vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

[shedshrine]

My favorite use of the 1500 is with headphones.
McIntosh Mac1500
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When shelving goes bad...
Tip 427: Set up your IKEA Expedit with the
long boards horizontal and the short boards vertical.


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[shedshrine]

a few of my colored vinyl.

Living Colour – Time’s Up

Tomita’s The Planets in pink..


Tonio K- Life in the Foodchain

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[shedshrine]

How to fix warped records some good turntable/cartridge advice here as well.
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[Jeff White]

Just grabbed a Technics SL-1700 off of eBay for $53 plus shipping. Thanks dudes!

Jeff
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http://ipressrecord.com/

https://soundcloud.com/goldenlikethesun/sets/golden-like-the-sun-jams

[Gregg Juke]

Cool vinyls, shred. I can't quite make out the "Living Colour" on my tiny screen; is that a shade of green? I think the colored vinyl looks awesome, and I'm thinking about it for our next release, but it's supposed to have an effect on sound quality(?), and the expense, oy. That not your shelving, btw, is it?

Congratulations on the TT Jeff. Long may it spin.

GJ

[shedshrine]

It's a translucent yellow Gregg.



Here's a brief history on colored vinyl and picture discs and some of the more creative examples to help you with your album design decision.

...and that was some other poor soul's shelving collapse.
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[shedshrine]

Does colored vinyl affect sound quality?
Music Industry Survival Guide- Everything you need to know about vinyl.

"There are lots of cosmetic options for your records. Depending on where you're getting your records pressed you can choose between various solid colors, transparent colors, swirls, the marble look or picture discs. It's a commonly held belief that there's a drop in sound quality when you stray away from black vinyl; lighter colors and clears especially... followed by an additional drop off when you go to picture disc. There are two schools of thought on why black vinyl sounds best, one is that it's the purest and contains no color additives. The other school of thought is folks putting an emphasis on the lead content present in most black vinyl. Black vinyl does indeed contain a small amount of lead and it very well may play a part in the sound differenc- es. Admittedly, I don't have much background in terms of picture discs but from what I understand the production process is much different than regular vinyl records and that the compound used is closer to PVC plastic than it is to vinyl. Like most things with records it's just a choice you have to make as to which is more important to you the best sound quality possible or a cooler presentation. Personally, when I'm in the record shop having to decide between the 180 gram version of Velvet Underground with Nico or the version on banana yellow vinyl I go with the colors but many choose otherwise."
-By Jay Millar, Sales & Marketing Manager, United Record Pressing
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[shedshrine]

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[Gregg Juke]

Good information and cool vinyls, shred. You seem to have found an endless source of pristine edge Jazz vinyl; sweet. I used to play that Yusel Lateef a lot! Can't go wrong with Canonball or Kirk. You like the gypsy guitar players; have you heard Birelli Lagren?

Back to the informative warping article-- I'm pretty interested in that Vinyl Flat device.

GJ

[shedshrine]

Glad you found some of that stuff useful.

As for an "endless jazz supply", I've been pretty tenacious about hitting up the local vinyl shops of late and that has paid off.

No, I hadn't heard of Birelli Lagren. Another name to check out. I still have yet to check out dfuruta's recommendation of Getachew Mekurya, the monster Ethiopian saxophonist as well.

Enjoying the journey.
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[dfuruta]

[Brett Siler]

[Brett Siler]

Great jazz picks shred! I really dig that Pharroh Sandrs album, Yusef Lateff, Roland Kirk. Good shit. I just picked up John Coltane's "Ascension" yesterday. Great album, real wild stuff.

Also love that you have a John Cage album.
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My musical endeavors!

Label: http://www.dyspepsidisc.com/
Band: http://www.stationaryodyssey.com
Studio:Mother Brain Sound Infrastructure

[shedshrine]

Dust and Grooves.com
Great "vinyl culture" site.


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[Brett Siler]

Some vinyl porn pics of my band's last seven inch release:

Custom hand built wood casing that twists to open


The record:


Test presses!


I have more pictures of us making the wood packaging if anyone is interested.

SPAM ALERT!! If anyone wants to pick one up go here
click me SPAM ALERT!!!
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My musical endeavors!

Label: http://www.dyspepsidisc.com/
Band: http://www.stationaryodyssey.com
Studio:Mother Brain Sound Infrastructure