All You Need To Know About Vinyl Records

Record information you need to know record sizes.

All you need to know about vinyl records.

There are three different types of vinyl record. Oh and if you need a little help discovering record stores in you area that will be celebrating record store day we also recommend vinyl hub it s like discogs for record stores the. A real vinyl record collector would never commit any of these ten sins to their records. Vinyl record sizes and speeds.

A seven inch record plays at. It s usually a combination of things that add to a vinyl record s value and other factors can sometimes turn a valuable record into one that isn t worth all that much seemingly. The rpm of a record will be printed somewhere on the record label and all you need to do is switch your turntable from 33 1 3 to 45 mode. Record players have a speed switch that you need to manually change according to the type of record you re using.

Keep in mind that there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration and it s quite rare for a record to be valuable based on one factor alone. It isn t all that difficult. Although the vinyl record contains many great dylan tracks the beautiful 11 minute sad eyed lady of the lowlands was done in just one take at the end of an 8 hour recording session at 4 o clock in the morning and is one of the greatest songs you could ever listen to on a clean cut of vinyl. Lp long play up to 60 minutes ep extended play normal play standard play now that you know a little about the record s you have let s move on to the next section.

I applied no digital limiting whatsoever to my new transfer as this is totally unnecessary for vinyl records and only serves to lower the audio. In our previous article how to clean vinyl records you learned all about cleaning your records by hand with regular household cleaners or a record cleaning machine however that is only the start. 78rpm 1900 1960 10 inches 45rpm 1949 1990 7 inches 33 1 3rpm 1948 1990 12 inches. They rotate on the turntable at different speeds measured in revolutions per minute rpm.

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