Restored vinyl cutting system at Marsh Mastering, Scully/Westrex. Amazing sounding vinyl mastering!

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  1. Steve Hoffman

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    Photos from The Lathe Room at Marsh Mastering, Hollywood.

    My long time mastering partner Stephen Marsh has been working on restoring this vintage Scully/Westrex 45/45 stereo vinyl analog cutting system with restoration genius Len Horowitz and I’m here to tell you it is now perfection. Best thing, the system can cut from tape, digital, whatever, and go from 1950's RCA-Victor "Living Stereo" sound to quick and modern with just the flick of a few buttons. The old fashioned Golden Age Of Stereo sound or a neutral rendering. Your choice!

    Astonishing sound and the lacquers cut are clean, easy to track and distortion free. Audiophiles watch out, there is a new vinyl mastering studio in town! Trust me, it sounds amazing. I hope to be doing all of my vinyl projects at Marsh Mastering from now on.


    "The Lathe Room. Centering on a vintage Scully 601 Disk Mastering Lathe with custom wound Westrex 3DII stereo cutterheads, a vintage Westrex 2B Mono cutterhead and a custom modifed Westrex amplifer rack. The entire system has been restored under the knowledagable eye of local Scully/Westrex 'Godfather' Len Horowitz from History of Recorded Sound.
    The Lathe Room has it's own custom analog mastering chain with EAR tube EQ, Maselec A/B program EQ's, Maselec compression & HF limiting, custom HP/LP filtering by GOLY and a custom cutting console by Inward Connections. Mastering live to the lathe from analog tape is accomplished through a pair of Studer A80 tape machines with 1/4" and 1/2" configurations allowing for 100% analog mastering tape to disk."


    Look at this beautiful system. iPhone pics by me, today.

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  2. Steve Hoffman

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  4. Steve Hoffman

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  5. Greenalishi

    Greenalishi Birds Aren’t Real

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    Wow. Awesome.
     
  6. Big Swifty

    Big Swifty Forum Resident

    Sometimes a 'like' isn't enough......

    Superb photos.
     
  7. Krzych

    Krzych The one who listens

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    #LacquerCuttingPorn
     
  8. yasujiro

    yasujiro Senior Member

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    Viva distortion.
     
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  9. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

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    Nice, thank you Steve for these iPhone images!

     
  10. rxcory

    rxcory proud jazz band/marching band parent

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    I hope so too. I miss the steady stream of your new masterings, chief.
     
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  11. Rick Bartlett

    Rick Bartlett Forum Resident

    Wow, I just love big vintage knobs!
    :love:
     
  12. Devin

    Devin Time's Up

    Looks beautiful. And I know it will sound even more beautiful. Thanks for sharing Steve!
     
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  13. Muriel Heslop

    Muriel Heslop Night is young and the music's high

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    I'm practically drooling.
     
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  14. neilpatto

    neilpatto Forum Resident

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    Ha! Steve, you know how to get us going! Great pics, I wonder when you'll get the chance to use it (it seems like it's been a while...)
     
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  15. Claus

    Claus Senior Member

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    Cool pictures, thx for sharing.
     
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  16. mpayan

    mpayan A Tad Rolled Off

    Purty stuff!
     
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  17. octophone

    octophone immaterial girl

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    How beautiful is that??
     
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  18. abzach

    abzach Forum Resident

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    Great!
     
  19. Mr Bass

    Mr Bass Chevelle Ma Belle

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    Thanks for the colorful pics. I hope you get the opportunity to do some classical music vinyl too. I've always enjoyed the DCC Stokowski LP.
     
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  20. W.B.

    W.B. The Collector's Collector

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    Looking at the control panel, especially in the middle, it looked to me like that particular Scully (model 601, I presume) was once in use by Telegraph Mastering. Was this type in any way used once by MCA Records, way back when?

    But I also noticed the variable pitch knob at 105-600 lpi. There were three such possibilities: that, 70-400 and 150-800.
     
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  21. cds23

    cds23 Accidentally slowing the forum down with huge pics

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    Wow, those Scully lathes are the most beautiful machines in the business - that specific Art Deco look is amazing (even the lamp looks stunning!).
     
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  22. htbomb

    htbomb Hot Rod

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    Those Studers bring back fond memories of my gofer days at a local film company. Spooling them and watching the machine's movements was a pleasure.
     
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  23. McLover

    McLover Senior Member

    Awesome, Steve! Beautiful photos and beautiful Scully and Westrex based classic setup.
     
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  24. James Bennett

    James Bennett Forum Resident

    We all hope to hear new masterings from you both, from Stephen Marsh Mastering, very soon! Thanks for these.
     
  25. jon9091

    jon9091 Master Of Reality

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    Wow. That is a thing of beauty. I can’t wait to see SH @ SMM in the deadwax on a steady stream of titles. Thanks for sharing.
     
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