Precision Record Pressing

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Note: do not confuse with the unrelated Precision Record Pressing, Inc., active the 1960s and '70s. Please do not use this company for releases produced before 2017.

Record pressing plant (20,000 square foot) located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, that officially opened May 11, 2017. It is a joint venture (50-50 ownership) between Canadian company Isotope Music Inc, founded by Gerald McGhee, and Czech company GZ Media.

In March 2016, Canadian vinyl broker Samo Media merged with Precision Record Pressing, becoming their sales and service branch located in Toronto.

Most of cutting and all plating and test pressings production is done at GZ Media and runout etchings will look very similar to records pressed at GZ Media.

The presence of Precision Record Pressing ordering identifiers, i.e. a number that begins with 10- followed by five or six digits (example 10-83451), is not enough to determine pressing. For vinyl records with both GZ Media and Precision Record Pressing indicators present in runouts, credit Precision Record Pressing with "Manufactured By" and credit GZ Media with "Plated At".

This is true independent of the presence or absence of any "Made in Canada" and/or "Made in Czech Republic" stickers or printing on releases. (Stickers can be listed in the notes section; actually different printing on jackets merits separate releases, but should not be used to derive pressing).

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GZ Media

Contact Info:

Client Center:
136 Geary Avenue, Unit 217
Toronto, ON
Canada

Pressing Plant:
875 Laurentian Drive, Unit 1
Burlington, Ontario L7N 3W7
Canada

Warehouse & Pickup:
3260 South Service Road West,
Oakville, ON L6L 0B1
Canada

(289) 635-1811
[email protected]

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precisionpressing.com , Facebook , X , Instagram

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  • ookowalsky's avatar
    ookowalsky
    Shittiest pressing plant around the globe by a wide margin. Highly doubtful that these guys are able to press a decent non warped record.
    • peterbourbon's avatar
      peterbourbon
      I have no idea what happened to Precision lately, but their pressings start to consistently sound bad (but were great back then). Constant clicks and crackles with each and every record I buy, not so with their parent company GZ. Either they ditched QA or their compound imports to Canada have quality issues. Or both. What a shame.
      • Tommyboy65's avatar
        Tommyboy65
        Edited 2 years ago
        Precision has issues pressing problem free records. While not as bad as MRP, they use subpar quality vinyl. One can hear low level surface noise throughout their pressings. Right there, they are ripping the customer off. Other issues include non fill, surface noise that affects the first the first tracks on each side for 10 seconds or so, dimples, and hairline marks. The sad part is that they press records by the Beatles and Stones and can’t get them right. Precision have also pressed titles by Marvin Gaye and Little Feat within the last year and managed to screw them up. Precision’s questionable QC comes as no surprise, since they’re a subsidiary of GZ.
        • MalachiLui's avatar
          MalachiLui
          it seems like a lot of more recent pressings don't have the 10-##### codes, instead they'll simply have GZ codes (catalog number and part number) and a 'made in canada' sticker. this seems especially common for releases where GZ does the EU pressings and seemingly send parts to PRP for north american pressings. maybe this PRP profile should be updated to reflect that, but i'm not sure there's any way to 100% confirm it (but i don't think GZ would press discs then send just the discs over to canada for packaging).
          • analogkid8's avatar
            analogkid8
            Edited 3 years ago
            Have several Precision pressings and while the pressing quality is not bad, like MPO, they always seem to manage one side off center which is annoying to say the least. If they can step up their QC, they'd be a good plant.
            • vinylfilmaholic's avatar
              vinylfilmaholic
              One of my favorite plants out there right now but a couple of records I’ve bought pressed by them lately have been off center (Taylor Swift “Lover” on its third side). Hopefully they can stop that because I love me some PRP!
              • movceo's avatar
                movceo
                This pressing plant, in my experience, is one of the better ones out there today. Some of their early pressings suffered from non-fill but they were very responsive to the situation and have made great improvement since. Their work is way better than their parent company (GZ). Most PRP pressings I’ve purchased in the past year or so have been nice quiet slabs of vinyl.

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