Record Service Alsdorf

= unknown pressing plant in Poland In these cases, use Mastered At - Record Service Alsdorf and pressed by for the respective plant. In this period capacities were massively expanded. The standard LP cover finish turned glossy around 1980/81 and the characteristic Warner-logo embossment on the cover rear was introduced. TELDEC-Press GmbH order pressings for WEA Musik GmbH virtually disappear. In May 1983 Record Service GmbH secured a license from Teldec for the use of the Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) process. Alsdorf vinyl pressings manufactured from 1981 until 1991 can be identified by an "R / S Alsdorf" stamp in the runout area. 1981 pressings can also show "R / S" exclusively. Important note: Pressings which show this runout stamp on one or more sides were pressed at earliest in 1981. Please take this into consideration when submitting/updating. More or less coinciding with the introduction of the 'R / S Alsdorf' stamp, a STRAWBERRY (G) (scarcely STRAWBERRY (E)) stamp can be found on lacquers cut by Strawberry Mastering for Alsdorf between 1981 and 1983. These cuts certainly were used for represses until the later 1980s. The R / S-stamp was eventually succeeded by a 'WMME Alsdorf' stamp in 1991. Releases showing this stamp should be submitted to WMME Alsdorf. By the mid-1980s Alsdorf vinyl pressings covered a good part of the WEA UK market by manufacturing LPs of international WEA releases and small centre hole UK standard 7"s of primary European WEA releases for export and delivery to the UK. The countries the pressed edition was destined for is often indicated by country codes in the runouts: BE = Benelux D = Germany or GAS (very occasionally 'A' appears on 'Austro Mechana' licensed releases until 1983) F = France IR or EIRE = Ireland ESP = Spain S = Scandinavia UK or GB = United Kingdom The Alsdorf stamper number can also be found etched into the runout area but in most of the cases it appears very faintly. Please note that in the mid-1980s Alsdorf often used U.S. based stamper discs for pressing records in Germany, identified by their specific pattern in the vinyl runout grooves. Known examples: - Lathe cut: lacquer foil produced by Future Disc. The father and mother discs were galvanized by Sheffield Lab Matrix as subcontract for Allied Record Company, which can be identified by the appearance of etched "delta" numbers "△ 00000" and "△ 00000-X" as well as the [Allied 'ɑ' logo]-stamp. These stampers were made at Allied Record Company. (E.g. [r162682].) - DMM: the master was produced at Precision Lacquer. Later plated at Specialty Records Corporation for a German pressing plant (SP-GER), whose stampers had been used for pressing by Record Service Alsdorf. (E.g. [r8537409].) Cassette manufacturing started in 1977. Compact-disc manufacturing started in August 1986, the official opening was on 6 September 1986. CD pressings can be identified by 'RSA' in the matrix. Please note that around 1990 Record Service Alsdorf manufactured small and large centre hole editions of 7"s and used the same label layout for both editions. This procedure partially affected the layout of the large centre hole editions and the record appears to be 'dinked'. Actually the record was manufactured and sold in this form. Alsdorf 7" editions with large centre hole were exclusively distributed within Continental Europe and should be submitted separately. Became a part of TELDEC Record Service in 1988 and a division of Warner Music Manufacturing Europe in 1991 (cf. WMME Alsdorf). The last vinyl record was pressed in the facility on 04 September 1998. Was sold in 2003 to Cinram and became Cinram GmbH. Known mastering and lacquer cutting engineers: Hü JK (28)