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whAT's the best place to have a record pressed at ? Pricewise ? Time wise Etc etc?

Permalink Reply by Mike on February 2, 2009 at 12:18pm: It's been a long time since I have dealt with that, but United in Tenessee used to be one of the cheapest, most of those super thin black wax 7"s that you can see light through in your collection came from them most likely. Though I believe they do have heavier weight vinyl available. If I recall what made them really cheap was they had mastering/label /& pressing packages that made it cheaper than doing each seperately on your own.

http://www.urpressing.com/

Bill Smith in California also used to do alot of independent label stuff (SFTRI for one) though it seemed like a lot of them gravitated to Erica Records, also here in Southern California. But, maybe you'd be best off finding someone local to save shipping costs.

http://www.billsmithcustomrecords.com/index.html

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Permalink Reply by Thee Strawberry Mynde on February 3, 2009 at 6:32pm: Last time I had a record pressed I found the cheapest place was GZ Digital Media in the Czech Republic - http://www.gzvinyl.cz/en/vinyl/

Even including shipping costs they were cheaper than anywhere in the UK and they did a great job on my release which was a 10 inch EP pressed on red vinyl.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Feathered Apple Records on February 5, 2009 at 3:27pm: I think that the Czechoslovakian pressing plant sucks! Their records are of inferior quality. Their shitty records will make the bands sound bad.

You better go to an old and experienced pressing plant. It will only cost you very little more, but it will be absolutely worth it. If you want to sell your records then you will have to come up with a good product.

Also the copyrighting is most important. If you want to release an official record then you MUST pay for the songwriters, because if you don't pay for the songwriters (like SUISA, GEMA, BIEM, ASCAP, NCB, etc.) then your records won't ever pay for airplay, and the bands on your labels will NEVER receive anything from their own compositions (they would be no real records).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bootleg Booze Records on February 5, 2009 at 3:49pm: We use GZ Digital Media in the Czech Republic for most of our stuff. We have been pleased with their work so far except for a couple of times.

We have also pressed at Musicol Recordings in the USA and we are very pleased with their work:
http://www.musicolrecording.com/

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Permalink Reply by Colin on February 5, 2009 at 4:42pm: The czech place did a good job on our (the interceptors) first single - that was a while back though - very popular amongst bands from the north east of england it seems...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bootleg Booze Records on February 5, 2009 at 4:51pm: I've just heard that there is pressingplant here in Sweden, does anyone have any info about it? Is it the same plant that was/is in Jönköping?

Some friends of mine has worked with Handle With Care in Germany and they have also been pleased with their work.

One thing about GZ is that they can press your records very fast, at least they have done that the times we have asked them that we need the records very fast (for a tour etc.). We received a 7" on 1 1/2 week a couple of years ago and that was really great.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gasser Dale on February 5, 2009 at 5:43pm: We've pressed all our 45's through United & all have sounded great. Never had a problem with them. We also just pressed an LP with them & sounds great so far. Good people to deal with as well.
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Permalink Reply by Feathered Apple Records on February 5, 2009 at 5:50pm: Gasser Dale said:
We've pressed all our 45's through United & all have sounded great. Never had a problem with them. We also just pressed an LP with them & sounds great so far. Good people to deal with as well.
-La Ti Da

United is great!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tommy Careless on February 6, 2009 at 11:24am: I'm using United right now, my test pressings came back alittle fucked up sounding and so far they been super cool to deal with about getting all the problems looked after.
~T

Feathered Apple Records said:
Gasser Dale said:
We've pressed all our 45's through United & all have sounded great. Never had a problem with them. We also just pressed an LP with them & sounds great so far. Good people to deal with as well.
-La Ti Da

United is great!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bootleg Booze Records on February 28, 2009 at 5:55am: Hi,

I just found this place the other day:

http://www.mobineko.com/

Have anyone tried them? It looks very cheap but I have no idea on the quality. cheers! Andreas; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by The Branded on February 28, 2009 at 1:25pm: I will be using mobineko for the first 45 with thee Gravemen, they are cheap and hopefully good quality, will let you know how it sounds in a month or so; ▶ Reply to This