Vestax VRX 2000 LATHE CUTTING MACHINE record recorder

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Komentáře • 120

  • @dave57945
    @dave57945 Před 2 lety +10

    Your recording sounds very good and clean, congratulations on learning that skill.

  • @fredbissnette3104
    @fredbissnette3104 Před rokem +6

    this is the cleanest recording I've heard this machine make , many tried to use it and made horrendous noise with it , I built a diy version and have had varying degrees of success but it didnt cost me 5 figures to make.

    • @TravisJLee
      @TravisJLee Před 11 měsíci

      have a link to any DIY guides you followed?

    • @fredbissnette3104
      @fredbissnette3104 Před 11 měsíci

      @@TravisJLee secret society of lathe trolls

  • @dimensionstudioslondon
    @dimensionstudioslondon Před 5 měsíci +1

    What you put into this machine is what you get out. Correctly mastered material helps. Vinyl to vinyl works. Cd to vinyl works. Something mastered by a vinyl engineer for vinyl works. There’s dynamics. Depth width loudness static dirt also swarth and heat which all go into machine and it’s what comes out on the other end is the end result. It takes many attempts to learn any lathe. Some people this it’s like a tape recorder hit record press play. Don’t have any high expectations when it comes to a lathe. It’s not easy there’s a learning curve it’s an art. If yiu don’t put in time skill effort. You’ll get bad results at the other end. Not everyone can be a cutting engineer in 2 hours or minutes. It takes skill.

  • @diarmaidok
    @diarmaidok Před rokem

    That thing is a beast! Thanks for sharing I didn’t realise vestax ever made this

  • @moeranyc
    @moeranyc Před 2 lety +22

    I owned one of these when they first came out. There is a steep learning curve and often frustrating art form to cutting the vinyl. The temperature has to be perfect, you’ll need to sweep the excess towards the spindle perfectly otherwise the cutting needle will pick it up and record it into the harmodisc. This can be extremely frustrating and expensive to the inexperienced. You could have it perfect but then the excess gets cluttered and bam, your recording is ruined. Very much an art form but the quality is not the best. Still this was amazing for its time, but at 10k for its initial release, it included plane tickets to California where a vestax rep would train you for a couple of hours on how to use this.

    • @djdeejdjay8669
      @djdeejdjay8669 Před 2 lety +1

      it wasn't amazing for its time coz records have been manufactured for decades...
      10k for a badly recorded vinyl is a con.
      also the new cutting tool replacements were expensive as well.
      I also remember the release of these machines....

    • @moeranyc
      @moeranyc Před 2 lety +3

      @@djdeejdjay8669 sheeeit it was amazing for its time. This was before time coded vinyl and a straight up Harmondisc was the shit even for 10k. Name another device that did this during this time. It was a djs dream and vestax knew it.

    • @djdeejdjay8669
      @djdeejdjay8669 Před 2 lety +1

      @@moeranyc
      Yeah I kinda get you but it was just an innovation and not before it's time coz cutting machines have been around for decades,it's that no one else done it for djs and for the price it was out of 99.9% of djs hands and they were the only people it was aimed at due to the low grade cutting of tunes.
      How many djs did you ever see in comp using these vinyls cut from the Vestax??
      Time code is a djs reality.....the Vestax was very much a dream....
      I will say, yet again another brilliant concept from Vestax that never took off....like the PDX 5000 and the outrageous Phoenix ...but they should of stayed coz if you look at the price of the Mk7 and it's more expensive brother they are in the same ball park with price and the A&H 6v was a legend!
      Vestax were very much the innovative out of any company and for sure will be very missed....they were the only match for Technics and Pioneer!

