Trend Spot IN » Vinylmania : un reportage sur la culture vinyle. Vinyl’s indie resurrection - Arts & Life. Published: Monday, October 3, 2011 Updated: Monday, August 27, 2012 16:08 Vinyl is experiencing an indie resurrection in a world where inhabitants are constantly inundated by blaring digital white-noise, funneled from iPod ear buds. Music has essentially become a product of consumer laziness, and lost in that ‘one-two click convenience' is potential high sound quality -- an idea which true audiophiles mourn.
Many are quick to label the resurgence of vinyl as part of the ‘hipster' social movement, but it is much more than just a fleeting trend. It is a rebellion against the convenience and sub-par quality that is coupled with the MP3 files that have become commonplace today. Many are dissuaded from buying vinyl because it demands more attention than that of several thousand songs compiled within an iTunes library. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, despite overall album sales dropping 13 percent in 2010, vinyl sales increased 14 percent, beating the record set in 1991 during the CD boom. Why Wood Glue is the Best Way to Clean Vinyl Records | Apartment Therapy Unplggd.
If you were the kid in elementary school who spent all of arts and crafts time peeling layers of glue from the palm of your hand, have we got a project for you. Grab your collection of dusty vinyl records. Not only is glue a really fun way to clean records, it's also the best one. This thread on Reddit brings to light an old record store trick: To clean dust and dirt that's lodged into the grooves on an old record, just grab for a bottle of wood glue. By spreading a layer of wood glue over the entire record, then peeling it off just like you did to your 3rd-grade palm, you're encasing any foreign particles in the glue and then lifting them away as you peel.
Reddit user texacer did this with an old LP, letting a layer of Titebond wood glue dry for over 20 hours to get the clean finish you see in these shots. Don't believe it works? It works because wood glues are polyvinyl acetate glues and won't bond with vinyl or plastic records. The wood glue method is foolproof.
The LP comes of age: Quieter and better-sounding than ever | The Audiophiliac. As any record buyer knows, LP quality varies a lot. I'm not just referring to the dusty old records sold at yard sales; some new records have noisy grooves, clicks and pops, or they're not flat. Those imperfections are common vinyl woes; making consistently quiet records has never been easy. That's why I was thrilled to hear that Quality Record Pressings (QRP), in Salina, Kansas, employs the most advanced technology ever used to manufacture LPs. The proof is in the listening, and the sound is spectacular. I spoke with QRP's Chad Kassem about the undertaking, which he started planning two years ago. Temperature control of the vinyl through the entire pressing process is key, and while other plants' record pressing machines are allowed a certain predetermined amount of time to squeeze the heated vinyl into a record, QRP uses a double-steam-valve system that reduces cycle time and closely monitors the actual temperature of the vinyl within the press.
New spin on a vintage business. Vinyl Resurgence - Why People Love Vinyls Again | Let Me See Your Package. Email Share Email Sharebar 0 Email Share From being a medium for music, vinyl records simply became a collector’s piece- a representation of a great decade of music. Many people still love it but it was just too bulky. In the 90s, vinyl was a thing of the past as it was overpowered by the trendy (now tacky) cassette tapes. And then there were CDs, then digitals…and soon enough, vinyls became a thing of the past. But now..decades later…vinyls are so back! Maybe many people thought “urgh. For sales year 2008, Nielsen Soundscan shows more than 1.88 million vinyl records were purchased in that year.
Now, in 2011, we see many indie bands release special edition albums in vinyls. The rebirth of vinyl is driven by a bit of nostalgia, some people’s love for packaging and the arts, the boredom of the digital format, and a belief that the format has better sound quality than the rest. is a custom CD/DVD and Vinyl Manufacturing facility based on both sides of the US.