How are vinyl records
Have you ever thought about the topic “and how all these vinyl records are written”?
Briefly about the process of creating a vinyl record
- It all starts with a reference disk, made of aluminum. Such a disc covered with lacquer, and is sent to the recording studio
- On the recording studio to the disc using a sapphire cutter “cut” track on the record
- Then the disk on top covered with a layer of a metal (tin with something there, and nickel). Here, the record is kept and a half hours, this figure is very important, because overexposure or underexposure can ruin all the work!
- This plate is immersed in a special tank with a solution, where the electrochemical reaction, during which all the metal deposited neatly on the plate.
- This metal layer is stripped from the aluminum plate and with a device located center plate
- Further, this steel plate is used, to extrude a solution of polyvinyl chloride in the familiar to all of us of the plate (used today 180 grams of this solution, making plate thick and strong). Stickers kleyut at the same stage, right in front of the pressure of. The average time of such pressing 22-28 seconds
To demonstrate that there is a great video in Russian
And like the video in English
As can be seen in these videos – the process of creating records is quite complicated and requires the lion's share of accuracy and patience. And one such pattern matrix for plates capable of seemingly only 1000 copyings (In this I am not sure).
A little history
The story about an exclusive recording company “Melody”, which is kind of like going to be reborn in another 2009 year
More about melody
Customize player
Here for example is excellent comprehensive guide to setting turntable to scratch the example of an excellent vintage turntables JVC QL-A7 (fit to virtually any turntable)
And another video on setting up super popular among DJs player Technics
vinyl today
Many, seeing a vinyl record, they say: “What, they still produce?”. Yes I Am, right, release! Vinyl market still holds, players for them, too, is still produced.
The choice of the player
On the market is full of players from the manufacturers of audio equipment, including Audio Techica, Rega, Pro-ject and even Technics. That's just the quality of today's players is poor: cost players in the price range up to 13 000 r. do anything not capable, but to the destruction of your audio recordings. Head do not change them, tonearms do not set up, You can change only the needle, horizontal tilt is also not customizable, in general, If you think to buy a player — be prepared to spend at least 20 thousand him.
So we take: Vintage or modern player? I AM, and many others, recommend buying vintage players come from the 80s (I also have a). An excellent embodiment is Technics SL-1210 MK2, It comes again — that is, in the end is a new player, but an exact replica of the old. It should be a ~ 80 000 rubles. You can find the same vintage at flea markets are much cheaper, if you search (I have not found( ). Also good Vertac JVC QL A7 and some models from Pioneer (by the way, 2010s, very new).
As for the Soviet player, the most popular of them Arcturus 006 – great Vertac! Just have to find adapters DYN outputs on RCA. Find this at the flea market can be for 3 000 rubles and buy more to it normal for the head 2000 – 6000 rubles (and you can put your head for 20k, it will not be worse).
Caution! By purchasing a turntable, you automatically get to the money and the meter area for storing records.
Reference
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbA1mR-GBI
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze7owVm7pus
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZvxb7b-II
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r42ZU8TmSVg
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCb1ZZ6Ed4
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mQos0lujfo
- http://inthouse.ru/vinil/Vinilnii_STAT/Likbez%20on%20vinyl/Likbez%20on%20vinyl.html
