Restored vinyl cutting system, Marsh Mastering. Cha-cha-cha!
Jul 31, 2019 21:28:24 GMT
Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jul 31, 2019 21:28:24 GMT
STeVE made a sticky!
STeVE said:
Photos from The Lathe Room at Marsh Mastering, Hollywood.
My long time mastering partner Stephen Marsh has been working on restoring this vintage Scully/Westrex 45/45 stereo vinyl analog cutting system with restoration genius Len Horowitz and I’m here to tell you it is now perfection. Best thing, the system can cut from tape, digital, whatever, and go from 1950's RCA-Victor "Living Stereo" sound to quick and modern with just the flick of a few buttons. The old fashioned Golden Age Of Stereo sound or a neutral rendering. Your choice!
Astonishing sound and the lacquers cut are clean, easy to track and distortion free. Audiophiles watch out, there is a new vinyl mastering studio in town! Trust me, it sounds amazing. I hope to be doing all of my vinyl projects at Marsh Mastering from now on.
Look at this beautiful system. iPhone pics by me, today.
My long time mastering partner Stephen Marsh has been working on restoring this vintage Scully/Westrex 45/45 stereo vinyl analog cutting system with restoration genius Len Horowitz and I’m here to tell you it is now perfection. Best thing, the system can cut from tape, digital, whatever, and go from 1950's RCA-Victor "Living Stereo" sound to quick and modern with just the flick of a few buttons. The old fashioned Golden Age Of Stereo sound or a neutral rendering. Your choice!
Astonishing sound and the lacquers cut are clean, easy to track and distortion free. Audiophiles watch out, there is a new vinyl mastering studio in town! Trust me, it sounds amazing. I hope to be doing all of my vinyl projects at Marsh Mastering from now on.
Look at this beautiful system. iPhone pics by me, today.
Followed by 13 iPhone pics I can access because of some weird sickness - but they're on Google.
yasujiro said: Viva distortion.
Rick Bartlett said: Wow, I just love big vintage knobs!
MYKE said: Nothing, oddly enough. He must have been in his Anal-log Upstairs, or on the Music Direct empire's website lookin' fer bargins.
neilpatto said: Ha! Steve, you know how to get us going! Great pics, I wonder when you'll get the chance to use it (it seems like it's been a while...)
James Bennett said: We all hope to hear new masterings from you both, from Stephen Marsh Mastering, very soon! Thanks for these.
teag said: What title will christen this nice equipment? (Cha-cha-cha Collection? With Bob Wynne cover art? 🤤 Fingers crossed!)
W.B. said: You sure this was '36? Looks more like post-1950. I thought '36 Scullys (model 501) had the 'gearbox' with 7 gears increased or decreased by 8 (88 - 136) plus 14 (150 - 234) or 16 (178 - 274), then adjusted to cut 1.5 x said pitches. The second was in conjunction with the first at Columbia's NY studios up to 1966; the third, with the first at Decca (at the time of The Who's Tommy) and Columbia Nashville (the lathe that cut the first lacquers of the mono Dylan John Wesley Harding LP).
STeVE said: Lathe has been modified over the years. It was once used by Mattel Toys to cut all the Chatty Cathy records, etc., that's why the funky LPI control variation. A long, long history. Ask Steph about it.. You two should talk..