Mobineko Technical Blog – Vinyl Pressing, Tapes, Mastering & Audio Explained

Vinyl Pressing, Tapes, Mastering & Audio Explained

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We get asked daily how much music can fit on vinyl, and the answer is always ‘it depends’. You see, vinyl isn’t a digital medium like a CD where it’s a simple case of how many bits can be stored….

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We have been working hard here at Mobineko to drastically reduce the cost of all-cardboard packaging and in turn reduce the amount of polypropylene plastic used in CD trays. Using some new consolidation techniques we have reduced pricing on inside…

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Before starting we strongly recommend that all audio files (wav or aiff) are packed in a zip or rar archive before uploading! Please note very old versions of Internet Explorer (version 8 or lower) are not supported. If for some…

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Howdy, folks! Usually we don’t talk about upcoming new features on our site but we are really excited about an ongoing project that’s very close and will make a huge change to the whole order process. We know that the…

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Don’t worry, folks. We haven’t gone anywhere! We’re just installing our new website. We’re sure you all miss the 13 year old design and dodgy quote machine but we hope the brand new visual quote machine and fresh design from La…

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We recently pressed a limited run 12″ for Canadian folk/rock/blues artist James Leclaire.  The album has a great fresh summer sound to it and we sure hope to hear (and press) more of his music in near future.   All…

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Recently Craig Ferguson came to take some photos at our Taichung offices + factory complex. Enjoy some bad-ass old school machinery and wrench work!

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As of today (June 26th 2014) Mobineko is no longer offering bulk print parts for jewel cases. We have made this decision due to disruption that bulk prints cause in the shipping and packing workflow, along with a higher than…

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Good news! 12″ splatter vinyl is back and permanently available for pressing.  A variety of options/splatter variations are possible for unique effects. For further information and pricing, contact martin@mobineko.com.

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Mastering equipment: Maselec MLA-3 Multiband Compressor, MEA-2 Mastering Equalizer, Apogee Symphony w/ 2 8×8 modules, Apogee Thunderbridge, SSL SuperAnalogue Stereo EQ + Compression + Summing, Custom i7 iMac, Phase Correlation Meter + 5.1 monitoring Creative stuff: full size M-Audio keyboard,…