should be a great opportunity to get so many folks in this world in the same spot...raw material manufacturers, pressing plant operators, vinyl cutters, record labels, packaging fabricators...i'm really looking forward to this
Thanks for the information. Did you attend the opening? Are you affiliated with the plant? So mastering and pressing is done in the Detroit facility, and plating is outsourced? Are there many dedicated plating facilities in the USA? Or is this mostly done by pressing plants with a large plating cap...
In typical USA tradition, this plant appears to do pressing exclusively. No sign of plating or mastering facilities. While not shown in the video, Third Man Pressing does contain vinyl mastering facilities. They bought out Roger Seibel's SAE Mastering in Phoenix, AZ and were even doing test cuts of...
did you reach out to folks who specifically make boxes for vinyl records? music product packaging printers? i've ordered boxes quite a few times domestically and usually quite complex printing/coating/finishing involved and don't think i've gotten above $5-6 per box. feel free to PM if you'd like to...
having worked with George pretty intensely on the cutting of this record, the best insight i have is in regards to the two different intros for the first song on side B (Just One Drink). as george said, getting this right was almost entirely up to chance. in his words "like taking a flying fuck at a...
recently stumbled across the website of El Dorado in Germany. http://www.eldorado-media.com/index.php?id=14&lang=english the list flexi-discs as something they offer. i can't tell if they're a manufacturer or broker, but they did say their flexis are made in Europe. so they're not being sourced to P...