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We visit Jack White's Third Man Records vinyl pressing plant in Detroit, Michigan to find out exactly what goes into the creation of a vinyl record; from cutting and pressing to making sure they sound great.
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Director: Katherine Wzorek
Director of Photography: Kevin Hewitt
Editor: Louis Lalire
Talent: Broc Barnes, Warren Defever, Ed Gillis
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Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Kevin Ward
Audio: Frank Biondo
Production Assistant: Ryan Hewitt
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
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@jopo7996 Год назад

The vinyl record making process is really groovy.

@satelliteimagerymusic Год назад

please leave dad

@girltarist Год назад

Wait................ It's that why groovy means cool??????????? 😱👍

@manjacovus5342 Год назад

Jopo... go to your room.

@Dayvit78 Год назад

Badum shhhh

@mom_im_losing_it Год назад

So are the folks that make them.

@KatazuiOfficial Год назад

As a musician, once you stamp your own record of your own music, it must be the best feeling in the world.

@murraymurray8111 Год назад

Was my favourite moment ever unpacking and holding my first album on vinyl

@KingRiverVlogs Год назад

@@murraymurray8111 agreed, my first picture disc was very important as well

@hardcoreoma 5 месяцев назад

Yeah hearing my first spotify song in 128kbps was the best feeling

@therealjd1503 Год назад

So glad that people still want to hear music in this format. Hopefully it never becomes a lost art.

@JonJonGreene Год назад

Yeah they're doing very well, I'm very young (basically shouldn't even know what records are) and I love collecting them!

@damsapollo Год назад

i dont think it’ll die down soon… manufacturers in fact do need to keep up with the high demands though (which is easier said than done).

@alanrogs3990 Год назад

But the mastering is becoming a lost art sadly. So is quality control. So many records these days are warped or off center.

@bassrooten2217 Год назад

@@myopiczeal you love the obsolescent culture don’t you

@joesmith4443 Год назад

@Lincoln Hirschi actually it was cassettes not the CD that were threatening their extinction. Cassettes were portable and you could play them in your car and on a Walkman.

@voicesofvinyl Год назад

They offer tours of their pressing plant and mastering facility in Detroit for $10. If you're into music, vinyl, and find yourself in Detroit, I highly recommend doing the tour and checking out their location.

@weirdshibainu Год назад

Thanks for the info. 10 bucks is a bargain

@DanielSchmidt94521 Год назад

Retro

@KaijuFan7000 Год назад

I hope I don't find myself in Detroit, but good to know!

@DanielSchmidt94521 Год назад

@@KaijuFan7000 Every place has it's problems.

@KaijuFan7000 Год назад

@@DanielSchmidt94521 i'm aware, just kidding around

@Dazlidorne Год назад

I've always thought it was cool that they hand write information on the record in the area around the label. Sometimes they even put random messages there.

@bababooey3499 Год назад

Yeah, i was gonna play one of my metallica records and i saw by the label it said "vinyl up your a*s" 💀

@stuartjames6983 Год назад

Often the mastering engineer. Prime example was George Peckham "a porky prime cut...."

@joshuabaca6257 Год назад

I have Metallica master of puppets remastered. It has “obey your remaster” etched in.

@dyldog Год назад

@@joshuabaca6257 also says that on the plastic wrapper over the cover art if I’m not mistaken

@mysticedge4 11 месяцев назад

On one of my vinyls the A side says Hi and the B side says Turn me over 😂

@Carlito810 Год назад

Makes me understand why they're so expensive, also makes me question how the first record/mass produced records were made

@sudicalwig Год назад

pretty much exactly the same way

@balticstain7150 Год назад

They don't need to be expensive that's a marketing thing they could be half the price...

@jacklawer6389 Год назад

Back in the 70's 8 bucks for a record, now like 40 Rip off

@Carlito810 Год назад

@Jack Lawer 8 dollars in the 70's also has as much buying power as around $60 today lol

@_PuppetMaster86 Год назад

@@jacklawer6389 Even back in 2020, LPs went for about $20, and if it's a double LP, maybe $30, but now, like you said, a single record can cost you $40 and up. It's crazy.

@kevinreylek2366 Год назад

Thank you to Jack White and the whole Third Man crew of experts for keeping this beautiful craft alive!

@ahsenserhat9270 Месяц назад

Lol it's not a losing art

@Serrot304 Месяц назад

@@ahsenserhat9270 it has its audience but it's still niche, like the guy in the video said too there's only one company making the lacquer they need

@JumbleTasteSpinning 5 месяцев назад

This video is why you should keep your records with love and care. This thing has soul in it ❤

@gtb_daytona 9 месяцев назад

worth to say, they use an old way of pressing - with lacquer cut. In mid 80s DMM was invented - Direct Metal Mastering - without a lacquer cut step, so it makes a whole process cheaper and gives a better sound quality

@Basham86 Год назад

This process is pure magic. I just wish there was better quality control these days

@ryan49805 Год назад

Jack is THE MAN for keeping this medium alive!!! Shout out to this very skilled crew as well… 🏆 🏆

@alanrogs3990 Год назад

Uh no, he is not. But he helps.