    • @moeranyc
      @moeranyc Před 2 lety +4

      @@djdeejdjay8669 my statement was that it was amazing for its time. Why? Because a vinyl cutter with the ability to cut on harmodiscs was finally made more available and more affordable to the DJ consumer. 10k is still a lot but compared to the industrial machines that existed this one was a smaller form factor in comparison and cheaper. Not claiming it was first, but vestax did something bold and innovative. They even had the beat junkies demo how “easy” it was to make a record during their product demonstration. I knew a handful of djs who purchased one, but it wasn’t a market where it would have sold 10 thousand of these cutters throughout the globe I think. Still, when I purchased one it made every dj I knew contact me because now they had the ability to “print” one vinyl of their music or their scratch samples without having to spend the outrageous amount vinyl producing plants were charging. Just one! They could hear it, decide if they wanted to mass produce it, and even if it wasn’t a perfect cut, it was now on a format they could spin and scratch without having to buy the minimum. That’s also what made it amazing. I know dub plates could be cut from other companies, but this was a new harmodisc and it turned the dj who owned it into a valuable resource for helping other djs cut their music. It was amazing for its time.

    • @djdeejdjay8669
      @djdeejdjay8669 Před 2 lety

      @@moeranyc lol...it certainly wasnt affordable lol...especially in the early 2000's.
      I get what you're saying and I did say it in my last comments...I am agreeing with you on certain points and you're choosing to ignore them lol.
      The cutting head replacements were silly money and done very few cuts....and I still hold by I've never seen more then a couple of djs ever use the vinyl in major comps.
      They certainly were not easy to use either lol...they came with a lesson on using them ..

  • @BobscratchTurntablist

    VESTAX truly amazing,nice vid.

  • @ssgeek4515
    @ssgeek4515 Před 3 lety +3

    Fascinating device. The only flaw here is its only as good as the source plugged into it.Think there is a RiAA equalisation on phono pre-amps to compensate for recording irregularities. Smart though

  • @gustavocrovetto4638
    @gustavocrovetto4638 Před 2 lety +2

    Larga vida al Long Play !

  • @Sizorhandz
    @Sizorhandz Před 2 lety +1

    theres gotta be a cutting lathe arm somewhere nowadays that is able to do this along with a turntable.

  • @REDEPHACHELVIDEOS
    @REDEPHACHELVIDEOS Před 8 měsíci +1

    MANY PEOPLE CAN HAVE THEIR SMALL RECORD COMPANIES. TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. MAY GOD BLESS THE WORKERS. GOOD LUCK TO ALL.
    MUITAS PESSOAS PODEM TER SUAS PEQUENAS EMPRESAS DE GRAVADORAS. PARA SUSTENTAR AS SUAS FAMÍLIAS. QUE DEUS ABENÇOE OS TRABALHADORES. BOA SORTE PARA TODOS.
    MUCHAS PERSONAS PUEDEN TENER SUS PEQUEÑAS EMPRESAS DISCOGRAFÍAS. PARA APOYAR A SUS FAMILIAS. QUE DIOS BENDIGA A LOS TRABAJADORES. BUENA SUERTE A TODOS.

  • @OurSpaceshipEarth
    @OurSpaceshipEarth Před měsícem

    Sounded better then I thought it would, too bad for wasting a blank on this demo, you shoulda prepared 20 mins then dug the cutter 'straight' to a locked groove at the edge of the cutters inside range. Wish you had showed the quality of these "blank vinyls" by back queueing over a taps a few dozen times literally trying to rub the vibration out of the etch one can with some really cheap 120g commerical records (eg SCTV Bill & Doug Mckenzie - Eh Hoser) all of my copies just have a static sound where the beer can opening sound was :P Super nostaligc thank you for sharing !! Wonder if you can still get the blanks I remember thinking that $20 was ridiculous for a write once blank. Mind you this was not long after blank cd's were $20. Curious how much a lathe like this and 'blanks' would be now and how they stand up to actually being played back?.

  • @hungchan4655
    @hungchan4655 Před 3 měsíci

    Is the music you hear on video input coming from the speakers or the heads on either side of the cutting head?
    I have the same machine and unfortunately the vu meter before preparing to cut has a wobble but no sound

  • @The-Lard310
    @The-Lard310 Před 3 lety +8

    Show this man some respect!

  • @perseus086
    @perseus086 Před 3 lety +4

    Do you know where can I find blanks?

