- Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:01 am
#28326
@Re-animatedCat
couldn't agree more with this statement
"I’m just getting quite fed up with the poor standards at some plants, that’s all. As Cloudships has pointed out, almost all plants are over-run with orders at the moment and obviously, in some places quality control is suffering as a result."
For the last 2 weeks - i have been researching every single pressing plant around Europe, not only time frame of pressing, but current clients , price, general quality , and most importantly what they can actually do for a record label. And i'm sorry to be negative - but unless someone invests heavily and opens up a decent state-of-art brand new PP with enough equipment and (trained/experienced) engineers to run it properly, i can only see the level of quality getting worse.
Current pressing plants are beyond saturation point, mistakes are getting made left right and centre. Yet the huge influx of money being generated from 'the vinyl boom' doesn't seem to be re-invested from what i can make out. Owners don't want to take the risk to increase operations - in case it drops off again.
Around 2002-2003 a lot of plants shut down around the UK and Europe - Dance/eletronic music 12"s which had kept the industry going for 15 years - died a death with the advent of CDJ turnatables and the rise in download site's like Beatport etc. With that the plants had to re-build and re-assess their business model - what we're seeing now is the same remaining factories struggling to cope with this huge influx of work and new labels.
God knows what RSD2015 is gonna do to an already chaotic and messed up situation.
