This 2016 short film (15min) has been selected for screening by both the Palm Springs International ShortFest as well as the the San Francisco Documentary Festival (screened 9 June).

Kind of an advertorial for Gotta Groove Records, a vinyl record pressing plant in in Cleveland, Ohio.

However, well worth a watch....
See not only the usual process, but also consider why maybe your records sometimes arrive flawed, dished, or warped.
Learn that outer grooves are the hardest to get pressed right & how colour-mix records get made.
Spot the new Audio Technica 1240-USB DD TT in their QA dept

Also a feel for the mood of manufacturing & life in mid-west America.

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I received from Gotta Groove, over the weekend, a invitation to paricipate in their Vinyl Record Buying Survey:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-ELJBGulGstpqbhSB1N000bsF9LIahkWkQse3-doZZilD9Q/viewform

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have you got records from this label ?

interesting video showing how the small guys do it.

did you notice the handwriting on the technics sl-1200 test table at ~6:00 which says anti-skate zero always ?

had to lol at the part where the guy talks about batch testing production as his stylus is jiggling up and down on his sample.

off to fill in the survey

Not sure how they got my email.

Nov 19, 2019 10:16:47 GMT 12 michaelw said:

did you notice the handwriting on the technics sl-1200 test table at ~6:00 which says anti-skate zero always ?

And the Pitch fader was set on -3

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Interesting that the records are storage stacked horizontally.