Vinyl First Pressing Guide

Discogs uses the goldmine standard a universally accepted guideline for representing the condition of physical music.

Vinyl first pressing guide.

This symbol indicates that the album is a repressing. If you submit your order today complete with all necessary and correct requirements expect to get the test pressing in 2 to 3 weeks. First pressings will usually have a four letter four number combination such as abcd 1234. Original pressing is a small group of record collectors enthusiast about music bands labels history and so on volunteering to help you identify price your records.

Many record collectors think they own a first pressing when they don t and many novice record collectors don t realize when they do own a first pressing. There seems to be some controversy between record collectors of what is a first pressing as opposed to first issues. So why do we even need to know if we have a first pressing. Definition the definition of a first pressing or pressed vinyl record is a record that was pressed from the 1st original masters.

Vinyl pressing is not as quick as cd manufacturing. If you care about aesthetics colored vinyl is a major bonus and you might end up going out of your way to get the colored pressing of new albums since they are often produced in limited amounts. And even cd manufacturing could take up to 3 weeks from submission of artwork til the final copies. After the catalog part and pressing information you may see re inscribed into the dead wax.

There is some variation on this but typically this would indicate that the record is a first pressing and you re looking at side a.