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All the Faults and Disadvantages of Vinyl  Images by Dane Deaner Non Fill Non fill refers to a pressing defect that occurs when the molten vinyl does not flow fully to produce a well formed groove. It occurs most often on a 180g record's outer edge and is caused by the vinyl's beginning to harden prematurely. The sound produced is noise, a sound that we've all heard too often. This was the problem that plagued Classic's early 200g Quiex SV-P flat profile pressings. Crackle on Vinyl Records Simply put, the crackle you hear through your speaker is the amplification in sound of an impurity or obstruction on the record surface. When the stylus encounters one of this issue the result will be either a crackle or a pop. A dirty record is one of the most common reasons for crackle. Dust and dirt lodged in the record grooves act as an obstacle for your turntable’s stylus, and when the stylus hits one of these microscopic particles it will jump and create that popping sound assoc...

Vinyl Art and What It Is Deadwax art by Alex Vinyl records were mainly used for listening to music long before the digital era of Mp3 players and downloaded music. Today vinyl discs exist in forms of artwork. These artworks demonstrate that the recycled vinyl records do not need to go to waste. Russian painter Feliks Kaparchuk uses old vinyls to render his vivid landscape paintings. His unconventional choice of circular canvas creates the illusion of observing nature through a porthole window. What is vinyl art Vinyl art refers to creative pieces made from vinyl records. These include intricately cut records that showcase stunning designs that touch an important chord in every music lover’s heart. Instead of sending damaged vinyl to the landfill artist give it new life as vinyl art. Vinyl can create a design on a temporary surface before transferring this same design to a more permanent surface. These are an excellent example of how you can use vinyl in crafting. It’s just one use, how...

A List of Record Player Terms Image by Dima Junglist The turntable became the basis of the record player and understanding the different parts of a record player can help you appreciate the magic of this analog sound system. Some have an automatic turntable tonearm moved by an anti skating feature that brings the needle to the center of the groove. Others will leave it up to you to steady your own arm to move the metallic one. Image by The Retro Store 45 Adapter - The 45 adapter allows for 7 inch, 17cm, records that have the larger center to fit your turntable. There are single play and multiplayer adapters. Multiplayer adapters are usually specific to certain turntables. Anti Skate - The anti skate mechanism is a vital component that prevents the tonearm from drifting towards the center of the record during playback. This drifting, if uncontrolled, can cause uneven wear on the vinyl and result in audio distortion. Automatic Turntable - A turntable equipped with both the ability to ...

Sound Preservation and Different Audio Formats Image by Mick Haupt The process of transferring of information to other sustainable and accessible formats is known as digitization, bearing the challenge of transcoding all media content, as well as related information such as metadata in a proper way. This means managing file based digital data in a sustainable way, so that access, documentation and authenticity can be enabled and preserved in the long term. Sound Preservation The Recorded Sound Collection at the Library of Congress is an Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, VA. Items date from the late 1880s to the present day and include everything from music to radio broadcasts to spoken word recordings to field recordings of traditional music, oral histories and actualities. Each year, donations, acquisitions, and copyrights are added through formats from cylinders, 78, 45, or 33 1/3 RPM records, reel to reel audio tapes, 8 tracks, cassettes, CDs, or even wire. For shattered cylind...

 Transitioning from Newspapers to Radio Image by Nihal Demirci Erenay Style A newspapers is written so that it may be edited from the bottom up. As old editors liked to say, a page form is not made of rubber. It won’t stretch. What doesn’t fit is thrown away. Historians trace the inverted pyramid, which is not the traditional style of British or other foreign newspapers, to the American Civil War, when correspondents, fearing that the telegraph would break down before they could finish transmitting their dispatches, put the most important information into the first paragraph and continued the story with facts in descending order of news value. The radio must be consumed sequentially, that is, the listener does not hear the second song without hearing the first. The eighth song waits on the first seven, which means in practice that all seven are chosen to be interesting to a significant number of listeners and are presented at a length, which maintains that interest. In addition to ...

Copyrighting and Public Domain Music A song is the combination of melody and words. Each is protected by copyright, the melody as a musical work and the lyrics as a literary work. One or the other could be used separately and still be protected. Image by Markus Spiske Public Domain Music Public domain essentially covers creative works that are no longer protected by intellectual property laws, compositions and musical recordings in which the claim to intellectual property has either expired, been forfeited, or been waived. Most people recognize the term public domain in reference to published works, including sheet music or musical recordings, which once were protected by copyright, but the copyright expired several decades after the artist’s death or a considerable length of time after the work’s creation. Once copyright expires on a work like a recorded song, you can use it for any purpose without paying the publisher, the artist, or another institution. The Two Types of Copyright ...