Cutting Vinyl At Abbey Road

With vinyl sales increasing every year, there's obviously a new-found interest in the format. Here's a a great video that shows a vinyl master being cut at none other than Abbey Road Studios.

Of course what you're seeing is the a totally up to date process using the current state-of-the-art, but it's really not all that removed from the way discs were cut 50 years ago. It's only a bit more refined.

If you want to learn more about cutting records at Abbey Road during The Beatles heyday, as well as a lot of other interesting Abbey Road-related stories, check out Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust, which is the memoirs of Beatles engineer (and Bowie, Supertramp, Devo, Kansas, Missing Persons, etc producer/engineer) Ken Scott.

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