Cutting Vinyl At Abbey Road

SOS visits the world’s most famous studio to discover how the ones and zeroes in a digital recording get turned into physical mechanical grooves on a vinyl record.

Masters of mastering Miles Showell and Geoff Pesche fire up their vintage Neumann lathes at Abbey Road Studios and demonstrate the delicate process of cutting a lacquer disc. It’s a skilled business that requires man and machine to work together in perfect harmony — and the slightest mistake will make the resulting album unplayable.

No pressure then...

Miles and Geoff explain how to prepare a digital audio file for analogue vinyl mastering, the pitfalls and things to watch for in a mix, and give a fascinating overview of the vinyl cutting process from start to finish.

https://www.abbeyroad.com/

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Chapters

00:00 - Meet The Abbey Road Engineers: Miles Showell and Geoff Pesche
01:50 - Considerations For Vinyl Mastering
03:18 - Mixing Tips For Vinyl Masters
04:36 - Neumann VMS 80 Vinyl Cutting Lathe
05:27 - Direct Metal Mastering Lathe
06:01 - Lathe Groove Spacing Computer
08:14 - How To Approach Cutting A Record
09:37 - Stages Of The Process
11:28 - Setting Up A Lathe With A Lacquer Disc
12:53 - Cutting On The Neumann Lathe
16:49 - Controls And Meters On The Lathe
19:14 - Mechanical Recording Of Music
20:00 - Run Out Groove And Writing Comments
21:36 - What's Special About Vinyl?
23:02 - Outro

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