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This looks seriously cool for indie music makers.... Vinyl on customer demand!?!?

https://elasticstage.com/

Definitely going to investigate.

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Hurvajs Rumcajs 9mo ago

I'm not sure how sustainable model this is.

I went through their audio faq and it surprised me they lower the loudness of the tracks so it doesn't exceed -0.7dB true peak, stating some players "refuse" to play such a CD. That's strange, because for ages people have released CDs with clipped audio or -0.1dBfs peaks, absolutely not giving a single f about true peak and there was no problem.

The vinyl audio guide faq is spot on. That said they mention they use some new technology to manufacture vinyl, but don't provide more details.

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inpc 9mo ago

Yeah not sure about players rejecting them but there definitely could be intersample distortion with 0.1dBfs masters if not done carefully. Maybe they're doing that as they're dealing with a lot of home made masters?

I'm very tempted just to cut a couple of tracks to try it out. £27 for a dubplate is very reasonable!

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Hurvajs Rumcajs 9mo ago

If one uses oversampling in the gain reduction path of the limiter (there is often a button to enable that), you don't get intersample clipping. But, and here's the catch, it's often not used in pop/rock/electronic because it often makes the limiter to work more (ie sound worse). Also clipping is used in mixing and mastering to a surprising degree these days. You get rid of those pesky short peaks and trade them for some often inaudible short distortion.

27gbp dub plate sounds like good, one could use it to "vinylize" some samples/loops etc.