Vinyl mastering, dubplate and pressing directory maps
Vinyl still in 2024… so romantic, amazing, high quality, physical and sexy. Below are suppliers around the world, that do vinyl mastering (mastering music onto vinyl), and dubplate cutting (cutting the music into a dubplate to make a stamper, for vinyl manufacturing and duplication). There is also a 2nd map, showing vinyl pressing plants (companies that stamp, press and duplicate vinyl).
The suppliers may offer other associated services, but we just focus on vinyl.
See Mo Talks Hard Wax, Düsseldorf and Mastering Process | Red Bull Music Academy, 2004 of Kotai + Mo. Who gives a really good overview of the whole vinyl making and production process [typed-out version available].
Vinyl mastering and dubplate supplier map
Australia
Belgium
France
Germany
Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States
Glitch while streaming screen photograph. Photographer Michael Dziedzic says ‘There were some really cool patterns and designs, that appeared before I grabbed the camera. Unfortunately, I spent about 10 minutes complaining about the lost transmission of the game, before I realised, that I had a photo opportunity. The screen went black after I took 3 photos… and never returned to the awesome patterns, I originally saw. Next time, I will react quicker!’.
Photograph by Michael Dziedzic (11 January 2021), distributed under an Unsplash license. Work adapted, from https://unsplash.com/photos/purple-and-yellow-abstract-painting-0W4XLGITrHg.