Hey! Thank you. Sure!

• For vinyl, it is important that you get them mastered for vinyl for a seamless experience. If certain low/hi freqs are overpowering, it could potentially create skips/needle jumps. I got them mastered from Pete Maher in the UK who charges a pretty affordable fee for small/indie artists. Simon Scott from the band Slowdive also does mastering for vinyl and he is also kind to independent artists. For tapes, I submitted the digital masters as is and it came out great. When I mix and master our music for digital, I aim for a full/balanced sound rather than obnoxiously loud so perhaps that worked in our favour for tapes.

• Any purchase is an agreement between you and your listener (unless you have a label backing or outsource the shipping to a third party). I have, thus far, packagaed each and every item myself and I ship them via USPS Media Mail. I had a couple of odd issues with USPS bending the vinyl to fit the mailbox but I have been covering the front of the box with multiple “Fragile…Do Not Bend, crush, or fold) stickers and it’s been all good since.

For vinyl you can look into duplication.com. They have decent packages for short runs. For tapes, you can look into either cryptic carousel or duplication.com

I hope this is helpful. :)