A new web database tool that will help the vinyl community to discover and share information on the true source (analog or digital) and mastering process behind a vinyl record release.
Vinyl Cut

"Vinylcut is a website which has been created in order to share information about how vinyl represses are made :

Which master has been used :

has it been sourced from the original master tape ? Is the master digital ? Is it sourced from CD or worse ?

Has the repress been mastered specifically for vinyl ?

How does a specific pressing sound ? This is what matters most in the end, if like I do, you'd like to buy the best sounding pressing of a record"




Only been going for a few weeks now but like Discogs and Wikipedia is community made.

Its been tried before (How It Sounds) but unfortunately HIS site was closed down, and re-emerged into a much cutdown version www.vinyliplay.com/

could be excellent

or not

I guess it will only succeed if we contribute.

Really Discogs needs to add a few more parameters to its database and we'd be sweet!

just had a quick look, and from what I can see its only users opinions as to what it was mastered from ? So not very much use at all imo...

Jul 23, 2019 17:00:57 GMT 12 cartridgeguyonline said:

just had a quick look, and from what I can see its only users opinions as to what it was mastered from ? So not very much use at all imo...

That was my first thought as well after checking the site.  Far too many if , buts and maybes relying on subjective opinions.  I gave up worrying about all AA mastering some time ago once I realised that many of my favorite reissues had to have had a digital component in the loop.  

I suppose that the idea is that popular opinion will weed out the misinformation as in the Wikipedia model.

An all analogue chain doesn't always mean its better, but more often than not though!

popular not always correct though...