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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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@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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@R_G_S Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

Definitely!

@user-weneedtotaco Месяц назад

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.

@arzabael Месяц назад

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

@michaelb9664 Месяц назад

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.

@mdit21 Месяц назад

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).

@comicsmisexplained 15 дней назад

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.

@moogie242x Месяц назад

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

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@Huffy1001 28 дней назад

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👍🏻

@staggerlee6794 21 день назад

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.

@faustus67 Месяц назад

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!

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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).

@sa83170 Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen 28 дней назад

Exactly!

@michaelseay9783 Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@cannyuk Месяц назад

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.

@LifelongMusicJunkie Месяц назад

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

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

No, my TS copy sounds great.

@haxmya Месяц назад

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.

@ganonkenobi Месяц назад

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

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

Yeah, I read that that pressing had a lot of issues.

@lonniestringfellow9854 Месяц назад

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.

@turokforever007 Месяц назад

Might look better, but sound has got worse. Even with black vinyl.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

Some of the colors definitely make it harder to see dirt and scratches.

@MattSchwartz-un9kd Месяц назад

What about the splatter colored

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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).

@michaelschultz1125 Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@puddle5ofmud599 Месяц назад

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.🤔🤪😀

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

You aren't the only one. I have a good friend who does the same thing, but only with his favorite couple of bands.

@MrDmarkv6 Месяц назад

Just remember Black Vinyl is a coloured vinyl . It is not it's natural colour

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

Correct!

@timessquarerecordscom1469 Месяц назад

In the 50s red vinyl was considered the first run so the sound quality was always good

@timessquarerecordscom1469 Месяц назад

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

@mantistoboggan5067 Месяц назад

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

@davepounds8924 Месяц назад

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

@dominicpardo4783 Месяц назад

Some black vinyl sounds awful. It isn't the color, it's the quality control.

@davepounds8924 Месяц назад

@@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

@glennbarret-jy5ut Месяц назад

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

@deancronin6934 Месяц назад

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

@Patracat Месяц назад

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.

@dominicpardo4783 Месяц назад

Nonsense.

@thevinyldood Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@lukejohnston5993 Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@FotogInkArt Месяц назад

X Files Soundtrack by Mark Snow. Glow in the dark. Horrible

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@djgreenhornet2892 Месяц назад

A lot of facts in this video.

@millopguy Месяц назад

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.

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.

@moodlefyful Месяц назад

Quality control is generally very bad these days regardless of the colours...

@TheVinylDen Месяц назад

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.