THE EAGLES ONE OF THESE NIGHTS - POSITIVE METAL MOTHER STAMPER COPYMASTER K53014
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LAST CHANCE REDUCTION, AFTER WHICH I WILL END LISTING AND SELL LOCALLY. THANK YOU.
This is an unusual and pretty rare item from what I can see. A one sided mother stamper for the Eagles album, One of These Nights, A side only. Looks in good shape. I certainly can't say its mint, there are a few light marks and there is one very small oxidisation spot (see photo 7). I gather that these are playable with the right type of stylus. Comes in its card container.
It was cut at Allen Zentz Mastering evident by the etching in the lead out grooves (ALLEN). It is an A1 plate.
Across the top of the box it reads:
MASTER COPYMASTER POSITIVE STAMPER
It is a positive mother stamper, i.e. it has grooves, not ridges (see below).
Master serial number K 53014 A
The Date Grown is hard to read but looks like #5 JUL 197#, where # means I can't decipher it.
Any way, pretty rare and a good album to boot.
Here is some information on the process:-
"The manufacturing process starts with the lacquer disc created in the cutting room. This is too delicate even to play without damage and needs toughening up.
So the lacquer disc is coated with silver, which makes it conductive for the next process, which is electroplating with nickel. The nickel is then separated from the lacquer, giving a disc with ridges where the grooves would normally be - a 'negative' copy. Even though it is made of metal, it is too delicate to use to make pressings. This disc is known as the 'master' and there is only one.
The next stage is the 'mother'. This is made from the master by a similar process of electroplating. It is feasible to create up to around four mothers, but for the highest quality recordings this is restricted to two. The mother has grooves once again and is playable.
From the mother, 'stampers' are produced - up to six from each mother. Once again these are negatives, and are given a smooth chromium surface.
The stampers, two per record, are placed in presses and heated with steam before clamping down onto a cake of vinyl raw material. The result is a 'pressing' which after trimming and packaging is the record that is sold in the shops or played on the DJ's turntable".
Here is some info from discogs.com about the record associated with this mother:-
Eagles ?– One Of These Nights Label: Asylum Records ?– K 53014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1975 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock
Tracklist
A1 One Of These Nights 4:51 A2 Too Many Hands 4:42 A3 Hollywood Waltz 4:04 A4 Journey Of The Sorcerer 6:39
Published By – Warner Bros. Music Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra/Asylum Records Copyright (c) – Elektra/Asylum Records Distributed By – WEA Records Ltd.
Credits Engineer – Allan Blazek, Don Wood, Ed Mashal, Michael Braunstein, Michael Verdick
Notes Recorded at Mac Emmerman's Studio, Miami and The Record Plant, Los Angeles
Made in UK
Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (A Side Runout): etched "ALLEN" stamped "D 4 K.53014.A1" etched "E" stamped "0 ? ?"
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