Lathe Vinyl Forum

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.

Lathe vinyl forum. I m not sure when the last scully the lathe was produced. Basically you need a cutting lathe. Vinyl a generic term now for any number of chemical combinations is pressed. I saw an advertisement for a company producing lathe cut records.

A record lathe was originally designed just for that purpose to make the grooves around lp vinyl records. This is the ad i saw little elephant lathe cuts high quality short run vinyl records. 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.

If you are willing to cut mono instead of stereo a head ought to be fairly reasonable. Unfortunately most of the records were thrown in the dumpster when sennheiser took over. The last neumann lathe rolled off the line in the mid 1980 s. Lathe cuts are cut on a lathe.

The price was cheap with quick turnaround. While vinyl and singles were popular the record lathe was the item used to make the scratches on the disks which then produced music. I ve seen them made with plastic 1 gallon ice cream container lids with a spindle hole cut in. 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.

Lathe cut vinyl sounds dull. Good stereo cutting heads are very very very expensive and the later desirable amplifiers are expensive too. There are a few current manufacturers of dub plate cutters. 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.