Vinylpresseriernes særlige kendetegn
Vinylplader fremstilles på pladefabrikker/presserier, hvor man fremstiller matricer/stampers ud fra de lak-skæringer eller DMM skæringer.
Ligesom med skæremestrenes initialer og symboler i udløbet er det almindeligt, at presserierne også stempler eller ridser deres kendetegn i matricerne, så man senere kan identificere den fabrik der har fremstillet en given plade.
På listen nedenfor kan du finde nogle af de mest gængse kendetegn som fabrikkerne benytter.
“ɑ” looks like Q = Allied Record Company (usually followed by B-XXXXX)
AMP = ABC-Paramount
A.R.E.A.C.E.M. – Tourouvre, France
Audiodisc / AB Audiodisc, Bålsta, Sverige
B = Bestway Products, NJ, USA
BEST = Bestway Products, NJ, USA
BW = Bestway Products, NJ, USA
EDP [in oval] = Europadisk Pressing & Mastering
Celebrate Records, Tyskland
CDG (logo looks like a three leaf clover) = Compagnia Generale Del Disco, Italy
CR (in a circle) -> Cinram, Canada
CT/CTH – Terra Haute, Indiana, USA
DAMONT -> Pressed at Damont Audio Limited, UK
DFI -> Pressed at DFI
Djay@ Masterpiece -> Danny King ( Masterpiece Mastering, London )
DM / DM- -> Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
ELDORADO / ELDO = Eldorado Media, Mainhausen, Tyskland
EURODISC -> Eurodisk Manufacturing
EDP/EUROPADISK -> Pressed at Europadisk, NYC.
GP -> Grammoplast, Sweden
IP eller JP prefix = Interpress (ejet af Bellaphon), Ober Erlenbach, Tyskland
LYN = Lyntone Recordings Ltd. London
MG = MGM Records Division in Bloomfield, NJ (Pressing)
M = Mercury
MPO -> Moulages et Plastiques de l’Ouest, Averton.
NR = Nordsø Records, København
Orlake / OR = Orlake, Storbritannien
P.USA – Pallas USA, Alexandria
Pallas, Tyskland, USA
Pirates Press -> US vinyl broker, records pressed at GZ Vinyl (www.gzvinyl.com)
PL = Plastic Products (på nogle labels)
PP = Plastic Products (Memphis) (kun brugt på 45rpm singler)
PP = Peter Pan Industries (Newark, New Jersery, USA)
RCA = RCA Victor
RPM = RPM Records, Danmark
R/S Alsdorf – > Warner Music Manufacturing Europe, Alsdorf
S /SM = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
SNA = SNA, Frankrig
SRT = Sound Recording Technology, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK
SpinRoad (logo) -> Spion Road Vinyl, Sverige
SWISS MADE [cross bow logo] or TU – Turicaphon AG, Switzerland
T / “TI”, “T1″,”T2”, el. “1T”, “2T” – se CT/CTH
Tα = Toolex Alpha, Sundbyberg, Sverige
WM (W integrated atop M stamp) = Wakefield Manufacturing
WMME Alsdorf -> Warner Music Manufacturing Europe, Alsdorf
www.gzvinyl.com -> GZ vinyl, Tjekkiet
Å – Skandinaviska Grammophon AB, Åmål, Sverige
Symboler
Λ – kan ligne tre prikker i pyramideform, stamper indikator for CBS presninger
◈-P-◈ = MCA Pressing Plant, Pinckneyville
回-G-回 = MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville
G or G1= Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA
✲ or ☆ (prior to ’64 = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
—◁ = Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Winchester
Ƨ el. Sm, S 1/2/ eller 1 S / 2 S = Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
Δ = Kan indikere Monarch, USA
// = Phonodisc, UK*
[Union Jack] el. K indridset = Keel Manufactoring Corp. New York
Optimal
*Phonodisc – en af de største fabrikker i England, havde kun få skæremaskiner, så derfor blev masterskæringerne ofte udliciteret til andre skærestudier. Disse kan man identificere ved hjælp af “//“ samt hvilken skæring der er tale om, fx vil //3 M indikere at det er tredje skæring. Efterfølgende vil der stå nogle bogstaver som kan ses på listen nedenunder med tilhørende skærestudie.
//x AB = Abbey Road Studios
//x AZM = Allen Zentz Mastering
//x C = CBS Studios, London
//x CRI = Criteria Recording Studios
//x D = Decca Studios
//x E = EMI Studios
//x G = Portland Studios
//x IB = I.B.C. Studios
//x K = Kendun Recorders
//x M = Master Room
//x MC = The Music Centre, Wembley
//x MCN = Master Control, Nashville
//x MD = Masterdisk
//x ML = The Mastering Lab
//x P = Pye Studios
//x ST = Sterling Sound
//x STR = Strawberry Mastering
//x T = Trident Studios
//x TO = Tape One
//x UT = Utopia Studios
Polygrams fabriksnumre
Fabriksnumre for Polygram (og underlabels) udgivelser i USA. Numrene står oftest meget småt på labels:
56 = Columbia, Pitman, NJ
73 = Columbia, Terre Haute, IN
25 = Columbia, Santa Maria, CA
70 = RCA, Indianapolis, IN
72 = PRC, Richmond, IN
26 = PRC, Compton, CA
16 = Sonic Recording Products/Goldisc
18 = Presswell
19 = Bestway Products, Moutainside, NJ
22 = Allied
24 = Monarch
30 = Plastic Products
49 = Specialty Records Corp., Olyphant, PA
53 = Keel Mfg. (prior to ’79); Hauppauge Record Manufacturing, Ltd. (’79 and later)
54 = Shelley Products
76 = Hub-Servall Record Mfg. Corp.
74 = Electrosound Group Midwest, Inc.
Øvrige udløbet
DMM -> Direct Metal Mastering (skæremetode)
KT -> Mark for ‘Purchase Tax’ on UK pressings from 1960s (EMI, Decca, Philips, Py-Nixa & Polydor)
LW -> Longwear Plating, fremstilede stampers
LW or LWP = Longwear Plating (maker of metal parts from lacquers) Enter as “Mastered At”
GG / GG2 / GG3 etc el. ५५ = Gedmal Galvanic Ltd., Leicester, UK, fremstillede stampers, metaldele
o el. º – Customatrix – stamperproducent som operedere for CBS og Columbia i Nordamerika
Landekoder
Landekoder for pladeselskabet EMI og underlabels og distributører
Landekoden udgør prefixet til katalognummeret. Indikerer i hvilket land pladen er fremstillet (og/eller udgivet) fx “1C 064-46 384” (Tyskland)
0C = UK |
1A = Holland |
1C = Germany |
1J = Spain |
2C = France |
2E = Austria |
2J = Greece |
3C = Italy |
3E = Switzerland |
4C = Belgium |
4E = Sweden |
5C = Holland |
5E = Finland |
6C = Denmark |
6E = Denmark |
7C = Sweden |
7E = Norway |
8E = Portugal |
9C = Finland |
10C = Spain |
11C = Portugal |
12C = Austria |
13C = Switzerland |
14C = Greece |