Worst Vinyl Pressings

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Worst vinyl pressings.

Discussion in music corner started by classicrock jun 1 2013. Due to the increase in vinyl record sales some manufacturers struggle to keep up with the demand. This can lead to long lead times for the end product or worst case scenario a sub par product. All the best vinyl records plants in the world sorted by country plus some link to short run vinyl producers and one off single vinyl makers.

The ultimate guide if you re willing to release your band s last album on vinyl but you don t know where to start this is your list. Bon iver all feist all us releases i ve had to exchange a lot of sub pop s records before finding flat quiet centered pressings iron and wine fleet foxes sufjan stevens christmas infinity voyage wasn t mastered very well for vinyl the actual pressing is fine but there s distortion in a couple loud parts best. Finding a quality vinyl pressing plant or indeed vinyl record manufacturer can be somewhat of a hardship. There is a limited vinyl 12 that came out for record day with 3 or 4 versions of get it on accoustic electric and a boogie version.

Quality vinyl pressing uk. It is probably the worst looking vinyl i have ever seen blotchy scuffs all kinds of stuff on it. Not that they are bad pressings it is that they label themselves pseudo audiophile when they are mediocre digital sources. Best vinyl pressing plants.

Worst vinyl pressings of the last five years. Yup old ideas on vinyl sounds remarkably better than the cd that came with it. No minimum quantities we press 1 to 2000 custom vinyl records. If a company sources their vinyl pressings from a cd the result will sound worse than a cd.

The worst pressings to my mind are put out by doxy. I also bought thom chacon s solo lp recommended by michael fremer on his website and it is qrp pressing packaging vinyl and. Electric warrior on the original fly label with porky and pecko duck in the deadwax truly rocks. A recent series of sun ra reissues pressed by scorpio were inexpensive and available at my local shop.

That said cheap reissues are often the only way to track down a copy of your favorite records.