Vinyl pressing · Pressing and distribution
One partner, both formatsPressing plants stop at the loading dock. Distributors stopped carrying records. We run the pressing and the distribution, so the record and the digital release come from the same place, planned around the same date.
Streams go live in days; records take weeks. Most first pressings miss their own release day because nobody worked the dates backwards. Pick your release day and the plan writes itself.
Pressing for Record Store Day 2027? It falls on 17 April. On typical lead times that means vinyl assets with the plant by mid-February, and earlier is safer.
Working out the digital side on its own? Try the release date calculator
Records in hand and streams live on the same day.
Build the exact pressing price in the configurator. The distribution side is part of your plan, not a percentage of your sales.
Build your recordTwo companies that never talk to each other, and you in the middle reconciling their dates. The usual reason vinyl misses release day.
Your run waits on a funding goal and the platform takes a cut of every copy. Here the run is yours from the first record.
Printed one at a time, weeks per copy, no run in your hands. Fine for a single sale, no way to stock a tour.
Most stopped carrying records years ago. The release goes everywhere digital, and the vinyl is your problem again.
Yes. We press at our UK plant and we run digital distribution to 150+ stores and streaming platforms. They are two jobs, but one partner runs both, so the records and the streams get planned around the same release day.
Read the full answerBoth work. Same day is the simplest and keeps every platform in step. Vinyl first gives the people who bought the record a two week head start and makes the pressing feel like the event it is. The planner above maps either.
Seven weeks for the vinyl side: six weeks of pressing from approved assets plus a week in hand. The digital side needs days, not weeks, which is exactly why the dates should be planned together.
Read the full answerYes. A cover needs a mechanical license before manufacture, the same rights you need to release it digitally. We handle mechanical licensing for covers at $15 per song.
Read the full answerThey are your records. Sell them at shows, on your own store, on Bandcamp, anywhere. The run ships to you, the rights stay yours, and nothing about the distribution side changes that.
The pressing is priced live in the configurator, ex VAT with UK shipping included. Distribution comes with your plan rather than as a percentage of your sales, so a bigger release does not mean a bigger cut.
Read the full answerOne release date, records in hand and streams live the same morning. Set the build and the quantity, and the price moves as you do.
