The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

@Lukas: The guy who owns the machine that I have cut on owns one DS 522 and two 501's. He has quite a stash of stylii, some worn (at least it says so on the box). I could ask him if he may want to spare a few for experiments. The DS522 is at Flo's repair shop at the moment (nicked stylus holder as w...

on a side note, it's rumored that pioneer is going to pick up the production of the technic's 1200.. Panasonic is not discontinuing the entire line. They are however only going to make them in limited quantities. From what I understand, the discontinuation of the entire line was only an Internet ru...

Good thing 75% of the dance music DJ's still use vinyl, although this is falling with the advent of timecode vinyl, and computer DJ software. I'd like to know who the genius was that didn't walk out on this job when he/she was asked to master that tone. The record to end all records ;) [rant] I thi...

incredible project! Ghetto engineering par excellence!! :D A little suggestion to the poster: if you edit your post so that the picture links are tagged as Images and not as URLs like you did, the pictures would be directly embedded in your post. The way it is now makes it a bit cumbersome to look a...

I have also programmed the lock groove code.. Works well.. Now that's a useful feature! I managed to screw up the final locked groove on one of the cuts I did during the last session. A few cm missing to complete it. :? Very annoying. And I thought I had already mastered this part of the process. S...

The Dual brand is actually still alive! They went bankrupt, but someone bought machines, remaining parts etc. and revived it. It's here in the black forest a few kilometres away from me in St. Georgen. They have a small turntable museum over there, a marvellous place. If you're ever travelling throu...

JBL C55 + 2350 loaded with 2440 + 2 x 2402

in stereo



unfortunately I don't have tube amps to match the set......

.........and actually they're in storage most of the time.......

Bob Katz Hey maniman, I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, suggesting the person posting as "BobK" is Bob Katz? That is highly unlikely, because the guy who PM'd Mossy seems to be an Englishman who learned his trade at the EMI facilities in Hayes - Bob Katz on the other hand is an american maste...

can you mount an ORtofon DS 522 or 501 on it?

they sure put some effort in reverse engineering this. I recently saw a very similar record-player foldout-card, only some 30 years older.....

Aussie0zborn wrote:How funny.

So the buyer did not want the cabinet with the lathe? That would be an interesting set-up.

That's because he got a 5000 dollar discount for not taking it

depending on your particular de-esser plugin, maybe it is possible to adjust the side-chain to the frequency range of the offending sounds. Or you can use a compressor with sidechain, and eq the incoming sidechain signal appropriately. A de-esser is after all just a compressor with a side- chain tha...

He said he'd demonstrate for me how to tune the stylus heat by ear (listening for surface hiss to minimize and no further) as well as setting the feedback. I envy you for having an old croc around to receive knowledge from! I suspect we'll see lots of interesting and enlightening posts from you in ...

I don't think this will work, because: When you flip the handedness of the lathe and cutting apparatus (ie to cut counterclockwise so as to be played clockwise), you're also flipping the sign of the VMA: as far as playback is concerned, it will appear as if the cutting head is mounted so that the V...

I don't think this will work, because: When you flip the handedness of the lathe and cutting apparatus (ie to cut counterclockwise so as to be played clockwise), you're also flipping the sign of the VMA: as far as playback is concerned, it will appear as if the cutting head is mounted so that the V...

I have only one word: GORGEOUS!!!!!

Ze dschörrrmen enschiniir bilt sis!! Lovely...

I want one for scratching! no needle skipping anymore.

already have it - love it! Great resource. Thank you!

oh, what a nice old machine! I didn't notice the pictures you posted a while back. Thank you!

I totally second Aussies question!