@balticstain7150 Год назад

vinyl rules not just the sound but the amazing artwork and additional information they can put in it can be so interesting ...

@TimersAndMore Год назад

Never knew how Vinyl Records are actually made, until now. The different colors are also a nice addition they can give to the vinyl records.

@alanrogs3990 Год назад

It's like eating a beautiful sandwich.

@KayoMichiels Год назад

And then you have picture discs and even odd shaped ones.

@GodWeenSatan Год назад

@@KayoMichiels i would like to see how they make the pictured ones

@LageYouTube Год назад

@@GodWeenSatan Probably quite uninteresting. Picture discs are just prints of an image pressed between two transparent plastic discs

@duprie37 Год назад

@@GodWeenSatan The picture is imprinted on flat PVC and then a grooved film with the audio is stuck on top. That's why picture discs don't sound that great.

@bradwilliams1691 Год назад

And to think that as of the 1st of March 2023 - Dark Side of The Moon has been continually pressed for 50 years. And still going strong.

@epinhervin9355 11 месяцев назад

Like an analogue photography often the imperfectness are the new perfectness. Old record with not smooth sound often made it awesome

@iswordlogici7760 10 месяцев назад

Vinyl is such a cool format. I'm super interested in all things analog and learning about how all this stuff is made and how they were is so interesting

@Vyzard Год назад

I like how instead of writing WMD, which could be interpreted as weapons of mass destruction, he writes WAR instead

@1998Danielon 3 месяца назад

hahahaha I didn´t think of it potentially meaning 'weapons of mass destruction'! :D But it's cool to see another point of view on it.

@feelingminnesotarecords Год назад

This is fantastic to see! We currently have a record being pressed at Third Man and should have our first test pressings in the coming weeks. eeek! Thanks for posting this

@movienerd202 5 месяцев назад

I worked in a shop that cleaned and prepped the frames for the screens that were used in CD illustrations. It was one of the most fulfilling jobs I ever had.

@cat-6 Год назад

I like to display my records and see what kind of music I prefer! Thank you to all the staff.

@biatch1966 5 месяцев назад

I just started collecting again so I appreciate this video.

@sabrinalesbianjesus 3 месяца назад

i have been collecting for about five years and just got into serious collecting. i bought an olivia rodrigo vinyl on record store day black friday this year and it was pressed here. it is so cool to see how my favorite record was made!

@charlesshepherd2004 4 месяца назад

Listening to an old vinyl on some modern , powered speakers... man, it sounds so dang good

@th1agu Год назад

The making of a vinyl makes me love the vinyl even more.

@northcabinent4222 Год назад

This was amazing to watch. What a meticulous process all the way through. Vinyl is the best sounding medium and this video shows us why

@Jo-yo7mw Год назад

Their workwear attire is fire! Would love to cop a button down like that

@ALNOE_ 11 месяцев назад

Its so interesting on how vinyls are made. I love vinyls so much. The sound is just incredible and I love it. I'm glad to be able to get them :)

@ParasonicxLove 9 месяцев назад

I feel like some artists must not put a lot of time into testing their vinyl pressings lately... some have been not up to snuff! (fascinating video btw love it!)

@brianmedeiros6845 3 месяца назад

Really gives more appreciation to the final product amazing talent! Thank You

@propagafun4368 9 месяцев назад

The sound when stylus lands on records is one of the best feeling

@theharshal Год назад

that outro explanation on what vinyl music really is awesome.

@PRANKZOMBIE Год назад

I just got a bad vinyl a couple days ago and I’m sad. It was on light yellow. I guess I now just have a pretty souvenir instead of a record I will love to dance to.

@turntablemaestro8201 Год назад

Lots of releases can be poor quality. I usually check discogs before purchasing to see if anyone has any comments on the pressing quality. The new NIN Pretty Hate Machine barely plays for me unless I change the weight on my tone arm.

@Life_Of_AL Год назад

What I can’t quite get my head around is how all those different instruments and vocals of a song are cut onto the lacquer. When you look at a vinyl record you can see the grooves, but how do you get the sound of the music on to it?

@yamz3713 Год назад

Exactly what I thought

@stephenobisanya Год назад

My exact question. I thought they’d explain that crucial part.

@slipstreamvids7422 Год назад

Kind of like a microphone that moves in reaction to sound waves and a speaker that mechanically reproduces the sound. The needle that cut the grooves is reproduced by the needle that plays it back

@stephenobisanya Год назад

@@slipstreamvids7422 But what is the mechanism that allows individual tracks of an albums to be PLACED onto the vinyl? I don’t think that was made clear in the video.

