Thinking about vinyl for your next project?

Do you have a steady fan following? Sell your own merchandise? Then vinyl is a good option for you! You may be surprised how easy it is to produce a quality vinyl product – with a little help.

There are a lot of factors that go into making a good record. To get vinyl done right you need someone who knows how to make a record sound like a "record." And we do – we've been creating masters for vinyl continuously since the 70s. Many one-stop places will take your flat mixes –- or your mixes mastered for CD –- to create your vinyl.  While this may be a cheaper route, it will ALWAYS sound inferior to a purpose-crafted record.

This is a good time to be putting out vinyl, but make sure you're using experts. You want your fans to be blown away by the quality of your sound, and you certainly don't want to go through all the work involved in making a vinyl product to only have it sound "decent." At Masterdisk we pride ourselves on the quality of our cuts, and we can make the best vinyl masters you can get, anywhere.

If you're interested in taking more of an inside look into the vinyl mastering process, check out Scott Hull's series of blog posts at The Vinyl District. In this series, Scott goes into detail about the geometry of the record groove, our vinyl cutting system (the Neumann VMS-82 lathe), the RIAA Curve, turntable performance, common vinyl problems, and much more.

Cutting from Analog Tape.

Masteridsk is one of only a small group of dedicated mastering studios that can truly cut to vinyl directly from analog masters. Specially modified tape machines are needed to do this. (And of course we have one!) Some studios that claim they can cut from analog actually have to send the audio through a digital delay box, and send that digital signal to the preview and main converters. There is a lot wrong with this method, and because of that, most studios are not completely clear with their clients about their signal path to the lathe. If you have analog masters, you really should -- if at all possible -- plan on cutting directly from them. The record will turn out better.

Expect the Best from Masterdisk.

Please call to talk with one our project coordinators about your project. Whether you mastered with one of our engineers or you mastered your music elsewhere, we can cut your record and help you understand all of the details. You can expect the best from Masterdisk.