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1. Cutting Room

From the supplied master tape (via FTP or CDR) we make a cut in the cutting room. The audio is being cut on a cutting lathe in a lacquer, which has an acetate layer or on a DMM, which has a copper layer. The difference between the two is that a DMM is more ... Read More >

2. Galvanic

The next step is the plating or galvanic. In this step of the process, the stampers which we use to press the records, are produced.The lacquer with the groove is sprayed with silver, which forms a layer on the lacquer. Than the lacquer with the ... Read More >

3. Pressfloor

The vinyl is transported to the press in small granular or pellet form. Before it is placed between the stampers it is formed under high pressure into a small 'puck' or 'biscuit'. The 'puck' is mechanically placed between the stampers with on each side ... Read More >

4. Glueing and Folding.

The sleeves are folded inhouse, on one of our Winkler & Dunnebier folding machines. We have four machines which can practically fold any sleeve for all formats. One of them is a gatefold machine, which folds a two piece gatefold for 12" with a 10 mm ... Read More >

5. Packaging

The packaging is being done at the finishing department where the records are mechanically sleeved in their outersleeve (apart from 7" and 10" which are sleeved by hand) and packed into boxes for transportation. Automatic stickering, shrinkwrapping or ... Read More >

6. Quality Control

Throughout this whole process the record is subject to a comprehensive Quality Control. Before an order can be pressed a first testing will be made and played by QC. When an order is planned for production QC will regularly check a record during the time ... Read More >

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5-01 Top Ten best selling albums on vinyl in 2011

Vrijdag 06 januari 2012, 08:13 • 421 views

Musicmagazine Rolling Stone has published a top ten of best selling albums on vinyl last year, with Abbey Road by the Beatles as number one best seller, 41.000 copies in 2011!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beatles-abbey-road-is-top-selling-vinyl-album-for-third-year-20120105

and more news about vinyl sales gone up in the US:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/soundscan-s-year-end-charts-the-numbers-1005793352.story

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Latest Comments

Op een hele pure eerlijke manier is er een portret gemaakt van een hele eerlijke pure ...
24-08-2011 • 16:20 • Janneke
Mooi portret van een gepassioneerde persoonlijkheid.
03-05-2011 • 12:15 • Wytse Sterk
Ik stelde me de vraag of het vinyl van oude platen gerecycleerd wordt tot grondstof ...
16-03-2011 • 20:13 • luc daelemans
Just say how happy I am with my mouse mat... Ik wens jullie heel veel succes in 2011.
20-01-2011 • 11:50 • Lee Gurbutt

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