Mastering and Pressing info

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:36 am

Any of you heads got any recomendations for either mastering or pressing houses in uk? I've got a few price lists through and i'm just doing some surveying so any help much appreciated

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:14 pm

Transition seems to be the current favourite, think there was a post for the website up here a while back, run a search and see what comes up.

dynamixuk · Post by **dynamixuk** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:23 pm

www.loungecuts.com

dunno what their like but tis a mates company

random trio · Post by **random trio** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:08 pm

transition.

www.transition-studios.com

ramadanman · Post by **ramadanman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:43 pm

transition

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:50 pm

cheers peoples for the suggestions. i can't tell from the transition and loungecats websites if they do en masse pressings with sleeves an ting...?

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:54 pm

http://www.jtsstudio.co.uk/pages/manufacture.htm

Found this one when I was looking into it a while ago. Looks like quite good prices, but don't know what the quality's like. Maybe it's worth getting it mastered at Transition and then get them to press the vinyl.

£755 for 1000 singles did seem pretty good per unit, but I'm no expert.

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:57 pm

^^ ta shaonky will check it. time to schedule a meeting with good friend robin banks

sgtpilko · Post by **sgtpilko** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:00 pm

JTS specialise in roots reggae and UK steppers so they would probably be able to give you that heavy bass sound that we all know and love.

They run a nice soundsystem called Jah Tubby's. A lot of UK sound systems get their hardware like amps, pre-amps, sirens etc from them.

pilko

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:24 pm

for mastering everyone will probably say Transition - clearly they've got dubstep locked down cos they've been cutting the 'names' dubs for so long.

As the No.1 alternative, I'd say check out Heathmans - they are one of the most famous mastering houses around, been doing allsorts from pop to DnB for fucking years, including cutting dubs for many of the 'big boys' in DnB and beyond - Shane & Beau in particular are held in very high regard.

For recent examples, the Toasty & Elemental plates on Destructive were cut by Beau at Heathmans, as was the Pitch Black 12" and the Benga plate on Immerse. To me they sound unbelievably crisp, flat and loud: http://www.heathmans.co.uk/

To compare with the mastering from Transition, check out any of the Tectonic 10"s (or recent Tempa/HF stuff) - a little more colourful imo, but possibly more suited specifically to dubstep when you're playing them out.

Pressing-wise, I know a few people that rely on Independent Pressing for their vinyl, and have no complaints: http://www.low-life.fsnet.co.uk/pressing/index.htm

Kursed · Post by **Kursed** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:56 pm

http://www.optimum-mastering.com/
CK these guys out aswell

blk plague · Post by **blk plague** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:30 pm

manmade mastering, brooklyn new york

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