Abbey Road - Vinyl Cutting

Whilst fiming at Abbey Road Studios late last year we were lucky enough to get an off the cuff demonstration of a vinyl being cut & pressed.

The gentleman doing the pressing is Abbey Roads Mastering Engineer Sean Magee. Sean, amongst others, recently enjoyed working on The Beatles mono boxset and helped re-master their entire catalogue in both mono and stereo.

This piece was shot and edited for E&T Magazine.

The music featured is that of The Loves Lost. I would highly recommend looking them up.

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[DanieleGiorgino]

Wait, so it goes from a CD to a DAC then to the vinyl? I thought the whole point of listening to vinyl was that it was completely analog sound?

[jetglo330]

@DanieleGiorgino I think for this example, the band must have supplied a mastered CD as the source... Completely analog sound (as you say) would be correct if the music that was being cut was recorded/mastered by analog means in the first place -kind of rare in the age of ProTools, etc. Some purists might argue that creating vinyl from a digital master (DAT, CD, digital file on a hard drive) would be inferior to an analog reel-to-reel tape. Thoughts? I don't care, I just love the music :D

[wodrummerworld]

The new LP's are probably cut from a hi-quality digital master (with high bit rate) I am guessing. The older analog recorders are probably not used in professional studios anymore. Unless it is live, direct-to-disc. When Bitstream came out in the 80's, the digital Telarc vinyl LP's (pre-CD era) were of more audiophile quality than regular LP's. If anyone knows for sure about the analog recorder -- and I guess with noise reduction -- thing, I mean if it is still used; It would be good to know.

[Aussie0zborn]

Nice video. There is no record pessing here. What you are seeing is a master disc being cut. For all intents and purposes, the pressed vinyl record is a replica of this master disc but that process is not shown in this video.

[AXIMIX1]

Your film is an inspiration for me , I intend to make such recorder , irrespective of costs , Thank you and I Greet

[AXIMIX1]

I saw this beautiful device in Germany behind the pane , say as is unbound technologically the embedment of the plate , and the dynamic steering a pressure {a stress} the knife on varnish , this is for me the theme not to jumping , say in the recorder the engine is with a direct drive or the synchronous engine? [ excuse me {I am sorry} for errors - I use the electronic translator ]

[AXIMIX1]

The Best Vinyl Cutter !

[MisterSensational]

@DanieleGiorgino Nothing wrong with digital audio, only thing is the low sample rates that most recording is done in or downconverted to, 44100 may be enough to put two samples on everything humans can hear, but it's not enough to make it smooth, the higher the sample rate(of course not forgetting accuracy of individual samples) the more 'analog' it would sound.

[MonkeyOfConfusion]

@DanieleGiorgino it goes through a digital to analog converter

[hytlerson]

"digital to analogue converter"... do they still make albums entirely analogue? I mean using analogue tape and no digital things?