MANUFACTURING

As a catalyst between artistes, their managers smaller record labels and the manufacturing plant, we can arrange a complete service for your product including artwork and designing booklets, J-cards, tray cards, 'on body' printing, cassette inserts, etc, arrange your glass master and manufacture of the master recordings to CD or cassette for either private sale or sales through our distribution contract. We charge a flat fee for this service, there are no hidden extras.

The minimum CD run is 500, but it is more cost effective to have  1000 units, though if extensive promotion is required, this amount will not generally be sufficient.

Whenever a product is manufactured on CD or cassette, the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society have to be advised and an application for a license to manufacture completed. This ensures that revenue is collected by the MCPS from the label manufacturing the recordings and passed on to the copyright owner of the song generally the music publisher and thereafter passed to the composer. We will complete this paperwork on your behalf.

To enable us to manufacture, we require the recorded work either on a PQ master 16/10, 16/30, exabyte or CDR. We can also work from a normalised DAT master recording. Artwork should carry the information relating to the artiste/s, musical copyright references, publisher engineer and studio credits, name and logo of your label (we can arrange the logo if required), a catalogue number and a bar code number, Both of which we will supply as part of our manufacturing process.

It is obviously important that all this information is checked thoroughly since, once we have transferred this to film, all the paper parts are then printed. Any errors would involve new films and fresh printing. To enable us to be competitive on pricing for all the processing involved, we pay all our suppliers on order This gives us preferential rates and almost instant access to manufacturing plants.

 

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