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Press on Vinyl are able to make there own masters. Can you clarify what you mean?

by wsintra2022 2y ago

kragen 2y ago
I'm kind of vague on the whole lacquer -> father -> mother -> stamper -> record process, and I don't remember which of these steps has supposedly dwindled down to just a single company due to the fire. Googling isn't helping. Normally "masters" are lacquers, though, so a company that makes their own "masters" still probably outsources the steps after the lacquer and before stamping finished records.
- beAbU 2y ago
  What fire?
  - deleted 2y ago
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  - kragen 2y ago
    See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221756.
- wsintra 2y ago
  I can confirm, Press On Vinyl makes their own stampers, originally they sent the masters to London and got stampers back but in the last year or so they upgraded the factory and they now do it all in house. Including a mastering studio, if anyone wants to press vinyl please check out kushtybuckrecords.com or pressonvinyl.com (I am the developer of kushtybuckrecords)
fcarraldo 2y ago
There's some detail in the Apollo Masters wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Masters_Corporation_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Masters_Corporation_fir...
- kragen 2y ago
  Thank you! I clearly didn't have a very good grasp of the situation, and this is definitely what I was thinking of, and it's much less serious than I had thought. > With the destruction of Apollo Masters, producing lacquer discs fell solely to a small Japanese company, MDC. This caused a significant strain on the industry, as Apollo Masters was responsible for 70-85% of lacquer production.[4][5] As a result of the strain, orders became backlogged and delayed, (...) > With a decrease in lacquer production, some vinyl pressing plants turned to alternate means of producing records, including direct metal mastering, a costly method of producing records with copper instead of lacquer.
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago
Swan's Death Records could make their own masters too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Paradise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Paradise, sorry for being kinda off-topic)

Press on Vinyl are able to make there own masters. Can you clarify what you mean?

I'm kind of vague on the whole lacquer -> father -> mother -> stamper -> record process, and I don't remember which of these steps has supposedly dwindled down to just a single company due to the fire. Googling isn't helping. Normally "masters" are lacquers, though, so a company that makes their own "masters" still probably outsources the steps after the lacquer and before stamping finished records.

beAbU 2y ago
What fire?
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
- kragen 2y ago
  See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221756.
wsintra 2y ago
I can confirm, Press On Vinyl makes their own stampers, originally they sent the masters to London and got stampers back but in the last year or so they upgraded the factory and they now do it all in house. Including a mastering studio, if anyone wants to press vinyl please check out kushtybuckrecords.com or pressonvinyl.com (I am the developer of kushtybuckrecords)

fcarraldo 2y ago

There's some detail in the Apollo Masters wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Masters_Corporation_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Masters_Corporation_fir...

kragen 2y ago
Thank you! I clearly didn't have a very good grasp of the situation, and this is definitely what I was thinking of, and it's much less serious than I had thought. > With the destruction of Apollo Masters, producing lacquer discs fell solely to a small Japanese company, MDC. This caused a significant strain on the industry, as Apollo Masters was responsible for 70-85% of lacquer production.[4][5] As a result of the strain, orders became backlogged and delayed, (...) > With a decrease in lacquer production, some vinyl pressing plants turned to alternate means of producing records, including direct metal mastering, a costly method of producing records with copper instead of lacquer.

JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago

Swan's Death Records could make their own masters too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Paradise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Paradise, sorry for being kinda off-topic)