- leo gonzalez
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worst cutting/calibration accidents. top 10 ranking!
how about starting a new topic about accidents, failures, like "what's the worst that has ever happened to you while calibrating or cutting"...
has anyone ever ignited the chip or a lacquer while cutting? has that actually ever happened to someone?
can't imagine anything worse than that.
my worst (almost heart attack): having the head with low freq oscillating so bad that it literally stalled the lyrec motor!
ohhh, there was a tornado in brooklyn a few months ago. all the relays on the master console triggered on! another nice one! leds going on like xmas tree lights!
i'm thinking about all the things that can go wrong and actually end up happening.
hypothetical accidents welcomed too maybe!
like dropping your morning coffee or acetate container on a fresh new batch of lacquers? maybe that's happened to someone?
there must be funny (not so!) ones on the plating, pressing side too.
has anyone ever ignited the chip or a lacquer while cutting? has that actually ever happened to someone?
can't imagine anything worse than that.
my worst (almost heart attack): having the head with low freq oscillating so bad that it literally stalled the lyrec motor!
ohhh, there was a tornado in brooklyn a few months ago. all the relays on the master console triggered on! another nice one! leds going on like xmas tree lights!
i'm thinking about all the things that can go wrong and actually end up happening.
hypothetical accidents welcomed too maybe!
like dropping your morning coffee or acetate container on a fresh new batch of lacquers? maybe that's happened to someone?
there must be funny (not so!) ones on the plating, pressing side too.
Eq'ing everything, getting everything perfect ready to cut, test cut sounded great, went and had a smoke prior to cutting then started cutting and did the whole side of an acetate only to realize I didn't switch the head back on so I cut complete silence for 23:00.
Needless to say that will not happen ever again
Needless to say that will not happen ever again
all the best!
- tommie 'plan 9' emmi
poly-cut lathe cuts / cymbalism recordings
- tommie 'plan 9' emmi
poly-cut lathe cuts / cymbalism recordings
Another one
My diamond bit it and I was trying everything I could think of to see if maybe the angle was wrong or something and I adjusted it to another angle, turned on the vacuum and tried cutting another degree then noticed the stylus was gone. I looked everywhere for like an hour and when I gave up I was putting a sapphire back in and noticed the diamond was stuck in the suction tube with the point sticking out right in front of my eyes.
Felt really stupid and extremely pissed at the same time for wasting an hour looking for it
My diamond bit it and I was trying everything I could think of to see if maybe the angle was wrong or something and I adjusted it to another angle, turned on the vacuum and tried cutting another degree then noticed the stylus was gone. I looked everywhere for like an hour and when I gave up I was putting a sapphire back in and noticed the diamond was stuck in the suction tube with the point sticking out right in front of my eyes.
Felt really stupid and extremely pissed at the same time for wasting an hour looking for it
all the best!
- tommie 'plan 9' emmi
poly-cut lathe cuts / cymbalism recordings
- tommie 'plan 9' emmi
poly-cut lathe cuts / cymbalism recordings
- petermontg
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cymbalism wrote:Eq'ing everything, getting everything perfect ready to cut, test cut sounded great, went and had a smoke prior to cutting then started cutting and did the whole side of an acetate only to realize I didn't switch the head back on so I cut complete silence for 23:00.
Needless to say that will not happen ever again
hahahaha, that happends to me maybe 3 or 4 times
The first time I tried dicking around with the suspension box on the VMS70 I adjusted the suspension WAY to loose and the head & stylus just fell and dug all the way through the lacquer and started scraping on the aluminum substrate. 15mil groove anyone?? Happens to everyone, right? (Right?)
Another one: while inspecting a freshly cut lacquer in the microscope I accidentally reached around and grabbed the back of the tonearm instead of the microscope focus wheel and sent the cartridge skating & scratching across the entire surface of the lacquer, ruining it. That was somewhere around 2:30am. Ugh.
Another one: while inspecting a freshly cut lacquer in the microscope I accidentally reached around and grabbed the back of the tonearm instead of the microscope focus wheel and sent the cartridge skating & scratching across the entire surface of the lacquer, ruining it. That was somewhere around 2:30am. Ugh.
