Brand New Warped Vinyl

Let s run through some checks to see if the vinyl might be at fault.

Brand new warped vinyl.

This guide to flattening warped vinyl records will hopefully get you on track or at the very least prevent you from irreparably damaging your records. Same record label and pressing plant 5 of 6 had issues of some sort. All these new fangled special edition 180gm records you new fangled kids spend far too much on used to be the norm. Production mistakes though exceedingly rare can cause a vinyl record to become warped.

It is common for brand new lp s new pressings that they are nearly always. The second is pretty bad and the cartridge is in a constant up and down motion. I seem to remember in the 80s they were like wet paper and warped easily. I just picked up opeth s my arms your hearse lp on blue vinyl and both of the records are warped the first one is very minor but i can see the cartridge bump up a little bit when it rotates.

As mentioned above a brand new vinyl record is less often the culprit of playback skipping though it is not unheard of. This is my experience in the netherlands. Surface noise on brand new wax is another common complaint. We ve compiled a short video and numbered each record 1 5 so you can decide what you consider.

You probably wouldn t be reading about how to fix this problem if it wasn t already an issue but general prevention is a good place to begin. The warped vinyl pedal went even further with this effect and offered unparalleled control over every aspect of the vibrato waves. In fact as a matter of good practice i wet clean all my new vinyl before the first play. But you won t like the answer.

In many circumstances you should be able to fix this one yourself by wet cleaning the vinyl either by hand or using a record cleaning machine. Yes you can un warp them. Further every knob and switch is connected to a little digital brain while your guitar signal stays 100 analog the entire time and never gets digitally processed. In many cases new records come contaminated.

Should i return the. I received a promo box today. Warped already with lot of surface noise not 100 centered hole especially the mfsl pressings always suffer from this and i won t buy them anymore. Warped vinyl hifi has several changes from previous versions including a lag knob for lush chorus tones reduced noise and opportunities for more transparent and brighter tones.