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RE: groove pitch... and terms

Posted by Bill Way (A) on August 18, 2017 at 11:21:27

In Reply to: RE: dynagroove labeling posted by glue tech on August 14, 2017 at 21:11:44:

I'm pretty sure that variable groove pitch has been with us since the dawn of the LP; certainly since the stereo era. Early lathes had manual pitch control. At some point playback tape decks with a "preview" head enabled automation of groove pitch. As others have pointed out, Dynagroove had nothing to do with groove pitch.

Since you're interested in terms, here are a few:

Tracking is recording. In a studio it's done in a "live room" which might have one or more vocal booths. Most (not all) studio tracking sessions are close mic'd, with at least 1 mic placed closely for each instrument, musician, etc. and done in live rooms that are very neutral, i.e. not dead but not reverberant.

Mixing is combining the channels from the tracking session into a 2-channel stereo master (or mono or 5.1 etc) along with EQ adjustments, compression, reverb and other effects.

Mastering takes that master and adjusts it for a particular playback medium (CD, LP, MP3, etc). This typically involves dynamics and maybe some EQ. When mastering an album, the engineer will also adjust individual cuts (songs) so they sound "of a piece," which can be challenging if the artist recorded the songs in various studios with various mics, engineers, live rooms, and musicians. In the case of LP mastering, it includes running the cutting lathe to cut the groove into the "lacquer" which is the lacquer-coated aluminum disk used to feed the LP manufacturing process.

My records are still packed up, so I can't take out the Dynagrooves to re-listen, though I don't remember any of them being particularly wonderful. YMMV.

WW


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