dietrich wrote on Sun, 31 August 2008 21:35 |
Reviving this during my own personal record cutting research.
I pressed and had Don cut 100+ records at Europadisk. Sat in many sessions as well. It seemed too easy. He would pop the master in(DAT early on and then CDR). He would bring it up on the neve, maybe compress the signal as it was dance music and if requested for more would do some quick eq work. Done. Get the lathe started and cut the sides. We had ONE problem ever on a DMM cut record. It was due to an out of phase computer kick drum around the time dance music producers started to move from hardware productions to computer based recordings. The records did not compare to the UK style techno cuts but no one ever complained about them being too quiet.
The system was setup great and Don knew how to control it.
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The biggest reason Don made it look easy was simply he had tons and tons of experience cutting both lacquer and DMM sides. Unfortunately there's no short cut to getting this!
Again - I do have to say that for vinyl cutting the ergonomics of the Neve DTC was absolutely incredible - you could easily set up snapshots of different filter/eq/compressor/limiter settings set up for each of a sides tracks within a few minutes - and then be able to punch them in on the fly with a single button push (quickly pressed right after hitting the spiral marker button on the SP-79's lathe controls).
It's really too bad that no one out there has come up with the exact same control layout (with hopefully a smaller footprint!) but controlling updated DSP and/or digitally controlled analog processors.
There are definitely ways to set up a similar snap shot automateable system with a DAW though.
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Is the VMS80 pitch system worlds better than a zuma? D
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From my understanding, it was introduced by Neumann as a response to the Zuma (who kind of embarrased them as the Zuma was a definite step up from the VMS-7x systems) and from my experiences winning a couple "shoot outs" - where I cut DMM's and got more level on an LP length sides than was cut on to lacquer on VMS-74/Zuma (of which I had been given a test record to beat) - for these longer sides it definitely seemed to get better results. I'm not sure that it would really give significantly better results for when you're cutting under 14 minute sides though.
Best regards,
Steve Berson