SpazzyMcGee Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Tried to find a thread on this topic but couldn't find one. What do you guys think? Nice to look at or does it lessen the quality of the sound? Found this interesting in regards to the kinds of colors out there. (Surface noise 1= quietest / 9 = noisiest) 1. Standard Black 2. Recycled Black (most people do not hear a difference between 1 and 2) 3. Transparent Colors (Blue, Green, Clear, Gold [orange], Transparent Red, Coke Clear, Fluorescent Colors) 4. Non-Mixed Opaque Colors (Pink, Red, Yellow, Violet, Brown) 5. White 6. Opaque Mix (Mixing opaque and translucent color(s) in particular; and also tend to have visible “staining” after a few hundred records, which can be seen in certain light). 7. Random Color 8. Split Color / Splatter Color / other hand-made colors 9. Glow In The Dark moonbeams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingnatural Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 onlettingjoe and tape 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Moonbeams? moonbeams and somethingvinyl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenuthouse Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 From this Discogs post (http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/226494): "I work in a pressing plant i haven't been there long, a few months... but, As far as i am aware "Black" vinyl is the best all round hands down! it is made up of small black pellets similar looking to blue slug pellets, but black obviously. It has been designed especially for the use of making records, it contains special oils etc which lubricate the stylus within the groove as its played, my advisor told me it has had 100's of thousands of pounds put into formulating the special blend of chemicals and plastics to form the perfect record, it plays & provids the very best in audio qualtiy and durability of the coloured or black records. it can be recycled and usually there is about a 2% of old recycled records in a new record. "Colored vinyl", is made up of pellets of clear vinyl, similar to the black vinyl and the color is just added in the form of whatever color pellets and the clear pellets..., there is a formular but it is mostly clear pellets rather than color pellets. so all color records are made from clear plastic pellets mostly therefore all color records should technically sound roughly the same(providing the same stamper was used). the colored vinyl can come in a whole array of colors and we have a color swatch with many shades etc possibly a 100-150, it looks like a paint chart its quite amazing really. Colored vinyl is nowhere near as good in terms of audio quality, however dope it looks! the main problem i am told is that color vinyl has a problem with surface noise. the wear rate is roughly the same as black, however black will sound better through its entire life span. coloured vinyl isnt specially manufactured for records like the black vinyl is and this is the reason for lesser quality. the same plastic pellets could be used elsewhere to make cups or whatever... You could in theory spend £100,000s on formulating a special blend pellet but who really has that kind of money to throw away....Id say if you where to release something go for black viny, coloured records are more of novolty/specialist items...The only real way of distinguishing would be to have a record pressed in black and whatever colour, made using the very same stamper. some releases in the uk may have been stamped differently so will inevitebly sound different." SpazzyMcGee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Is most black vinyl not recycled? Wouldn't Recycled vinyl be standard vinyl and virgin vinyl be special vinyl? Apparently only 2% is recycled, but I'd still be curious how much recycled content goes into the "new" pellets. I'd think recycling records would lower cost to make those little pellets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vool Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 You know that records are made of Polyvinyl Chloride and that this material is transparent, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseydave77 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Why not double down and start another conversation as to whether 180g or 200g vinyl sounds better? Dusted_By_Space, 6heart6breaker6 and thomasj182 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vool Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 I'm probably going to press my debut record on 666g black vinyl...inside out! yancey47 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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