You should all be ashamed that the thread has gone this far without ONE mention of this:
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Brazil
bleo wrote:
You should all be ashamed that the thread has gone this far without ONE mention of this:
I feel ashamed.
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East Kilbride, Scotland
Subway Sonicbeat wrote:
Decktonic wrote:I read a good article about it. IIRC, you should estimate about $1000 for a small batch run of 500 records... that's usually the minimum you can get done. That's 12" records on regular vinyl... the cheaper marble-like "splatter-vinyl" is made from the scraps and while it may look cool, it's much lower quality. Usually on an order like this you will be lucky if you break even, and that's if you can sell them all. So yeah, it's expensive, and not something you do in the hopes of making any money.
also you will probably need to pay for mastering because you shouldn't use the same mastering you would use for CD/digital.
edit: here's the article http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/02/rel … -on-vinyl/
Ah thanks for the reply! I knew it was expensive, that's why it was just to satisfy my curiosity. In the future I would like to have songs of mine released on vinyl, cause I love it. The article is really nice!
...or you can get hand-lathed vinyl that you can get in much smaller quantities for more per $, or this...
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Sycamore Drive wrote:
Subway Sonicbeat wrote:Ah thanks for the reply! I knew it was expensive, that's why it was just to satisfy my curiosity. In the future I would like to have songs of mine released on vinyl, cause I love it. The article is really nice!
...or you can get hand-lathed vinyl that you can get in much smaller quantities for more per $, or this...
Cool! And I thought Peter King was the only one doing this in a larger scale. Do you know if there are more people doing it?
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East Kilbride, Scotland
I'm sure there are more. Curved Pressing in London make one-off dub plates if you're just looking for a single copy to keep for yourself. They also make as little as 100 records on a normal pressing.
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hardcore, Australia
nordloef wrote:
Cool! And I thought Peter King was the only one doing this in a larger scale. Do you know if there are more people doing it?
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East Kilbride, Scotland
godinpants wrote:
nordloef wrote:Cool! And I thought Peter King was the only one doing this in a larger scale. Do you know if there are more people doing it?
Also
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Melbourne, Australia
WARPDRIVE 7" EP
A - Sievert - Prototronic Accelerator
B- IAYD - Atomic Hypercharger
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Brazil
Whoa, that was way more cheaper, but still I live in Brazil. The shipping and taxes will make this really expensive. 
But is good to know that this exists!
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Melbourne, Australia
Yeah, I wish I could apologise for the expense but our Aussie dollar has just been doing so well against almost everyone else. When we costed it out it was more affordable. When our dollar goes to shit again it'll be nice and cheap for all you international folk 
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celsius wrote:
Yeah, I wish I could apologise for the expense but our Aussie dollar has just been doing so well against almost everyone else. When we costed it out it was more affordable. When our dollar goes to shit again it'll be nice and cheap for all you international folk
Just to state: what you and 10k are doing is really nice.
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Melbourne, Australia
Awww thanks! 
That makes it all worth it.
I think I'm finally starting to have an appreciation of the work that goes into running a label. I will never look at 8bp or Pause in the same light. The things those guys achieve is phenomenal so I'm throwing some love their way too.
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sweden
Celsius: Have you guys been looking into european/american distros anything?
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Milwaukee, WI
@ celsius: Pssh. We don't want your love anyway. 
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
A physical label is EXTREMELY hard work and most of the time it seems you run into problems more often than not, but it keeps you out of trouble. I applaud anyone looking to jump into it head on. Having said that, I'm now off to go fix a string of problems we just encountered with the Hexadeci 7".
Last edited by RG (Jan 19, 2011 12:59 am)
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hardcore, Australia
Oh labelmans, doing the job I could never get around to following through on. If you ever come to my house, you can decide what channel we watch on tv.