  • @daveymichael6891
    @daveymichael6891 Před 2 lety

    This might sound a silly question but how safe is cutting vinyl this way? This is something I've wanted to get Into in terms of making short vinyl runs but in essence I see your heating plastic... I always thought you etched the plastic with the needle. The type of plastic used in the manufacture of vinyl is actually quite dangerous... Prolonged breathing of any smoke fumes long term ie doing this day in day out can have quite serious implications. I'd just like to know if there are any health warnings associated with this form of pressing vinyl?

    • @Wassermelonenbaum
      @Wassermelonenbaum Před rokem +1

      You dont burn anything, you just heat the plastic up to around 40°C and CUT a groove out. At those temperatures you wont release any foams. You can also heat the stylus itself, but then again you dont want to melt, you want to CUT. Usually you'd have a tube sucking in the material you cut away right next to the stylus to prevent it from tangling up.
      Alternatively you can also EMBOSS, which means pushing a groove into the plastic without removing any material. But that means your grooves cant be as big, resulting in higher noise floors and possibly skipping.
      And only up to about 15KHz of frequency.
      But if you are still concerned, putting the whole rig under a fume hood would actually be fantastic due to the crazy amount of dust particles those discs pull out of nowhere!

    • @wolfetteplays8894
      @wolfetteplays8894 Před rokem

      That smoke thing is a myth. I’ve hugged plastic fumes my entire life and no issues

  • @onlyme1210
    @onlyme1210 Před 10 měsíci

    Very interesting. I wonder if any unpressed vinyl would work or you would need specifically made vinyl from Vestax?

    • @OurSpaceshipEarth
      @OurSpaceshipEarth Před měsícem

      Takes special 'blanks' maybe someone other then vestax made some butg vestexas were like $20 ea iirc. Curious what an unpressed vinyl would look like, I'll tell you what I think i think it looks like a 120g platter of unpressed vinyl :) hehe

  • @VerseOsmoBeats
    @VerseOsmoBeats Před rokem +3

    How long does the cutter last? Does it degrade over time as you cut records? And if so are the parts still available for this if you have one?

  • @mestredigital2
    @mestredigital2 Před 8 měsíci

    How do you cut the lead in and lead out grooves?

  • @miissangela9471
    @miissangela9471 Před 8 měsíci

    Hi, Very interesting. Thank you for showing us this. Are there any for sale or new to purchase?

  • @noahderrington5156
    @noahderrington5156 Před 10 měsíci +3

    I remember when this came out and I discussed with a friend about investing in one to cut vinyl just at the end of the vinyl DJ era, as digital mixing was just kicking off so it seemed too risky at the time. I kind of regret not doing it now!

    • @REDEPHACHELVIDEOS
      @REDEPHACHELVIDEOS Před 8 měsíci +1

      MANY PEOPLE CAN HAVE THEIR SMALL RECORD COMPANIES. TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. MAY GOD BLESS THE WORKERS. GOOD LUCK TO ALL.
      MUITAS PESSOAS PODEM TER SUAS PEQUENAS EMPRESAS DE GRAVADORAS. PARA SUSTENTAR AS SUAS FAMÍLIAS. QUE DEUS ABENÇOE OS TRABALHADORES. BOA SORTE PARA TODOS.
      MUCHAS PERSONAS PUEDEN TENER SUS PEQUEÑAS EMPRESAS DISCOGRAFÍAS. PARA APOYAR A SUS FAMILIAS. QUE DIOS BENDIGA A LOS TRABAJADORES. BUENA SUERTE A TODOS.

  • @retomode2865
    @retomode2865 Před rokem +1

    some claim it's a bad design , but if you learn the skills good and know what you doing this do it's job well , like i read ! There's no Lathe cutter does plug and play

  • @ulisesgv1977
    @ulisesgv1977 Před 3 lety +5

    Where can I get one of this. Do you plan to sell it near in the future, I would be interesting.

