SST GmbH

Disc mastering / lacquer cutting studio and company, established 16 November 2016 as 'Schallplatten Schneid Technik GmbH', after renaming Daniel Krieger.

The cuts done by the company can be identified in the runouts by an etched SST, usually preceded or followed by 1 or 2 letters indicating the cutting engineer (e.g. K SST or SST AL).

It has two cutting rooms, both equipped with Neumann VMS80 lathes.

Cutting engineers indications:
- SST K or Kr (may also appear as K+) for Daniel Krieger
- SST MW for Martin Wegner, until February 2017
- SST AL for Alex Nimmermann
- SST TK (combined - may appear as R) for Theo Krieger (Daniel's brother), since July 2017
- SST ▽Z (combined / stylized D and Z) for Davi Rodrigues De Lima, between January 2018 and 31 October 2019

When submitting information for releases from 2017 and onwards, please add:
Lacquer Cut At - SST GmbH to the LCCN field
(for earlier releases, use Mind Minerals’ for an example).

A rare ‘Schallplattenschneidtechnik’ was credited only once on ‘Lonely Planet ’.