{"id":803968,"date":"2020-02-07T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949648"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:45:16","slug":"vinyl-record-production-in-peril-after-fire-at-california-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/vinyl-record-production-in-peril-after-fire-at-california-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl Record Production in Peril After Fire at California Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fire at a Banning, California manufacturing plant could wreak havoc on the global supply of vinyl<\/a> records, Pitchfork<\/a><\/em> reports. On Thursday, Apollo Masters Corp., which has produced the lacquer discs used to make masters for vinyl production for decades, was devastated in a fire that took 82 firefighters and nearly three hours to control. Per the Desert Sun<\/i><\/a>, employees were reportedly inside the building when the fire broke out, but none were injured.<\/p>\n

In a statement on its website<\/a>, Apollo Masters wrote, \u201cIt is with great sadness we report the Apollo Masters manufacturing and storage facility had a devastating fire and suffered catastrophic damage. The best news is all of our employees are safe. We are uncertain of our future at this point and are evaluating options as we try to work through this difficult time. Thank you for all of the support over the years and the notes of encouragement and support we have received from you all.\u201d A representative for Apollo did not immediately return Rolling Stone<\/i>\u2019s request for further comment.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Pitchfork<\/em>, Third Man Records co-founder Ben Blackwell said the Apollo fire \u201cwill present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide.\u201d He noted that Apollo was one of just two companies that make lacquer discs, and that the other, MDC in Japan, \u201calready had trouble keeping up with demand before this development.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI imagine this will affect everyone, not just Third Man Pressing and Third Man Mastering, but to what extent remains to be seen,\u201d Blackwell said. He added: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be an alarmist. But I\u2019m attempting to be realistic as opposed to Pollyannish.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a separate interview with Smack Media<\/i><\/a>, David Read of the pressing and printing company Duplication, said one possible alternative could be direct metal mastering. In that process, Read explained, \u201cInstead of cutting the master into the lacquer it\u2019s cut into copper which is mastered into production.\u201d There are some potential problems<\/a> with direct metal mastering though, as the process tends to produce higher frequencies and requires a specific, and rare, type of cutting head.<\/p>\n

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A fire at a Banning, California manufacturing plant could wreak havoc on the global supply of vinyl records, Pitchfork reports. On Thursday, Apollo Masters Corp., which has produced the lacquer discs used to make masters for vinyl production for decades, was devastated in a fire that took 82 firefighters and nearly three hours to control. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 08:20:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}