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XL Productions Pty Ltd

Locality: Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia

Address: 890 Bouke Street 2017 Waterloo, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.VinylRecordProduction.com

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18.01.2022 Now available in Australia from XL. Pressed in Germany by My45 Vinyl Pressing Plant on fully automatic Toolex Alpha record presses, .

16.01.2022 Hung out with Mike Papas at XL Productions in Sydney yesterday. XL is Australia’s only professional disc cutting studio and processes the freshly cut lacquer m...aster discs before any deterioration can take place in their own stamper lab. Stampers are sent out to record pressing plants around the world. This was my first behind-the-scenes peek at the Disc Mastering process. Mike kindly gave me a tour of their studio and stamper lab. Thanks Mike!!!

16.01.2022 The birth of the 12" single... https://www.facebook.com/1115166252/posts/10217748568962030/

13.01.2022 A major blow to the record manufacturing industry today. Things will change for new releases.... As we all know, a record begins life as grooves cut into a blank disc - either a lacquer coated disc or a copper coated disc (DMM). With only two manufacturers of lacquer discs in the world, the larger of the two burned down today leading to a severe worldwide shortage. This same company is also one of only two commercial manufacturers of cutting stylii. This leaves the smaller ma...nufacturer, said to be a mom and pop business working out of their garage as the only supplier of lacquer master discs in the whole world. Their capacity only allows them to meet only 20% of worldwide demand. What does this mean to the industry? When disc cutting studios deplete their stocks, lacquer master discs will be in very short supply putting a strain on some 100 lacquer disc cutting studios to remain viable. Fortunately, there are six companies that cut onto copper discs (DMM) which they make themselves so record production will continue. What does this mean to the consumer? You can expect almost all new releases to be cut on DMM. While DMM has some technical advantages, it often lacks the high level and fat bottom end of a lacquer cut that most people prefer. As a consequence, having your favourite disc cutting engineer cut your record now seems very unlikely. All DMM cutting studios, except two, are owned by pressing plants so to get a record out you would need to use one of these five which are all fine plants but this limits your ability to choose. In our case, we have enough stock of lacquer discs for maybe two months and certainly enough to complete current orders. After that and until the situation is rectified, we have sufficiently good relationships with three DMM equipped plants to get your record cut and to feed your addiction for records.

12.01.2022 With summer temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius, don't leave your records in the car.

11.01.2022 The CBS/Sony lathe doing its thing

06.01.2022 We're a Sydney based professional disc mastering studio with experienced disc cutting engineers opening at the end of the year. In addition to cutting from digital files, Studio 1 has the ability to cut direct from analogue tape without any digital intervention for pure AAA analogue cuts. Equipment: Neumann VMS70 lathe and SX74 cutterhead, Ortofon GO741 amps (modified by FloKaSon, Switzerland), Neumann SP79 mastering console and Telefunken M15A-PRE 1/4' 15/30ips tape machi...ne with Dolby "A" and "SR" noise reduction. Studio 2 is under construction. All enquiries welcome.

06.01.2022 Some real nostalgia : the 1982 introduction of the Compact Disc.