The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

hi all, i took apollomasters.de from the net today as I don't sell Apollos anymore via that side. (btw: there is some back stock of Westrex styli if anyone is interested!) you can get the lexan blanks from ameise and flo, we will be moving the shop to http://vinylike.com original vinylium diamond st...

get it from:
atofina (NAKAN PB23)

or

doeflex (DVX5199 or similar)

i don't know any suppliers in the USA or southamerica,

but been to NYC, i have seen some plant using
the atofina PVC from france...

also GZ sell their own material


price is around 1,50 EUR


greetings
mart

do you think of blank ones (see: www.apollomaster.de or www.estemac.de)
or do you want to have them cut by someone?

Hi freaks, i started selling Apollo and Transco stuff, i guess most of the products from the apollo page and some specials will be available end of december. maybe earlier... for now you can already get blanks and styli at more or less fair prices...feel free to check it out! greetings mart oops: fo...

There is one from the AES: its called "Disk Recording Vol. 1 - An Anthology" And contains artciles from the Journal Of The Audio Engineering Society... its very scientific but also has some good information about RIAA-filters, Tracing Distortion, Pitch correction... btw: what is the Robert Morrison ...

its a grampian type D with feedback and oil damping... but forget about the oil and also feedback is not really needed... yes its the good ol jamaica style: arrows recording studio got one of these, and i heard that also king tubby was using it..but who knows? at the moment its not for sale..sorry.....

yes it seems to burn the plastic if you cut with
heated styli...so you cannot vacuumclean it away...

shoudl = should

you shouldnt try to cut 45s at 78 you shoudl even go for a 33 motor and cut 45 at 33, you see the problem is: all the old not so professional cutterheads, dont have a good frequency range... so if you pitch up your recordings to 78 that is 78/45 times the original all the frequencies of the original...

all the professional styli from transco have heating wires attached to the stylus...with the same glue your dentist uses to fill the holes in your teeths hehe good thing is for sure: take toy train transformer (or just an adjustable transformer from the electronic shop) attach a 500mA power supply t...

i think you all know: piezo crystal heads are the worst sounding... folowed by moving magnets like the grampian... and state of the art: moving coil... crystals (like used in old telephones) and very old pickup systems dont have an linear fequency response... moving magnets are more stable, the coil...

you could use something like this: http://amei.se/photos/bong.jpg it works for me but there are better solutions... the lady in the headshop, where i bought this one went: "are you stoned, buddy?" when I told her that i need this waterpipe for removing tiny "hairs" from my record cutting machine :) ...

btw: my english is not too good, but i think you are looking for acetate substitutes right? i heard that people in russia used X-ray pictures as cutting material long time ago when they couldn't get acetates because of economical problems... i checked it out: but xray-films from nowerday hospitals d...

I heard a testcut of this thing, its alright! some people here in germany say its a bit dull... but i think it depends a lot on the person who uses it... the trick is also: it uses diamond styli and not saphire (we tried to cut into souris-vinylrecorder-plates with normal cutterheads... its not poss...

you will need to build a impedance correction network which consists out of an capacitor and a resistor: check this out: http://www.epicenter.de/carhifi/tipsundtricks/impedanzkorrektur.htm sorry this is german ..but the pix are alright... you ll have to figure out the values yourself... hope this he...

hi all!

i am mart from hamburg,germany

i am cutting records more or less professional for about 6 years...

check this out:




i got some good books and stuff, so feel free to ask me, when you need some help!

peace
mart

check out: http://www.vinylium.ch they sell the famous and neumann sx74-like SC99 as well as the kingston record cutter if you wanna go for lowbudgetstuff/nobudgetcutters check out: http://www.floka.com (somewhere under projects...) you can get the good japanese EMDIC/micropoint laquers at http://ww...

Hey aaron, what you need is an Grampian Type D cutter, undestroyable...gives more or less good results, although i now switched to the SC99 from vinylium... you could the grampian from a guy called rob van dyke he puts stuff like that on ebay from time to time... i think grampian head will be around...