Colored Vinyl Records Sound Bad
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Today I discuss the growing popularity of colored vinyl records and whether there is an audio quality difference between them and standard black records.
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The color of the vinyl record is just a pigment added in the plastic, it can be black, white or any color, don’t affect the quality of the record in my experience.
Definitely!
My experience with coloured vs black is there is no difference at all in sound quality.
Modern vinyl records are hit and miss regarding quality no matter what colour they are. I’ve got great examples of coloured records and black records and I’ve also had to return various black and coloured albums for defects. It makes no difference what the colours are.
Black is technically coloured anyway.
Great video dude. I find this argument rears its head now and then and its astonishing how many so called vinyl experts really don't understand.
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The title of this had me revved up!! Then I continued watching and must say good man, man. You went over the exact nuances you need to for this delicate subject
over the years, i've developed a real problem of "needing" to collect colored vinyl variants of albums from my favorite artists. but sometimes, they go way overboard with options, leaving my bank account on life support! one recent case was the offspring's "let the bad times roll"-i have 14 of the 15 variants i know of (the remaining one is an australian version that i haven't been willing to shell out the cash for yet) and there may be even more because they didn't promote the options very much. i'd upload a photo if i could because they chose some really impressive colors and designs, but again . . . why so many?! (asking that question of them and myself.
It's no big deal for me. I only have one yellow album in my collection at this time (the records I'm interested in are only in the standard black color).
In my experience, after working for record labels for 15 years, the only vinyl that might have bad sound are glow in the dark vinyl and picture discs; that’s it. Color vinyl are absolutely fine.
Besides glow in the dark, the only colors I’ve had problems with are gold & iridescent sound worse than GITD.
The ones that look like they have a wrinkled sheet of Mylar inside clear vinyl. They sound so bad I couldn’t listen to the entire album
Yeah, I read somewhere that the metallic flake that is used can cause sound issues with those pressings. I have a few of them and I think there is only one that sounds good, the others don't sound horrible but there's definitely more surface noise.
Firstly - as a Detroiter, go Lions! Now - vinyl. Priorities and all that. I think I'm a bit older than you and I used to have back in the 70s a bunch of coloured Beatles album (the marketing brilliance of a white Album, a red Red Album and a blue Blue Album - never understood the green Abbey Road though). They sounded fine then. I still like single colour albums. Anecdotally though, I find multi colour albums (I have a very cool White Stripes album on red and white pinwheel vinyl) there tend to be more issues. I hadn't thought about it the way you send it - that the different colours introduce more chances for issues but that makes sense. They are sometimes just noisier. With single colour though, I haven't noticed the problem. Thanks for this video!
Yeah, sometimes it seems like those multi-colored designs don't completely mold together, and I think that's why there can sometimes be sound issues with those pressings (but they do look pretty cool).
I bought the Wham LP Remasters recently the Masterin’ is superb they sound modern / fresh a nice compliment to a 1st Press but I bought ‘Make It Big’ on White Vinyl and the sound was bad so I ordered a Black Vinyl Copy of the Remaster and it sounds great, my ‘Fantastic’ I ordered as Black Vinyl👍🏻
I'd avoid all metallic pressings and possibly picture discs but even the couple of picture discs I have purchased in recent years (Janis Joplin's 'Pearl' & Black Midi's Cavalcade) play perfectly well. So whatever changes to the process they've made over the last 10 years or so has obviously worked. However, my main gripe or question with the variants is this. Isn't there a few discs which are listened to before they sent off for final pressing and distribution? It's a disgrace if they are tested, found be inferior but are still sent to the pressing plant for distribution. Or maybe they aren't bothering to test at all. Either way it is poor treatment of their paying customers.
I have some colored vinyls with a great sound, also some picture discs... and some black records with an horrible quality. Black, white, clear... any color: if the master have a poor quality the record will be the same.
Exactly!
I’ve had problems intermittently with both colored and black in the past few years. Background noise, especially in the start groove. For one album, I wet cleaned it and the noise went away. For some others, deep cleaning didn’t correct the problem. Tried different stylus, no change. I guess it’s kinda become a crap shoot with new vinyl.
Yeah, quality control has been pretty bad over the last few years. I think the pressing plants were just so far behind they were cranking them out as fast as they could just to try and get caught up. Over the last few months (now that they are back to a normal 3-4 month turnaround) it seems to have gotten a lot better.
Absolutely love a coloured album, be it solid, transparent or splatter and I’m not spring chicken and from what I see from some of my fellow U.K. records collectors they are too.
Back in the day, getting a color vinyl was cool or a picture disc. Now every artist has 50 different color variants. So it's not special to me anymore. I prefer black vinyl , and it sucks when an artist doesn't release the black version.
I’ve even seen several releases over the last couple of years where the black version is the more limited pressing.
The annoying thing about white is that there is inevitably a brown dookie lookin smear in one spot. It seems hard for them to actually get pristine white. I also kind of avoid the half and half types because you'll hear that woosh each time it goes over one of the colors. I love a really nice color pattern though, like the sum 41 - order in decline Red & Yellow Swirl with Black Splatter. It just adds to the feel of putting the record on.
