another place to answer vinyl pressing questions is john golden mastering
and also
http://www.recordtech.com/index.html Supposedly it is the place
to get vinyl pressed.
I'm sure that you could specify a lower amount of pressings per stamper
(mother) but it will just mean you have to spend more money making stampers
(mothers).
Also your copy of original fire may just be worn out...or is it new?
steve
oh, and bernies' is the shit...we send lot's of people up thata way from san
diego.
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quoted 5 lines From: "brian albers" <brianalbers@hotmail.com>
>From: "brian albers" <brianalbers@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] vinyl (was promos)
>Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2000, 5:03 PM
>quoted 32 lines I want to respectfully correct one aspect of this.
>
> I want to respectfully correct one aspect of this.
>
> I've got a friend who works at Bernie Grundman Mastering and we've discussed
> the process of cutting vinyl at length. He says the test pressings of a
> record are the absolute first copies to come off the lathe and therefore
> will sound better than the rest of the copies because the master disc will
> wear out after about 200 to 300 copies at which point they've got to get
> another copy from the acetate.
>
> My point being, the test pressings will sound superior to most of the other
> copies (commercially available or promos) which may explain why my 3 12" set
> of Meat Beat's Original Fire has an overwhelming amount of distortion on it.
>
> End of line. Brian.
>>
>>As for why they are "special", that's a harder question to answer. I
>>mean, if something is a test pressing, then that literally means that this
>>pressing could have an inferior sound to the cheaper, subsequent, more
>>attractive official release to follow. Then again, sometimes the official
>>release never comes out.. therefore rendering the test pressing or promo
>>items as the *only* way to get a first generation copy of a hot track.
>>
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