Why we stand out
Pressing & Plating Under One Roof
Our cutting edge facility was designed and built to exacting specifications. We offer world class pressing & plating under one roof to create maximum efficiencies, better timelines, and the highest quality vinyl produced today.
Artist Owned; Artist Focused
As a proudly artist-owned company, we know firsthand that high-quality pressings not only cultivate a loyal fanbase but also drive higher sales and better margins.
White-Glove Service With A Smile
Our unwavering commitment to exemplary service includes near-instantaneous response time and a stellar track record for meeting and exceeding deadlines. We strive for some of the fastest turnaround times in the industry at unmatched quality.
By Artists, for Artists
David Rawlings and Gary Salstrom co-founded Paramount Pressing & Plating as a natural extension of their deep, unwavering commitment to top quality vinyl production. David is a Grammy-winning artist, producer, and co-owner of Acony Records and Woodland Sound Studios who has championed analog recording techniques and high fidelity sound reproduction for his entire career. Gary Salstrom is a legend with over four decades of experience in the vinyl pressing industry and has been instrumental in shaping modern pressing techniques and setting new benchmarks for quality. Together they built Paramount Pressing & Plating to create a facility that embodies their standards for excellence, combining pressing and plating under one roof to maximize efficiency and fidelity. By establishing this plant, Rawlings and Salstrom provide meticulous vinyl pressings for like-minded artists and labels who share their dedication to superior sound quality.
The Process
Turnkey Services
Lacquers
Customer Supplied: Send lacquers from your cutting engineer
Concierge Service: Experienced members of the Paramount Pressing team will deliver your mastered project files to a first class cutting engineer and coordinate delivery of master lacquers to our plating department.
Professional Recommendation: Paramount Pressing can provide contacts for our favorite cutting engineers to suit a variety of budgets.
Printing
Customer Supplied: Send jackets, inserts, and stickers directly to our plant
Concierge Service: Experienced members of the Paramount Pressing team will work to realize your packaging vision and deliver templates and files to our print partners.
Professional Recommendation: Paramount Pressing can provide contacts for our favorite print partners
Testimonials
"If lacquer plating is record production’s 'secret sauce', Paramount Pressing’s Gary Salstrom is a three-star Michelin chef."- Michael Fremer, Editor, TrackingAngle.com
"Gary has been a pillar of the record industry for decades with his encyclopedic knowledge of electroforming and pressing, combining art and science to make world-class facilities. I'm expecting that this new venture will prove to be fantastic!" -Chris Muth, former technical director of The Hit Factory and Sterling Sound in NYC.
"The supergroup of record pressing. All of the best people in the vinyl pressing business under one roof!" -Josh Rawlings, Co-Founder Baked Alaska Records
"I’ve listened to World’s Gone Wrong test pressings: Spectacular***.Don’t think I’ve ever heard better sounding vinyl.I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this pure analog sound! full - rich - detailed and clear in all frequencies - killer bass!Feels like a different record than the one I recorded and mixed." -Ray Kennedy, Room & Board