the various modern pro and semi pro systems too in production and development.

Basically you need a cutting lathe. We love scully neumann presto rek o kut lathes and wilcox gay recordios among others. Secrets of the lathe trolls this is where record cutters raise questions about cutting and trade wisdom and experiment results. The difference between a vinyl record and a lathe cut.

Lathe cut vinyl sounds dull. The last neumann lathe rolled off the line in the mid 1980 s. I ve seen them made with plastic 1 gallon ice cream container lids with a spindle hole cut in. There are a few current manufacturers of dub plate cutters.

Good stereo cutting heads are very very very expensive and the later desirable amplifiers are expensive too. Lathe cuts are cut on a lathe. They could literally be cut into anything that will hold a groove. A record lathe was originally designed just for that purpose to make the grooves around lp vinyl records.

Then the label decided to send that master to a company that does short run lathe cuts they were trying to do it super cheap but when the first batch of records came back they sounded really dull in the high end. While vinyl and singles were popular the record lathe was the item used to make the scratches on the disks which then produced music. In order to purchase one now you would have to have an expert eye and perhaps a lot of cash. The good news is that lathes are not necessarily expensive relatively speaking.

I m not sure when the last scully the lathe was produced.