Reviewed Record Industry's (Haarlem, NL) public vinyl calculator: a
seven-step wizard with a live itemised cost list priced on its server.
Read its prices for a reference 12" LP at 200 / 300 / 500 / 1,000 copies
and for each option worth copying (checked October 2026).
Both artist demos (make-a-record and artist-order):
- audio arrives as digital files, analog tape (+ tape transfer) or a cut
lacquer (no blanks, cutting or mastering; mastering choice disabled with
the reason; cutting and mastering stages skipped in the timeline; the
passport starts at "Lacquer received")
- labels printed, plain white or plain black (credit line; the label
artwork drop is disabled for plain labels; the mock-up shows the plain
label)
- press cleaning before a colour run, on by default, disabled for black
- 7" dinked (large centre hole), 7" only, drawn in the mock-up
- download card and barcode sticker extras
- run-out inscription (A-Z, 0-9, up to 15), scribed along the dead wax in
the mock-up and named in the passport
- new rates (tape 3,800, cleaning 2,300 per title; plain labels -12 per
disc; download card 43, barcode 6 per copy) are estimates with Record
Industry's prices as the basis, each listed in the detailed demo
- make-a-record investor notes: Record Industry's 9 to 11 week quote after
test-pressing approval against the 7 to 9 week CNX quote, and its 2 %
reject allowance against 100 % optical inspection
Defaults unchanged (37,836 THB per title, 232 per copy at 100, break-even
41, goal 100, 548 kept).
Docs: artist-platform.md (choices table, benchmark section: what was
taken, what was left out, commercial terms worth deciding);
revenue-model.md (second Western data point: 219 THB a copy at 300
ex-works, per-title and per-copy reading against the assumptions, not a
re-base); production-timeline.md (its published lead times).
The artist sets only the fan price; the number of fans needed follows from
it: the plant's 100-copy minimum, or the break-even if that is higher. The
goal selector of 6a62505 is removed from both demos.
make-a-record.html:
- step 4 leads with "Your price to fans" (input, slider from 300 THB,
presets 800 to 2,000) and a live "You need N fans to press it, X THB in
pre-orders", plus the price below which the minimum no longer covers
the costs (about 640 THB at the defaults)
- limited edition is now a switch, off by default; the edition size stays
visible but disabled until it is on, and switching it on adds the
numbered edition to the record
- "per title" renamed for end users: "One-off, for this release", "once +
per copy", "One-off setup", with a note that one-off costs count sides,
not songs (a double LP has four)
- the tour lowers the price to 500 THB and back to show the fans needed
rising from 100 to 152
artist-order.html: goal field removed, "Fans needed" label and hint.
artist-platform.md: the price-sets-the-goal decision (October 2026).
The goal is no longer fixed at the larger of the plant minimum and the
break-even; that is now the floor, and the artist sets any goal above it.
- make-a-record.html: "Goal: how many fans you need" with number input,
slider and chips (Lowest, 150, 200, 300, 500, 1,000); chips below the
floor or above the edition cap stay visible but disabled with the
reason; the goal also shows as the pre-order amount (fans x fan price);
typing below the floor snaps back with a note; the campaign, the
outcome and the stage run against the chosen goal; the tour shows the
goal being raised to 150
- artist-order.html: goal field in the campaign card, same floor rule
- artist-platform.md: the floor rule and that a higher goal is all or
nothing as well
Defaults unchanged (goal 100 = the plant minimum at 1,200 THB, break-even
41, 548 THB kept a copy).
Side length "at most" per format is now the table the team supplied
(October 2026, from recordplayerexpert.com, songs counted at an average
4:32): 12" 22 / 15 min, 10" 15 / 12 min, 7" 7 / 5 min at 33 1/3 / 45 rpm.
Changes against the earlier microcut.studio figures: 10" 33 1/3 16 -> 15,
10" 45 11 -> 12, 7" 45 6 -> 5. The comfortable column stays the lower end
of microcut.studio's ranges.
- artist-platform.md: table with a songs column, both sources, and the
three formats where cutting rooms disagree (10" 45 is now more generous
than microcut.studio and Diggers Factory) as re-check points for the
cutting engineer
- artist-order.html: LIM and the side-length table (songs column, sources)
- make-a-record.html: LIM; format cards show the at-most time and about
how many songs a side; step 2 hint adds the songs; the last control in
each colour row is now a labelled "Palette" pill with a colour wheel,
showing the chosen colour and "Your colour" when a custom colour is set
With black vinyl the colour pickers are greyed out and cannot be used;
with solid colour only the first is active, marbled and splatter use
both. The weight buttons are disabled for 10" and 7" (140 or 180 g is a
12" option). Both rows were meant to hide, but .row display:flex
overrode the hidden attribute; a [hidden] rule now guards that too.
The record and jacket in the mock-up (sidebar and fan campaign page) now
scale with the chosen format: record diameters 302 / 250 / 175 mm
(IEC 60098), jackets 314 / 260 / 184 mm, labels 100 / 100 / 90 mm, so a
7" label is relatively larger as on the real disc. Smaller formats show
a dashed 12" jacket outline for scale and a caption with the sizes.
New static page docs/artist-order.html (test site /demos/artist-order/)
walking the artist platform flow end to end:
- record configurator (format, speed, discs, weight, colour, packaging,
extras, mastering, test pressings) with a live mock-up
- track list or dropped masters read in the browser (WAV/FLAC/AIFF
headers, sample peak and clipping), side length against the format,
jacket and label preflight (size, dpi, CMYK), rights and gate 1
- itemised offer (per title / per copy, pass-through jacket), price per
copy against quantity, lead time from the production timeline
- direct order or fan-funded campaign: goal = max(minimum run,
break-even), what the artist keeps, the money rules, a simulated
campaign (sells out / just makes it / falls short) with refund or
go-ahead-at-minimum, and the production tracker with the three gates
and the fan update feed
Price list demo-0.1 splits the doc's 38,000 THB per title and 132 THB per
copy into lines (estimates, each listed with its basis); defaults
reproduce the artist platform example (break-even 41, goal 100, ~548 THB
kept per copy at 100).
artist-platform.md: demo paragraph, side length per format table with
sources, VAT note on the campaign example. README bullet and layout line,
site DEMOS line and landing-page entry.
grabowski