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- dietrich10
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I tried to calibrate my sx74 drive level, feedback etc on my own before I even made a cut. I overset the feedback and poof....blew the head.
The only good out of it was that the day before herr grundy tested it and resistance was not good. I believe -5/6 feedback only being achieved on the tests
The only good out of it was that the day before herr grundy tested it and resistance was not good. I believe -5/6 feedback only being achieved on the tests
cutting lacquers-vms70 system
Holy shit that's a nightmare. It's scary what little happens when a head blows. For the insane amount of money it costs you to repair the head there should at least be something awesome and dramatic that happens: a giant explosion that sends you flying across the room into a bookcase, let's say, or maybe the head bursts into flames and catches your arms on fire. If there's no entertainment like that then I'm just not getting my money's worth.dietrich10 wrote:I tried to calibrate my sx74 drive level, feedback etc on my own before I even made a cut. I overset the feedback and poof....blew the head.
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How about a little rolled up flag pops out and unrolls to reveal the words "You're Fucked" in big red letters.
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- dietrich10
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- dietrich10
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reggae cut?Bonati wrote:The first time I tried dicking around with the suspension box on the VMS70 I adjusted the suspension WAY to loose and the head & stylus just fell and dug all the way through the lacquer and started scraping on the aluminum substrate. 15mil groove anyone?? Happens to everyone, right? (Right?)
cutting lacquers-vms70 system
The flag, definitely the flagd wrote:Blown head or the flag?cymbalism wrote:I vote for this to happenopcode66 wrote:How about a little rolled up flag pops out and unrolls to reveal the words "You're Fucked" in big red letters.
all the best!
- tommie 'plan 9' emmi
poly-cut lathe cuts / cymbalism recordings
- tommie 'plan 9' emmi
poly-cut lathe cuts / cymbalism recordings
Well... I am trying to build a head similar souri's. had a lot of testings with drivers, got some of them blown...
Thought, that I must have a branded head, to see how it works, to experiment with, understand the tention and damping etc etc.
Bought Audax H4. It was 500 ohm. The first day tried to cut, not much of course with conventional amp, so rewinded, mesured - looks good.
The second day tried to cut... Sound level was very low.... More power! Still quite low... more power!--- POOOFF. It was a very dense white smoke.... It was not the coil but the coil holder. It just burned out.
Head is again in working condition and working nice for experiments.
Thought, that I must have a branded head, to see how it works, to experiment with, understand the tention and damping etc etc.
Bought Audax H4. It was 500 ohm. The first day tried to cut, not much of course with conventional amp, so rewinded, mesured - looks good.
The second day tried to cut... Sound level was very low.... More power! Still quite low... more power!--- POOOFF. It was a very dense white smoke.... It was not the coil but the coil holder. It just burned out.
Head is again in working condition and working nice for experiments.
- Dub Studio
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Too many to mention, I have thrown out boxes of messed up plates in the past.
3) This one was an accident but actually sounded quite cool. I was monitoring a vinyl cut through the turntable tonearm and accidentally patched it into the mastering console, it acted like a tape delay. Luckily it was on the last few seconds of the track so it faded into nothing in a few seconds and sounded really cool. The client loved it
2) Intern accidentally lowered the stylus down with too much force on an acetate and it gouged into the substrate. On later inspection, a piece of molten aluminium was found welded to the tip of the stylus.
1) During an attended session (with a client that had driven hours to get to the studio) I once reached for the manual pitch controller and grabbed the stylus heating controller instead. Gradually increased the heat until the stylus dug into the dub and snapped off, at the shank.
3) This one was an accident but actually sounded quite cool. I was monitoring a vinyl cut through the turntable tonearm and accidentally patched it into the mastering console, it acted like a tape delay. Luckily it was on the last few seconds of the track so it faded into nothing in a few seconds and sounded really cool. The client loved it
2) Intern accidentally lowered the stylus down with too much force on an acetate and it gouged into the substrate. On later inspection, a piece of molten aluminium was found welded to the tip of the stylus.
1) During an attended session (with a client that had driven hours to get to the studio) I once reached for the manual pitch controller and grabbed the stylus heating controller instead. Gradually increased the heat until the stylus dug into the dub and snapped off, at the shank.
- subkontrabob
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