The Best Sounding Custom 7" Inch Lathe Cut Records $8.00
The Best Sounding Custom 7" Inch Lathe Cut Records $8.00
Vinyl Records @ NY Lathe Cuts
Located 2 miles from Greenpoint Brooklyn NY
Record Lathe Cutting Service Offering
- Black & Clear Lathe Cut Records
- Lacquer Cutting
- Custom Vinyl Records
- 7" Square Records
- Vinyl Record Mastering & Vinyl Pressing
- Embossed Polycarbonate Records
New York Lathe cuts, A lacquer mastering / record cutting service in New York City Located 2 miles from Green point Brooklyn, NY headed by record cutting engineer Rich Flores, known for cutting The Misfits first 45 vinyl,"Cough Cool" in 1977.
The Best Sounding custom 7" Inch Records for Just $8.00. Fast turnaround 2 days for 5 copies, made of 1.6 mm black or clear polycarbonate. The grooves are embossed. Each disc recorded in real time for limited runs of 20 copies or less. I can cut lacquers or emboss polycarbonate reference discs on the same Scully lathe, by just changing the sapphire stylus.
Have your music on square or round records made of black or clear polycarbonate plastic.
What Are Embossed Lathe Cuts?
Clearor black polycarbonate records start out as a square, then it is trimmed into a round disc after it's recorded, this is the way I do them. Others use round blanks for the ease and convenience, but at a higher cost per disc.
Today people call them lathe cut vinyl record pressings, but they are two different things, in reality they are embossed 7" inch discs that are made from clear polycarbonate plastic. Lacquer acetate discs are very different, they are also recorded one at a time. Lathe cuts are made by embossing grooves into plastic, using a stereo or mono record cutting lathe. Lacquers are cut and can not be embossed.
These lathes were normally used in the production and manufacturing process for vinyl records, by cutting a lacquer master discs, then electroplated to make the metal stampers used by the pressing plants.
A Record cutting lathe is a machine which utilizes a sapphire stylus.
To engrave or emboss sound grooves onto a disc, a lathe is used to cut records.
An alternative to pressing vinyl records.
The record cutting lathe uses a moving voice coil is used to drive a stylus which engraves the sound waves into the revolving disc. This method has long been used for producing lacquer masters, which are then used to make metal stampers for pressing vinyl records. Most of the machines used for this purpose were manufactured pre-1960.
Vinyl And Polycarbonate Records
They are two different things,. one is "vinyl" and the other is "polycarbonate", Pressed vinyl discs with no grooves can't be embossed, it may be possible to be cut it with a diamond stylus, but a very costly process, especially the amount of time a diamond stylus last, only 10 hours, at $200 a pop. Where as polycarbonate records can be cut or embossed. Embossing styli can last up to 200 hours, this is a more economical way of making one off records by recording them with a sapphire embossing stylus.
7 " Inch Squares
Square records have the same playing time as a round 7" inch disc 45 or 33. Same price as the round 7 inch disc.
7" inch Records
Maximum records I will make per order is 20, Minimum is 5, with 2 audio files for each disc, sides A&B. Do not ask me to do 20 different songs for each record, because this involves changing settings for each cut, even for a few records.This also applies to EP's 4 songs per disc NO MIX and MATCH.
12" inch Records
I can make a 12" inch, disc no problem, but I'm very reluctant to do so. This is because surface noise is more prominent at the OUTSIDE DIAMETER of the record, no matter who embosses them.
X-Ray Film
Since the 1980's many people have begun experimenting with these lathes to produce one-offs records, using clear polycarbonate plastic, using materials such as picnic plates, squares sheets, and X-Ray film. X-ray film when embossed is extremely noisy, this is the reason why I will not do them.
Embossing Plastic Vs. Lacquer Cutting
Polycarbonate plastic is not to be confused with Plexi Glass. Plexi can not be cut or embossed with a sapphire or diamond stylus. On the other hand a lacquer disc can only be cut with a sapphire stylus, it is not possible to embossed lacquer.
Stereo phonograph records
Lacquers are stereo, a lacquer recorded with a stereo cutter head will result in a stereo playback, embossing a polycarbonate disc with a stereo cutter head will result in a MONO play back and it will skip randomly when playing it back.
Lock Grooves
Manny have asked if I can cut LOCKED GROOVES, yes. I'm not willing to do so, because It involves many different tracks on one side of a disc. This means setting up levels for each track, it would be so time consuming and a chance for error in losing the entire side, as I don't charge a set-up fee.
Sibilant Vocal Tracks
De-essing (also de-sibilizing) is any technique intended to reduce or eliminate excessive highs in the recording or the prominence of sibilant consonants, such as the sounds normally found in the vocal track by "s" and "sh", in recordings of the human voice.
Sibilant lies in frequencies anywhere between 2–10 kHz, depending on the individual's dental work.This causes havoc in record cutting.
I WILL NOT FIX THIS THIS, THIS IS THE STUDIO'S RESPONSIBILITY.
All AUDIO IS TRANSFERRED "AS-IS"
I'll throw in the Behringer 9024 Ultra-Dyne to clean up some sibilance.
Recommended Cartridge For Playing Lathe Cut Records Stanton 681
- Pricing For Clear Records
- 7" Disc - 45 rpm - 4:30 mins $8
- 7" Disc - 33 rpm EP - 6:45 mins $10
- Pricing For Black Records
- 7" Disc - 45 rpm - 4:30 mins $20
- 7" Disc - 33 rpm EP - 6:45 mins $22
- Embossed records may not play with Ortofon CONCORDE.
- Stanton 681 D6800SL after market imitation works the best.
- Anti skating must be set correctly in order to work.
- Embossed records will not play backwards.
- A warned out needle will tend to skip.
- Turntables that don't have a counter weighted tone arm.
- A heavy tone arm will tend to skip.
- Crosley record player or similar may or my not work.
- Avoid a ceramic cartridge, a magnetic is more preferable.
- Lathe cuts that are recorded louder tend to skip more.
- Playback stylus pressure no more than 3.5 grams.
There is a trade-off - Your Choice
- LOUDER CUT = The possibility for SKIPPING
- SOFTER CUT = Lower volume = zero chance for SKIPPING
- If your record skips, NO DO OVERS
- No refunds
NY Lathe Cuts Lacquer Cutting & Mastering
LACQUER DISC MASTERING
Lacquer record cutting service for the production of phonograph records.
Two 14 inch one side lacquers are used to make a set of metal stampers for the record pressing plant to produce 12" LP vinyl albums.