Re: (idm) Chocolate Industries 03

From Hrvatski
Sent Fri, May 22nd 1998, 03:59

> i sure would have been disappointed with a test pressing as thin as these
>things...

funny, I have promos of these on super-heavy black vinyl...

>also, i sure hope the chocolate folks are not paying more for thin plastic
>sleeves as opposed to plain cardboard ones, as they provide little
>protection for the vinyl and very little added benefit (unless you count the
>asthetics, but that would really only come in to play if their releases were
>pressed on colored vinyl, imho, and they are not.)

I've seen copies of these records in various colors. I'm assuming yours are
black. There are also white, grey, and various shades of in between. Some
of the swirly ones came out really well, definitely worth bringing to the
consumer's attention by displaying them as such...

>>Just out of
>>interest, is there a relationship between vinyl thickness and surface
>>noise? (now look what I've started) At the price I paid I'm a bit
>>disappointed (in the pressing, not the music BTW).

There's a relationship, no matter how subtle, between thickness and surface
noise, pressing volume and frequency response. With colored vinyl most
plants will ask for two sets of stampers, assuring for a better quality
record at the end of the run (less chance of bad records pressed from caked
stampers by having two sets...). There's also the point of purity. There's
dye in colored vinyl, so there's less girth to a colored record than a pure
clear record (apparently all black vinyl is dyed such, for what reason...).
-Hrvatski.

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