Memphis Record Pressing

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Memphis Record Pressing (MRP) is a vinyl record manufacturing plant founded in 2014 with equipment purchased from GZ Media on December 31, 2015, although it is not obvious from either of the companies' websites. This might be an indication they are allowing MRP to continue to operate as an independent entity.

Identified by matrix scheme MRP####.

Many releases contain the Memphis Record Pressing.

MRP uses some additional internal stamper IDs for their pressings, e.g. hand-etched A4, B1, C2 - more recently stamper codes have been just numeric: #3, #12, etc. Records with such hand-etched IDs were pressed at Memphis Record Pressing and "Pressed By" will be the correct tag here if these additional etched stampers IDs are present in runout.

If there are no hand-etched MRP stamper ID codes in runout, use "Mastered At" for GZ Media and "Manufactured By" for Memphis Record Pressing.

If there are no GZ Media indicators, use "Pressed By" for Memphis Record Pressing.

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GZ Media

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3015 Brother Boulevard
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
38133

Links:

memphisrecordpressing.com

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  • Tommyboy65's avatar
    Tommyboy65
    Picked up one of the new CCR titles pressed by MRP. It was badly warped and both sides were pressed way off center. MRP is the new Rainbo. The QC Manager should be fired
    • GentleSenator's avatar
      GentleSenator
      Wild that this company likes to paint themselves as ionate about music and records when every single piece of vinyl that comes out of their plant is riddled with defects and seems to have zero quality control applied. Avoid anything pressed at MRP. Just awful.
      • thediscobiscuit's avatar
        thediscobiscuit
        Easily some of the worst pressings I have purchased. Though they are partnered with GZ, at least with GZ some records come out ok. It's a shame that some more modern albums only have a MRP version, because the mastering of the LP may be great, but the pressing is going to be bad.
        • CoolyMcDuck's avatar
          CoolyMcDuck
          Edited 3 months ago
          Purchased Billy Strings - Me / And / Dad early last year, and it's one of the noisier LPs I've own. Really disappointing on an otherwise excellent album, and seems like this isn't an isolated issue to just this release. I'll be avoiding anything from MRP in the future.
          • concordiowillows's avatar
            Edited 4 months ago
            Horrible quality control - record came warped and dusty as can be while being brand new
            • Csquare4's avatar
              Csquare4
              Disgraceful that the new David Gilmour "Luck and Strange" Sea Blue Translucent was pressed at MRP. I guess Sony wanted to give us the bonus of Rice Krispies with this fantastic music. Mine is flat, sound is decent, but the crackle sucks balls. I preordered from Amazon, so had no idea who was pressing it, but I will be on the lookout from now on. GZ - Czech can do some good pressings, much better lately, so they need to send some QC folks to Memphis. Seriously.
              • Tommyboy65's avatar
                Tommyboy65
                Edited 9 months ago
                Probably one of the worst pressing plants in the country, next to United. They churn out garbage pressings and have ZERO quality control. Part of the GZ family of loser pressing plants. Unfortunately, the majors, who are cheap, and don’t care about the consumer use them, along with GZ. Plants like MRP, GZ, Precision, United, Third Man, MPO, and Furnace will be the culprits in killing the vinyl revival.
                • jtotti's avatar
                  jtotti
                  Brand new limited edition clear version of Vampire Weekend’s new album OGWAU sounds like garbage. Spotify stream on the same setup sounds better, and that is never the case with any other record I’ve tried. Vocals are crazy muffled, there is really weak separation, and the his and lows are blown out, none of which is the case on the stream. How damning. I buy vinyl to hear that extra stuff, not just to have a piece of memorabilia. I will be sure to try to avoid MRP in the future if I can.
                  • DelboRecords's avatar
                    DelboRecords
                    Edited one year ago
                    Noisy Velvet Underground Loaded. I record to digital to play in my car: I can see the waveforms. The vinyl is full of flaws that sound similar to dust, but they aren't dust: they are tiny gaps and irregularities where I think the vinyl did not fill the stamper 100.000%. The record is also slightly off center, which can be seen between songs: the silences should be flat, but instead they show high waves, which I interpret to be a wobble. . . . Upon looking further at the 50 or more flaws in one track alone, I would even venture to guess they use recycled vinyl.
                    • AngryKangaroo396's avatar
                      Bought the new Sierra Ferrell and Vampire Weekend records and both had off-centered LPs. I browsed the reviews here, and it seems like this has been common for years... What an absolute shame.