Pressing-level documentation
Discover exactly what vinyl you have — and be able to prove it.
Every record photographed to a full checklist, its matrix read straight off the dead wax, its pressing identified against label archives and decades of sale records. Built by a collector, for collectors, dealers, and the brokers who insure them — documentation your insurer, valuer or buyer can work from.
No prices are published on this site. Documentation is private to you. Questions about a pressing? email
1997 RTI white-label test pressing, CS 8163
The gateway — works on any phone, anywhere
You take the photos. Everything after that happens without you.
Easy install from a link. It walks you through a fixed checklist — photos, typed condition grades, and the matrix numbers you type or simply dictate — crops every shot for you, and uploads the set to your own Google Drive. You share that one folder, read-only, and the assessment starts from there. Wherever you are.
01 · New album — two fields and a disc count
Label artist, album title, one disc or two. That is the entire setup — no account with us.
One system, four steps
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📷06 Side 1 Label✓⌨14 Matrix/RunoutnowSave to Google Drive
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Capture
You · in the app
A fixed multi-entry checklist: front and back cover, every label, every disc face — covers auto-cropped, labels and discs cropped round with a few taps. In the same pass you type the condition grades for the cover and each side, and type or dictate the matrix / runout straight off the disc.
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Google Drive · your folder Shared · read-only
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Upload
You · one tap
The set uploads to a folder in your own Google Drive, named from the artist and album, and you share that one folder read-only. Nothing else in your Drive is touched — you stay the owner, and access can be revoked any time.
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1957 — six-eye deep-groove — this copy1958–61 — deep groove removed1962–64 — 2-eye 'Guaranteed Hi-Fi'1963–70 — 360 Sound red label2013 — 180g mono reissue
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Researched
The archive · remotely
Your matrix transcription and label shots go through deep research — pressing-plant and label archives, dating references, recorded sales — until the exact pressing is identified, and its market history gathered, evaluated and compared.
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PDFCatalogue
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Delivered
The archive · back to you
Your grades are set beside recorded sales of that exact variant, so the market history sits with the record. Out comes whatever you need — a private catalogue and record pages, an exportable schedule for a broker or buyer, or bulk listings for eBay and Discogs.
What “documented” actually means
One record from the archive, in the detail every record gets.
Matrix / runout
Side A: CS 8163-A T BG Side B: CS 8163-B T BG 08
Read off the disc and transcribed by hand — not copied from a database.
Pressing details
- Label
- Classic Records
- Catalogue
- CS 8163
- Year
- 1997
- Country
- US
- Format
- LP, test pressing
- Condition
- Cover NM · Vinyl NM
Pre-release RTI test pressing stamped APR 2 1997, with the BG lacquer suffix — above the retail 200g run in the pressing hierarchy.
Variant chronology
Eleven documented variants of this title from 1959 to 2025, with this copy placed in the sequence — so its position is arguable, not asserted.
Why I built this
I built this because I couldn’t prove what I owned. Thirty years and three countries of buying records, and no way to show anyone — an insurer, a valuer, a buyer — what was actually in the collection. What started as my own catalogue became a set of tools for anyone who needs to catalogue, document, insure or sell vinyl properly. Read the full story →
Collectors
Know exactly which pressing you own, and hold the evidence for it — before you need it.
Dealers & stores
Detailed content behind every listing, in bulk to eBay and Discogs. Better copy sells at better prices.
Insurers & valuers
A schedule that identifies each item at pressing level, with photographs and condition notes recorded to a fixed checklist — the evidence your own valuer or adjuster works from.
Selling a collection
Inherited or downsizing: find out what is actually there before someone offers you a lump sum for it.
Start with one record
Send me a pressing you’re unsure about, or ask about documenting a whole collection ahead of a sale or an insurance schedule.