MASTERING

This step involves first checking the provided audio master and making - if necessary - minor modifications to ensure that it is suitable...

... for the cutting and production of vinyl records and the final transcribing of the prepared audio onto a physical carrier by cutting the grooves into the master plates via DMM, or, in special cases, lacquer technology.

When we receive an audio master, we consider the master to be artistically finished and ready for vinyl production – meaning that their dynamics and range of frequencies have already been approved by the customer. We expect that the customer wants the end product to sound the same as the supplied data. Our objective is to achieve the truest possible transfer of the supplied audio material to vinyl through the available technologies.


In the case that the customer has special requirements, we only provide basic modifications of the sensitive data supplied in order to achieve and conform to specific characteristics and parameters of vinyl records while attempting to reduce the risk of distortion and maintaining the widest range of audible frequencies.

  • Gravure DMM

    The DMM (Direct Metal Mastering) engraving is the most recent technology used in the production of vinyl records.

    The DMM technology was developed in the 1980s by the companies Teldec and Neumann. Since 2010, we have developed and improved this engraving technology.

    We are the only factory in the world that continuously commercially operates 4 improved DMMs...

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  • Engraving on Lacquers

    Engraving on lacquers is a traditional mechanical recording technology used since the 1950s. The groove is engraved via a heated burin, directly into the soft outer layer of an aluminum plate coated with a nitrocellulose lacquer layer.

    The subsequent production of metal matrices generally requires a complex and costly three-step galvanic process...

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  • Vinyl Visual Mastering

    Our engineers and technicians have developed a unique software in the world to analyze audio recordings and simulate engraving using modeled virtual grooves.
    Although DMM is the cutting technology mainly implemented in studios, there are sometimes recordings that would benefit more from the lacquer engraving process. Our software is capable of alerting us if that is the case...

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