United Record Pressing
Profile: | United Record Pressing, Inc. was established in 1970 in Nashville, Tennessee, by Joe Dunn, Ozell Simpkins, and Joe Talbot. In an effort to consolidate record manufacturing in Nashville, the company united several local pressing operations, including Southern Plastics, Precision Record Pressing, Inc. and MFP Incorporated. The first products displaying proprietary United pressing matrices appeared in 1972, with some client rosters and matrix chronologies upheld and continued under their former partnerships.
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Sublabels: | 453 Music, Upstairs At United, URP Music Distributors |
Contact Info: | United Record Pressing
Manufacturer ContactUnited Record Pressing 453 Allied Drive Nashville, TN 37211 USA P: (615) 259-9396 https://www.urpressing.com/ [email protected] Manufacturer EU Contacthttps://www.urpressing.com/ [email protected] |
Links: | urpressing.com |
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much better quality with the last 2 records I snagged that were pressed there, especially compared to the early 2010s pressings I have from URP
Are this guys getting any better this days? I'm interested in buying several "blue note 75th anniversary edition" vinyl from these recent batches.- Sept. 2022: I buy a lot of vinyl, both new and used. I almost never return anything, but three Alicia Keys records that I recently ordered were dreadful in terms of quality. One, I had to send back because there was prominent and continuous noise throughout one track (*not* surface noise that could be cleaned away). The other two I decided to keep despite their defects (like a triple-stacked center label on one LP, vinyl edge trimmings dangling, chipped edges, vinyl trimmings packed with (and scratching) the LP inside the inner sleeve, etc.). United Record Pressing has garbage quality control. My retailer confirmed that URP records come back to them with multiple complaints of poor quality.
- United is the worst pressing plant in the world. They turn out utter crap and rip people off. The CEO of this operation and the whole staff should be fired. They have no idea on how to press a good record. Shameful
An absolute joke of a pressing plant. Can't wait until artists and labels quit using them as more and more pressing plants (of consistent quality) start up. I'd like to be there on the day URP closes its doors for good to say "good riddance" and throw the 100+ shitty pressings I have of theirs in their face.- Edited 4 years agoI don't know how many United pressings I have total, but the ones I have are mostly fine with only one or two having notes indicating issues, my Cage The Elephant is actually a pretty nice pressing for example and the other reviews seem to agree. Is the bad reputation due to just inconsistent quality, or are there certain years, pressings batches, etc that are garbage? Have I just been lucky?
I should also mention another way to identify United pressings that don't have the ⓤ in the deadwax (such as those from Sony and Universal) - if there is "NRP" in the deadwax, it is probably pressed at United. NRP (Nashville Record Productions) is the company United uses to cut their lacquers. I don't often see "NRP" in the deadwax of anything that wasn't pressed at United.
Have they stopped putting "ⓤ" or "Ⓤ" in the deadwax as of 2020?- Bad pressing..Worst of my whole collection. Never again. Go for CD. (Portishead Third)
Edited 5 years agovery bad pressing, avoid if you dont want to get disappointed straight from the opening... you can expect everything, bad center, small dents, surface noise etc. such quality should not exist nowadays, i am suprised impulse gave them to press their reissues... means they dont give a f.. about quality after all.
