Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Hehe, Moonshine a smaller label?  You're joking right? 

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, but I've been sending out promos for a 
few years now, not to mention I've got a pretty relationship with a lot of 
the nu skool breaks label owner in the UK right now (Sounds of Habib, 
Plastic Raygunn, Disuye, TCR) etc.  Sure if they like your tune they'll 
talk about pressing it, but there's a lot of work that goes into putting 
out a record, so they don't just take the ones that sound good (obviously 
that's ONE of the prerequisites though).  There's marketting plans to 
think about, promotion budgets, regional exposure, whether or not it has 
the 'sound' a label is known for, etc.

I truly wish it was as easy as just finding a small label and letting them 
press it, but you've got to find the right label, one who's willing to 
invest in an unknown producer(s).  Not that we're not going to try still, 
the B-side is in the works right now...

BTW, mastering for vinyl is a completely different process than regular CD 
mastering, and has nothing to do with dither.  A record pressing plant 
will typically have an in house engineer who's job is to take your nice, 
pristine CD master, and make sure it'll work on a record.  They don't do 
any dithering at this stage, unless they need to completely remaster your 
song in the first place, which is rare nowadays as the labels will have 
caught any of those issues long before it get sent to be pressed.  The 
pressing plant will check to make sure your bass frequencies are centered, 
not panning around, or pulled hard to one side (causes the needle to jump 
out of the groove).  They also determine how hot to burn the record (+6dB 
is typical for dance tunes), an how far apart the grooves should be given 
the track length, and the bass content.  Typcially recored with lots of 
bass with need deeper grooves that are farther apart.  Lots of good 
articles out there on vinyl pressing if you need more info...

rEalm



I knew of a guy in New York that prints house tracks, he would get stuff 
in on Dat and just print it if it didn't need mastering.  Prefered DAT 
because he needed to remaster a bunch of em and wanted the higher quality. 
 Really doesn't matter what the format is I'm sure.  Some things are 
obviously easier to work with for mastering if it hasn't allready been 
compressed and dithered.  Just send em out, That track is sweet enough if 
you sent it to a smaller label I'm sure they would pick it up.  Try 
Moonshine Records, they're pretty decent.