Wouldn’t “new vinyl” be pressed from a digital master, in any case?
If it is, then why not see if you can get something “old” pressed yourself, as long as royalties are paid I’d not see any problem but as for what WaveLab can do, if it doesn’t have any restoration tools, then I’m pretty sure other manufacturers would have plug-in’s that would do the job.
I bought Wavelab pro using one of my vouchers. I already had Wavelab elements 11.2. The main reason to buy the pro version was a complete batch processor, more slots in the master section and also the playback section.
You think the solution for the tens of thousands of albums that were pressed very poorly is for end customers to give a pressing facility the digital versions of said albums and pay for at least a thousand copies (which I believe it’s the minimum any of them will do), besides paying for the rights to do that to Queen, Genesis, Michael Giacchino and thousands more that had their music pressed on new vinyl and the quality was crap?
I’m not following your reasoning at all. Even if the legal copyright holders would agree to that, which is 100% a NO, who would spend any money to press a thousand copies of albums that don’t have their own music?
Here is the pricing for Unchained Music:
I have my music distributed to digital stores and I am happy with what they do to it, in terms of mastering (I use WaveLab, to pre-master) and I use another site to master for distribution:
AI Mastering Dashboard (bakuage.com)
it all works very well in fact, and while mixing I use UAD and Nuendo, the plug-in’s are so faithful, they even bring up the noise floor of recorded audio, as well as for bass and synthesised bass sounds but for me to press to vinyl, I would need to have received some royalties from digital distribution first, since who has money, simply for audiophile quality.
As to whether you can get a disc pressed for an existing work, maybe a new product needs to be created.
Well, maybe I didn’t make it clear. I study music and I hope to be a half decent composer some day, but the vinyl question was about my own vinyl collection, not pressing anything of my own music.
And honestly, the kind of music I want to create some day is not well suited for vinyl. Vinyl is great for rock, pop, jazz and music that is generally kind of loud, but orchestral music has a lot of passages where it’s very low, and that’s when you start hearing groove noise. Especially nowadays, because they press vinyl at a very low volume, which makes the groove noise even louder.
In a perfect world, every album these days would be released on audio Blu-ray at 24/48 minimum, and preferably with an option for 5.1 and Atmos. That would be the logical evolution from CD. But the powers that be determined that physical formats have to be banned, except for vinyl, because they can charge up the wazoo for them.
I just bought Wavelab Pro with a 70% discount voucher. Not bad at all.
With this and a new disc burner that is compatible with my Macbook Pro Silicon, I can finally think about retiring my old 2008 Mac Pro tower, which I kept around for making Master CD images for clients, and MP3s with their metadata, using an ancient eMagic WaveBurner Pro I have installed there.
Here’s to you figuring out which version to buy!