This thread got me looking. AFAIK Sheffield Labs is still making vinyl
direct-to-disk recordings. I'm sure that there are others. (But their
Thelma Houston "I've Got the Music in Me" recording will knock your
socks off! I see that it's available as a "Gold CD" here:
<http://www.rockian.com.au/new02/10076n.htm>)
As to how a vinyl recording is made... Just point your browser to:
<http://eil.com/explore/guide/vinyl_making.asp>
There's a whole lot to it...
Jim
Chris wrote:
I've never
heard of ceramic records. Is this different than the old
bakelite reocrds?
Don't know. I'm not a record expert, so maybe they aren't ceramic. I was
told that was the material, and I know they are a hard, brittle, fragile
glass or clay like substance (from the one that I broke).
These are 1910-1920 era records (based on the fact that they carry the
Victrola name, and IIRC, my Victrola has a 1913 date on the back)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
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