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Originally Posted by max cooper  
But this shouldn't be for me to do, right? Are you saying that I should make sure the ME does this?
Great thread, everyone. |
hmm... it totally depends on your style of music
in case your masters are very, very dense and carry a lot of mid+high energy then do it.. the background of this is that certain high energy around 18-22 KHz can intermodulate with lower frequencies and sometimes you get strange effects.. in my case I had the borders of the vinyl groove jagged like the grand canyon.. you could see it under the microscope! so if the needle was going deep into the record (expensive hifi pick up) you woudnt hear the distortion, but on the robust yet unsensitive club pick-ups there was a terrible rock n roll ish distortion all over the record cause the needle was getting crossmodulation from this jagged borders... dig me?
but take care that the filter is not changing the colour or tone of your record... the EQ should be high-class.. Cambridge, Oxford EQ, Linear Phase EQs will do... look for a high-pass = BUTTERWORTH class 5 or 6
if your mix is pretty warm or either pretty minimal, without much distortion in the mids and highs then dont do it...
my music is kind of superdense frequency wise.. its sounds very crips but is so dense that the vinyl media is really used to its physical limitation...
if you go to a renown cutter let him decide to do that filtering... if you go to a vinyl cutter that has mediocre reputation do as much as you can do yourself. I learned this lesson by painful experience.
I do prepare digital masters for further vinyl pressing for a living and if I hear something that begs for this treatment I will do it.. sometimes you can also use a simple HF-filter (dynamical).
as I said: I am in germany and the situation is delicate over here..
In case you dont know exactly what I am talking about (frequencies and stuff) dont do it...
robert