Post by cooksferry on May 5, 2017 7:26:43 GMT 12
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sure there'll be a few here looking forward to this. Interesting that Welch/Rawlings purchased their own cutting lathe to aid in getting the best possible sound.
The long awaited first pressing of Gillian Welch s The Harrow & The Harvest was mastered direct from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system and plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. GRAMMY-nominated for Best Engineered Album (Non Classical) and Best Folk Album, this deluxe package includes new full color cover art by John Dyer Baizley and full lyric insert
From June 2016:
With all the attention to detail that goes into a Gillian Welch album, from recording on analog tape to letterpress printing album covers on 100 percent cotton, why aren’t the releases available on vinyl? Internet message boards have lamented the vinyl dearth for years.
Turns out the delay again comes down to quality control. “Because we love and respect vinyl so much, we’ve been building our own lathe for a couple years. It’s almost operational,” she said of the machine that cuts grooves into lacquer disks used to make vinyl records. “Dave’s on the phone in the other room with our vinyl mastering engineer discussing a test that was cut a couple days ago. We’re so excited about it. It’s kind of sickening that I’ve watched everyone we know put out vinyl and we have nothing.”
Welch and Rawlings wanted to use a certain mastering lab in their hometown of Nashville for vinyl releases. “They’ve got a tape machine that our tape sounds good on,” Welch said. They waited for years for the lab to buy a lathe. “Finally we were like, ‘We’ll buy a lathe and put it there,’” she said.
Welch isn’t sure which album will get the vinyl treatment first, but she’s confident the results will be worth the wait. “There’ll be zero digital - our master tape to our mastering lathe,” she said. “When everything is said and done - when a piece of art just exists - you don’t get any ribbons for it being easier or economical.
sure there'll be a few here looking forward to this. Interesting that Welch/Rawlings purchased their own cutting lathe to aid in getting the best possible sound.
The long awaited first pressing of Gillian Welch s The Harrow & The Harvest was mastered direct from the original tapes through custom Ortofon amplifiers to a Neumann VMS-80 cutting system and plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. GRAMMY-nominated for Best Engineered Album (Non Classical) and Best Folk Album, this deluxe package includes new full color cover art by John Dyer Baizley and full lyric insert
From June 2016:
With all the attention to detail that goes into a Gillian Welch album, from recording on analog tape to letterpress printing album covers on 100 percent cotton, why aren’t the releases available on vinyl? Internet message boards have lamented the vinyl dearth for years.
Turns out the delay again comes down to quality control. “Because we love and respect vinyl so much, we’ve been building our own lathe for a couple years. It’s almost operational,” she said of the machine that cuts grooves into lacquer disks used to make vinyl records. “Dave’s on the phone in the other room with our vinyl mastering engineer discussing a test that was cut a couple days ago. We’re so excited about it. It’s kind of sickening that I’ve watched everyone we know put out vinyl and we have nothing.”
Welch and Rawlings wanted to use a certain mastering lab in their hometown of Nashville for vinyl releases. “They’ve got a tape machine that our tape sounds good on,” Welch said. They waited for years for the lab to buy a lathe. “Finally we were like, ‘We’ll buy a lathe and put it there,’” she said.
Welch isn’t sure which album will get the vinyl treatment first, but she’s confident the results will be worth the wait. “There’ll be zero digital - our master tape to our mastering lathe,” she said. “When everything is said and done - when a piece of art just exists - you don’t get any ribbons for it being easier or economical.
