Meeting Notice: May 2025 - Zenith Records Tour
The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person facility tour and presentation held on Monday 5th May 2025 at 7:30 pm
The meeting will be a site visit to Zenith Records in Brunswick.
Tour numbers are limited, so you will need to book at
https://www.trybooking.com/DBBEV
Priority will be given to AES members, but non-members are welcome to book and will be allocated any spare spots.
Paul Rigby, Zenith’s co-founder will conduct a tour of their manufacturing facility and speak to us on:
Vinyl Record Manufacturing
From Original Master to Finished Product
What is involved in taking an audio master file all the way from concept to a mass-produced vinyl record with sleeve and labelled artwork?
On Monday 5th May you can find out with the AES Melbourne tour of Zenith Records in Brunswick – which is the only facility in Australia that handles the complete process.
Zenith are completing yet another factory upgrade to provide additional presses, boilers, galvanics and in particular their CNC facilities next door.
Whilst many pressing plants exist, most do not have the equipment necessary for the creation of the master stampers in addition to the actual vinyl presses. Many factories rely on these parts being prepared off-shore and so do not have the necessary tape transfer equipment, record-cutting lathes and plating (silvering) equipment.
Then there is the need for machining of the associated production parts and maintenance of some increasingly valuable equipment. Zenith have all of this capability.
‘Having the end-to-end process in-house at Zenith allows much faster turn-around from source file to finished product, with times measured in days rather than months’.
Numbers will be strictly limited for the tour, with a maximum of two groups touring the adjacent facilities. Something not to be missed – Book now.