Seth Redmond wrote:
nevertheless I'm interested if anyone knows the reason behind the generally
low quality of vinyl coming out of detroit. I know oil prices are rising
and
I don't expect virgin vinyl all the time, but I rarely buy an NSC record
which isn't at least slightly warped these days. It seems to be a
particular
problem to Detroit as I've not had the same problems with European labels.
Yeah, that's some curse that's been buggin some U.S. vinyls for ages. For
some time it was obvious to expect U.S. vinyl to sound shitty, it had a
"cheap"-feeling to it, making it more "underground" (as ridiculous as it
seems).
I've wondered about the differences between vinyl-pressers. Apparently
United Record Pressing, that Submerge / UR use, has a better QC. Detroit's
native pressing-plant Archer on the other hand... Who knows?
I think it is a question of bad luck: some percentage of the pressing amount
is warped and some is not. Like BC for example: I think the first pressings
of those vinyls were OK, but later they were quite shitty quality. List goes
on and on...
Proffit
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