COLORED VINYL: CLASSIC OR DUD

Bud Powell's "Broadcast Sessions Vol. 1" on ESP is on red vinyl with some sexy black spots.

In general I'm not a fan.

looks nice but sounds shit, usually

Classic, but I also really like picture disks

board's off to a good start here, thanks for your contributions guys.

It's often really hard to see the track demarcations on colored vinyl, so that's more points off.

my white vinyl john dowie 45 on factory is thee noisiest record i have owned, but having said that there's lots of recent things pressed at gzvinyl on colour that sound pretty damn good

Super classic - the 1st gen 45s that RCA put out that were colored by genre

i love splatter vinyl

http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/img/mike-splash.jpg

who uses gzvinyl, just out of curiosity? i am becoming more and more interested in the difference between pressing plants. will rep for brooklyn phono, of course.

it seemed a lot more prevalent in the mid-00s, i have heaps of UK indie vinyl and stuff on 555 that was done there, but i haven't seen anything out of there in recent years. wondering if the price went a bit crazy..

torche - meanderthal on "lizard skin" (robotic empire) is super pretty. sounds good too!

generally however do my best not to give a fuck tbh

i like CDs.

so I vote whatever is between classic and dud.

CDs usually have a lot of colors on them.

I like colored ones more than silver ones!

well there you go then

This is probably something I've just made up, but it seems based on a sample size of about 5, transparent coloured vinyl sounds way more shit than opaque coloured vinyl.

Coloured vinyl = classic, definitely.

Possibly the most classic of classic coloured vinyl = Kenny Everett's World's Worst Record Show on PUKE GREEN vinyl. (Okay, it was actually turquoise, but still... PUKE GREEN.)

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/lp_side32.jpg

it is pretty; probably best to have on stray seven inches that you play once in a while and preserve the novelty of.

colored vinyl edition wantlist:
green ege bamyasi
white safe as milk

The first two records I ever got were Beatles white vinyl White Album and translucent blue vinyl 1967-1970... so, classic.

it's tough to spin translucent colored or clear vinyl while DJing. i always tried to work in this song by the immortal lee country killers into my usual set, but their second album is on clear vinyl and it was almost impossible to get it right.

I have an opaque bubble-gum pink 7" somewhere in a pink vinyl envelope. It's adorable. I haven't played it in probably 15 years but it's awfully cute.

with translucent vinyl, I find I can only ever see the track marks on the flip side.

http://rnrnonsense.toomanyvoices.com/img/200803/SimpleMindsVinyl.jpg

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it's tough to spin translucent colored or clear vinyl while DJing. i always tried to work in this song by the immortal lee country killers into my usual set, but their second album is on clear vinyl and it was almost impossible to get it right.

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They have these things called headphones and mixers that DJs like to use, they are very helpful for finding a track

it's harder to see the grooves between songs on clear vinyl, dummy

lol @ cd buyer giving DJ advice

looks nice but sounds shit, usually

people say this but I have done limited pressings where the first 100 are color and the next 900 aren't and a/b'd the color with the black vinyl and heard no diff at all - the weight of the vinyl has a huge effect on the sound but I don't think the color does

i actually think that colored vinyl and picture disc vinyl quality has VASTLY improved over the years. there are new reissues that come out as picture discs and they sound great. i've got some of those celtic frost reissues and they're great. i don't know why this is. heavier higher quality vinyl is probably the answer. old picture discs from the 70's seemed to be more collectable/gimmick for fans. they probably didn't care as much about quality.

i think certain colours really do. i have a sparkly gold vinyl single by ash (yeah yeah) which clearly has embedded shiny things in it and it is so noisy it's not funny, which i think is directly because of this. i have found that all picture discs are noisier too, though i don't know how different the clear part of the vinyl is to a regular clear vinyl record

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of course the difference is truly minute anyway so perhaps it's not worth discussing at length

some of those coloured sub pop 45s are amongst the better sounding records i own so

of course the difference is truly minute anyway so perhaps it's not worth discussing at length

I feel that such a sentiment runs counter to the spirit of a board called "I Love Vinyl"

i'm just trying to contract myself at least twice in the same thread dontchaknow

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a friend of mine always used to recommend getting coloured vinyl as you were always going to get virgin vinyl but with black you may get recycled vinyl which is apparently noisier. this was sydney in the 80s though so i'm sure things are different now

It's often really hard to see the track demarcations on colored vinyl, so that's more points off.

