Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Urbs_hott said:
Do most people not have the sleeve opening on the top? Am I crazy?
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Ok, so, yes, standard sleeves on top (that was my oversight in thinking it through). But there are resealable sleeves - quite like the one already provided.

Now, I know from past discussions some people don't keep the VMP ones (although I think people who were likely to discard something, were more likely to discard the OBI, if something).

So if a person doesn't like to use the provided resealable and they only have sleeves that open on top - then one can turn the jacket (dimensions are the same all around) and have the slot face normal. The OBI will provide info as to artist/title.

If a person discards the resealable sleeve AND OBI then I guess they can take comfort in the fact that a record in a shelf will probably get minimal dust and the records are (probably) in a poly sleeve anyway (or at least in the printed inners provided).

If none of these things assuage the anxiety from the onslaught of dust attacking one's copy Darkside from all angles then there is always the sterilized bubble option, which both listener and records can occupy.

I guess what I'm saying - with just a smidge of sarcasm - is I think it's a non-issue to begin with. Honestly, I kinda like the top open as a change of pace (usually only see it on 12" singles).

BTW, standard pressings open like that?
 
Side one of Darkside is an absolute disaster of crackle and fuzz. And not the intentional stuff on the song, this is really really bad. Checked against the digital just to be sure, boy I hope they aren't all like this...
 
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Mather said:
Side one of Darkside is an absolute distaster of crackle and fuzz. And not the intentional stuff on the song, this is really really bad. Checked against the digital just to be sure, boy I hope they aren't all like this...
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My copy is good if that's what you mean by all. If you mean all of yours. I dunno. Probably?
 
Mather said:
I'm really sorry about the head injury you suffered falling into that dumpster last week, the doctors warned me this sort term memory loss may occur. This is Mather, you were going to send me your clean copy of Darkside in exchange for this shiny Arby's coupon.
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Makes sense. My long term memory tells me I love playing around dumpsters, so that checks.

My even longer term memory tells me that "Everything is nothing. Eat Arby's".

Hopefully the exchange rate from Canadian Horsey Sauce to U.S. Horsey Sauce favors me. Everything comin' up LDB!
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
Makes sense. My long term memory tells me I love playing around dumpsters, so that checks.

My even longer term memory tells me that "Everything is nothing. Eat Arby's".

Hopefully the exchange rate from Canadian Horsey Sauce to U.S. Horsey Sauce favors me. Everything comin' up LDB!
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Yessss YESSSSSS now you see... now....

-waves expired Arby's coupon-

GIMME

-makes grabby hands-
 
Mather said:
Yessss YESSSSSS now you see... now....

-waves expired Arby's coupon-

GIMME

-makes grabby hands-
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BTW, was it you who was talking about the standard black vinyl (also 45RPM) when this was announced and how it was already really good? It may have been someone else.

If so, how does it compare - putting aside what seems to be a bad pressing for you - sound-wise? I'd be curious as the non-VMP goes for ~$25 in the U.S.
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
BTW, was it you who was talking about the standard black vinyl (also 45RPM) when this was announced and how it was already really good? It may have been someone else.

If so, how does it compare - putting aside what seems to be a bad pressing for you - sound-wise? I'd be curious as the non-VMP goes for ~$25 in the U.S.
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It was me, and yeah honestly it's close between the two, the VMP seems to have added some bass and maybe removed a little vocal sibilance but in general I think the OG master is better. More presence, attack and imaging. If you can get a flat non poppy OG I'd do that personally. The VMP master is very close, certainly not bad by any means, just not quite there with the OG.
And then yeah, disc 1 is a mess of unintended crackle and fuzz, including the patented GZ end of side crackle on 2 of the four sides... So that's always fun. Disc two is good though for the most part...
 
My copy of Darkside sounds MASSIVE. I hadn't heard the album before, so I did have to stream the first song once to make sure I was hearing intentional distortion. I had the same issue the first time I spun the first Billie Eilish LP.

Darkside does have the crackle on the runout groove that Mather mentioned, but that honestly does not bother me. YMMV.
 
Bloodlemons said:
My copy of Darkside sounds MASSIVE. I hadn't heard the album before, so I did have to stream the first song once to make sure I was hearing intentional distortion. I had the same issue the first time I spun the first Billie Eilish LP.

Darkside does have the crackle on the runout groove that Mather mentioned, but that honestly does not bother me. YMMV.
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Don't a lot (most) albums have some degree of crackle on the run out groove? There's no music there.

Surely @Mather you don't mean there?

And yes mine sounds massive. I had to turn my sub the fuck down for that first track
 
Lord Diaper Baby said:
Don't a lot (most) albums have some degree of crackle on the run out groove? There's no music there.

Surely @Mather you don't mean there?

And yes mine sounds massive. I had to turn my sub the fuck down for that first track
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No, I mean at the tail end of the song the repetitive crackle will kick in once every revolution until the song ends. A common GZ issue. But with mine disc one is just non stop fuzz and crackle throughout both sides, and not the intentional distortion, just a effed up press. Disc 2 is fine...
 
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Lord Diaper Baby said:
Oh ok. I thought I was particular but that would be crazy.
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Yeah no, run in and out or between song crackle? That's fine obviously. But it's the repetitive crackle that slowly kicks in about 20 seconds from the end of a song at the end of a side that's just brutal. It's mostly GZ I find that has that problem. I have no idea what they're doing to cause it, but it definitely happens a fair bit with them...
 
Mather said:
No, I mean at the tail end of the song the repetitive crackle will kick in once every revolution until the song ends. A common GZ issue. But with mine disc one is not non stop fuzz and crackle throughout both sides, and not the intentional distortion, just a effed up press. Disc 2 is fine...
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Ah, I misunderstood. I do not seem to have obtrusive crackle on my copy.
 
Mather said:
Yeah no, run in and out or between song crackle? That's fine obviously. But it's the repetitive crackle that slowly kicks in about 20 seconds from the end of a song at the end of a side that's just brutal. It's mostly GZ I find that has that problem. I have no idea what they're doing to cause it, but it definitely happens a fair bit with them...
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Stupid question perhaps, but do you know of any correlation of this with printed/paper sleeves?
 
Phaneronic said:
Stupid question perhaps, but do you know of any correlation of this with printed/paper sleeves?
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I've definitely had lots of pops and scuffs as a result of paper sleeves. But this isn't that. This sort of crackle and fuzz across two whole sides is a pressing thing for sure. I checked against both the digital stream and my OG.
 
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