    • @rapipago3878
      @rapipago3878 Před 3 lety

      haha do you have 6k bucks? that's the preice cheaper

    • @chadergeist
      @chadergeist Před 3 lety +2

      @@rapipago3878 6K? You can get the German Vinyl Recorder for 4K.

    • @VoxProductions1
      @VoxProductions1 Před 3 lety +2

      @@chadergeist where????

    • @nichtimmer9134
      @nichtimmer9134 Před 3 lety

      @@chadergeist yes with german Quality, ...say only "neumann"
      ...its not neumann (would be a dream) but made in neumann land ;)

    • @nichtimmer9134
      @nichtimmer9134 Před 3 lety

      @@VoxProductions1 www will help you ;) ...i myself have see it (its "only" the cutter system without the turntable) ...but forget the webpage, you can find it if you look on google...
      ...Sorry, cant say without looking myself...

  • @audiomasterbestqualitysoun5016

    I have over 100 titles to make vinyl records

  • @comunicadoruniverso7211
    @comunicadoruniverso7211 Před 2 lety +1

    Stereo?

  • @MetroMediaTelevision11akaMM11

    I will record on Atco Records Try A Brand New Look (Extended Version) on Vestax VRX 2000 LATHE CUTTING MACHINE.

  • @SO_DIGITAL
    @SO_DIGITAL Před 4 měsíci

    4:09 ASMR

  • @cristianocaldas
    @cristianocaldas Před rokem +1

    How I can buy one?

  • @ludovikmarlak4109
    @ludovikmarlak4109 Před rokem

    Incroyable, combien cela vaut, j'imagine plus très cher étant donné que vestax à fait banqueroute que de l'occasion.

  • @wii1245
    @wii1245 Před 3 lety +2

    Nice machine, but lit looks too big for me. Pro: stereo recoding; con: huge size

    • @metropolrecording6919
      @metropolrecording6919 Před 3 lety

      This is a terrible machine, read reviews about it.

    • @manjdjsingh5752
      @manjdjsingh5752  Před 3 lety +3

      Before you read views on the vestax vrx 2000 . Buy one and see for yourself.

    • @helmut666kohl
      @helmut666kohl Před 2 lety +1

      Have you seen "real" record lathes tho? :-)

  • @EthicRadioArchiveReels
    @EthicRadioArchiveReels Před 3 lety +2

    Where can we buy one please reply back with the link

  • @markcovington8159
    @markcovington8159 Před 5 měsíci

    I'd like to know: (1) Where can I find one of those record recording machines? (2) How much does one of those cost? (3) How do you divide each side of the disc into tracks while recording? Thank you! :)

    • @OurSpaceshipEarth
      @OurSpaceshipEarth Před měsícem +1

      I'd pre record prepared sides just as sound files in a DAW (cooledit soundforge audition audacity etc) on a computer and record through the nicest capture card you can get and use the TASCAM laser (or HDMI audio input?) as much as you can for the digital signal quality. For the lead in just insert betwen 0.5 - 3 secs of silence and then for track dilineation use silence again, first pick 3 - 7 secs and use same interval between tracks on both sides A/AA. I wouldn't want to get fancy with this thing at first esp but I imiagined doing the runout/leadout which I always like being a silent infinite loop. So w sound off I'd increase the cutter velocity toward center then halt cutters velocity toward center so it cuts a full circle back onto itself for infinite loop.

    • @markcovington8159
      @markcovington8159 Před měsícem

      @@OurSpaceshipEarth I'll see if I can get all this copied or take notes of it. Thank you!😀

  • @tomsahunta9489
    @tomsahunta9489 Před 3 lety +4

    Please tell how can I get my own vynyl

    • @kaybee46
      @kaybee46 Před rokem +1

      This is what I want to know

  • @rayofsunshine5539
    @rayofsunshine5539 Před 2 lety

    Will this also cut those shiny gold presentation discs ? also who sells the blank vinyl discs for cutting ?

  • @hardhousepoland
    @hardhousepoland Před 2 lety

    acetates?

