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Calibrating Your Cutting and Playback Chain

Calibrating Your Cutting and Playback Chain

We've had an influx of questions recently where the main focus is cutterhead mapping. We always advise people to map their cutterhead, but there's more to it than just the...

Calibrating Your Cutting and Playback Chain

We've had an influx of questions recently where the main focus is cutterhead mapping. We always advise people to map their cutterhead, but there's more to it than just the...

Managing Expectations

Managing Expectations

We wanted to write something a little different, not a technical guide, but something just as important. Managing expectations. A realistic look at what lathe cutting actually entails, and how...

Managing Expectations

We wanted to write something a little different, not a technical guide, but something just as important. Managing expectations. A realistic look at what lathe cutting actually entails, and how...

Diagnosing Skipping on Lathe Cuts

Diagnosing Skipping on Lathe Cuts

Skipping is one of those issues that can have a few different causes, and it's worth understanding what's actually happening mechanically when a record skips, because the fix depends entirely...

Diagnosing Skipping on Lathe Cuts

Skipping is one of those issues that can have a few different causes, and it's worth understanding what's actually happening mechanically when a record skips, because the fix depends entirely...

Check Your Pitch

Check Your Pitch

Something that customers have mentioned to us a few times is cuts playing back slightly fast or slow. We had a customer recently whose cuts were coming back a little...

Check Your Pitch

Something that customers have mentioned to us a few times is cuts playing back slightly fast or slow. We had a customer recently whose cuts were coming back a little...

Signal To Noise Ratio

Signal To Noise Ratio

Today we’re going to talk about signal to noise ratio when cutting plastic with a diamond stylus, because it comes up a lot but people don’t always know what to...

Signal To Noise Ratio

Today we’re going to talk about signal to noise ratio when cutting plastic with a diamond stylus, because it comes up a lot but people don’t always know what to...

Dynamic Cutterhead EQ Compensation. Precision Is Your Friend (Video)

Dynamic Cutterhead EQ Compensation. Precision I...

This is a video made by our friend Helmut Erler. For those who do not know Helmut, he is not only a great human, but also an expert in disk...

Dynamic Cutterhead EQ Compensation. Precision I...

This is a video made by our friend Helmut Erler. For those who do not know Helmut, he is not only a great human, but also an expert in disk...