THE MASTERING LAB deadwax info: TML-S, TML-M, TML-X?

I am nearly positive that there was a post explaining the difference between the S, M and X on the dead wax of LPs from the Mastering Lab.

If you are out there, will you explain it again, as I cannot find the post, it was within a thread.
JG

 

As I recall, TML-X and TML-M were the 2 primary lathes (seems like someone like Tom Port opined that one sounded better than the other, but I forget the details) and TML-S was a secondary lathe ("slaved" to the "master" lathe).

 

Thanks Larpy

You are on the right track, it was definitely something like that!
JG

 

Found it:

www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=33750&highlight=TML+master+slave

Guess who asked this question last time?

Our old friend Arin answered it.

 

Which is glad to know. I'd thought up to the time I learned all this, that "M" referred to Mike Reese and "S" was Doug Sax. Moreover, I noticed that all three Scullys at The Mastering Room had the same lead-in and lead-out spacing. I'll have to pay more attention to circa 1980 lacquers (i.e. Neil Diamond's "Love On The Rocks"), being as one lathe used different lead-in spacing from the other.

 

I just wanted to comment on these posts since they came from the thread you linked.

I remeber reading in the liner notes of one of the Sheffield Lab albums (Missing Link Vol III or Thelma Houston) that they started running 2 lathes at the same time during that session because of the high demand they ran into on an earlier release (Missing Link Vol II?) and something else.