Lathe Cut Vinyl Vs Pressed

Lathe cut vs pressed vinyl.

Lathe cut vinyl vs pressed.

I agree that mastered by vinyl cut is pointless anyone who is aware of how records are made should know this. I m putting one of my solo albums on vinyl but i feel a lathe cut wouldn t be very good idea. As far as i see it they specialize lathe cut record only confusing but they use vinyl plate i think i do see cons pros of ordering lathe basically dubplates good for very short runs each lathe cut is unique and having record pressed set up fee is expensive but cheaper than lathe if you need a few hundred copy or more. Cut vinyl decals are die cut from pre colored rolls of vinyl and because of that you are limited by color selection.

So it s either laquer cut or mastered by. The overhead associated with record pressing makes it impossible for a record plant to offer vinyl record pressing no minimum. Not so long ago putting out a vinyl record was only viable for high volume commercial releases. Cut vinyl can produce a decal using multiple colors however each color in the design must be a different layer and because more materials are used for each layer it can quickly become very expensive to do this.

Custom vinyl records no minimum. And mastering is a totally different process. I feel somewhere like rti rainbow records gottagroove or noiseland would be more ideal 100 500 copies than a short run lathe cut 25 50. It depends what they re being cut on.

Lathe cut records have been around since the beginning of the vinyl format itself. Lathe cutting is ideal for short run one off records because each piece is individually hand cut tested. Can anyone tell me the true sound quality difference of lathe cut vs pressed vinyl. An acetate dubplate cut on a professional scully or neumann lathe with a stereo feedback cutterhead will sound better than a pressed record at least for the first couple of dozen times it s played.

Vinyl is never cut.