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United Record Pressing Marks 75 Years
A mainstay in Music City for 75 years, United Record Pressing has endured peaks and valleys in its journey to today.
Vinyl
Blog
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: A Perspective on Perspectives
Maybe people just have a hard time reconciling that two opposing viewpoints can both be correct....
Facilities
New Custom Cutting Room Opens at BGM
Bernie Grundman Mastering has built a second vinyl cutting room, dubbed CUT-2, at its seven-room facility in Hollywood, Calif.
Business
Historic Lathe Comes to the Birthplace of Country Music
Well Made Music has located and added a third, rare Neumann disc-cutting lathe at its mastering studio in Bristol, VA.
Business
RIAA Reports Record Revenues
The RIAA has released its new report for the first six months of 2023, detailing a 9.3% increase in recorded music revenues to $8.4...
Business
Memphis Record Pressing Unveils $30m Expansion
Memphis Record Pressing has completed a $30 million expansion that makes it the largest vinyl record manufacturer by volume in North America.
Business
Metallica Acquires Furnace Vinyl Record Pressing Company
Thrash metal giants Metallica have acquired a majority interest in Alexandria, VA-based Furnace Record Pressing, which manufactures vinyl records and offers related services.
Business
Streaming, Vinyl Sales Drive RIAA Revenue Record
The RIAA is reporting all-time high recorded music revenues for the seventh straight year, fueled by streaming and the vinyl revival.
Music Production
Video: Alan Parsons on ‘The Complete Albums Collection’ Vinyl Release
Soundworks Collection talks with audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer Alan Parsons about his new vinyl release, 'The Complete Albums Collection.'
New Products
Teenage Engineering DIY Lo-Fi Record Cutter Rolls Out
Teenage Engineering has unveiled the PO-80 Record Factory, a lo-fi vinyl cutter that engraves up to four minutes of sound onto 5" vinyl discs.
Business
Exclusive: Inside T Bone Burnett’s High-Tech Reinvention of the Record
Legendary producer T Bone Burnett reveals the tech behind his new Ionic Original discs—a format, he says, that offers the greatest fidelity and durability...
Blogs
Vinyl’s Hot, But Who’s Buying All Those Records?
Vinyl records are selling better than they have in 30 years -- but who the heck is buying all those albums?
Business
New US Record Pressing Expansions Aim to Lessen Worldwide Backlog
A trio of newly announced expansions from different record manufacturers aim to address growing backlogs across the vinyl pressing industry.
Business
Memphis Record Pressing Kicks Off Massive Expansion
Memphis Record Pressing has begun construction on a nearly $30 million expansion that is expected to triple the size of the company and more...
Business
Record Store Day is One for the Books
The Vinyl Revival was jumpstarted in 2008 by the nascent Record Store Day; now a new book recounts how it happened, despite the odds.
Blogs
Record Store Day Book Traces Vinyl’s Return from the Dead
'Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century' traces the remarkable return of vinyl records over the last 15 years.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Vinyl Rising… Pass It On
Vinyl is back, with music fans of all ages—particularly Gen Y—buying the slabs of songs to keep and enjoy forever.
New Products
Waves Retro Fi Plug-in Debuts
Waves Audio has introduced Retro Fi, a “lofi FX chain” for creating textures, warm analog sounds and the timbre of cassettes and vinyl.
news
U.S. Recorded Music Revenues Grow 27%
The RIAA's Mid-Year Music Industry Revenue Report says recorded music revenues in the U.S. grew 27% in the first half of 2021.
Profiles
Birth of the Bootleg—Part 3: The End of the Road
In Part 3, bootleg label Trade Mark of Quality has to change with the times, fool Led Zeppelin and ultimately bring its illicit business...
news
Birth of the Bootleg—Part 2: The Secret TMQ Studio
In Part 2, discover the tech of the TMQ studio, how the legendary Rolling Stones bootleg 'Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be' was recorded, and...
Facilities
Old Meets ‘News’ at Citizen Vinyl
Citizen Vinyl’s focus is on vinyl pressing, but the business includes a studio featuring a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console.
Blog
Mix Blog Studio: Cassettes? Really?
Mike Levine, who was there for the emergence of the Portastudio back in the day, is mystified by the resurgence in popularity of the...
Music Production
Bernie Grundman Masters Bill Evans Live Sets
Bernie Grundman has mastered newly discovered recordings of Bill Evans’ historic concerts in Hilversum and Amsterdam, which will debut on Record Store Day.
Music Production
Recording Live to Vinyl to Zoom at Welcome to 1979
Nashville’s Welcome to 1979 studio overcame technical challenges to bring its ‘Direct to Vinyl’ recording summit online.
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Asheville’s Vinyl Answer
A former newspaper printing plant/radio station has gotten a new lease on life as Citizen Vinyl—home to a new recording studio, vinyl record pressing...
Music Production
Remastering Classic Grateful Dead for New 14-LP Set
Mastering engineer Chris Bellman worked with the original stereo master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering for the new 14-LP VMP Anthology: The Story of...
Blog
Record Made of Soap Plays a Song for our Times
Soap store chain Lush has created a record ideally suited for our times: a playable 7-inch record made of soap that plays "Happy Birthday."
Blog
A Voice-O-Graph Blast from the Past
Songbyrd Music House and Record Café is home to one of the last surviving Voice-O-Graph booths—a 1940s vending machine that recorded customers to a...
Music Production
Grundman Cuts Quad Disc Live
The session was a highlight of the recent Making Vinyl conference.
Live Sound
Welcome to 1979 Marks 10 Years with Direct-to-Disc Session
Ten artists will perform live at the studio on June 2 for 10-song vinyl compilation.
Business
The Unlikely Return of Quadraphonic Vinyl
By Steve Harvey. Is the world ready for the return of quadraphonic vinyl records? KamranV believes the answer is yes; now he's spearheading what...
Recording
Grundman Brings Golden Record Back to Earth
Bernie Grundman recently remastered an album meant only for alien ears.
Blog
Spacelab9 Lands At New York Comic Con
The annual New York Comic Con might not seem like a place you’d find an audio-oriented company, but for Spacelab9, NYCC was a perfect...
Blog
Forget ‘Cutting Wax’—Time To Cut Some Wood
Amanda Ghassaei has created instructions on how to use a laser cut machine to create records using a variety of materials, including wood, acrylic...
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