Stitching Vinyl Lp Pressing Defect

Pressed 7 vinyl available as 33 or 45 rpm.

Stitching vinyl lp pressing defect. This was the problem that plagued classic s early 200g quiex sv p flat. Pressing vinyl is something of a lost art. They may not be 100 virgin vinyl but to cast aside pressings that aren t is severely limiting product. Complete package includes lacquer mastering pressings standard black vinyl record pressing color lp labels unprinted inner sleeves upc barcode and 7 full color jackets printed on 15pt white boards.

In a hydraulic press fitted with 2 pre heated moulds and fitted with stampers the pre heated vinyl matter is inserted into the machine sandwiched between two completely dry labels. It occurs most often on a 180g record s outer edge and is caused by the vinyl s beginning to harden prematurely. This release was limited to 500 un numbered copies. Do they compare to a 45rpm mfsl.

Record players with a heavier needle seem to play through this issue better. Mint and sealed record can be less than perfect. There s a few dodgy ones to start. Think of your stitching as if there were no thread in the holes created by the sewing machine needle those holes become a tear strip which will weaken the vinyl and make it prone to tearing.

There is and was no suspect qc on those pressings. The sound produced is noise a shsssshing sound that we ve all heard too often. Once the pressing process is started the labels and vinyl matter are pressed under a pressure of 100 or more tons at a temperature of 160 c 345 f for a precise. Vintage records can look in excellent condition but be noisy due to use of impure vinyl and old cost cutting practice with some plants.

Vinyl and jacket are in overall very good condition. Stitch length for sewing vinyl. Sometimes you have an entire bad breakfast. New reissues can have surface noise due to defects in modern manufacture.

Either you re pressing too cool the stampers are heated and cooled with each press or somewhere you re not taking the right amount of time each cycle. It s complicated because the parameters change during production runs and with different vinyl. The vinyl of the two companies i mentioned have not been subject to any defects and sounds fantastic. Non fill refers to a pressing defect that occurs when the molten vinyl does not flow fully to produce a well formed groove.