{"id":31716,"date":"2021-04-23T04:16:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=31716"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:19:20","slug":"how-to-press-colored-vinyl-records-and-have-them-shipped-directly-to-your-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/how-to-press-colored-vinyl-records-and-have-them-shipped-directly-to-your-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"How to press colored vinyl records (and have them shipped directly to your fans)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colored vinyl records is the shiz and making them is a thousand times easier today.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What’s up with the craze?<\/p>\n

Musicians and fans are crazy for the good ole custom vinyl record<\/a> format. They have been releasing vinyl albums left and right, some in the fanciest colored vinyl records and printed inner sleeves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We can’t blame em…vinyl is so hot right now!<\/a><\/p>\n

Over a decade ago, in 2006 to be exact, vinyl made a comeback <\/a>but last year was a milestone for vinyl because vinyl sales surpassed CD sales<\/a> for the first time in 35 years!<\/p>\n

If you’re a musician, I’m sure you’d want to give it a try because custom vinyl pressing records<\/a> are awesome and you need to earn somehow (It requires 24,250,000 Spotify streams to live above the poverty line<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Here are some stuff you should know about pressing colored vinyl records:<\/p>\n

WHAT IS ON-DEMAND\/ SHORT-RUN VINYL PRESSING?<\/b><\/p>\n

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We all know how vinyl is a very expensive audio format and so it was very impossible IN THE PAST to have custom vinyl pressings with no minimum order.<\/span>The lowest minimum manufacturer could offer was 500 units. However, on-demand or short-run vinyl pressings<\/a> are achievable today. You can now order for as little as one record pressed (not the most economical but it’s possible).<\/p>\n

Thanks to the rapidly improving technology we have, almost everything is possible now. Due to the internet, it has been easier to receive and send digital materials needed for a vinyl pressing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Artworks, audio files, and more can be exchanged now through emails. Moreover, the internet has also improved the business concept of pre-ordering so you can have a clearer estimate of how many records you should press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s an estimate of how much it would cost you to press 100 vinyl records.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with pre-orders, then let me explain it to you. Pre-order<\/a> is the concept of having your customers, in this case your fans, order the goods in advance. This way, you will have an estimate of how many vinyl records you will order for pressing.<\/span><\/p>\n

This concept has been greatly improved by the internet because fans won\u2019t need to visit your physical stores or call you to place their order. <\/span><\/p>\n

All they need to do is visit your online store and click a few buttons. Then all you\u2019ll ever need to do after ordering would be to wait for them to be finished and then manage the direct shipping of the vinyl albums to your fans. <\/span><\/p>\n

And you won’t be waiting for them for long. Since your order is an on-demand one, they will arrive faster than your orders with thousands of unit.<\/span><\/p>\n

But of course we have to thank the vinyl manufacturing companies<\/a> the most. They are the main reason why such a thing happened. Because of their lower minimum or no minimum for vinyl pressings, we can order in a much smaller quantity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is it a good idea though? Well you will be able to save more money if you do this. You can also test out if your vinyl would have a good response from your fans and from others without spending too much. But I can not guarantee that the first set of custom vinyl pressing for an album would be cheap. It would still be pricey because, as I\u2019ve said, it is a luxurious and expensive audio format. <\/span><\/p>\n

The production of the materials needed for the pressing, like lacquer and stamper, won\u2019t be cheap at all, so ready yourself still.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What I can assure you though, is that the next succeeding orders for the same vinyl album would be much lighter than the first one. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since the plant already has all the needed materials for the custom vinyl record pressing for your album like the stamper, you won\u2019t need to pay for their production. All you need to pay for is the production of the custom vinyl record, the packaging and the shipping.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY ARE COLORED VINYLS AWESOME?<\/b><\/p>\n

Surely you\u2019ve already seen colored vinyl records. That would be quite a shock if you haven\u2019t since they are very popular with the latest vinyl record album releases. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s cool about colored vinyl records is that you can have many different designs on the record itself without thinking much of what to incorporate and such. <\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, it makes the album much livelier than having the original plain black color of vinyl records.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s take for example, Harry Styles<\/a>\u2019 Fine Line<\/em><\/strong> album. He had many different vinyl record designs for this album and above are two of them. Both colored vinyls do not have much color, but they still look cool. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first one on the left side is a transparent white vinyl record fully splattered with black and white colors. The other one is a transparent green vinyl record. What\u2019s great about this transparent vinyl record is that you can incorporate other materials into it too, to make it cooler. Materials like leaves, blood, hair, glitters and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next we have one with solid colors. This one is a vinyl release for Bob Marley\u2019s 30th Anniversary.<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s so cool about this design is that it has the same three colors, green, red and goldish yellow and the same sequence where red and green are always on each of the goldish yellow\u2019s sides, but its proportions will not always be the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say for the record above, the red and green and colors have lesser space, while on other records, these colors may have almost equal proportions, or both red and green might be sandwiching the goldish yellow one.<\/span> This design is a very unpredictable one and that\u2019s what makes it awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lastly, we have the plain colored vinyl records. They may look plain, still they are a good step up from the original vinyl records. And in this age, we have a wider range of color we can choose from unlike in the first years of the colored vinyl record. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s another cool thing about this plain colored vinyl records is that just like the photo above, you can release your albums and have custom vinyl record pressings for them with a color sequence in mind. <\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you will have an album trilogy, you can have your vinyl records colored based on the theme of your trilogy. Like shades of green and brown if it\u2019s all about nature, red and pink if puppy or happy love and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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