Deepgrooves Pressing in the Netherlands has declared bankruptcy as of this past week. Sounds like they'd been having trouble filling orders in a timely fashion, or at all, for the past year. Lots of very unhappy customers.
(No relation to the late Todd/ OpCode66.)
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- Sun Oct 27, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Plating and Pressing
- Topic: Vinyl Record Pressing Plants The raise of the Pheonix and back to ashes?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6857
- Mon Oct 07, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Classifieds & tip-offs
- Topic: Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
- Replies: 11
- Views: 781
Re: Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
"No Longer Available" as of this afternoon - looks like somebody bought it outside of eBay.
- Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: ROK Challenger - lubricating the idler wheel motor and VU meter.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 308
Re: ROK Challenger - lubricating the idler wheel motor and VU meter.
Minus one point for reading comprehension for me, whoops.
The motor on mine has two little tubes off the side, one at the top, one at the bottom as pictured here. They take a drop of oil every so often, and fold down when not in use.
The motor on mine has two little tubes off the side, one at the top, one at the bottom as pictured here. They take a drop of oil every so often, and fold down when not in use.
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: ROK Challenger - lubricating the idler wheel motor and VU meter.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 308
Re: ROK Challenger - lubricating the idler wheel motor and VU meter.
If it's anything like my Model V, each idler shaft should have a divot in the center, which holds a wick that runs down inside and out to lubrication holes. If the idlers are really gummed up, remove them and clean them and the shafts thoroughly, then add a tiny droplet of oil to their brass bearing...
- Wed Sep 25, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Classifieds & tip-offs
- Topic: Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
- Replies: 11
- Views: 781
- Wed Sep 25, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Classifieds & tip-offs
- Topic: Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
- Replies: 11
- Views: 781
Re: Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
This is why I hang around here - you guys have some insider knowledge. The studio it's in definitely has a very "hasn't been touched since 1987" look to it, so that would make sense. It has one row of control buttons and both outside-in and inside-out levers, and possibly no automatic LPI control (j...
- Wed Sep 25, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Classifieds & tip-offs
- Topic: Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
- Replies: 11
- Views: 781
Scully Lathe near Toronto ON
I noticed last night that a Scully 601 lathe with what appears to be a Presto 1D head has popped up for sale on eBay near Toronto, Ontario. I didn't realize there were any left in Canada, and I don't recognize this one. But the seller has zero feedback and there's only one picture provided so I'm mo...
- Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Lathe motor versus Focusrite DAC electrical gremlin
- Replies: 1
- Views: 243
Lathe motor versus Focusrite DAC electrical gremlin
Here's a weird one that's just started happening in the past couple of days: whenever I switch on the motor of my Rek-o-Kut V/ M5S, the Focusrite digital audio interface disconnects from my computer on the other side of the room. Click the switch on, hear the little "beep-boop" from my PC, and have ...
- Thu Sep 12, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: How to get an Inverse RIAA curve in a DAW
- Replies: 6
- Views: 641
Re: How to get an Inverse RIAA curve in a DAW
This is all very useful information.
My DAC is normally set to 96 kHz unless I have some specific reason to switch to 44.1. But I think I'd probably need a proper analog oscilloscope to get a true reading of what it's outputting at ultrasonic frequencies.
My DAC is normally set to 96 kHz unless I have some specific reason to switch to 44.1. But I think I'd probably need a proper analog oscilloscope to get a true reading of what it's outputting at ultrasonic frequencies.
- Tue Sep 10, 2024 3:19 am
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: How to get an Inverse RIAA curve in a DAW
- Replies: 6
- Views: 641
Re: How to get an Inverse RIAA curve in a DAW
[attachment=0]50hz-square-posteq.png[/attachment] Hmm, I definitely see what you mean. 50 Hz square wave as an illustrative torture test; the other end of the spectrum has its own weird problems when it comes to oversampling. Feeding the RIAA plugin back into its inverse setting yields proper square...
- Sun Sep 08, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: How to get an Inverse RIAA curve in a DAW
- Replies: 6
- Views: 641
How to get an Inverse RIAA curve in a DAW
I have a regular + inverse RIAA curve VST plugin for Reaper, but it's abandonware and too twitchy to be safe in a recording chain. (Each pixel you move the slider toggles between regular and inverse?! Geez...) So I sat down with ReaEQ, Reaper's stock VST EQ plugin, and fiddled around with some numbe...
- Thu Sep 05, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9543
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
Bringing this back to the top many years later - Internet Archive has the episode. Season 5 episode 53 (or episode 1248), aired May 3, 1972. (Looks like the one further up the thread got copyright claimed on Youtube.) The lathe part is from 1:30 to 9:07. https://archive.org/details/ipoy143season5/12...
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Newbie Forum
- Topic: DMM onto tiny or unusual shapes
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2249
Re: DMM onto tiny or unusual shapes
Paul Brekus at Aardvark Mastering can do masters for tiny records and multiple interlaced grooves per record. (He's also the guy who did the 1000 locked groove record.) But it's going to be a lacquer that would need to be electroplated and pressed in order to get a playable result - the doll records...
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: BBC Recording Training Manual (1950)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9643
Re: BBC Recording Training Manual (1950)
This is a great resource, thank you for posting!
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: 5/16” paper hole punch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1757
Re: 5/16” paper hole punch
This is the one I have, and it seems to work pretty well: https://www.amazon.ca/McGill-Punchline-Chrome-Purple-MCG53700C/dp/B001E69SJS
- Tue May 23, 2017 5:21 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9543
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
It's starting in the next ten minutes or so, 2:30 PM Pacific.
- Tue May 23, 2017 1:28 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9543
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
Just a heads-up that this episode will be airing on the Mr Rogers Marathon Twitch channel later this afternoon. They just started episode 1240 now (10:20 AM Pacific) and it's episode 1248. I've been waiting for this for decades. :D Now to figure out how to record a Twitch channel. https://www.twitch...
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 2:00 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9543
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
As far as Rek-O-Kut goes, the M12 and M5 were non-spiraling, they didn't have the gears and the overrunning clutch for that. But the M12S and M5S did, thus the "S" in the model name. And you can see the hand crank on the right hand side of Mr. Rogers' machine. And yeah, hindsight is 20/20 with the h...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:53 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9543
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
I've seen pictures where someone managed to mount a Neumann SX68 on a Presto 6N. But for the most part there just isn't the real estate in there on "suitcase" Presto or Rek-O-Kut lathes either lateral, vertical or front-to-back to fit a stereo head. Even a mono Fairchild 541A has problems with the d...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9543
Re: Cutter on Misterogers Neighborhood is a Presto?
Ahh, they have screenshots. So I can answer your original question: that's a Rek-O-Kut M12S overhead with an Audax mono head, presumably part of a TR43H system.