We are very proud to be featured this month in musicangle. Michael Fremer is an inspiration, and his documentary “It’s a Vinyl World After All” was certainly an inspiration and is a defining work in all aspects of vinyl collecting, care and production.
And just to note, in addition to my British home setup, at our Columbus office we have my old DJ rig of two Technics 1200s with Rockit studio monitors. Yes, that’s the former Dr. Dreidel setup.
I love getting emails from people curious about the process of manufacturing vinyl. Hopefully soon we’ll start featuring interviews with some plant staff and mastering engineers (if you want to be featured, get in touch!) about the process.
Most recordings are cut into acetate lacquers. Today however, we want to talk about DMM or Direct metal mastering. DMM was invented by Neumann and TelDec in Germany at the end of the 20th century. A great overview of the sonic differences can be found on Wikipedia.
Especially of note is the story regarding the last DMM machine in the United States:
As at 2009 there are six or seven DMM cutting facilities left in the world, mostly in England and Germany and one in the Czech Republic. The USA lost its last DMM cutting facility in 2005 with the failure of New York City based record manufacturer Europadisk LLC. Europadisk’s DMM lathe was sold at auction on 20-SEP-05 to the Church of Scientology for US $72,500. This gives CST two DMM lathes for the purpose of transcribing L. Ron Hubbard’s speeches to disc and with the development of their wind-up record player this would create a system to commit those speeches to posterity for light years to come.
Everyone loves high-end stereos, right?
We have a pretty nice QA room in our plant. I’ve seen some sweet setups, but this is ridiculous. Il Piu’ Grande Subwoofer Del Mondo | Arkitip Intel.
Here’s another great write-up on the internets from Cleveland Bachelor:
Cleveland Bachelor: Before Cleveland can rock, first it has Gotta Groove!.
We’ve slowly been reaching out to local (and national) music blogs.
Want an interview? A tour? Contact tyler@gottagrooverecords.com
Check out the latest Gotta Groove split 7″ pressing:
Side 1: Drunken Cholos, Side 2: Rich White Males
First, as a disclaimer, we have nothing to do with the release of this record. Ian Rogers is one of those people who knows whats up. His company, Topspin Media does some pretty impressive work with direct to fan marketing and distribution. If you aren’t familiar with their work, you should be.
His latest endeavor is co-managing the Get Busy Committee. Anyway, he’s got a great series of posts over at FISTFULAYEN documenting their process of marketing the record.
A very interesting read. Especially if you like USB sticks in the shape of UZIs.
A HUGE thanks to music blogger extraordinaire Bill Lipold for coming to our grand opening party Saturday. Some great shots of the equipment. For all things rock and Cleveland, you should be reading I ROCK CLEVELAND.
I Rock Cleveland: Inside Gotta Groove Records — Cleveland’s Vinyl Pressing Plant.
We had an amazing innaguration party this Saturday at the plant, pictures are coming in via email, I’ll be posting some good ones here and on the Facebook page. Here’s a short video clip of one pressing coming through the press. Enjoy!
Gotta Groove recently finished the 7″ pressing for Best Coast’s “Make You Mine” put out by Group Tightener. Check Best Coast out at www.myspace.com/bestcoasty, and be sure to stop into your local indie record store to pick up this hot new 7″ for yourself!
Gotta Groove just finished up pressing the 12″ LP for Drummer’s Feel Good Together. If you haven’t already picked up a copy of this fantastic new album, be sure to hit them up at www.audioeaglerecords.com to get it! Great classic-sounding feel-good rock.
On the left is Ben Vehorn, who produced and recorded the album. On the right is Audio Eagle Studio Manager Jeff France. The picture was taken at Vehorn's Tangerine Sound in Akron, Ohio. Audio Eagle also has a smaller studio in the same building.
