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Re: [ARSCLIST] LP pressing question
MR is Monarch Records of LA/Hollywood.
What about MF on the early Mercs ?
Roger
phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I know that Piros scribed "P13" and "P17". I think the P17 sound a
little punchier to me. Were there any other common PXX combinations you
can recall? Also, I was playing a Mercury Wing, one that didn't suck,
and "MR" was in the deadwax. Who is "MR"?
Phillip
Tom Fine wrote:
> I think all sorts of strange stuff took place with cutting guys in the
> 60's, 70's and at th end of the LP era. Stan Ricker had some quite
> original stuff in his Mobile Fidelity cuts of the 70's. In earlier
> times, too much fanciful stuff was frowned on but every cutter had his
> "maker's mark" that he would inscribe. At Fine Sound in the 50's, most
> cuts would just have the catalog number stamped in the dead wax like
> early Mercury MG series. Same for Verve, Kapp and Grand Award cut
> there. This might have been a practice my father picked up at Reeves
> in the late 40's or Majestic before that. When Fine Recording opened
> up, George Piros was dealing with more lathes and more cutter heads
> -- certain combinations preferred by certain producers -- so he
> started a code of "PXX" with XX being a number representing a lathe
> and cutter head. He would hand-scribe his mark plus the catalog number
> and side a or b into the dead wax. John Johnson would scribe JJ. Once
> dedicated mastering houses sprung up, you'd see a stamp imprint of,
> for instance, "Mastered by MasterDisc". I'm not sure if guys at the
> pressing plant would further scribe the dead wax to indicate a
> replacement part or later replacement master. I would imagine a major
> label's mastering department, like Columbia, would some pretty complex
> codes to follow in the interest of uniformity.
>
> Bob, how many cutters were there at Motown and what was your system?
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Wylie"
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] LP pressing question
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