Hey @mijostyn - wouldn't that have more vibration/rumble from the turntable transmitted to the record? You'd essentially have all the noise from the platter going there.
Is There a New Record Pressing Machine Out There?
I bought Wilco's newest Album "Cousin" yesterday and noticed something I have never seen before, the record has no lip. The label area remains raised but otherwise the record is dead flat. It is a very heavy record, probably 200 gm. I believe records had the lip to prevent the tonearm from floating off the edge with changers which were way more popular than manuals back in the 40s, 50s and early 60's. With manuals the flat record is easier to cue by hand.
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@hometownhero Thanx! It is a Canadian company. The machine is quite basic. The old machines trimmed and spit out the records automatically onto a tall spindle. This one relies on a human at each transfer step. Good for humans, bad for speed. |
@mijostyn Machines with manual transfer capability have a few strengths. Mainly when the operators have the ability to manipulate the molten puck special effects in the records can be produced, such is split, tri, quad color, splatter effects etc. Also the production waste to quality yields tend to be far better on a manual press as quality assurance is built in vs an automatic where defects would be caught at a later stage in production. Generally the downside is speed and worker fatigue. On the other hand, the super quality Japanese pressings in the 80s were all done on manual press, so there's that. |
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