Quote:Beard‏ @AndrewBritton55 3m3 minutes ago
My jaw dropped today when I heard we are making @HaleyReinhart new vinyl record at my job. I am extremely excited for her she's incredible

Quote:BORDENTOWN, N.J. — The machines at Independent Record Pressing whirred and hissed as they stamped out a test record. The business’s owners waited anxiously for Dave Miller, the plant manager, to inspect the still-warm slab of vinyl.

“That’s flat, baby!” Mr. Miller said as he held the record, to roars of approval and relief. “That’s the way they should come off, just like that.”

Independent Record Pressing is an attempt to solve one of the riddles of today’s music industry: how to capitalize on the popularity of vinyl records when the machines that make them are decades old, and often require delicate and expensive maintenance. The six presses at this new 20,000-square-foot plant, for example, date to the 1970s.

...Independent’s machines tell some of the history of the modern music business. Mr. Miller, 62, helped build them as a young man in the 1970s, and they were used for decades at the Hub-Servall plant in Cranbury, N.J.; Mr. Miller recalled pressing copies of the “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease” soundtracks there.

In 2007, Hub-Servall’s presses were sold to RIP-V, a new plant in Montreal that took on Epitaph as a client. RIP-V shut down last year, and Independent bought six of its 14 machines and brought them back to New Jersey. (The rest went to other plants.) Mr. Hansen said that he and Secretly had invested $1.5 million in the venture.

...While tweaking two machines, Mr. Miller, the plant manager, showed how many parts of the physical process must be aligned to make a record properly.

Vinyl pellets are poured from a bucket into an extruder, and then formed into a small lump of vinyl that is placed between metal stampers forming the shape of each side of the record. The machine then presses the stampers together with 150 pounds per square inch of pressure. If the temperature, pressure or consistency of the vinyl is off, the result is an imperfect record that is scrapped.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/business/media/a-vinyl-lp-frenzy-brings-record-pressing-machines-back-to-life.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

(08-31-2017, 09:07 PM)Miguel Wrote: I tried to figure out where he might work. It's hard to narrow down his geographic location based on his tweets. Many possbilities, but I think it might be New Jersey.

(09-01-2017, 05:22 AM)Miguel Wrote: "What's That Sound?" promoted in the middle of an online newstory.



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Quote:haleyreinhart
Come on baby light my fire... #thedoors #robbykrieger #jimmorrison #lightmyfire #whatsthatsound? #her #bonustrack #vinylcollection

Quote:hausoffabi
When I saw this on twitter I thought you did a cover AND I ALMOST DIED.

Quote:haleyreinhart
@hausoffabi I did... tryina put it out as a bonus track, stay tuned!

(09-01-2017, 04:03 PM)Miguel Wrote: "#vinylcollection"

"tryina put it out as a bonus track"

Does that mean it would only be on the vinyl record or that it will be offered separately?

I think the latter. Free to some for certain purchases but still available for purchase separately.

Quote:Beard‏ @AndrewBritton55 21h21 hours ago
Replying to @HaleysTusk @HaleyReinhart
No now it's getting real

Quote:CVA‏ @CVAmediagroup 15m15 minutes ago
How gorgeous does Singer @HaleyReinhart look for her Album Cover "The Letter" Make Up by @CVAmediagroup Celebrity Artist @Keniardaniel #CVA