I had a friend recently put out an LP on vinyl, and I thought to myself, "hey, I can do that too!" After a bit of online research, I did find a site that would cut one-off vinyls (see Tangilble Formats). Other than getting one-off cuts, you would have to pay a major pressing opperation, which might cost up to $1000.
One-offs are direct cut onto a disk. Major pressings direct cut, then take a negative of the cut. The negative is used to press subsequent vinyls. One-offs are good for getting a sense of how a mix will sound on vinyl. They are also more cost efficient if you need less than 50 copies of a record.
The packaging looks great. The mixing could use some work. I find that the high frequencies in the digital recordings do not translate well to the records. For example, reverb on one of the guitar parts has a "artifact-like" sound on the record. It sort-of sounds like a bad mp3 file. There is also a bit of distortion.
Still, it was a fun endeavor to try it out. One of my long term goals is to get 8-10 new songs and have them pressed to vinyl.
One-offs are direct cut onto a disk. Major pressings direct cut, then take a negative of the cut. The negative is used to press subsequent vinyls. One-offs are good for getting a sense of how a mix will sound on vinyl. They are also more cost efficient if you need less than 50 copies of a record.
The packaging looks great. The mixing could use some work. I find that the high frequencies in the digital recordings do not translate well to the records. For example, reverb on one of the guitar parts has a "artifact-like" sound on the record. It sort-of sounds like a bad mp3 file. There is also a bit of distortion.
Still, it was a fun endeavor to try it out. One of my long term goals is to get 8-10 new songs and have them pressed to vinyl.
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