If my material is pre-mastered, or just a 1:1 transfer is requested, under what circumstances is additional studio time charged for treatment?
• The vinyl cut is a totally different recording procedure to digital or analogue tape recording. It is subject to physical constraints which have no effect on other media, and vice-versa. This can involve problems like stylus tracking, when the stylus might cut such steep or quick curves that on playback the needle skips; alternatively it might have clearly audible effect on the sound. These may be perceived as positive (warmer, more rounded sound, harmonic distortion), or as negative (annoying distortion). These effects will be stronger, the louder the record is cut. Therefore a “one-to-one” transfer is often achieved only with the intervention of the cutting engineer, making alterations to the sound. These are technical imparatives specific to a lacquer cut. Clearly, extra studio time may be necessary to make “uncuttable” material cuttable at a satisfactory level, or a cut sound as close as possible to the master (if explicitly required).
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