Sculpting Sound: The Art of Vinyl Mastering

"if one of them goes broke" Or burns down lol

There is always Direct Metal Mastering. Plus I've heard it's becoming difficult for companies to find quality blank Lacquer to cut.

“Reign things in” for instance, the low end from the cello and harp on Nirvana Unplugged. Those things did not get reigned in lol

If the laquar plants close down, just go back to DMM (direct metal mastering), where they cut directly into a copper disc! Problem solved! I know laquars sound better, but at least it'll keep going!

As big as the industry is right now, why can't they open more "laquar" companies? Or manufacture more of what they need? They certainly make enough income to invest in that!

Vinyl is so 2014...Tape is where the action is now.

I appreciate the physical aspect of vinyl records. There is something special about physically holding the music. But there is no reason anyone should expect higher fidelity sound from something other than a digital mastering. I find it dishonest and greedy for anyone to put a better recording on vinyl and not making it available in a digital format. Give people the best quality recording and then it will ultimately be up to the end-user to have decent enough equipment to reproduce the intended sound.

Does the first guy have an open baffle monitor?

I have a hard time believing that nobody will start another company that makes cutting machines to make the lacquers.

I wonder if vinyl is mastered better sometimes because it forces them to pay more attention to what they're doing. Digital is apparently much easier with pro tools and all that.


I guess that's sort of what they're saying.

great video....

very good and informative video!
well done

im getting that first dudes haircut tomorrow

cool report ! :)