edpriesner wrote:I can only imagine how much this has inconvenienced you. I'm terribly sorry for wasting so much of your precious time.

Enframed / Sparky - Thanks a lot- I appreciate it.

It's not about inconvenience. Getting sarcastic after you've exhibited bad etiquette isn't super comely or anything, btw. What it's really about is trying to keep some kinda sensible structure, about some semblance of order, about avoiding duplicating the same effort over, and over, and over.

Some things are pretty tricky to find when you search. This is not even close to being one of them. All you need to do is take 1 minute to use the search function, which is included on this site for a reason. In fact, if you do a search for UTSF. UTFSF, or UTMFSF, you can probably find examples of this very phenomenon being discussed a whole bunch of times before.

UTFSF!!!

Good thing I'm not concerned with being super comely.

ITTRTUTFSFNT!

edpriesner wrote:ITTRTUTFSFNT!

Whuh? Not a single F, Y, or C?

I will vote again for Alpha in Florida

info@alpharecordsinc.com

great service, great sounding records, decent prices.

I'm doing a double LP with Alpha presently for my label Barge Recordings. They were highly recommended by our cutting engineer Paul Gold who came highly recommended by our mastering engineer Josh Bonati. I trust Josh...he's done great work for us.

I'll let you know how everything turns out. I think their minimum is 500 though. What ever you do...don't skimp on the cutting...this will be a big factor as to how good your recording will sound. So, research a good cutting engineer.

Brooklyn Phono will do short runs.....good luck getting them to answer your emails tho...

IPL wrote:

I will vote again for Alpha in Florida

info@alpharecordsinc.com

great service, great sounding records, decent prices.

I'm doing a double LP with Alpha presently for my label Barge Recordings. They were highly recommended by our cutting engineer Paul Gold who came highly recommended by our mastering engineer Josh Bonati. I trust Josh...he's done great work for us.

I'll let you know how everything turns out. I think their minimum is 500 though. What ever you do...don't skimp on the cutting...this will be a big factor as to how good your recording will sound. So, research a good cutting engineer.

Brooklyn Phono will do short runs.....good luck getting them to answer your emails tho...

Paul Gold is the shit!

He still cuts 100% analog if you give him sequenced reels. He'll cut from 24 bit files.

He's affordable.

And he's a great guy with a great sense of humor.

Where are people getting stuff pressed these days? I found some references to Mobineko CD pressing on another thread here and it seemed people were happy with it, anyone use them for vinyl?

Isn't that in the same building as the recent PRF BBQs?Anyway, my GGR experiences in 2015 & '17 echo Tom Wanderer's. I was part of a project last year that went through that Czech place and it was worse on every level. (the marble vinyl does look cool I suppose)

There is a new plant in Chicago called Smashed Plastic. I believe FM Bob Weston has cut some lacquers for them or worked with them or knows them in some way. Maybe he can chime in or you can PM him. I know nothing else about them so I can't recommend or reject them.https://smashedplastic.com/

154 wrote:Isn't that in the same building as the recent PRF BBQs?^Correct. I've currently got a record going through them now. They don't do their own plating, so CMS had to send my lacquers elsewhere for that, but they should be making their way back to Chicago shortly.Communication so far has been great and pricing is totally fair. Will report more once we get to the test pressing stages!

After using URP for a decade, I made the switch to Gotta Groove last year. No complaints whatsoever with Gotta Groove. Turnaround was about 6 weeks from the time they received my lacquers until I took delivery of the whole run of 300 records. Good communication with a rep throughout, no surprises and I saved quite a bit ordering my blank jackets from them rather than an outside supplier. They ended up being comparably priced to URP as well, might have even come out a little cheaper. Honestly, despite the horror stories, I never had any serious issues with URP, but it was time to walk away. It's a weird company to do business with and they were starting to whittle certain options down (also WTF is with their submission paperwork...it's like 15 pages). I know other FMs will have their go-to plants, but Gotta Groove worked great for me and I will be using them again for my next project.