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[Keilan 303]

Wow! Would have killed for technology like this 10 years ago....although I dread to think what this would have cost then!



Vestax VRX2000 - Vinyl-R

Cool or what? It cuts discs in real time from a live source (dat/tape/cd/md deck, mixing desk, whatever). Blank discs are about £10 a shot, the stylus will cut about 20 hours of music until it needs replaed, which is about £250 a shot. The unit itself is a cool 6000.....

Will stick with CDR I think....

[Dave]

Quite possibly the greatest thing I've seen all week. Totally impractical, breathtakingly expensive, probably not all that much cop in terms of sound quality...but just look at it! It's like something out of God's hi-fi store.

[Keilan 303]

Hehe...seemingly the quality is very high....(provided you've been on a training course on how to use it...no shit!) .... I can understand the appeal to DJ's (cutting their own "White labels" for spinning and scratching at clubs, and vinyl junkie bands who want that one off special disc....but yeah....

[spellchecker]

could be a good investment for a shop, to charge maybe 20-30 a pop for someone to record their own vinyl from a CD or something. would pay for itself before too long i'm sure.

Originally Posted by spellchecker

could be a good investment for a shop, to charge maybe 20-30 a pop for someone to record their own vinyl from a CD or something. would pay for itself before too long i'm sure.

Indeed... mmmm it would be soo good to know how to use it properly, imagine it, you're very own vinyl release!!!

[RF Scott]

it'd probably be cheaper to just get a run of records pressed..

still, its awesome

[Tav]

<lusts> How much does it cost to have someone do you vinyl for you...I hear the main place to have it done is like eastern europe or something?

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by Tav

<lusts> How much does it cost to have someone do you vinyl for you...I hear the main place to have it done is like eastern europe or something?

For one-off's expect something like this:

12 inch / 10 inch plates
- 2mm thick, black PVC
- 7:30 minutes per side on 12 inch plates (recommended)
- 5:30 minutes per side on 10 inch plates (recommended)
- 45rpm / 33 rpm
- varying pitch (grooves per cm) depending on track length

12 inch PLATE
(recommended time per side 7 min 30 sec)
1 side £25
2 sides £35

10 inch PLATE
(recommended time per side 5 min 30 sec)
1 side £15
2 sides £25

Engineering
1 side £15
2 sides £25

[Teabags]

Filthpact/Afterbirth got our vinyl done somewhere in London.

330 7"s for something like £550. that was on heavy vinyl (anyone who has seen the record KNOWS it is one HEAVY fucking vinyl)

And that was a ripp off.

Get a pressing of 500 done for something liek £250-£300 in Czech Republic.

Only problem is getting the records through to the UK without having to pay tax on them.

So yeah, though that machine is fuckign amazing looking, its FAR too expensive (£10 for a blank disc??) to even consider using for your own releases.

[psydoll]

Originally Posted by thurisaz

330 7"s for something like £550. that was on heavy vinyl (anyone who has seen the record KNOWS it is one HEAVY fucking vinyl)

It certainly is heavy - almost everyone I've shown that too has remarked "Gee willerkins and struth mate that's a heavy vinyl ya got there!" or words to that effect.

It's a wonderous machine but perhaps, as others said, not that practical for home use.