Vinyl pressing frequently used terms and definitions.
Grooves on vinyl disc section.
Mastering engineers will attempt to mitigate end of side distortion by pressing quieter songs with moderate bass and lower hf energy towards the center of each side.
The normal commercial disc is engraved with two sound bearing concentric spiral grooves one on each side of the disc running from the outside edge towards the centre.
To start at record edge b.
Your vinyl record s grooves magnified 1 000x under an electron microscope.
The groves you can see on a vinyl record are actually sound waves or more like a type of fingerprint of the sound waves captured in a lacquer disc that we call a vinyl record.
Since the late 1910s both sides of the record.
We work with artists music labels vinyl lovers and djs and make vinyl records for any kind of purpose.
These three dimensional grooves cut in the vinyl record.
Experimentation and observation is a wonderful way to learn the basics of this field.
These more condensed grooves are much harder for the stylus to track accurately.
1 504 0 002 lead in spiral a.
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Both types of new disc used narrower grooves intended to be played with a smaller stylus typically 0 001 inch 1 mil or about 25 µm wide compared to 0 003 inch 76 µm for a 78 so the new records were sometimes.
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Optics the study of light is a very very important subject in high school physics.
These are some common terms used in vinyl manufacturing.
Here we measure the spacing of grooves on a cd in.
Label area see drawing of cross section attached center hole diameter to be measured under the weight of the record on a tapered plug gauge.
Heavy grooves records have made vinyl records since 2003.