Talk:Direct metal mastering

Deletion
While partly being written as spam, i think the extend of it is not wide enough to remove the entire article. The main focus seems to be the technology behind the article, and not spamming about some person buying the last of this tech to serve customers. Personally i think that simply cutting the line that says "All remaining Neumann original tools, spare parts and mechanical designs were since purchased by the well-known Welsh disc cutting expert Sean Davies, who continues to offer lathe servicing and modification services to the few remaining disc cutting rooms in existence." will void the spam CSD. Excirial ( Talk, Contribs ) 13:23, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

--- Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for speedy deletion. After all, the Neumann company was also previously mentioned in the text, without raising advertisement issues. The text will thus have to be seen in a wider context.

ADDITION:

However, if the name of the individual consultant is considered offensive, I can also remove the aforementioned sentence (and, indeed, I have done so). This will reduce the usefulness of the article to interested readers, however...especially to youngsters, who have not personally lived through the liveliest years of professional disc cutting in the eighties. As an older man (and as a one-time pro cutting engineer myself), I should value all bits of information about a dying business that can be achieved...but I am also willing to compromise on this matter. As we know, these techniques have been ignored by the music industry for well over two decades now. It is not a big deal.

Sincerely, Judolph

jukkalaaksonen@me.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Judolph (talk • contribs) 13:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

status and suggestions
I declined the speedy. it doesnt doesn't make sense t see this as primarily promotional. However, it was my impression, and the web references support, that a similar technique or at least a technique of the same name, is used for the production of optical media, CDs and DVDs. I added a heading for this. Some other things need to be clarified: What is the relation of Tedec to the company mentioned in the first sentence, the acceptance by the industry, possibly a list of a few top-prize winning disks produced by this method so it can link to articles here. And then, as I said, either explanation of the optical technical, or if I am wrong, an explanation of why the optical technique is different. Then some references. including one to the patent. This is out of my field a little, so I won't be following it unless you need me.DGG (talk) 15:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

claim about current use of DMM is dubious
Especially given that many indie rock labels, especially Fat-Cat, are heavily promoting re-released vinyl records that use this process, as of late 2008. Armadillo01 (talk) 12:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

DMM is still very much alive
The latest records sold by EMI are direct metal mastered! For example Beatles' Abbey Road, etc. The sleeve says "This record has been direct metal mastered from a digital tape for the best quality." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.41.23.23 (talk) 15:16, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Two Wikipedia articles – cleanup required
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Metal_Mastering (with two capital M's) should likely be removed, but this is the one referred to at the disambiguation page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMM. Zeus Scrofa (talk) 10:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Aluminum or acetate?
"Unlike conventional disc mastering, where the mechanical audio modulation is cut onto a lacquer-coated aluminum disc" or "acetate lacquer cutting"? Something is wrong. --Diogogeo (talk) 14:06, 19 December 2013 (UTC)