The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Looking for a Scully lathe and Westrex electronics with the 3D II cutter head or a Neumann cutting system. Please PM with any information.

To answer your question, does anybody even listen to reggae anymore? I would have to say yes. I do mastering for several Reggae bands for CD and vinyl. But perhaps the real question should be is anyone buying music. Due to the fact the sheer volume of available new music that has made conversion of ...

Does any one think there may be enough Neumann parts out there to get this lathe working? I am looking for a cutting system but I don't know if I would attempt this one.

I use the Focusrite Blue 245 A-D converter going in and the Blue 260 D-A converter going out. Still looking for a lathe to hook them up to.
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How much do you think the amps weigh?

Thank you Steve and Deep Grooves Mastering for your help. I have been speaking to Len here in California and Al in New York but nothing yet.

Looking for a Scully lathe and Westrex electronics with the 3D II cutter head. Please PM with any information.

I may need them in the 7 and 10 inch size for reprocessing to use them as a low grade blank recording disk to be used only for non professional use.

Hello, Well since this subject came up again, I thought I would just post what I have available for the formulas and any interest at concerning a business venture or opportunity. As far as a guaranty, I would fully stand behind my formulas and work closely with a plant in the manufacturing of blanks...

Hi Aussie0zborn, You bring up some good points. Most formulas that are used today would be outdated. Any lacquer formula will need to be adapted for there environment, manufacturing plant and equipment that they will be used in. Heat, cold, humidity, temperature and altitude all play a part in the c...

To answer Emorritt’s question, my father’s name is Cy Leeper who was a paint chemist that specialized in lacquer coatings. He worked with a man named Ernie Knight who owned Diacoustic laboratories in the Los Angeles area. Ernie was the west coast distributor for Scully, Capps, Audio Disk, Micro Poin...

Sometimes the book will show up on Amazon. That's where I found mine. You just have to check often.

I have the formulas for Apollo and Transco disks that my father developed for them in the mid 70's. The screen shot has some of the parts to the formula but it is missing some key items, such as solvents, plastizizers, black die, etc.

The lathe is from a studio called Technovoice Mastering. I used to know one of the engineers there. They are located in the North Hollywood, Burbank area in Cali. I don't know what happend to them and there isn't much information on the website. I hope they didn't go out like many studios have befor...

In a film called " The Beatniks" there is a recording session at Universal studios with a Scully lathe and other vintage recording equipment around the late 50's to early 60's.

Hummm, this looks a little phony. I wonder what this sounds like when you playback the vinyl portion of this disk on a turntable?

Would this be a 10 speed bicycle?

That is great news about Quantegy tape. I use a lot of GP9 and 499 for mastering. There is tape made here in the USA by ATR magnetics. I haven't used any but I am told from many engineers that it is very very good. Also check out this Ampex ATR recorder ebay. Item 130319852604. Or just search under ...

Ok, But I will need a little bit time to post the info.

They only made 5 or 6 of these and were not of the best quality. You could only go up to a 12" disk with them so they didn't appeal to a true mastering studio to cut production masters for manufacturing. They were marketed as a dubbing device for recording studios to give there clients somewhat an i...