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A few years back I had the privilege of working for the New York City edition of the Red Bull Music Academy, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a large portion of the
by doctorhandshake 4y ago
A few years back I had the privilege of working for the New York City edition of the Red Bull Music Academy, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a large portion of the lectures and general discussion focused on things related to vinyl.
One thing I remember standing out to me was a mention by a vinyl mastering engineer that he would manually roll up the bass level on the EQ over the length of the side as the record was cut. He explained that this was because on most record players the tonearm is more or less parallel to the groove at the start of the side and by the end of the side is less so, which decreases bass response, requiring more bass energy in the signal to compensate.
- buildsjets 4y agoI don't think that a constant roll-in of EQ would be helpful. On playback, the stylus is actually parallel to the groove at two positions, both in the middle of the disc, not at the edge, as depicted on a cartridge alignment protractor. https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/support/audio-solutions-question-of-the-week-how-do-i-align-my-audio-technica-phono-cartridge/ https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/support/audio-solutions... So you start playing a record and the stylus has a small lateral load bias to one side, has a zero crossing, an small opposite side bias, another zero crossing, and then finishes up with a high lateral load bias on the inner groove and all the female vocals sound terrible due to the extreme sibilance distortion.