Embedded rumble... on LP's that is...


Yesterday evening I pulled out Austrid Gilberto's "Beach Samba" on Verve (original pressing) to just sit back and relax. With cans on my ears I lowered the arm onto the vinyl to start my session.
As you might know I have developed the turntable that I use myself. After track one I noticed a very distinct high-pitch reverb noise - quiet passage between the first and second track. I immediatly investigated and was worried that it is my machines main bearing inducing this foreign noise.

It turned out to be on the above mentioned record.

Now you tell me - Could the record cutting lathe have induced this noise on the master disk? Other records do not have that particular sound/noise - I checked.

If the mastering equipment is bad then I guess the end-product will also be bad hey?

Just a thought...
Dewald Visser
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Showing 4 responses by nsgarch

Nice system! White is a lovely color for audio gear, isn't it?

There were many records in the old days with a very low frequency rumble that was due to (uneven cooling I think in) the pressing process. Many preamps/receivers of the day came with what were euphemistically called "rumble filters" ;--)

But "high frequency reverb"? Do you mean "feedback"? I ask because high frequencies don't reverberate (either naturally in space, or through artificial electronic means), so I'm trying to figure out just what it is you're hearing.

If I had to guess, and since it only occurs in that one inter-band space, I'd guess it was electronic feedback that somehow got into the final master tape or the cutting process itself.

I've never heard what you describe -- what you often hear on older records is the faint sound of tape print-through just before the next band actually starts.
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I think listens2 has it right. I was referring to rumble (the stuff you can hear). Subsonic = inaudible.