Record Store Owner Chris Penn Reunites the Original Alice Cooper Band Resulting ‘Live from the Astroturf’ Up for Making Vinyl Packaging Award
Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times At Ridgemont High saved Brooke Shields from drowning, then blew the reward money to hire Van Halen to play his birthday party. Chris Penn had a similar vision, although his was not for a fictional movie. A lifelong superfan of Alice Cooper since discovering the band’s Greatest Hits in his […]
Bernie Grundman 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient at Making Vinyl Hollywood
The name Bernie Grundman is synonymous with Mastering. His world-renowned facilities, responsible for a consistently large percentage of chart recordings, were launched in 1984, following Grundman’s 15-year tenure with A&M Studios. In 1997, Grundman opened his Tokyo mastering studios and in 1998 relocated to expanded facilities in Hollywood. Bernie Grundman’s mastering credits include: Michael Jackson, […]
Don’t Believe in Vinyl Sales Numbers
Contributed by Michal Fremer, Editor, AnalogPlanet.com We Can all express our enthusiasm for vinyl records and we do, but what really counts are the cold, hard numbers. Annual sales figures do not lie. Or do they? At every Making Vinyl event someone presents statistics gathered by one or more of the reporting agencies: there are […]
Making Vinyl @ Masterdisk Episode 5: Making Vinyl Conference & Cutting Steely Dan’s Two Nature Record
A current events podcast episode from Masterdisk. First, we hear about KJ’s fundraiser and video premiere party, Then Scott Talks about Making Vinyl 2019 – The Vinyl conference coming to LA, CA next week. And to wrap up – Scott Tells us all about cutting the Grammy-winning Two Against Nature by Steely Dan. Follow along […]
Bob Mould to Keynote Making Vinyl Berlin & the World of Physical Media Event
May 2-3, 2019 B2B Conference Covers Importance of Physical Media in the Digital Age BERLIN, GERMANY – Musician Bob Mould will keynote Making Vinyl and the World of Physical Media Conference here May 2-3, 2019 at the Meistersaal, the famed concert hall that previously was the Hansa recording studio where David Bowie created “Heroes” in […]
Longplay Panama Video Recap
Our friends down at Longplay Panama made this awesome recap video of Making Vinyl Detroit. They also just hosted the first Record Store Day. Congrats! I wish them the best of success and I look forward to welcoming them to Making Vinyl 2019! https://mylongplay.com/
Green Vinyl Records Production Process to Debut at Making Vinyl
From 2014 on, Green Vinyl Records (Symcon) has been developing a new production process to manufacture vinyl records without chlorides. In this short interview, we ask Harm Theunisse, director of Symcon, to tell us more about this innovative development. How far are you with the new product and its process? We expect to have the […]
HD Vinyl takes next step with debut of 3D topography software Perfect Groove
HD Vinyl, the next generation of vinyl records, promises a better, faster, and more eco-friendly production process, as well as higher audio quality and longer playing time. Rebeat Innovation, the company behind HD Vinyl, is now unveiling the software that creates 3D topographies required for laser-cutting HD Vinyl stampers. Called ‘Perfect Groove,’ the software is […]
Mastering for Vinyl: Tips for Digital Mastering Engineers
Posted with permission www.iZotope.com by Jett Galindo, iZotope Contributor Since the resurgence of vinyl in the mid-2000s, vinyl sales have shown no signs of slowing down. But with its return comes a new set of challenges for the aging medium—new genres with increasingly complex production styles, the major paradigm shift from analog to digital production, and […]
Advice to labels: When reissuing vinyl, go a little further
The vinyl revival has provided a new lease of life for countless underappreciated albums that originally fell through the cracks. When done right, such reissues are nothing short of revelatory, and can even bring out of retirement a construction worker, as was the case with Rodriguez, courtesy of Light in the Attic, which reissued in […]
