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Frequently Asked Questions

On this page you will find a guide to the most common questions we receive. Please use this before contacting us or to help you make a decision before buying. Simply click on a question to view the answer.

What Do You Do?
We take music and audio supplied by you, the customer, and then put that onto a vinyl disc that can be played on any record player. The discs are very much like pressed vinyl records you would buy from say Amazon or an online record shop. They are everlasting, unlike traditional dubplates, so will not degrade with being played. You can have 7″, 10″ or 12″ vinyl, with fully printed sleeves (12″ only) and printed labels that go on the vinyl centres. This means you can have a fully personalised vinyl, unique to you. This service is ideal for gifts, Jukeboxes, Djs, media, and the arts. We will happily guide you through the process, assist with art design for the sleeves and labels, or help with anything that you do not understand. You can contact Aaron our engineer and designer via the contact form at the bottom right of this page.
How Many Songs Can I Have On A Vinyl?

The way to think about this is to know the maximum time in minutes per each side of a vinyl. When the maximum time of a 12″ record (per side) is 20 minutes, then you could have 6x 3 minute songs, If your songs are 4 minutes each then you can have 5 songs perside. It is good when you are compiling your songs to find out how long they are in minutes and add them up to see if they can fit on the vinyl.

7″ vinyl

Maximum time per side is 5.30 mins
Best for loudest volume per side is 3.30 mins

10″ vinyl

Maximum time per side is 10 mins
Best for loudest volume per side is 6 mins

12″ vinyl

Maximum time per side is 20 mins
Best for loudest volume per side is 8 mins

How Much Audio Can I Get Onto A Vinyl?

7″ vinyl

Maximum time per side is 5.30 mins
Best for loudest volume per side is 3.30 mins

10″ vinyl

Maximum time per side is 10 mins
Best for loudest volume per side is 6 mins

12″ vinyl

Maximum time per side is 20 mins
Best for loudest volume per side is 8 mins

What's Your Turnaround Time?
Our turnaround times can vary from 2 to 4 week from the order being made and it being posted out to you. If you have a more pressing deadline, then please contact aaron@vinylcarvers.com
Normally it would be 2 working week but due to a high demand during lockdown, we are backed up with orders.
It’s always a good idea to let us know what your deadline is if you have one. You can do this either on the shopping cart page or in the Wetransfer upload link, or by emailing aaron@vinylcarvers.com
How Should I Send My Songs, Audio And Artwork (For Sleeves And Labels) To You
Once you have made an order, you will receive an email with your order confirmation. On the order confirmation is a link to upload your files to us. We use our own Wetransfer page for the uploading; vinylcarvers.wetransfer.com
Please do not send your files until you have made your order.
You can send your audio files as either wav, aiff, mp3, m4a, mpeg4, wma or flac
You can send your artwork as either pdf, psd, png, or jpeg
If you are ordering the printed sleeve or printed label, we will send you a template that you can drop your artwork into via email.
If you would like to request a template before you order, then please email aaron@vinylcarvers.com
Where Can I Find Out How Much My Vinyl/s Will Cost?
The best way to find out how much it will cost is to make an order in the shopping cart, adding all the items you need. Then go to the cart symbol in the top right-hand corner of the page to see how much it will cost. You can do this as many times as you like, just remember to empty your shopping cart with the items you do not want before checking out
What is the "Printed Card Insert In Clear PVC Sleeve" option, that appears in the Packaging dropdown tab?

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The “Printed Card Insert In Clear PVC Sleeve” is a cheaper alternative to a fully printed record sleeve. We print a 200gsm piece of card with your design, then put that in a clear plastic sleeve, the record then also goes in the plastic sleeve. Once you have ordered this, please contact aaron@vinylcarvers.co for artwork sizes and sending of your artwork.

What Are the Printed Labels And Pre Designed Labels?

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Printed labels are stickers that go in the centre of the records. They would normally have songs and artist information in their design, but you can any image you want to be printed on them.  The labels always come as pairs (designed so you have an A side an a B side). The price is the same for one label or a pair (£5) and the same for the predesigned labels (£7). The predesigned labels are ones that we have designed for you to use. Once you have brought this product, you will need to send the text info to go on them to aaron@vinylcarvers.com This can be “label name” which goes at the top of the design and “artists and song titles” that go at the bottom of the design. You can upload your own designs with your audio to vinylcarvers.wetransfer.com once you have ordered. We can send you a template to help set your design. 

How Do You Ship My Order?
We use Royal Mail for all our shipping. The prices are based on what they charge us, we just add a small amount for the packaging costs. For the UK we use “First Class signed for delivery”. This will normally get to you the next working day. For Europe and the rest of the world, we use “International Signed for or Tracked if Signed for is not available in that country. Tracking is available on request via aaron@vinylcarvers.com
What Are The Plates Made Of?
Our plates are made of a pvc-compound, so hard that you can play them as often as normal vinyl plates but soft enough to cut directly onto them as well. All of our records come in plain white cardboard sleeves and with plain white centre labels.