RE: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-19 Thread Steward, Tim
destroy it. From: david smith [mailto:bassline...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 10:25 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted With the way the USD is it might be cheaper to manufacture the records in Detroit and import them to Europe. I worked with

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-16 Thread david smith
With the way the USD is it might be cheaper to manufacture the records in Detroit and import them to Europe. I worked with Ron one time and these are the only notes I kept: Just remember to keep your bass centered and not panning from channel to channel, it can disrupt the needle. In general the

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-16 Thread ja...@iridite.com
I'm right here - not on the list as much as I'd like but happy to help if I can Jason On 13 April 2010 18:27, Matt Kane's Brain wrote: > Maybe you should track down Jason Brunton at Iridite. I'm not sure if > he still reads the list. > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:24, David Powers wrote: >> Yea

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Kevin Kennedy
Dave, As I am reading this, I guess I feel the need to ask: Are you in Europe or the United States? The best way to get your stuff over to Europe I've been told is to press it there. It comes back to the US as an import...but if that is your intended target, maybe start there? There ar

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Matt Kane's Brain
Maybe you should track down Jason Brunton at Iridite. I'm not sure if he still reads the list. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:24, David Powers wrote: > Yeah, I'm in touch with him, my real point is I want to especially > hear the overseas perspective, and also from more than one person's > experience

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread David Powers
Yeah, I'm in touch with him, my real point is I want to especially hear the overseas perspective, and also from more than one person's experience, as that may not be enough to generalize into a general strategy. ~David On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Matt Kane's Brain wrote: > You could just a

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread Matt Kane's Brain
You could just ask Tom. I don't think he's trying to be secretive; rather he's trying to avoid boring the snot out of everybody. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:09, David Powers wrote: > Yes, I'm aware of those articles, but they leave a lot of questions > unanswered. To start with, I'm especially cur

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread David Powers
Yes, I'm aware of those articles, but they leave a lot of questions unanswered. To start with, I'm especially curious as to how distribution with "Crosstalk" went, and how the record did in overseas shops. More generally, I think the real audience is in Europe, so I'm really hoping to hear from an

Re: (313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread maxphifty
Infinite State Machine has a great multi-part feature on this. m50 At 2010.04.13 11:45, David Powers wrote: Greetings, a friend of mine from Michigan (not Detroit, but west side, Grand Rapids) is restarting his house label. I am assisting him and planning to do the first release, which will be

(313) Releasing new vinyl -- advice wanted

2010-04-13 Thread David Powers
Greetings, a friend of mine from Michigan (not Detroit, but west side, Grand Rapids) is restarting his house label. I am assisting him and planning to do the first release, which will be a vinyl 12". For what it is worth, right now my sound is oriented toward Detroit influenced house, with a bit of