Carvers

[Dave West]

Think it’s on here somewhere but can’t find it, need a carver doing, who’s best ? 

[Andybellwood]

Hi Dave . Timmion used to do 7’’ acetates so might be worth contacting them . 
‘Carvers’ often now called ‘dub plates’ but the perceived market seems to be 10” or 12” rather than 7” . 

Might be worth you trying 

https://www.cuttinggrooves.co.uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA99ybBhD9ARIsALvZavUilkEijUwX3TMX0lotfCY999RD8uICS_6uVlI2Q0g0__kauDf7o-IaAkfCEALw_wcB

[Keamus]

Timmion are brilliant. Still going?

Recently used these guys who offer a great service 

https://vinylcarvers.com/about/

 

[Amsterdam Russ]

A word of warning about getting carvers done - if you're looking to get a disc cut of something unreleased you have on an acetate.

Maybe half a dozen years or more, I sent a file to a company in the UK that cut carvers. The reason I did it was because the acetate - carrying a brilliant unreleased track from Chicago - was in a very poor state.

Anyway, I got my disc and was happy with it. Fast forward to late last year and I spot on Soul Source an interesting track on someone's latest listing. It's 'my' unreleased track.

Obviously, I'm thinking someone's found a second copy, but in giving the Mix a listen I hear the sound file is exactly the same as my acetate. The ticks and pops are in exactly the same place.

<added for clarity> I should point out here that I in no way blame or point a finger at the Soul Source member who got the carver and used the track in their mix. Any blame must lie elsewhere.</added> 

Now, I did upload the track to YouTube some years back, so thought someone had downloaded it, but on checking I was instantly reminded I'd uploaded an edited version that only ran for about one and a half minutes.

So where did the soundfile used in the Mix come from? I asked the poster and they told me they had it on a carver, but couldn't remember where it came from. I racked my brains - had I sent a full-length copy of the file to a mate who had then done the dirty and shared it elsewhere? The answer was a definite no. I couldn't understand it.

Some months later, it came to me. The only time I had ever shared the file was when I uploaded it to the company cutting the carvers. That surely had to be it - the company is cutting carvers of interesting material for their own use and then sharing the tracks with mates – whether for profit or not, I do not know.

Thing is, and this is a downer, I've used maybe three carver cutters over the last 10 years, and I don't remember which one cut that particular track for me!

So, just be warned.

 

 

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by Amsterdam Russ
Clarity

[Simon T]

Perhaps a previous owner recorder it?

Maybe it was once on an auction site with a sound file?

[Amsterdam Russ]

16 minutes ago, Simon T said:

Perhaps a previous owner recorder it?

Maybe it was once on an auction site with a sound file?

If the previous owner recorded it, I doubt they'd have sat on it for close to 10 years. Anyway, to get a decent carver you need a high quality soundfile, not just a bog standard mp3. I sent the carver company a high quality file, and in terms of sound quality, the 'dodgy' carver sounds the same as mine.

I can't prove anything, of course, but really do believe the file I sent is the source.

[Chalky]

7 hours ago, Keamus said:

Timmion are brilliant. Still going?

Recently used these guys who offer a great service 

https://vinylcarvers.com/about/

 

Timmion are very busy and when they are they don’t really have time for cutting

[Simon T]

5 hours ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

If the previous owner recorded it, I doubt they'd have sat on it for close to 10 years. Anyway, to get a decent carver you need a high quality soundfile, not just a bog standard mp3. I sent the carver company a high quality file, annod in terms of sound quality, the 'dodgy' carver sounds the same as mine.

I can't prove anything, of course, but really do believe the file I sent is the source.

where can we hear this top northern soul offering?

[Amsterdam Russ]

1 hour ago, Simon T said:

where can we hear this top northern soul offering?

Not sure it's a 'top northern soul offering', although I think it fab, but I'll point you and any other interested parties in the direction of my YouTube channel and you can work it out for yourself. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/lomaruss45s/videos

[Cuboulie]

Jukeboxwax on face book and the Web very good