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- Wed May 08, 2013 5:42 am
- Forum: Circuits, schematics and manuals
- Topic: Various Scully/Westrex/Capps stuff
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17288
Re: Various Scully/Westrex/Capps stuff
Yes, it's a vary lathe model. My S/N is #644. The body of the machine says "501" in some parts (like the assembly holding the flywheel the turntable belts hook up to), but I assume this is because the molds have this same label. The molds would indeed have dated to when the company was making the o...
- Tue May 07, 2013 8:49 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutting Room at Motown (Hitsville USA)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8545
Re: Cutting Room at Motown (Hitsville USA)
I am curious as to who at Motown's Hitsville studios' mastering section "LENNY" would have been. (That name was on many lacquers cut by this person on some late '60's / early '70's Motown 45's.)
- Tue May 07, 2013 8:44 pm
- Forum: Circuits, schematics and manuals
- Topic: Various Scully/Westrex/Capps stuff
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17288
Re: Various Scully/Westrex/Capps stuff
I happen to be interested in the photos and:
Appears from the S/N you must have a Model 601. I always dug the lead-in and -out grooves emanating therefrom (the "8 and 32 pitch" which was a bit less on the former and a bit more on the latter).12. 8 and 32 pitch solenoid adjustment
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:52 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Restoring a Scully 501 lathe-anybody have literature/manual?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8297
Re: Restoring a Scully 501 lathe-anybody have literature/man
One key would be to look within the "pyramid" setup on the lathe - such as on an earlier version of the "knob dial" setup as from 'dubfidub' as can be seen on this photo (his lathe is S/N 489). Another place to look would be on the manufacturer's plate (which would presumably list "Scully Machine Co...
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:19 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Restoring a Scully 501 lathe-anybody have literature/manual?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8297
Re: Restoring a Scully 501 lathe-anybody have literature/man
I'm curious - are the secondary "finer" pitches seen below the 88-136 lpi range on the gearbox, 150-234 or 178-274 lpi? I know Columbia, in their New York studios, used a 501 with the 150-234 secondary pitches through 1966. Also, what would be the serial number of the 501 with which you find yourself?
- Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:29 am
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Cutting Room at Motown (Hitsville USA)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8545
Re: Cutting Room at Motown (Hitsville USA)
P.S. Randy Kling wasn't the only one of the RCA Chicago mastering engineers who handled Motown masters, to later transfer to another RCA studio. There was another mastering engineer there whose signature looked like an upside-down version of Columbia's "Lp" logo, who by the mid-1970's was working ou...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:31 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: options: buy a plant, or a mastering solution...? Help!?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7646
Re: Pressing your own vinyl...
i am still trying to learn to tell how a record was cut-on a scully or neumann etc Records cut on Scullys - especially on post-1950 lathes (including post-1955 Model 601) with variable pitch knobs - are easy to spot a mile away due to the spacing of the lead-in and lead-out grooves, and on some rec...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:59 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: Floating cutter head?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3707
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I'm using a Westrex 3DIIa head on my Scully (model number unknown, S/N 423); it uses an advance ball. For a short test I attempted to run the head without the advance ball assembly attached, but found the cutting depth was uneven, so after getting the replacement advance ball (from Apollo) I've stu...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 4:33 pm
- Forum: Classifieds & tip-offs
- Topic: SOLD : Scully Westrex Cutting System
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4779
Re: Looking to sell a Cutting System
The control panel looks like the type that was in that 1956 film The Sound and the Story on the making of LP records at RCA Victor. I sensed it looked different from the other control panel layouts I've seen. As for the 70 - 350 lpi layout — I've read of Scullys with pitch control knobs ranging from...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:35 pm
- Forum: Experimenters' & Innovators' forum
- Topic: First Test of My DIY Record Press
- Replies: 66
- Views: 26378
Re:
I'll have to do some more research on this topic. I've always liked the short film "Command Performance". It shows the process at RCA in Camden NJ in the 1940's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkndGHVm4Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS6mUy8YXBI Compare and contrast this with the 1956 short film ...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:14 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: Unreadable archives in the years to come (LA Times)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2403
Re:
Most of those metal parts as in that film (the RCA logo during the opening credits, however, points to a circa 1942 or '44 re-release) disappeared when the Camden, NJ building that housed them was demolished some time in the 1970's. A few escaped the wrecking ball when collectors took whatever they ...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: "He Who Lathes Best" - Article on Scullys
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1590
Re: "He Who Lathes Best" - Article on Scullys
Very eye-opening, as others have doubtless mentioned. I would have loved, however, to see which model numbers were manufactured when. (Such as the 501 lathe manufactured from the late 1930's through the late '40's, and the 601 which was first unveiled in 1955 - I'm still searching for the model numb...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:00 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: list of cutting engineer signatures/etches?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10037
Re: list of cutting engineer signatures/etches?
Some early 1970's lacquers emanating from MCA Records' Universal City, CA studios bore a signature of "B.D.I." (which sometimes, when written in script, looked like "B.D.J."). Those initials stood for Brian D. Ingoldsby, a mixing and mastering engineer of the early to mid-1970's who later worked els...
- Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:22 am
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: list of cutting engineer signatures/etches?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10037
I believe the SRC logo that you are referring to is the logo of Specialty Records Corp. which pressed the Warner catalog in the 1970s. It's not a signature of the cutting engineer. Specialty started out as an independent pressing plant but was later bought by Warner. FYI, the cutting engineers at m...
- Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:45 am
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: Old RCA book with Scully lathe.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2273
I wonder - was the Scully shown in that manual the post-1938 Model 501, or was it one of the 20 lathes the company built for Victor between 1934 and 1937? (And if so, what would that model number have been?) [Timeline of building based on 1956 High Fidelity magazine article referred to in other thre...
- Thu Jan 03, 2013 11:59 am
- Forum: Our Cutters and their work
- Topic: Lurkers' thread. Say hi once, OK?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 148305
Re: Lurker At The Threshold
I have quite a few LP's and 45's mastered on those Scully/Westrex' from Annex Studios.ejemmons wrote:For awhile, I had both chains from the old Annex Studios, Scully/Westrex, back in 1994, on loan from a gentleman who'd lost his facility. How I wish I'd been able to hang on to them!
- Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:55 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: scully LS-76 Nr. 666
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12606
- Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:53 pm
- Forum: Vinyl Mastering, Lacquer cutting, Pro's and others
- Topic: scully LS-76 Nr. 666
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12606
When did Larry J. start designing and when did John J. stop? John J. died in or about 1950, from what I've read, as the first automatic variable pitch / depth lathe was being developed and on the verge of being introduced; the models thereafter (such as the post-1955 model 601) were designed and it...
- Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Reference Archive
- Topic: RCA: 1956
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1853
Notice, in the part of the film: http://youtu.be/Il-F3Rq7heY?t=6m53s where the lacquer mastering was taking place, the RCA RT-11 tape machine - done in a layout (diagonal on the wall) that would also be used for some of the company's later Quad videotape - er, "television tape" recorders. (Some have...
- Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:25 pm
- Forum: Secrets of the Lathe Trolls
- Topic: What labels or famous records were mastered on a Presto 6n?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2016
I seem to have read (in an interview in a book on mastering engineers - or was it with Frankford/Wayne Mastering Labs' co-founder Tom Steele) that in the early years of Frankford/Wayne's existence in Philadelphia, they used a Presto 6N with Grampian feedback cutterhead; two major hits cut on this la...