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[TotalSonic]

Gold wrote on Wed, 17 August 2005 00:03

Or they just let it fly and hope for the best with a really deep groove (like 10 mil).

Not something you could really get away with on DMM as at around 5mils you would most likely start dragging the chip tube onto the surface of the copper - and not exactly  sure exactly at what thickness but I think around 10mils you'd risk going through the copper and onto to the steel and completely destroying your stylus.

Thing is that usually any motion going that deep down at some point goes right back up so I'd figure the risk of cutting a side that mistracks on a lot of players could be pretty high with something like this.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[Bob Olhsson]

I used to cut singles with a 5.5 mil groove at +8 in mono. We had to reel it in a bit for stereo but SOP was to send anything an elliptical eq. might help back for a remix.

It's nice working at a label where you can do that...

[lord]

zetterstroem wrote on Tue, 16 August 2005 18:25

thanks again for more great info..... just wondering how they get the reggae stuff right on jamaica.... guess they're just to stoned to pan the bass..... or they're running their filters at 500Hz

Kick and bass are, without exception, dead center. Everything panned is candy.

I've only heard a few dub sides that mess with that formula.

I think some modern dancehall may be full of funny stuff lately though.

The attention that good JA mixers pay to the low end is pretty amazing.

[Gold]

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and not exactly  sure exactly at what thickness

A lacquer has 14mil before you run into aluminum IIRC. I wouldn't cut like that either but even with 8 mil vertical excusion (huge) you won't run out of depth. Some playback styli don't like to be dragged around that deep, and distort, but I don't think many would skip.