Mastering for vinyl – 3 tips and some theory!

Vinyl records are very popular right now and we deliver lots of masters that are being used for vinyl cutting. In this video Thomas talks about vinyl records in general and some specific tips for delivering masters to the cutting engineer or to the pressing plant.

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💚 Sofia & Thomas

[matthewjbarnhart]

THANK YOU for not suggesting mono-ing the low-end! I cut 10-20 sides per week and all too often mastering engineers will mono the lows unnecessarily. All of these tips are great and what I personally recommend.

[luckystrke]

Great tips! Thx! One thing you also should consider is the order of the tracks. Tracks close to the center of vinyl may sound a bit duller because the speed is slower. Therefore you might consider putting ballads or tracks with less important high end at the end of each side.

[etiennepelosoff]

Great tips, thank you :) My final advice would be : always ask a prototype from the cutting engineer and test your masters.

[michaeltablet]

Very good video! I am glad vinyl is making a comeback! Great information! Thank you and hello from Texas USA!

[wolvesinsound]

Thank you very much for the informations and tips. The best explanation out there.

[andersjanocha]

thanks for useful insights Thomas, as always.

[austincgordon]

Great video, and thanks so much for the background on how vinyl cutting and the related processes work! That was really cool to learn about.

[compoundaudio]

Great information and tips.

I've always done a separate master when submitting final masters to client's (who need digital and vinyl formats)



I too do not cut the lacquers but work very closely with cutting engineers :)

[dja.selekta]

Hello, Thank you for the content.
I had read that vinyl recordings were HPF at 47Hz and LPF at 12Khz

Is this still the norm?

[chrisk]

When mastering for vinyl, do you need to be in the project of the songs, or can I just master the final wav file?

[VinylPro]

good talk, just no images as sample...

[kevinmcgrath]

why are LP records mastered by parrallel cutting when played back radially? why not radial cutting to match most record players? this simple geometry fact is a hifi contradiction....