Birds Hit Records

***CHRISTMAS ALERT***CHRISTMAS ALERT***CHRISTMAS ALERT***CHRISTMAS ALERT***
Ho ho ho... It's almost that time of year when we slaughter our fatted wallets and spend long periods of time trapped in a room with relatives after a breakfast of chocolate and buck fizz.
We will be closed from 15th December to 2nd January.
... Last Christmas post will be sent out on Friday 14th December.
Get your Christmas orders in now!!! It's been a busy year and the next six weeks are filling up rapidly. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Gift vouchers are available for that special vinyl junkie in your life...
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Don't be daft...

If anyone is looking for a sweet analogue desk, you'd do well to check this out. I cut my teeth on one of these - seriously nice. Neve vibes without the Neve price tag. Made in Salford!

Whilst we are in the process of restoring our Presto 28N lathe, we have been researching other studios that were know to have used them. First up, you can hardly get a studio more appropriately referred to as 'legendary'... J&M Recording Studio in New Orleans, the birthplace of Rock n Roll...

The genius of George Martin is undeniable, but come on... Hard-panned drums and bass? Who's idea was that?! #howtomakethecuttingengineerslifeashardas possible

#heatwave

The 'old vinyl factory' in Hayes, Middlesex - home to HMV/EMI and the centre of the golden era of vinyl - is being turned into...
Wait for it.....
You're never going to guess....
... FLATS!
I bet you had no idea I was going to say that, did you? I mean, it's such a novel use of the site....
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RIP Vinnie Paul

A few words about our use of data and GDPR...
We hold basic contact info of people who place orders with us so we can, you know, send them their records. If one of those people decided to place another order with us and told us that they couldn't be arsed filling in the contact details form again then we will access the stored data to generate another order. We will also use data such as your email address to contact you about your order because people seem to like it when we... do that. Simple as...
We don't have a mailing list.
Third parties wish we shared your data with them.
If you pay for your order by PayPal, well, that's up to you, but you may wish to check out their privacy policy.
Likewise if you message us through Facebook, you may wish to familiarise yourself with their privacy policy.
Any audio files you send to us will be kept for no longer than 6 months. RAID drives are expensive!
As far as we know, cookies are something you bake, but we do use Clicky Analytics because we are interested in seeing where in the world visitors to our site come from. Apparently, Clicky uses cookies to do this, but if we've learned one thing it's that most people are a bit paranoid about 'the man' and like to generate anonymous search data and hide behind proxy servers so it's kind of pointless anyway.
If you have ever bought any records from us and want us to delete your contact info, please email us and we will happily oblige, but don't get upset when you have to fill the order form in again.
Other than that, enjoy receiving A LOT less spam from now on - we know we will!
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#TopTip from the engineering deck!

***PLEASE NOTE*** We will be closed from 29th May to 12th June.

Unexpected shocker from Shure... Cue frantic buying followed by vastly inflated prices on eBay... Not that we're cynical or anything.

A box of 150 7" lacquers turned up yesterday.... For somebody who's day peaked with cleaning a worm gear with a toothpick that's pretty exciting...

Ye olde cutting amplifier. No schematic, so it's being reverse-engineered!

Guten Morgen von den Alpen!
We made it!
*Insert lots of wacky & interesting road-trip photos here*
... There's two, and they're not even slightly wacky or interesting... 21 hours straight driving got the better of us. We only stopped for diesel, caffeine and sausage...
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Happy International Women's Day (Part 1)