Lacquer Plating Secrets With Record Technology Incorporated "Plating Guru" Dorin Sauerbier

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Record plating is the "secret sauce" behind great sounding records. A great lacquer cut can be sabotaged by inept plating. Only a handful of experienced experts know how best to do this, aided by the finest infrastructure. RTI's plating expert Dorin Sauerbier is one of the world's best and the infrastructure he's built at RTI over the past 20 plus years helps produce some of the world's best stampers and thus some of the world's best sounding records.

RTI plates for Fidelity Record Pressing and many other pressing plants so following the visit to Fidelity I drove the nine miles to Camarillo and shot this video with Dorin who gives us the most detailed and interesting look at how lacquers get plated.

One reason I felt this so important is an email I got from a readers who seems to have every version ever made of every great record. He responds to every reissue post with comments like, "Yes this new one is very good as is the original, but you know there was a second pressing done at plant in Lima, Peru that uses a special master and that one is easily the best...(etc.)" .

He will know I am talking about him when he reads this. Well, he sent an email in which he wrote "Once you've got a great lacquer, it's pretty much over...." (or words to that effect). Well, that is so wrong!

The lacquer cut is but the first step to getting a great record! Plating can make or break (literally and figuratively) a great lacquer and produce either a mediocre or great sounding record!

If you're not all that familiar with the process, and even if you are and haven't been keeping up with new tech used to plate lacquers, you're sure to enjoy this video! There's also at the end a snippet from Patrick Leonard's new album. Check it out!

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コメント (21)
  • @bill8985
    Thanks for the tour and for keeping vinyl alive...
  • @OFBCyclingWorld
    Just loved when he played that "mother" in the office, what great sound. Another great video Mikey! Guru's everywhere!
  • @mcgjohn22
    great updated tour on RTI. I had not realized they process so many lacquers for other pressing plants.
  • @marktubeie07
    Well this explains why I have never in my experience come across an off- center pressing by RTI, impressive. Great overview video Michael & it was indeed FUN !!
  • @hurkamur1
    Man, that young Fremer video. You sound like your boys have dropped since then.😂 Great stuff. Cool to see the technology getting even better!
  • @osmanyhernandez4539
    These tours videos are so interesting, specially when one have records pressed at those plants, you know exactly all the steps it took to make them. It would be even more interesting to have a video, or article about the actual state of record plants in general, what's good, what can be improved, etc. (Maybe there is). Amazing content!
  • @kirmussaudio7578
    One of the best videos! Imagine the needle with tonearm, cartridge perfectly aligned in one's system making best contact with the record's grooves as pressed!
  • @rongreen1538
    Very interesting and informative tour, thank you for taking the time to share it.
  • @bobt3374
    That was an excellent review of the plant a very clever man about his craft & build`s his own machinery , Michael well done with showing an amazing work place.
  • @bronsonosborne3962
    i really enjoy these videos thanks again for all the work you do and i appreciate it
  • @VinceFelix-ff9cf
    Mike, it's nice to see you made a video I can relate to once again. I still have your dvd video you made at RTI back in 2007 I think and this updated tour was fantastic! I see alot of update manufacturing equipment not shown in your previous old video. Now I can be rest assured the record grooves won't wobble from not punching the center hole accurately. I notice though this time, no employees weren't seen working the pressing machines? Was this a weekend tour? Thanks again for a breath of fresh air new video.
  • @franciscoop1063
    @49:50 Had to chuckle at the Operator processing regrind in front of a cooling fan to allow dust to blow into the pressing hall...clicks and pops coming to an RTI pressed record on your turntable soon Folks!