quoted 6 lines I've got a friend who works at Bernie Grundman Mastering and we've discussed> 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.
Hmmm... I've heard it is pretty much the other way around. Test
pressings are usuallt A LOT noisier since the vinyl never achieves
optimum flow (you stop the press to change stampers and the vinyl
in the hopper warms up, then cools off, then warms up again...)
But what do I know...
MVH
Magnus Karlsson <e96maka@stud.hh.se>
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