Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
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Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
Hey Trolls, total noob question, but do you all monitor your cuts while cutting a master lacquer?? I know that acetate degrades a little bit with each play, so I would assume that it's wise to not monitor your cut, but only monitor your test cut (with a playback head in the groove).
If you don't monitor while cutting, how do you maintain quality control and assure that your cut plays through??
Thanks for your infinite wisdom.
Cheers,
J
If you don't monitor while cutting, how do you maintain quality control and assure that your cut plays through??
Thanks for your infinite wisdom.
Cheers,
J
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Re: Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
experience
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Re: Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
having an jdea of all the things that can mess up the transfer and be alert and ready to tackle all those issues before they happen in the cut.
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Re: Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
I don't know any professional cutters who play master lacquers. You do plenty of test cut. And, play that. But, never play the master. As long as everything went without error in the cut, and the reference cut sounded fine, then the master should be A-Ok. But, the final determination, which I feel too many folks skip over judging by some of the cuts I've inspected, is to put the master cut under the scope and read the entire side visually. So many imperfections can be caught this way. I can, if you like, post scope images of a cut that should have never, ever, ever gone to press. The stylus was chipped. No center line at all in any groove on either side. Obviously this big name cutter was rushing. Obviously, they didn't look at the 7" masters under the scope. Otherwise, this would have been rejected after cutting a a new stylus installed. FYI, the cut had unacceptable background noise due to the playback stylus constantly scraping the bottom of the groove, which should have never happened.
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Re: Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
Hi opcode666, would be very useful to see some pictures indeed!
Which is the magnification of a regular Neumann microscope? 40x?
Which is the magnification of a regular Neumann microscope? 40x?
Re: Monitoring While Cutting Master Lacquer
Directly from the Neumann manual
Watch these videos to see grooves from the Neumann and my cutterhead Project Bladerunner.
Bladerunner out of phase Bladerunner in phase
Watch these videos to see grooves from the Neumann and my cutterhead Project Bladerunner.
Bladerunner out of phase Bladerunner in phase
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