HOW MELTINGPOTSOUND STARTED OVER 50 YEARS AGO

 NY Lathe cut record service in New York City headed by record cutting engineer Rich Flores,  Cutting Lacquers Since 1972
Walter Gibbons, and I started Melting Pot Sound, a dub plate disc recording service for DJ's in the summer of 1972.

The Neumann cutting lathe and the HAECO SC-1 cutting head was the one used to cut The Misfits first 45 7 inch disc "Cough Cool", wound up in The Wakefield section of The Bronx, NY. then at TRANSCO CORP.

 That lathe  was destroyed at the Apollo fire where the lacquers were made in Banning, CA. I purchased this record cutting lathe in 1972 from A&R recording studios in New York. 

 I currently run New York Lathe Cuts in Woodside, NY as a Mastering Engineer. Some Job! . I manufacture the only Embossing Sapphire Recording Styli made especially for recording polycarbonate record blanks.  I started cutting acetates back in 1972 With Walter Gibbons. He and I started Melting Pot Sound, a acetate dub plate disc recording service for DJ's. Long after many years, I discovered in 1976, Walter Gibbons was back stabbing me by secretly working with Frank Trimarco from Sunshine Sound. I decided to give up the business in 1986 to go into the NEON sign business and sold my lathe on consignment to Robert S.Cosulich of TRANSCO PRODUCTS CORP in Linden, NJ.  

The Neumann cutting lathe and the HAECO SC-1 cutting head was the one used to cut The misfits first 45 7 inch disc "Cough Cool".  That Neumann system wound up in The Wakefield section of The Bronx, NY to a Errol Jones who used to own a Reggae recording studio. The last thing that I heard in 2015 by a local pirate radio station near by, was, it was sold to someone in Japan.  I purchased this record cutting lathe in 1972 from A&R recording studios in New York, where I met Al Brown.

 I called my studio, "SPECTRUM SOUND", 1974-1977, At the same time, I was working at Variety Recording Studios with Fred Vargas and Joe Cyr. Great guys to work with R.I.P.  In 1980 Flowers Mastering, was my company, the only name actually registered as a DBA, at 750 8th Ave. New York, NY10036. Located in the same building as the RGH Record pressing plant owned by George S. Srolovits, I wonder how he's doing, I believe he became a Rabbi. Today RGH pressing  would have been a gold mine.  

 I worked with Herb Abramson at A1-Sound Studios where I helped install and set up his Scully 501 lathe.  In 1984 I entered in a short contract agreement with John Palutis at Allied Recording Products in Long Island City, Queens, NY, and relocated my record cutting lathe there at Allied manufacturing plant to do quality control cutting of the acetate blanks.