In my experience the majority of silver/gold colored vinyl do have a lot of surface noise especially through headphones.
Gold/silver nugget I've found dont have anywhere near the same issue. The worst offender was RHCP unlimited love the RSD Silver version sounded like Anthony Kedis was crinkling a candy wrapper into the mic
Yeah, I read that that pressing had a lot of issues.
Totally agree with the 50/50 split colored records I've noticed that on a couple albums also I've had some problems on the "coke bottle clear" albums
Another great topic cheers man. I buy coloured vinyl to hang on the wall but I have never played one as I have always purchased the black or clear versions prior. We do strange things as collectors lol.🤔🤪😀
You aren't the only one. I have a good friend who does the same thing, but only with his favorite couple of bands.
I've got thousands of colored vinyl, they have come along ways through the years. I've got some with the glitter in them that don't sound well. I think solid clear records look beautiful, but forget about it when trying to see scratches in it.
Might look better, but sound has got worse. Even with black vinyl.
Some of the colors definitely make it harder to see dirt and scratches.
I think picture discs sound the worst meaning the album cover is the picture on the vinyl and even they sound really good maybe just slightly muted in spots I find colored albums no difference
I have that RSD Pearl Jam but did they have to compress it so bad? It is squashed without any dynamic range! It does look cool. Was your "Manuscript" version of Taylor Swift's album a crackle and click-fest like mine? Cheers
No, my TS copy sounds great.
I agree that for the most part, colored albums sound no different than black ones nowadays. However, it seems that the ones I have had more issues with (like surface noise) were either solid white or gold. I don't know why that is, but that's been my experience. Sometimes it's not the color but the pressing itself. The recent Cage the Elephant release "Neon Pill" (at least to my ears with my set up) does not have the best sound. I have the Indie exclusive edition. I don't believe that the sound issue has anything to do with the color, but instead either just the way it was recorded or possibly poor mastering.
I think you bring up a great point that sometimes it's just a bad pressing and the poor sound quality has nothing to do with the color.
Just remember Black Vinyl is a coloured vinyl . It is not it's natural colour
Correct!
My experience is that all my coloured albums have significantly more surface noise than my black records. Not 1 for 1 exactly, but overall, the black ones consistently perform better
What about the splatter colored
I have quite a few and haven't noticed too many sound issues (and when I have it's always been a pressing issue and not anything to do with the color).
Colored vinyl has gotten a bit better in the quality over the years, I’ve heard colored vinyl that sounds like shit Some sounds pretty good You take your chances The companies use colored vinyl as a selling point today If you’re interested in the best sound stick with black
Some black vinyl sounds awful. It isn't the color, it's the quality control.
@@dominicpardo4783 That’s true but that’s probably a badly recorded album Not the black vinyl I’ve heard good sounding recordings on black vinyl sound not very good on some of these colored vinyl albums You just take a chance with colored
I have a radio show on a local college station and spinning coloured vinyl is a nightmare I can’t see the tracks at all, black is best and probably because of radio play over the decades
That is a very good point. I am not a disc jockey, but just playing my records at home is made difficult by coloured vinyl and picture discs. Great gimmick, but not practical.
In the 50s red vinyl was considered the first run so the sound quality was always good
The reason why they did red vinyl is because RCA when they invented the 45 RPM they were on red vinyl
So the smaller companies follow suit
A lot of facts in this video.
X Files Soundtrack by Mark Snow. Glow in the dark. Horrible
Yeah, glow-in-the-dark records have had a bad reputation for as long as I can remember, but I was pretty impressed with that Misfits pressing. It sounds really good, so I'm assuming they've changed something with how they make them.
Nice vid! 💯 agree. It’s weird vinyl as a medium is definitely getting to a point the look is just as if not more important than the sound. Heck I see loads of new collectors that don’t even own a record player. It’s going the way that cool looking colour pressings are gonna be more sort after then original pressings I think.
Honestly, it really doesn't matter to me if it's black or colored, but just as long as it sounds good why not also have it look cool. It just adds another layer to the overall experience.
Smoke vinyl is always really noisy. They must pour some sort of liquid into it to create the effect as opposed to splatters etc that just use alternate coloured pellets.
I wonder if it's the same kind of issue that metallic colors have, where there's some kind of reaction that causes an increase in surface noise.
I love color. From my experience- Gold is the worst. White and red solids are always the dirtiest and/or noisiest. Translucents and clears are all good. Splatter is good. Black is consistently best. The pressing plant and sleeve types have a huge impact, too.
I think that's probably the best way to put it when comparing black vs other colors is that black is more consistent when it comes to sound quality simply because there are more variables with colored albums.
Quality control is generally very bad these days regardless of the colours...
Definitely, but now that pressing plants have caught up on their backlog from the pandemic it seems like QC has gotten a lot better. I've noticed very few issues with new releases over the last 4-6 months. Prior to that though QC was horrible. It seemed like every other new release I picked up had some kind of issue.
Nonsense.