Never followed up to find out if it was an old wives tale, but remember reading that the carbon black in the vinyl cut down static electricity.
Clear vinyl vs. regular black vinyl
I just got my second clear vinyl record yesterday, the Stones Hot Rocks on 180g, not from any special manufacturer like MFSL or Analogue Productions and the like. The first one was Donald Fagen Sunken Condos. These albums sound particularly good for not being pressed by a "special" audiophile label.
Is this just a coincidence or is it better, and if so, why aren't more records produced this way? I heard that eliminating the dye in the vinyl could improve the sound, but I was wondering if there is a consensus out there.
I'm not talking about other dye colors or ones with pictures on them, just plain clear vinyl.
Thanks.
Is this just a coincidence or is it better, and if so, why aren't more records produced this way? I heard that eliminating the dye in the vinyl could improve the sound, but I was wondering if there is a consensus out there.
I'm not talking about other dye colors or ones with pictures on them, just plain clear vinyl.
Thanks.
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Donald Fagen was a fanatic about the recording and production process and I seem to remember them saying there was some advantage to them producing Sunken Condos on clear vinyl. It is also a unique record in that it only has music on 3 sides, which is of course better as the music doesn't go as far into the center of each disc where the distortion is maximal from the angle change of the arm to the record. They could have squeezed it onto one record (barely) I belleve or cut a minute somewhere. I doubt he made this record this way to cut costs. Any music/pressing people out there? |
"Carbon has conductive properties,
so adding it to the PVC increases the overall conductivity of the
material, lessening the accumulation of static, and therefore, dust, on a
record." See: Furnace Record Pressing. |
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