@kelly You can check out the dub-plates.org website circa 2009 where they specifically advertise their dub plate pressing service as "a quick way of giving dj an authentic warm sounding format to play" in addition to its normal utility of being a "rough draft" of what your commercial record will sound like on vinyl
https://web.archive.org/web/20090105151910/http://dub-plates.org/
@darius admittedly we are making dinner here but i literally salivated, thank you, this is so wonderful i feel like all of humanity will be saved through records. like a teenager. this is so good