https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:46:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.preservationsound.com/the-scully-601-vinyl-mastering-lathe-circa-1960/ https://www.preservationsound.com/the-scully-601-vinyl-mastering-lathe-circa-1960/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:21:17 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4473 Above: beautiful line-drawn rendition of a Scully 601 lathe.  Made right here in blighted Bridgeport CT.  Ahh Bridgeport what happened?  I think I might take a drive over to “62 walter st” today and see what’s there now… 

]]> https://www.preservationsound.com/the-scully-601-vinyl-mastering-lathe-circa-1960/feed/ 7 https://www.preservationsound.com/neumann-am32b-lathe-1961/ https://www.preservationsound.com/neumann-am32b-lathe-1961/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:15:57 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4469 Although Scully seems to have dominated the US lathe market in the 1950s and 1960s, every time I have personally attended an LP mastering session (maybe a dozen times), I have seen a Neumann used.   Any of you LP mastering folk prefer Scully brand to Neumann these days?

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