hard to cue up that DJ medhi pic disc, f'rinstance

i'd also like to note that the red vinyl pressings on get back tend to sound like ass.

http://www.erolalkan.co.uk/site/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/vv-lo.jpg

love this (fan death, 'veronica's veil')

haha there's an act called 'fan death'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death of those inside (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia). Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.

i have friends that are VERY anti-colored vinyl because the sound quality is supposedly super-duper bad.

how much worse are talkin?

ime translucent colored vinyl sounds worse than opaque colored vinyl

i like colored vinyl, it's fun

i see colonel poo already offered up the same opinion so there you have it, scientifically proven.

recently discovered that The Police - Synchronicity is on subtle colored vinyl, you have to hold it up to a light to tell the diff. I have purple and aquamarine copies.

thats more than a coincidence

If colored vinyl makes the bad sound, maybe this is why I never got into Spacemen 3.

never sure what side to take in the colored vinyl vs supposedly pure black debate. black is dyed too, right? if the vinyl quality and mastering are good, and if the pressing plant knows what it's doing, colored vinyl can sound great - just as good as black or clear or whatever. if not, then not. i get the impression that, for a long time, colored vinyl was seen and often pressed as a novelty and thus not always produced to terribly high standards. as a result, it got a rep for being cruddy that still persists, valid or not.

white vinyl pressings from less quality-obsessed companies do often seem to be noisy as hell, but there's all kinds of shitty-sounding records out there nowadays, so...

yeah in all honesty if it's virgin vinyl and mastered/pressed well the noise difference will be minimal to none

although the noisiest record i have is a white vinyl one - john dowie's 'it's hard to be an egg' - makes a flexi sound like mfsl

hmm i'm both contradicting and repeating myself in one post, i'll just get me record bag & go

the police's music is of such poor quality that recording any of their music to black vinyl will tinge it slightly purple or aquamarine

a bunch of late 80s & 90s records, from the tail end of the major label vinyl era, are pressed on ridiculously thin wax, like super floppy and quasi-translucent. especially "nice price" or foreign pressings. if you hold them up to the light they look grey, brown or purplish. i mean, that's my guess. or maybe they were just getting super subtle with the colored vinyl thing at that point.

love this Liars 10". red with black shards.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/298458877_f0a0bcfdba.jpg

mine doesn't have as much white in it

"george" by beyond the wizards sleeve is kinda tie-dyed looking

white and clear are the biggest bitch to cue up and find songs

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the only two coloured vinyl i have (boris and merzbow "rock dream" purple vinyl and andrew wk "close calls with brick walls" variety of different colours iirc) sound terrible.

i have friends that are VERY anti-colored vinyl because the sound quality is supposedly super-duper bad.

afaik "colored vinyl sounds bad" is received-wisdom bs - the things that matter in the pressing of vinyl are the quality of the master and the thickness of the vinyl. thicker is better. if anybody can cite any empirical data about why the color of the vinyl would make any difference at all, that'd be very interesting, but I've talked to multiple mastering dudes about this q (& anybody who's into music: treat yourself sometime to a mastering session at a reputable mastering house, there is an incredible amount of srsly cool stuff to learn from these dudes, they are like wise soothsayer-scientist dudes in my experience) and they all say it shouldn't make a difference at all what color the vinyl has been dyed. the idea that black vinyl ought to sound better, especially, is some confirmation-bias nonsense

some interesting stuff (and some nonsense imo) on this gearslutz thread

thickness is a weird thing, too, because the primary advantage to thickness, as i understand it, is that it prevents warpage, which is all to the good. some people say that it also allows the grooves to be cut deeper, and that this has an effect on the sound, but i dunno. i've had it on good authority that this is horseshit, that the cuts in vinyl even at their deepest are so shallow as to make this a non-issue. not an expert, so i can't say. personally, i've noticed that relatively thin records from the 70s and 80s (again, the end of the major label vinyl era) often sound GREAT, and i suspect that this is because they were being made in state-of-the art facilities by well-paid old-school pros to extremely high standards. i mean, until recently, when it's become fashionable, even high-end audiophile pressings didn't tend to be super thick.

and, yeah, cool to read the pro talk from those pressing plant folks on the gearslutz thread

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clear vinyl ime is flimsier which is likely why it sounds worse.

huh... waited 5 months for something to get sent to me. coloured vinyl. Sounds like ass