Vinyl Junkies …

depends if he's pedalling forwards or track standing

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So much vinyl sounds shit these days I rarely bother... Also why buy an expensive reissue that sounds crap when you can get the original for less?!? #suckers

Because the best condition second hand is VG? Becuase there are no mint copies about? Because sellers often list stuff as MINT when it's at the very best VG+ and the prices are eye watering?

gios78
I was once a recording artiste (not) selling upwards of 1000 copies each release , probably topped 5000 once . then in 2007 the labels decided digital was the way to go and they refused to release my last contrived work on vinyl .
i would say much of the problem is the several thousand underground labels that popped up in the last 7 or so years . they brought it back alive but they also only do small runs up to 300 . then the majors came back in and and most of the big pressing plants such as EMI had gone thanks to the majors abandoning vinyl . so they have to use smaller companies ....
i love vinyl 180gram, coloured , 7inch , 12 inch whatever it sounds great to me . the skills of the engineers has got better though the lathes are still the same , 24bit 96k optimum for cutting vinyl i believe you can't even buy a 24bit cd player , digital just sounds too harsh and some of the mastering is appallingly loud . just got 4 x 7" singles in the post this morning :)

I forget exactly how many sound pressure it is but Vinyl cannot capture 24bits in reality.

No, because a lot of the mastering is total pish... Bought a few new things over the last few years that have all sounded rubbish... And they weren't cheap either...

brickwall limiting - the last Flying Lotus LP was fucking horrendous sounding

everyone and his granny thinks he's a mastering engineer now , as well as djing and production they do this too .....anything for a extra few bob .
many years ago worked with john dent (fallout shelter + exchange) to master a CD album , then we mastered the vinyl at dub plates in berlin . the vinyl cut was far superior to the original CD master so we used that as the CD master too !

Rashad Becker at Dubplates is the master. Everything he touches turns to gold.

Yes, the Exchange! That was where I got most of my old stuff cut, nice man who had his Labrador under the console while he worked... #memoryloss

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Clearly there's a new destination of choice for the discerning vinyl junkie:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/tesco-to-start-selling-vinyl-records-as-formats-popularity-soars-a3130681.html

(Still not interested in digitally-processed records then pressed onto vinyl.)

Here's another view.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/07/vinyl-sales-tesco-lps-labels

The author seems to assume that more demand will not generate more new pressing plants, but surely it can be expected that these will increase in number again? Why wouldn't they?

Pressing plants are expensive to build. I don't think there are any companies left who make new high volume vinyl presses any more, which leaves only a limited supply of already highly sought after old presses around, which are also probably expensive to recommission given there are few specialists left.

Oh, absolutely. All that is quite clear. It's not easy to build good machines, and there is a reason why these old ones have been in service for so long. I suppose what I'm wondering about is a way back in, some area where one might start in re-increasing capacity. Perhaps older machines can be reconditioned and the resulting profits be re-invested in creating new ones. The few plants that are still around must be reasonably profitable and be able to train new staff, perhaps introducing night shifts to keep the presses running 24/7 to cope with demand? Just brainstorming, I don't really want to wish night shifts on anyone, and perhaps they're already doing them. Hopefully, it wouldn't make the old presses break sooner. :) There may well be much better ways forward.

They already do work 24 hours a day!

http://thequietus.com/articles/17670-gz-vinyl-pressing-plant-record-store-day

Should have known. Good to see that this step is already taken, next up for more new presses and other equipment, then. :)

I keep hearing about more and more presses being reconditioned and coming back into service... Hasn't Jack White started doing his own pressing at Third Man?

The Exchange, the world is small Joe! Graeme sold up and that place has now been turned into flats. 500k for a cupboard. Our offices are on the ground floor of the building.

Graeme Durham now of Kitty Daisy and Lewis fame. And the engineer with the Jag (forgot his name) is working from Devon.

Well, last night I finally got to DJ at a party- a vinyl only set (I've never used CDJ's and only used a laptop once) and I've got to say, apart from the stess of fucking it up (bad selections, etc) I had an absolute blast.

I highly recommend it to everyone. If you have records, it's a great was to share them with people. I even got a few dancers.

Does anyone have the means of getting a vinyl into a digital form? Ideally at a decent quality.
Got a vinyl with no online run. Please help.

you could run the master out in your mixer through a phono to line cable and record through your computer using audacity (free open source software). Thats how i record mixes so you could do the same for a single track.

Sadly not got a record player at the moment. Cultivating a collection but nothing more.

Prole. in reply to @Oliver Schick
Pressing plants are expensive to build. I don't think there are any companies left who make new high volume vinyl presses any more, which leaves only a limited supply of already highly sought after old presses around, which are also probably expensive to recommission given there are few specialists left.

It's shit the big companies that deserted vinyl are now muscling in on the few pressing plants and causing huge backlogs for the smaller/indie labels that have kept the plants alive.

RSD doesn't help matters at all....speckled spice girls vinyl anyone?

has anybody got barcode population?

on vinyl that there willing to sell?

Pm me I got a super nice turntable I play it direct into audio interface 24 bit wav files , arm is rega cartridge is rega turntable technics sounds great !