New Custom Cutting Room Opens at BGM

Pictured in the new CUT-2 vinyl cutting room at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood are, from left, mastering engineer Chris Bellman, CTO Beno May, and mastering engineers Scott Sedillo, Paul Grundman, Bernie Grundman and Scott Stratton. Photo: David Goggin. — Pictured within the new CUT-2 vinyl reducing room at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood are, from left, mastering engineer Chris Bellman, CTO Beno May, and mastering engineers Scott Sedillo, Paul Grundman, Bernie Grundman and Scott Stratton. Photo: David Goggin.

Hollywood, CA (March 12, 2024)—Bernie Grundman Mastering has responded to the ever-growing international demand for vinyl records with the build-out of a second reducing room, dubbed CUT-2, at its seven-room facility in Hollywood, Calif.

“Our major reducing room is supplied to deal with any full-service mastering job,” explains mastering engineer Scott Sedillo, “however a superb portion of our reducing tasks are for albums which have already been equalized and mastered and solely require an professional, high-fidelity switch to lacquer. This second room is streamlined for that objective.”

“This new room is very simplified in order that it’s extra simple,” proprietor Bernie Grundman confirms. “It’s the results of all of our experimenting within the first room and is ready as much as be direct from the sign supply proper to the reducing system, ensuing within the closest to what the grasp seems like on the disc.”

CUT-2 homes a reconditioned Scully lathe, mounted on a pneumatic desk for isolation, with BGM’s customized head suspension. Jacob Horowitz of History of Recorded Sound rebuilt the Haeco SC-2 stereo reducing head, which is fitted with a diamond reducing device. A Compudisk CD-20 system supplies variable pitch and depth for maximizing groove geometry.

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The new room additionally options an audiophile-grade preview/program disc-cutting console with solely a single, discrete amplifier within the sign path. All analog filters and de-essers might be bypassed, and all connections are direct, with no patchbay. The new room’s Tannoy SGM-10B audio system are pushed by modified Yamaha P2002 energy amplifiers. All electronics are powered by customized BGM energy provides.

BGM’s in-house-built DAW operating WaveLab and Pro Tools is in an adjoining rack, together with an Antelope Audio Trinity phrase clock resolved with BGM’s customized 10 MHz time base generator.

Clients have a selection of Lavry DA-N5 or JCF Audio Latte D/A converters for audio playback.

Grundman attributes a lot of his firm’s success to chief know-how officer Beno May, with whom he initially labored at A&M Studios earlier than each went impartial at BGM. “Without Beno, we wouldn’t be the place we’re immediately. It’s the mix of Beno’s technical experience and my mastering expertise—I wouldn’t be capable of get the sound and high quality that I’m in search of with out Beno’s creativeness and talent to manufacture the distinctive instruments that we use right here.”

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March 12, 2024 at 07:10PM