Off Center Pressed Vinyl

It could even be something such as the paper label extending over the spindle hole on the record that is preventing the record from rotating concentrically.

Off center pressed vinyl. When archiving a vinyl lp digitally are there any techniques digital or otherwise to cure old vinyl which has obviously been pressed off centre. Never mind the bollocks on vinyl and while playing it i tried to lift the stylus off the vinyl with the cueing arm but it was still playing. I m talking about the constant wow pitch change which progressively gets worse as the lp plays and can be very hard on the ears. Luckily only the first half of the album was pressed off center.

Sounds like crap on side 2. Although it s frustrating to get one it s important to remember why vinyl is used. One of the current pressings you see in stores is done by scorpio and pressed rainbo. Social distortion warped and off center.

Johnny cash off center on one side. Until i get pretty close to the furthest inner grooves it s pretty difficult to notice. We operate in our new 143 000 square foot facility where we have on site capabilities for lacquer mastering electro plating printing and automated and manual record pressing. That album has been reissued and repressed a lot.

To give an example of how bad it has become here s a list of my recent purchases from this last saturday s record store day and their problems. The good news is that off center pressings are rare enough that most people even with really large collections don t have many if any off center pressed albums. With rainbo it is not uncommon to get a slightly warped or off center pressing. We are the largest record pressing operation in north america with capacity to manufacture over 60 000 records per day.

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. Pressed 7 vinyl available as 33 or 45 rpm. A record pressed off center meaning the spindle hole is not central to the grooves stamped on the vinyl is perhaps the worst culprit of them all. Most off centre issues that you come across are very minor in such a way that many vinyl enthusiasts would not bother carrying out this procedure.

I can tell you that vintage vinyl from the 60s and 70s is rarely off center ime.