bill@uunet.UU.NET (Bill Vermillion) (12/05/90)
In article <8035@uwm.edu> srchtec!johnb@gatech.edu (John Baldwin) writes: > There never was a forked >stylus. Well for the consumer market there never was a forked stylus, but for the disk mastering industry there is (was) a stylus that qualify for the name "forked stylus". The actual tip is forked. If you picture a normal styuls as coming to a point, picture a stylus where the tip is replaced by an inverted v. \ / \ / \ /\ / \/ \/ You may wonder what such a monstrosity has doing calling itself a stylus. It's made by Stanton, and is designed to play stampers. Since the stamper makes the records, it's eqivalent to grooves are little mountains - the reverse of the records valleys. A special turntable is used that rotates in reverse. This way a stamper can be checked by playing it back. For an artists rendering of such a beast, see the cover of "A Cut Above" with Dave Brubeck and his son on direct disk records. They are being chased through the grooves of the disk? On of the eminently forgettable album cover graphics, although the disk is sonically (sp?) good. Three side of the 2 disk set are cut on a modified console while one side is not. The odd side is covered and sounds like it was cut in another studio, while it was actually cut in the same one. Give a good demonstration of coloring by a console. Just a bit of trivia. -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP