Gotta Groove Records, Inc.

05/08/2025

Excited to announce Sonopress and Gotta Groove Records Announce Strategic Partnership in the United States! As part of this collaboration, Gotta Groove Records will offer the innovative EcoRecord, Sonopress’s environmentally friendly LP record solution, to its customers in the United States.
Read more about EcoRecords and how to order them for your next release at https://ecorecord.gg/

27/03/2025

Thanks to Ian Locke from Sibert Instruments (far left in photo) for spending the past few days with us in our plating dept -- Ian is a legend, and installed our sweet new custom stamper trimming/forming press, as well as tuned up our Sibert VSF stamper sander and VSC centering machine. Thanks Ian!

29/01/2025

R.I.P. Dan Greathouse (all the way to Left in photo, circa 2009) - one of the original Gotta Groove guys.

09/12/2024

Our annual employee-curated end-of-year-list of records is up!
https://www.gottagrooverecords.com/2024/12/ggr-end-of-year-records-list-2024/

28/11/2024

We are thankful for YOU! Happy Thanksgiving!

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27/11/2024

If you haven't already seen it, check out this very informative video from our pals at Colemine Records :

21/11/2024

What do you guys think of our new entryway?

16/10/2024

STAMPERS . So after the Mother plate has been passed by Quality Control (me) . The Master is then allowed to move along in the process and become what we call a Stamper . The master is "formed" to certain specifications depending on what pressing plant were sending the product to . That Stamper is then placed in the press to smash down the "Biscuits" over and over again making many duplicates of the record . End of the journey as far as the plating portions goes !

15/10/2024

MOTHER'S PART 2 . So I wanted to talk a bit more in depth about what my role is here at the ELECTROMASTERING LAB . As the Quality Control Technician my job is to check every Mother from beginning to end , and to visually check the plate as well . I look for Pop's , Tick's , Skip's and anything that might be not in the actual audio . I'm not really listening to the "mixdown" or the "mastering" quality of the audio but more for manufacturing issues that have changed that said source material . Couple fun facts . More than most of the time I'm not listening to the record at it's normal speed . Because of a daily work load of around 22 sides , I have a lot of plates to get through . Speeding everything up to 45 RPM or even higher is the only way to get through all of it within a day . Also I don't use a special stylus to listen to these pieces of metal . Because the wear and tear is pretty high on sticking a needle into Nickle , just use something that inexpensive and easy to replace . Pretty cool

14/10/2024

MOTHERS ! Gonna split this one up into two small vids . So the Mother is what comes after the Master in our process . The Master is put in a tank ,and then plated with Nickle ,that's then split . Because this is now the opposite of the master , it has listenable grooves again ! Which makes the Mother really important because we can check the part for issues if needed . And we can go back to the mother and pull more master copies to make stampers from . Also Mothers are easily archived so were able to come a lot of them here at our facility in Columbus Ohio . Mothers are great !

10/10/2024

The Master ! After the Lacquer has been made conductive and is ready , its placed in a booth where its sprayed with Silver . The lacquer is then carefully split away from the new metal plate , and you then have ...the Master ! Or sometimes called the Father . Masters are the negative form of the lacquer . Meaning that they don't have grooves , they have ridges , so you can't check them for audio issues you can only do visual inspections on them. But with the next step you can . The next video I'll be doing will be about the Mother ! A super important part of the process and our Quality Control here at Gotta Groove . Stay tuned !

08/10/2024

Hey hey Christopher here ! So this is where is all starts , the Lacquer . Where mastered Audio from either a Digital source , or in some cases straight from Tape , gets "cut" onto an aluminum disc that is coated with a nitrocellulose lacquer layer . A lathe with a very specialized cutting head essentially vibrates the audio into a soft pliable lacquer creating the grooves . Here at the Electro Mastering Lab when a lacquer gets shipped to us we immediately process the disk , getting it ready for plating . Listening to a lacquer isn't typical advised though , as they are VERY fragile and susceptible to damage . Even a small finger print or spit from talking over a lacquer can ruin the disk . The one I'm playing here is a project I worked on , and has already been plated , so worries to be had about hurting this one ;) .