180 Grams – What Does It Really Mean?
I don’t buy a lot of new vinyl, so I was curious when I got my first 180 gram record (Harrow Fair – Call to Arms). First – what did …
Vinyl pressing covers pressing plants, new and vintage pressing technologies, as well as the companies that provide album cover art work services.
I don’t buy a lot of new vinyl, so I was curious when I got my first 180 gram record (Harrow Fair – Call to Arms). First – what did …
Many of us with a passion for music would love to turn this into a career. Most of us don’t have the musical talent to be the next Kanye (speaking …
I’ve written a number of posts about Viryl Technologies and vinyl pressing companies that are installing the new WarmTone press (Microforum and Kaneshii), but it was this past week that …
The Blokhuispoort prison in Leeuwarden The Netherlands. It dates back to 1580, but is more famously known as a WWII prison where German occupation forces held prisoners of war. An interesting Canadian …
Sony has announced that it will start pressing vinyl albums again after being out of that business for three decades. Sony last pressed a piece of vinyl in 1989. Its …
Theres been lots of talk and plenty of media coverage about vinyl resurgence and the reasons why. Well here’s three short interviews with musicians from Australia who all pretty much say …
As the lust for vinyl continues to swell, so do the new pressing facilities. One of the latest to open is Precision Record Pressing in Burlington Ontario. When this new …
A May 18, 2017 article in The Economist (Hunger For Vinyl Means A Chronic Shortage of Pressing Machines) states that “only two firms are left that make the lacquer discs …
In a CBS interview with Jack White, the founder of Third Man Records, much credit is given to this label for putting into production the first new vinyl presses in …
Ghislain Cormier, the lead for Strategic Partnerships for Kaneshii Vinyl of PEI and co-owner, made a successful pitch to the provincial Francophone economic development council of P.E.I., a partner of the Acadian Chamber of …