@sunnyd6019 Год назад

So glad to have 3rd Man around, they saved records. Hope we get more production so lead times cut down some. Cheers

@slorr55 Год назад

Third man records owned by the one and only Jack White

@Greendogblue Год назад

Yes, that is the very first thing in the description

@TinLeadHammer Год назад

Is he famous?

@starkparker16 Год назад

Cool

@nicholascrow8133 Год назад

Also exclusive recording and pressing of Adam Savage!

@rootsradical Год назад

And Eddie Gillis, around 6:00, is his brother.

@EdmondxEstrada Год назад

Imagine the person or persons that invented this complicated process! Brilliant!!!

@lancetti4843 Год назад

Imagine Thomas Edison, Emile Berliner and Peter Goldmark.

@VirginiaWolf88 Год назад

Great Video!!! I always wanted to see how records are made. Thank You for sharing this!!!

@keti.rg.editzzz Год назад

I’m glad they uploaded this video yesterday I had a conversation about how these are made, funny coincidence

@BrianCarothers-hs5to Год назад

Wired- You need to check out Hand Drawn Records vinyl pressing machines in Addison, Texas. Some of the coolest machines.

@uythsier 9 месяцев назад

First time I ever saw the process it is so cool. Thank you for making a video.

@Trojan0304 Год назад

Almost a lost art. Thank god for these artists. Got my records out of closet & Pioneer 518 & Technics 1600 mk2 . They sound like yesterday,lol😊

@HappilyAnonymousGirl Месяц назад

Seeing them make these and the process it takes to make a vinyl makes me appreciate them even more. The people making them and the vinyls. I’m so glad we still have these being made and people who still know how to make them properly. Makes me want to buy one lol

@konstantinospantazis6325 Месяц назад

I found my grandpa's old record player that i didn't know it existed and i have used it for some days now with some old disks. It has some problems with the speed that i am going to fix but i must say. Even in wrong speed, it felt so good listening to this. Exactly what they say at the end of the video

@longlivebytor Год назад

That was fascinating. I've always wondered how this was done. Now I know. Thanks!

@isaiahmcclure8894 8 месяцев назад

Just got my first record player today and 3 Perry Como vinyls, in love with this new hobby

@NelsonAJimenez Год назад

This was insane to watch, the details 💫 one can learn a lot working there I bet. That green colored vinyl 🖼️❤️‍🔥 I didn’t know that colored ones don’t sound as good as the traditional black vinyls

@j.taylor8615 Год назад

It's not true. If there was a superior sounding color, it would be clear (transparent vinyl) anyways.

@Fans44Liv Год назад

@@j.taylor8615 May I ask why?

@RiceWitch-dingus-400 7 месяцев назад

It was a joke, the color makes 0 difference except for maybe heat absorption which would make 0 noticeable difference.

@quirkyviper Год назад

I'm gonna look for an in-depth video on this. I got the gist of it, but there were so many words I didn't know!

@1awesome180 Год назад

Love the workers at 7:11 just using their bare hands😬

@fenn_2 Год назад

dad and step mom are in this!!! ❤

@DannerPlace 6 месяцев назад

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

@subcon959 Год назад

Love this kind of content

@scarlettmissredblack1381 Год назад

The Neumann 😍 Only ever seen one in person. You're so lucky!!!!!!

@garrettstasko6714 Год назад

I would like to see how they transfer the studio onto the record or CD and then make millions of copies of the same thing

@nickwallette6201 7 месяцев назад

... You just did.

@InfectiousGroovePodcast Год назад

As a long time Jack White fan and a Detroit native myself, I am very excited to see the empire that Jack's built for himself.

@natecallens Год назад

So cool!! Gotta love Jack White and Third Man Records! 🤘🥃

@theodoreroberts3407 Год назад

Thank you for showing this. i've akways wondered how.

@djjoeykmusic Год назад

Great Video! Thank you

@Theblackman11395 Месяц назад

Valuable information here

@ShastaRed Год назад

I never really knew how long it takes to make one vinyl album but cool to see and cool to see that company keeping vinyl alive I’m trying to buy as much so I can keep it alive for decades maybe pass it onto my kids if I ever have any but I’m 19 almost 20 and I’ve been collecting for years and it’s fun to do even better going to a record store to look for things you weren’t looking for till you saw it but vinyl is great

@overbrain1204 Год назад

thx for this video!!!

@sherlocknoshitlibertyjusti2933 Год назад

Nothing is better than the record stores and lp records of all your favorite artists.. tower records and licorice pizza record stores were the best ! Hated to see them go. Glad somebody's on it again. Everybody, I mean EVERYBODY including your grandma collected records.

