Brand New Warped Vinyl

This guide to flattening warped vinyl records will hopefully get you on track or at the very least prevent you from irreparably damaging your records.

Brand new warped vinyl.

Pick up an early vinyl record from the 50s and they re pleasingly like lead weights. It is common for brand new lp s new pressings that they are nearly always. In fact as a matter of good practice i wet clean all my new vinyl before the first play. I received a promo box today.

In many cases new records come contaminated. Let s run through some checks to see if the vinyl might be at fault. But you won t like the answer. Further every knob and switch is connected to a little digital brain while your guitar signal stays 100 analog the entire time and never gets digitally processed.

Production mistakes though exceedingly rare can cause a vinyl record to become warped. I just picked up opeth s my arms your hearse lp on blue vinyl and both of the records are warped the first one is very minor but i can see the cartridge bump up a little bit when it rotates. Warped already with lot of surface noise not 100 centered hole especially the mfsl pressings always suffer from this and i won t buy them anymore. All these new fangled special edition 180gm records you new fangled kids spend far too much on used to be the norm.

Warped vinyl hifi has several changes from previous versions including a lag knob for lush chorus tones reduced noise and opportunities for more transparent and brighter tones. The new warped vinyl hifi takes this concept even further by providing a. We ve compiled a short video and numbered each record 1 5 so you can decide what you consider. In many circumstances you should be able to fix this one yourself by wet cleaning the vinyl either by hand or using a record cleaning machine.

Warped vinyl the original chase bliss audio warped hifi pedal was originally conceived to replicate the way in which a warped vinyl record creates unpredictable variations in pitch and level. The second is pretty bad and the cartridge is in a constant up and down motion. Same record label and pressing plant 5 of 6 had issues of some sort. Should i return the.

I seem to remember in the 80s they were like wet paper and warped easily. As mentioned above a brand new vinyl record is less often the culprit of playback skipping though it is not unheard of. Yes you can un warp them. This is my experience in the netherlands.