On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, brian albers wrote:
quoted 12 lines I want to respectfully correct one aspect of this.> I want to respectfully correct one aspect of this.
>
> I've got a friend who works at Bernie Grundman Mastering and we've discussed
> the process of cutting vinyl at length. He says the test pressings of a
> record are the absolute first copies to come off the lathe and therefore
> will sound better than the rest of the copies because the master disc will
> wear out after about 200 to 300 copies at which point they've got to get
> another copy from the acetate.
>
> My point being, the test pressings will sound superior to most of the other
> copies (commercially available or promos) which may explain why my 3 12" set
> of Meat Beat's Original Fire has an overwhelming amount of distortion on it.
Really. Well, hey, I learn something everyday. I've heard that
successful test pressings certainly have less of a chance of introducing
skips than later pressings... but then again, I guess every record
pressing plant is different in that regard.
Thanks, Brian, for the correction.
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
KUCI 88.9 fM in Irvine, CA -- Orange County
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