[78-L] Newly-pressed Bix Beiderbecke 78

[Royal Pemberton]

I'd say in a sense....but it's not impossible to cut a groove with a stereo
stylus deep enough so that a 3 mil stylus can track it, although it would
ride much higher along the groove walls as compared with the walls of a
groove cut with a 'normal' (as you're calling it) stylus.  The bottom of
such a groove would be thus much closer to the base of a lacquer disc, so
plating might be chancy in terms of the ability to peel the metal negative
from the lacquer.  And I wouldn't consider stereo cutting under these
circumstances as the danger of cutting through the lacquer is much
greater....

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Milan Milovanovic <
milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, is it the lack of 78 rpm cutting stylus on modern lathes main reason
> for
> not cutting "normal" grooved records?
>
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> From: "Bryan Wright" <bryan at claxtonola.com>
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Newly-pressed Bix Beiderbecke 78
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> >
> > To answer your second question, the records are stereo and use a
> > microgroove (LP) stylus. I said *almost* anything is possible, and
> > after asking around, I found that no one offers master cutting with an
> > old-style standard 78 groove at a professional-quality level.
>
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