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Making Vinyl Magazine issue no. 4 – There’s more to vinyl than the comeback.
The vinyl comeback has been written. The more interesting question now is what comes next
With issue no. 4, Making Vinyl Magazine moves the conversation forward – and the magazine itself continues to grow with its readership. The first two issues are already out of print, while issue no. 3 is nearly gone despite a threefold increase in circulation. For issue no. 4, we are almost doubling the print run once again to 5,000 copies and adding another 28 pages, bringing the magazine to 100 pages of content.
This time, the focus is on the value the industry creates – culturally, economically and within the communities that have grown around it. That value cannot be measured by sales, market growth or pressing capacity alone. A record is one of the few manufactured products people deliberately keep, collect, share and pass on. In a world increasingly built around instant access and constant replacement, physical records create something harder to quantify: attention, presence and lasting value.
Behind every record is also an entire ecosystem. Mastering engineers, press operators, designers, printers, packaging specialists, chemists, machine builders, logistics experts, retailers and many others contribute to the finished object. Vinyl manufacturing brings together creative industry, specialist engineering, skilled employment and continuous innovation.
Making Vinyl Magazine issue no. 4 puts this fascinating ecosystem – and the people behind it – at the centre of the publication. It explores the craft and technology as much as design, culture and the way records are made today and tomorrow. Sustainability, responsible manufacturing and the challenges ahead are part of the conversation too – always connected by a shared enthusiasm for the medium itself.
The Making Vinyl Magazine isn’t a trade publication just for industry insiders. It’s for people who enjoy records, collect them, listen to them and simply want to know more. The articles and features come first-hand, written by people from within the vinyl industry who work with the subjects they write about every day. There is no journalistic filter or simplification – just direct access to the knowledge, experiences and perspectives behind the records we love. If you’ve ever wondered how music becomes a physical record, who and what is involved along the way, or why such a wonderfully inconvenient format continues to fascinate us, this is where the people who make vinyl happen tell their stories.
CONTENTS in this issue:
- The Next Chapter – Welcome, by Andreas Kohl (Making Vinyl)
- Passionately Combining Tradition and Innovation, by Rene Wiedner (Warwick School of Business)
- A Sense Of Place And Myths – The Art Of Roland Scriver, by Andreas Kohl (Making Vinyl)
- Value Beyond Volume, by Roger Catlin (The Vinyl District)
- The Miracle That Saw Record Shops Numbers Double In Just 10 Years, by Kim Bayley (ERA, RSD UK)
- In Conversation With Jeff Powell: Chris Muth. by Jeff Powell (Sam Phillips Recording Service)
- Lacquer Cutting and Direct Metal Mastering in Vinyl Production: A Comparative Study, by Sidney Claire Meyer (Emil Berliner Studios)
- This Is What It Wants To Be – Before Photoshop: How Album Art Was Created When There Were No Digital Files, by Gary Gonzales (Dorado Packaging)
- A Slice of Colourful Nostalgia – how your vinyl gets coloured, by Paul Kitson (Prisma Colours)
- Not Every Noise Is a Defect – Good Records Start with Good Communication, by Helmut Erler (cutting engineer)
- The Chemistry Hidden in Every Groove – how stabilizers make your record, by Scott Blackwell (Reagens UK)
- The Next Spin: Building a Shared Future for Vinyl Recovery, by Madeleine Smith and Miriam Lessar (Warner Music Group)
- Records Made by Humans for Humans, by Dustin Blocker and Alexander Cushing (Handddrawn Pressing)
- Don’t Let A Release Date Dictate The Quality Of The Album, by Dennis Warren (Furnace Record Pressing)
- More in the Groove: Rethinking the Limits of Vinyl Playback and Cutting, by J.R. Boisclair (WAM Engineering)
- Past Present Future – Turbulent Times, by Frank Wonneberg (journalist)
- Consonance: The World’s First Biodegradable Record, by Psients (multidisciplinary scientist and artist)
- Outlaw Paper. Save the Records, by The Vinyl Dictator
