1999 Rare Metallica Evil Militia Bootleg Lacquer Plate 1 of 10 Warhammer Records
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1999 Rare Metallica Evil Militia Bootleg Lacquer Plate 1 of 10 Warhammer Records
look at pictures. Learn what a Lacquer plate is before you buy this. You don't clean these. you leave them alone. They are meant to be played a few times and put away. DON"T use a cheap turntable and cartridge you will ruin this. This is a Lacquer; Lacquers are not like regular records. They are very delicate and require more than the average stylus and cartridge, tracking force, ect. They meant to be played a few times for defects and quality before the album goes into production. You can see little speckles of the nickel plate shining through the special coating on the lacquer. I never played this plate. I made that mistake a while back when I first was learning about Lacquer plates. seriously you can jack up one of these Lacquers with just a simple water whip down and playing it on the wrong set up.
The sleeve is a definitely DIY. The person had them printed on heavy paper, they hand cut it out. This had to have been made by a fan that wanted to make their own Metallica collectable record. Last one that I could find sale history on was in 2010. So, if you think you have everything possible and looking for rarest bootlegs this is one of them.
READ THIS IS YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT A LACQUER IS
To start the process of creating a vinyl record, you need a master recording, which is the finalized audio of the album (or whatever you’re pressing to vinyl). This used to be in the form of 1/4” tape, but nowadays they are typically high quality digital audio files.
The master recording is sent to the cutting head of a lathe, or a record cutting machine, which transfers the electrical signals from the master recording onto a lacquer, also known as a test acetate or dubplate. The lacquer is a playable record, but it will suffer from wear much more quickly than a standard vinyl record. Unlike the finished product, a lacquer can only be played a few times before it will degrade noticeably. Lacquers are used to evaluate the quality of the disc transfer early in the vinyl production process to see if there needs to be any adjustments in the vinyl mastering* before production continues.
After the lacquer has been created and approved, the lacquer undergoes a process called electroforming. In electroforming, the record plant applies a nitrate to the lacquer which attracts metal (usually nickel) to fill in all the grooves of the record and create a perfect negative copy of the lacquer. This negative copy has ridges instead of grooves and is called a metal master, or “father”. The father is separated from the lacquer, which is then discarded.
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