Jack White's Third Man Records Tour United Records Pressing Plant 

Those colored variants are normally not recycled like he said, because they are all one color usually, instead of random

Well anyone who buys a Kate Bush album kinda deserves to get bent by the price 🤣

It's funny how plastics companies say "it's cheaper to use recycled materials" when it's pre-consumer. When it's part of the process to grind scrap, it's one thing. But when it piles up and you have to pay someone to grind the scrap, then the process becomes more expensive. Ideally, if you're reusing in-house production, then you know the limits of the compound you're using. When you buy recycled product, then you're taking a chance at what you're using being usable for your purposes, and that generates a lot of scrap as well. The trial and error process means less widgets produced but the cost of production remains the same, and therefore increases the price of widgets to recover the loss. Custom virgin compounded plastic is ideal, the same in house reground compound is acceptable, but foreign reground compound is iffy.

+Thurston Pilgrim absolutely!

Third Man Pressing opened in Detroit. All new equipment.

I was thinking the same thing! I sure there was at least one person even at the factory that day that had lost a digit to one of those things, too

Jay Hard I know that feel.

Record collectors are often difficult to listen to music with. They are rarely interested in what you bring into the group, they are usually only interested in themselves and in their own stack of albums for the evening. Aways there will be exceptions, of course.

search "Gotta Groove Records - The Artist's Preferred Record Pressing Plant" on RU-vid. it's 14 minutes long and talks about the plant itself but there's a bit on colored vinyl as well as a demonstration.

Jayse -Thanks Bro

Polystyrene is pretty crappy. Vinyl is quieter and far more durable, so I am glad they don't use that.

Polystyrene is shit.

TheDutchOwner's Tech Channel - Part of TheDutchOwner's Technology Empire exactly ! Decca used polystyrene in the mid and late 50s, not as durable as vinyl, but new pressings sound fine, but had to be very carefully taken care of. Not to mention most of the Harmony LP pressings of the 50's which used a similar material but not as good.

And its breakable...

BryanChuckBrennan some coloured vinyls can actually sound better. for example the brand new reissue of Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet is in translucent clear blue and sounds much better than the original black vinyl which was notoriously riddled with errors.

Yeah it's something called a master copy, it's made out of metal and it's two does that squeeze the soft plastic vinyl, instead of scratching it out it presses it

* two dies

no problem!

+2chws acetate > TP > press

No, every record is made from the same stamp. Every vinyl record is actually exactly the same, most people just don’t notice. It’s a good business model.

+Mike Gervasi It was where the record was sliding gently out. Nothing to cut your hand off or anything.

they used to make records out of chocolate. no joke. (they didn't play very well I can't imagine)

I can imagine a hard-candy record, but would think a metal needle would quickly destroy the grooves in a chocolate record.

These records survived maybe 3 playings and could be eaten.

Hahahahhaha

audiophiles - people who are massively into sound quality

Why?

....spent dirty vinyl? Don't you mean clean, untouched cutoffs that haven't even existed for more than a minute?

Danny Hood this is edited, eh? Try again with punctuation...in English

Are you writing English?? Man