In article .com,
wrote:
Mr. Dorsey mentioned..."Alpha Records in
Florida which does surprisingly decent work for cheap"

At some point I would like to get into turntable scratching/mixing and
would like to be able to press a very small run of my own tracks to
vinyl.

So if you sent a place a cd to convert it to vinyl, is it
cost-prohibitive?

Let's see.
You want a 12" single, nothing too difficult to cut. Less than 15 minutes
per side so it can be cut constant-pitch with no margin control.

Figure around $150 a side for the lacquer. You can probably get this done
cheaper somewhere else, but that's what I'd charge for an easy constant pitch
job. So $300 for mastering.

Figure $240 for the stampers to be made (single generation) at Mastercraft
in New Jersey. Stampers go off to the pressing plant at Alpha.

You want generic white labels and white jackets. Figure $0.23 each for
white jackets, $0.90 each for the individual pressings.

My personal feeling is that it takes a run of about 100 discs before the
noise floor drops properly. So figure a run of 300 is about the minimum
that you'd want to do. You can get a quick run of ten test pressings from
a stamper, but they'll be noisier than if you did a big run.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."