{"id":6372,"date":"2020-05-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningfog.de\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2020-05-25T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:03:51","slug":"traeumerei-in-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningfog.de\/?p=6372","title":{"rendered":"Tr\u00e4umerei in Wei\u00df"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lange, sehr sehr lange hat es gedauert – genau genommen fast 38 Jahre – um mein Lieblingsalbum „The Dreaming“ als deutsche Testpressung zu finden, und nun ist sie endlich da.  Von au\u00dfen betrachtet wirklich nichts besonderes. Eine LP mit wei\u00dfen Labels, auf denen mit Kugelschreiber etwas vermerkt wurde (was das zu bedeuten hat, kann ich leider nicht sagen). Ihr fragt euch bestimmt, was denn daran so besonders ist, dass man fast 38 Jahre danach sucht, und ich habe zum besseren Verst\u00e4ndnis mal ein wenig gegooglet: A test pressing is what you might expect it to be from its name: a vinyl record made to test the quality of the finished product before pressing thousands of records. Test pressings are made to ensure that the grooves themselves are clean, deep enough, and formed correctly when the master presses into the vinyl blank; that the grooves, label and center hole are not off-center; that the vinyl does not warp; things like that. Test pressings are supposed to be destroyed, and most of them are. A few that have cosmetic flaws (like an off-center label) but are playable may be sent to reviewers, program directors, and industry influencers to promote the record. Sometimes record distributors include them in orders to make up volume – distribution deals often have quotas about how many units are supposed to go out the door, and sometimes test pressings and other records get thrown into a delivery to make the number of pieces correct… but they are not supposed to be sold, just played in the store to promote the record, or bought back under an agreement that the distributor makes with the retailer to take back records that don’t sell. (yes its crazy – the distributor gives the retailer records that they dont expect the retailer to sell because the retailer is supposed to get a certain number of pieces in the order, and then the distributor later takes those same pieces back. Every now and then a store will sell a promo piece or a test pressing and the distributor and the label usually just look the other way. What comes to the quality of test pressings soundwise, they are supposed to be the best sounding copies of all, because the stampers wear out as more copies are being pressed. The test pressings are the first pressings made with those stampers.
Die Musterpressung (= Testpressung) erfolgt von den Presswerkzeugen (Pressmatrizen) an Anpreisung vor der eigentlichen Serienpressung, um die Qualit\u00e4t zu \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen und etwaige Fehler der Pressmatrize noch beseitigen zu k\u00f6nnen. Von einer Musterpressung werden etwa zehn bis 20 St\u00fcck gefertigt, oft auch nur eins bis f\u00fcnf. 2002 hat der Kanadier Warren Hill zwischen Dutzenden anderen Platten eine Testpressung des ersten Albums von Velvet Underground gefunden. Der Kaufpreis: 75 Cent. Nur vier Jahre sp\u00e4ter war das Exemplar bei eBay mehr als 25.000 Dollar wert. Das ist mal eine lohnenswerte Preissteigerung, w\u00fcrde ich sagen! Happy Hunting! Michael Guth<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lange, sehr sehr lange hat es gedauert – genau genommen fast 38 Jahre – um mein Lieblingsalbum „The Dreaming“ als deutsche Testpressung zu finden, und nun ist sie endlich da.  Von au\u00dfen betrachtet wirklich nichts besonderes. Eine LP mit wei\u00dfen Labels, auf denen mit Kugelschreiber etwas vermerkt wurde (was das zu bedeuten hat, kann ich … <\/p>\n

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