From Brock Suter Sent Wed, Aug 12th 1998, 21:36
Peter Becker wrote: > As the most anal retentive d.j (ex d.j. ) perhaps in the world, here > is my solution to Brock's question of how not to fuck up > record covers, which is 1/2 as important as not marring the > vinyl, but still important. > > Sleeve your record in a plastic outer sleeve in *this* manner: I was going to recommend this one, but figured it was pretty obvious. Although I've never gone as far as clocking the bpm's of my records (way too lazy and it's more fun when you don't know!), I've always put all my LP's in plastic. But nowadays, carrying a flight case with 25 pounds of plastic and gatefold covers is getting old (as I am). Now when I'm playing out, I pull just the records that I want, in the paper inners and leave everything else at home in a stack. On most of them (especially whites, test presses and dub plates) I've written the artist and track on the inner sleeve, which have all be replaced with the type with plastic inside of paper so the hole doesn't rip out when you're sliding records back into them. Then the next day, you just pull them out of your box and put them back in the original covers. It only takes a few minutes and overall, it make's things a hell of a lot easier when you're mixing, freeing you from dealing with the numerous problems you will have when dealing with LP packaging in a dark club. Hope this helps, brock. ps. we jokingly call this method 'uk style' due to all the uk jungle guys who play nothing but plates & test presses and never have lps or anything with artwork.