@MaxTovstyiMusic Год назад

magical process

@ark228rock Год назад

Thanks to all the staff for continuing to do this!

@BlueSparks25 7 месяцев назад

What a pressing task!

@ccffire6666 Месяц назад

great documentary demonstration on how records are made it's great to see the modern day of it being done there is a great film out there with the late great Mel Blanc on how records are made it's a really great and funny film at the same time it has a Bugs Bunny subliminal messaging it if you see the film the title I believe of the film is called want to buy a record

@MrMoy6003 Год назад

I was hoping to learn HOWWW music gets transfered/etched into a vinyl? How do they make sure that all the sounds of an album somehow gets «installed» in a vinyl? Are you telling me that the initial etching phase is the process that installs the songs on the vinyl? How can you transfer a heavy metal song with unique vocals and instruments over to this medium? I don’t get iiiiiiit🤯

@bondgabebond4907 7 месяцев назад

Amazing. The needle moves left and right, also up and down. That gives you the sound and separation.

@michaelwoods9005 3 месяца назад

You seem like you're really struggling..

@MrMoy6003 3 месяца назад

@@michaelwoods9005 yep, I still don’t understand this

@timmotel5804 Год назад

Wonderful. Thank You

@ellisgarbutt1925 10 месяцев назад

Just love how vinyl is made

@sbarnes7240 6 месяцев назад

This is wrong, I still think they're made by magic

@YakkoWarnerTower Год назад

I totally love vinyls they were ahead.

@SquirefromtheShire Месяц назад

“I used to put my initials WMD and someone was like ‘that’s a little bit weird’ so now I just abbreviate my initials to WAR.” That is some top tier, grade A malicious compliance right there.

@c11p 9 месяцев назад

Having Warren Defever (His Name is Alive) as the mastering guru is the best career decision Jack has ever made.

@LaszloVarjuTechno Месяц назад

in this video the mastering is made by a fkn AI soft

@DanikaConner Год назад

Can we all appreciate how nice quality wired is

@franklucra6597 10 месяцев назад

how much do the audio quality guys get paid. sounds like a dream job

@RiceWitch-dingus-400 7 месяцев назад

It might be part of another job!

@QuillC Год назад

Brb, just gonna check every single disk in my collection for "WMD" or "WAR" etchings...

@NewNormac Год назад

Congrats on crossing 10MIL

@DaftRebel Год назад

Thanks Jack White for keeping this tradition alive!

@TheRalphie2020 11 месяцев назад

SO AMAZING!!!

@hermatred572 Год назад

Let's go Nashville!

@reeceroyce2159 26 дней назад

Amazing

@modernmusicstudio303 10 месяцев назад

This is so cool!!

@bmoneyrancidfan91 Год назад

Ibwosh i could visit 3rd man, one day!! Amazing place

@pedroruiz3943 Год назад

This is just like an old school episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. He used to have the cool featurettes at factories and show how things were made.

@johnnytoobad7785 Год назад

So maybe someone can explain how brand new (180 gram) records arrive "warped" and why many records are electronically charged when first opened.

@elcasho Год назад

Love it!

@sgt.afrobeard 5 месяцев назад

I love that bit. “I used to put my initials, WMD, but a that was a bit weird. So now I just put WAR”. Hilarious

@Aubreykrendale Месяц назад

Vinyl is the best sound reproduction there is. Tape, CD, digital are sub par. Vinyl is as real as it gets.

@qiamaiq 11 месяцев назад

Vinyl is the real deal. Thank you for this. And It's W.O.W. !!!

@arlenacampbell7671 Год назад

Interesting. Always wondered how they got the music to the vinyl

@mechsistah2395 Год назад

I love Third Man Records!!

@smi2le4ever Год назад

This place is in my hometown! :)

@heroinbath1877 Год назад

I got the Dopesmoker Weedian high fi and obviously the technology just isn't there to press weed into vinyl and get a good sounding record lol Joking though. It's beautiful. I played it once and it sounds awful but it's framed and being displayed any way.

@wmbrown6 Год назад

I was, and am, much more partial towards the Scully 601 model lathes. Had a series of lead-in and lead-out grooves that were fascinating to watch. You could oftentimes look at a record and tell it was cut on one of those Scullys.

@dennisdemark8151 8 месяцев назад

Enjoy this video very much indeed 😌 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Majnun74 7 месяцев назад

Wonderful!

@thehunterofdeath2180 3 месяца назад

I love watching this how they make record lp im a DJ since 89s i group up in the 70s 80s we use to use just vinyl records in party is all we use i use to be the DJ when my family use to tell me to put the music i already knew all those recod music so my grandma use to tell me you put the music i was 10 years old at that time after years i became a turntablist DJ i too got my personal collection that I don't scratch oh mess whit them at all you know sometime i bought record that was Factory damage it had happen to me a lots of time