  • @vladimirnikolaev332
    @vladimirnikolaev332 Před 2 lety +1

    Барабаны записывать сойдёт

  • @justin_704
    @justin_704 Před 2 lety +1

    i want this

  • @poetryinmotion9057
    @poetryinmotion9057 Před 3 lety +1

    Hi manj I own one of these how can I get in touch with you.

  • @StanMoi
    @StanMoi Před 3 lety +1

    What for Quartz lock trigger ?

  • @jimmclaughlin2728
    @jimmclaughlin2728 Před 3 měsíci

    I don't see the point of making one record, where is the source from? Radio? cd? another vinyl? I peronnally use studio reel to reel recordersjust because I am old analogue fan. Plus where do you get the blank vinyl from?

  • @anthonygato407
    @anthonygato407 Před rokem

    oh, you fancy huh?

  • @monnysandhu2904
    @monnysandhu2904 Před 2 lety +1

    Where can we buy it and how much?

  • @dannysvinylrainbow4852
    @dannysvinylrainbow4852 Před 3 lety +3

    Do they still make these machines at Vestax?

    • @OmarNachtraaf
      @OmarNachtraaf Před 3 lety +9

      Considering Vestax went bankrupt in 2014, my guess is no.

    • @robfriedrich2822
      @robfriedrich2822 Před 10 měsíci

      But Vinylrecorder does it and less expensive.

  • @dulcesdemexico6292
    @dulcesdemexico6292 Před měsícem

    estoy interesado en comprar esta maquina, lo malo es qu existe un post q habla muy mal de este vendedor, casi todos los comentarios coinciden en que no funcionan como la que se muestra en los videos, alguien mas sabe algo?????

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 Před 2 lety +1

    Where you've sped up your video, you should've muted the audio track. Perhaps narrate over the top of the video,

  • @breakerbreaker292
    @breakerbreaker292 Před 5 měsíci

    I remember marvelling at this gear porn when it was released, but I suspect it didn't help the Vestax bank account one bit (and they ended up bankrupt). Too expensive for amateurs, too amateur for pro's.

  • @taranagnew436
    @taranagnew436 Před 2 lety +2

    where can you buy this and how much is it?

    • @taranagnew436
      @taranagnew436 Před 2 lety +1

      could you set up multiple songs to be cut in 1 go?

    • @robfriedrich2822
      @robfriedrich2822 Před 10 měsíci

      Meanwhile not new available, but there are comparable machines for less than 4000. Vinylrecorder.

  • @vincenzopisani9737
    @vincenzopisani9737 Před 3 lety +1

    HI HOW CAN YOU KNOW THE COST AND BUY THANKS

    • @metropolrecording6919
      @metropolrecording6919 Před 3 lety +1

      It's a terrible car for the money. They are usually sold in the region of $ 8000 - $ 10000 In working order. For that kind of money, you can build a good machine with a good stereo head that will cut a full stereo, since it will have feedback coils.

    • @manjdjsingh5752
      @manjdjsingh5752  Před 3 lety +3

      The vestax vrx 2000 is a very reliable record cutter , I also own a vinyl recorder and a dub plate cutter too . The workman ship on the vrx 2000 works really well . Vestax spent a lot of time on the machine . I am very happy with it . If don’t own one you won’t know about this machine !

    • @eposlaboratory4228
      @eposlaboratory4228 Před 3 lety

      @@manjdjsingh5752 sure you cannot beat the quality of a neumann or a scully but for sure it will make nice cuts for the money! I prefer it over the t560 and i would like to find one in sometime!

    • @brunodimitroff1700
      @brunodimitroff1700 Před 3 lety

      @@eposlaboratory4228 would u recommend this over Souris t560?

    • @eposlaboratory4228
      @eposlaboratory4228 Před 3 lety

      @@brunodimitroff1700 i really dont know i did not own any of these two. If i had the chance i would prefer the vrx anyway.

  • @robertisrael338
    @robertisrael338 Před 2 lety +1

    Is this for sale?

  • @teela-audiophile7864
    @teela-audiophile7864 Před 2 lety +1

    vinyl record I want you to burn a vinyl record of 50 pcs

  • @allexkoficial
    @allexkoficial Před 3 lety +1

    Há, seller machine..?.....

