jamaican pressed 7" question
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little
jamaican pressed 7" question
hi, been buying alot of 7"s (original press) 70's stuff from jamaica lately. Some of the records look visually clean, but still play with a crazy amount of surface noise. even after cleaning with a record cleaning machine the 7"s are still noisy. As i have multiple copies of many of these same records that don't have any surface noise, I was wondering what the noise might be caused from. Could it be the heat and humidity in JA? It really feels like a gamble buying from jamaica as most oldies I have purchased are in vg- shape. any body with similar experiences concerning Ja 7" oldies? Any info would be greatly appreciated
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mr mountain
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Re: jamaican pressed 7" question
i dont know if i have ever heard a clean sounding jamaican press...
and it definitely is a gamble purchasing from JA.
i wonder if "their vg-" is the same as a grading standard vg-?
i have learned to enjoy the noise, represses sound too boring to me now.
and it definitely is a gamble purchasing from JA.
i wonder if "their vg-" is the same as a grading standard vg-?
i have learned to enjoy the noise, represses sound too boring to me now.
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TheExpanders
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Re: jamaican pressed 7" question
yeah, you have to learn to enjoy the noise, because it's almost always gonna be there.
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bmd
Re: jamaican pressed 7" question
A lot of Ja vintage vinyl that was unsold, was boiled down to provide vinyl for the next batch of records, this affects the sound quality, and so the ones you have that sound bad, as compared to the ones you have that sound goo may be from re-constituted vinyl.
also the Jamaican pressing plants tended to use and re-use the 'stamper' for the single for way longer than they should have done, a degraded stamper is only going to lead to one thing, poor sound quality. the more times you use it, clean it, store it, use it again, clean it store it etc the worse it will get.
If you look at many of the matrix numbers on say... Coxsonne repress they are the exact same as the original tunes, meaning that they are still using the original 60s (sometimes) stampers, this as I'm sure you'd guess isn't such a hot idea.
Add to this that many pressing plants in Jamaica were put together from 2nd hand previously used equipment, that was 30-40 years behind everyone else in the 'Western' world and there's another reason why the sound quality isn't so good.
Also, say in the case of Studio One, this was actually a budget record label that sold cheaper than other issue in jamaica, Dodd didn't give a hoot for the pressing quality of a lot of his product.
also the Jamaican pressing plants tended to use and re-use the 'stamper' for the single for way longer than they should have done, a degraded stamper is only going to lead to one thing, poor sound quality. the more times you use it, clean it, store it, use it again, clean it store it etc the worse it will get.
If you look at many of the matrix numbers on say... Coxsonne repress they are the exact same as the original tunes, meaning that they are still using the original 60s (sometimes) stampers, this as I'm sure you'd guess isn't such a hot idea.
Add to this that many pressing plants in Jamaica were put together from 2nd hand previously used equipment, that was 30-40 years behind everyone else in the 'Western' world and there's another reason why the sound quality isn't so good.
Also, say in the case of Studio One, this was actually a budget record label that sold cheaper than other issue in jamaica, Dodd didn't give a hoot for the pressing quality of a lot of his product.