Lacquer cut here. Plated here. Pressed here, in 180 grams.A pressing plant that does the whole chain under one roof, so the thing that leaves in the sleeve is the thing that was cut on the lathe. No file in between. The groove is the master.
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the only weight we press. Heavier than it needs to be. Flatter for it.
minimum run. Below that the stamper costs more than the records. Above it, ask about a second stamper.
master to sleeve, including the test pressing you sit with for a week.
runs pressed without an approved test pressing. If you don't sign it off, we don't press it.
A stylus in a groove is the whole format. Everything before it, the file, the lathe, the plating, the press, exists to put a physical wave into a piece of plastic. Do that well and the record sounds like the room it was cut in.
Twelve-inch albums, seven-inch singles, twelve-inch 45s for the people who care about the last two dB. All 180 grams, all black unless you ask.
The standard. Cut loud if the sides are short, cut quiet and wide if they're long. We'll tell you which your master wants.
Cut hot. Seven inches at 45 has more groove speed than an album, so it can take it. Paper sleeve or printed.
The loudest, widest groove there is. Two tracks a side, cut deep. What DJs and mastering engineers ask for. Now you know why.
Most plants send the lacquer away to be plated. Ours goes twelve metres down the corridor. Here's the chain.
A link to the flat masters, the running order, the side lengths. We'll come back within a week with what will cut, what won't, and a date for the test pressing. Then you listen for a week and tell us.
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