  • @chadergeist
    @chadergeist Před 3 lety +1

    Where is the lead in grooves at? SMH.

  • @HarmonyMan
    @HarmonyMan Před 2 měsíci

    Play a cut record with music not just drum beats.

  • @metropolrecording6919
    @metropolrecording6919 Před 3 lety +1

    What is the highest quality? 😂 An amateur quality music recording machine. This is an expensive toy no more. For recording of the highest quality, machines and heads are used on a completely different level. On my channel you can see an example of such a machine with the Ortofon DSS731 head.

    • @manjdjsingh5752
      @manjdjsingh5752  Před 3 lety +2

      I find the highest quality very clean stereo sound recording with nice deep grooves . The level of the sound recording is brilliant. Get yourself one and you find out .

    • @metropolrecording6919
      @metropolrecording6919 Před 3 lety +1

      You probably don't know much about vinyl recording. This head is without feedback coils that connect to the feedback preamplifier. Only with these coils can you get real full stereo. It is not for nothing that cutting heads with feedback only are used on any studio apparatus, such as Neumann SX68 and 74, Ortofon DSS, Westrex 3D, Caruso, SC99. No studio uses a head like your Vestax or Vinylrecorder heads. Any studio only uses feedback heads. The best portable device that has ever been sold is the Vinylium. I would never buy or buy such a device like yours, since I have one Ortofon DSS731 stereo head worth $ 8000 like your entire machine, a control unit with Vinylium amplifiers, a Neumann SX74 head. You have an amateur device, more for a DJ to record your own record and put it in a club. Go to my channel and see what device and heads give really real stereo and good quality: m.czcams.com/channels/rKiHIPK5c5lTcThAXVojzA.htmlvideos I'm not saying that your machine is bad, for an amateur it is very good, but not for this money. The fact that the grooves will be good is not at all dependent on this. A good groove will be in any case if there is a good cutter and correctly set, with the correct pressure on it. The sound will also be clean and good, I don’t argue with that, even on mono it will be. But this machine will not have a full-fledged stereo and high frequency response. Did you just trust your hearing or did you make some measurements on special equipment, checked how exactly the channels are divided? On this forum, read what you bought for the machine: www.lathetrolls.com/search.php?keywords=Vestax+VRX-2000 Don't think, I don't want to offend you, I just want to open my eyes to the fact that you bought an expensive toy when for this money it was possible to assemble a real full-fledged stereo machine with a studio head like mine, and not an ordinary dynamic one like yours. You were simply deceived by the one who sold you this machine that it is really good. You should have studied the information about this machine in more detail before purchasing. I would sell it and buy a real stereo machine for this money. But if it suits you, then of course use it. But the video is good, we are waiting for new videos from you, they are really interesting to watch.

    • @eposlaboratory4228
      @eposlaboratory4228 Před 3 lety +1

      True, the point is that is not the TOP lathe machine BUT if he like it and fit his needs then the discussion is over. And thats true about LatheTrolls: they are lots of information but thats still the basics for amateurs, if you want to go deeper then you have to pay an "expert" for more details! information.

    • @metropolrecording6919
      @metropolrecording6919 Před 3 lety

      Yes, the machine is amateur. I have a professional machine, now it is being finalized, I am waiting for a new block for connecting professional heads. On my channel there is a video with my machine and stereo heads that have feedback and a high frequency response.

    • @metropolrecording6919
      @metropolrecording6919 Před 3 lety

      And here all this is what you wrote! The man claims that this is a super cool quality machine. I tell him that this is not so, this is an amateur machine with a truncated frequency response. This machine is far from a cool machine. Yes, many trolls cut on mono machines and they sound far from good. I'm talking about those who really cut high-quality stereo not with dynamic heads, but with professional ones with feedback and high frequency response.

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 Před 2 lety +1

    I've given this a *thumbs-down* because you've allowed the sped-up audio to be heard and the sped-up audio is *totally unintelligible!*