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I really want to release my next full length on 12" vinyl. It is 19 tracks totaling at about 34 minutes long. It is very similar to 80's Hardcore Punk plus LSDJ. What are my options?
Some rough recordings of stuff that will be on it:
https://soundcloud.com/dsv101/rough3
https://soundcloud.com/dsv101/whats-to-come
edit - clarified title - lb
i mean your options are basically either find someone that wants to spend the money on putting it out on vinyl or spending the money on putting it out on vinyl yourself
Uhh, theres really no gain in doing it, based off of our artist standing.
It isn't like you have a million fan that will help you raise the money.
you'll appeal to all the hipsters
you could start a kickstarter and get it done that way.
if you want to appeal to hipsters go with tape releases. they're way cheaper.
if you want to appeal to hipsters go with tape releases. they're way cheaper.
+1 for tape releases
Very affordable for a self-financed release
plus there's all kindas hidey-holes for album art goodies 
Your options are:
Full-print run (minimum usually 100-300, sometimes less) - benefits=low cost per record, drawbacks=high volume (if you're not very popular).
Example - http://www.urpressing.com/
Lathe run (minimum usually 10-25, sometimes less) - benefits=low volume, drawbacks=high cost per record, sometimes low quality/mono recordings.
Example - http://justinlloydcreative.com/piaptk/lathecuts/
or if you just want a copy for yourself...
Dubplates - (one copy) - benefit=good for personal archives, drawbacks=extremely high cost per record, usually deteriorates with each play.
Example - http://www.customrecords.com/DJ_dubplat … cords.html
All options are expensive, and you're probably not going to make any money (unless you sell for a really high cost price). You're more likely to be out of pocket any way you choose with only like 35 Soundcloud fans (no offence, just being realistic here).
Last edited by Sycamore Drive (Jul 8, 2013 9:30 am)
also worth noting is that a lot chipmusic is in inherently completely unsuited to the vinyl format. square waves below certain frequencies literally cause the needle to jump. plus you have to do all this mono mix stuff that will phase or sound terrible after pressing if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
Just want to say this music is sounding sick, vinyl or not I'm looking forward to the release! TRV PVNX 4 LYFE
also worth noting is that a lot chipmusic is in inherently completely unsuited to the vinyl format. square waves below certain frequencies literally cause the needle to jump. plus you have to do all this mono mix stuff that will phase or sound terrible after pressing if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
can you expand info on this, please? I pressed vinyl before, but it was all guitars and fun so we did a simple mastering and call it a day
Gonna leave this here for reference.
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/8259/ … -pressing/
Don't hardpan bass and kicks is part of the needle skating thing, in fact most loudness war habits fail on low quality vinyl. Deeper, higher quality pressings sound better and allow you to get away with more abuse of limitations. I would hope the engineer will take care of it to a certain extent, but it's like giving a 25x25 pixel image to one of those T-shirt websites.
Gonna leave this here for reference.
http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/8259/ … -pressing/Don't hardpan bass and kicks is part of the needle skating thing, in fact most loudness war habits fail on low quality vinyl. Deeper, higher quality pressings sound better and allow you to get away with more abuse of limitations. I would hope the engineer will take care of it to a certain extent, but it's like giving a 25x25 pixel image to one of those T-shirt websites.
What do you mean by hardpan? I put most shit on different channels, is that hardpanning?
hard panning is having something entirely or almost entirely panned to one side
gameboys do not output a true mono center, since everything is either entirely L, entirely R, or both at the same time.
and "both at the same time" isn't the same as mono for a number of complicated reasons which, admittedly, i don't really understand all that well.
Last edited by Victory Road (Jul 8, 2013 2:10 pm)