Is A Vinyl A Disc

After a 10 year hiatus we decided to once again apply our deep knowledge of custom vinyl pressing to serve today s independent musicians.

Is a vinyl a disc.

Even though vinyl is a physical medium the sound often starts as a digital or analog recording captured to a hard drive. The days of vinyl records being a nostalgic relic of the past are long gone. Original sound is analog by definition. It consists of a silver layer containing cd or dvd and a black polyvinyl chloride layer able to hold 3 5 minutes of audio on 33 rpm which can be played on a regular phonograph.

In the mid 2000s gradually records made of any material began to be called vinyl records or simply vinyl. Vinyl is an analog storage medium which means there is a physical record of the music imprinted on the vinyl disc read by a sensitive needle called a stylus. Vinyl records replaced an even earlier system of wax based cylinders which acted as both recording and playback units. Before the advent of magnetic tape and digital cd technologies flat disks made from a petroleum based plastic called vinyl were the preferred media for popular music reproduction.

The vinyldisc is a combination of a digital layer either in cd or dvd format and an analog layer which is a vinyl record developed by the german company optimal media production. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction throughout the 20th century. Take a look at the graph below.

Disc makers was a pioneer in the custom vinyl business way back in 1940s and was synonymous with the highest quality record pressing for independent artists and labels in the 70s 80s and 90s. Here tim bluhm of the mother hips records a song from his upcoming solo.