Small Batch
Craft Recordings' Small Batch series is a meticulously curated collection for audiophiles, delivering the highest-quality reissues of legendary recordings. For each title, we send the original master tapes to legendary engineer Bernie Grundman, who performs all-analog mastering (AAA) using a custom-built tube pre-amp, an analog mixing console with discrete in-house electronics, and a Scully solid-state lathe with unique modifications. From there, lacquers go to Record Technology Incorporated (RTI), where they’re plated using a one-step process. This “convert” serves directly as the record stamper.
By using RTI’s one-step process, we bypass the typical three-step method, preserving musical detail, clarity, and dynamics while minimizing surface noise. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl with Neotech’s VR900 or VR900-D2 "super vinyl" compound, each limited-edition pressing captures the purest representation of the original lacquer, bringing listeners as close as possible to the original recording.
