VINYL RECORD STORAGE - 4 easy upgrades 

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I dig this new wave of vinyl collectors. I’ve been doing it for decades and settled into “the way I’ve always done it” I saw the backspacers on Facebook and came looking for other ideas and the refile/new vinyl bin and lights were “holy crap! How did I not think of this in 30 years???” So thanks! Great ideas!

I just started using new arrivals been and it really does help a lot. that's a great idea about putting the strip of wood in the back to keep them from falling out, very good video my friend.

Stumbled upon your channel, love this video, great ideas to make my collection look as great as it sounds! I'm now in the market for everything you have suggested. from the shelves to the lights to the spacers, to the index cards. It all looks great!

Last night I was thinking of a way to keep the records from sliding back, and this morning I wake up to see this video as one of my recommended videos. Mind blown. Thank you!!

I used 5 gallon wood paint stirrers, cut to the proper length (13.5 inches) then glued 1" letter on them (did the same with craft sticks for the CDs) I used 1x4 for the "stops". The lighting is a combination of LED automotive accent miniature light bars. For overflow, I build record cases out of 1/2 inch copper tubing (stays with the steampunk motif)

Great ideas! LOVE the file guide idea! Im going to absolutely do this for my collection!!! Thanks

Thoroughly enjoyed this informative video! Thanks.

Thank you for the great ideas. I’m going to use them.😃👍🏻

cool upgrades, like the LED System on your record storage

Dude, this is awesome! I'm gonna try the light thing too I think. I have a 12 cube Ikea Kallax, and am already in need of a second. For overflow, I use a black plastic crate that I picked up for a song at Home Depot as my new purchase bin - it works beautifully. I also did the backspacers idea when I first got it, using thin bamboo strips and velcro - works like a charm! Love the video! Thanks for the great tips!

I just bought one of the cubes from Walmart & I had come up with a different idea to keep the records from going thru, but I like the spacer idea too. Now I want to add the light strip to mine also. Thanks for the great ideas.

I love all of your suggestions. I use an older milk crate for my new Lps. I need to add some light and dividers to my collection too.

That’s dope! Like using the file cabinet signage.... oh yes... nice best boxin’

I do not know how I previously missed your channel. New sub. Love the way it all came out. Cool and tidy. Works for me in every way. - Heather

I'll tell you what I did - I have over 3,000 vinyls. All I did was go to Home Depot and buy my own plywood. I bought 6 long 8 foot 11 inches of plywood. And 2 of those plywoods I cut into 10 pieces. 13 inches in height. Glue and srcew them all together. I measured 22 1/2 inches for each space inside my dividers (5). You do not want to stack to high. So 30 inches is enough height for both stacked together. Then I took 3 milk cartons and placed 1 each at each end and 1 in the middle. And believe me those milk cartons will hold anything. And of course I have every vinyl in a-z order. By the way it cost me under $250 for the plywood (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!

Man that is an awesome idea for all my top shelf Rekkids. I have a similar setup under my player that is under utilized. I think I will set it up like yours, and even the new un-added Rekkids container is slick. Thanks for the great ideas.

Looks great!

Solid tips thanks for sharing 🙏

I've been collecting vinyl records for years, but only just started getting serious about taking extra care of them as part of an ongoing collection. Though I am new to your channel, you've given such great tips and advice essential to upping my collection game. Thanks to your advice, each of my records are now fully protected with their own outer sleeves and the recommended poly inner sleeves (no static/damage here!). I just purchased a similar cube storage system (it should be here in 2 days, YAY!) to house my ever-growing hoard of music and would LOVE to win these spacers to go with it! Thanks so much for everything you do!

Thanks for the video. I could definitely use the storage cubes. My records are organized in a major mess!!! 😁 Thanks again!!!

Great video! Great ideas!

Great video! Thanks. My collection is getting too big and I think I'm going to have to replace my Crosley wood bins with the Walmart storage solution. I liked the idea with the LED strips too. Looks mint!

Handy to mention; when mounting led strip, do NOT drive tacks, staples, nails etc through the strip as it may damage internals. If extra hold is needed then use staples that span the width of the strip or tack next to the edge so the head holds it. Car rear window defroster repair kits from auto parts stores work to fix broken led strip conductors if you can't bear to throw away broken strips ;) Also, there are lots of inexpensive materials available for making filing cards if you enjoy a project. I hope you end up putting tape or something over the edges of those metal tags where they overlap the card to avoid possible 'aaw, CRAPs' in the future. Cool video, I'll be looking for more.

Awesome Tips!! 🙏

Some really great info in this video, along with some excellent products to make collecting and storage easier.

I have a wooden crate on wheels which I got before I got my shelving. I use foam insulation tubes for the back of my records. And I’ve put L.E.D lights on the back of my shelving.

I love the backspacers so much! It makes them flush and so satisfying to look at! Also i have a lot of cords behind my.collection and they can get tangled in between, but not with those spacers

I JUST got my set of backspacers st week. What a life changer. I tried so many random things to keep my records flush and nothing has worked like those.

Awesome 👏🏼

Your channel came up on my feed. Enjoyed the tips especially the LED strips. I may do that to my collection. I subbed to your channel. Peace love and rock and roll ✌️

Great ideas, loved how you had to explain how to use the sort dividers 😂

Super helpful thanks!

Nice I use foam pipe insulation (Lowe's) it Lines up records and won't. Damage any lps edge. I secure back with ,1/4 inch oak plywood to adds support on the back side.

Great ideas! First time watching. I’m subscribed now!

That's cool!

Dude you are cool! Cool idea!

Loved the beatbox demo

Great inexpensive divider option is... I found 11" x 14" thin plastic cutting boards (think plastic sheets) at my Dollar Store at 2 for $1, so it cost me $13 for 26 dividers,, I bought a pack of alphabet stickers and stuck them on the end .. I just cut the 14" length down to 12.75", and they stick out just enough for the letters to show between the albums.. works great

I could definitely use a storage cube for storing my record. My daughters are little and are always getting into my collection.

Love that of montreal record. Such a weird band but such a good time live. I used to see them back in athens ga in the early 2000’s. Good times!

Nice job.

This is such a great idea, I will have to steal it from you! Could you please show a diagram or empty a cube to show how you lined up the lights? I got confused with the explanation and seeing it all layed out would really help... Thank you so much!!

Why I think those back spacers would work for me is cuz like you said I always have albums getting pushed all the way against the wall sometimes I can't find an album and it's because it's been pushed so far back it's hiding between two. That's a wonderful idea man to have the back spacer it would save me a headache

Awesome vid. Subscribed

Cool man. I have the same storage cubes with the same pattern. I’m at almost 1000 records and the filing folders are a great idea. I have wooden dividers that are like: A - D, E - H, etc. You could even be more specific and write a genre on a tab. I might look into that. One thing I would say is to move those speakers away from the side and back walls. Speakers need room to breathe.

I have the same cube storage unit you have. I used 1x3s for back stoppers.

Cool video. I have a massive collection so lighting not really an avenue for me except in living area where small shelf I have few items. would be cool for decorative purposes. The Smead file is what I'm looking for since I have thousands of lp's in multiple categories. I would recommend Bags Unlimited for bags, dividers, etc. They seem to be the best priced for our vinyl needs

Where did you purchase your cube bin shelf? Do you recommend as sturdy enough for the records and stereo on top ? Thank you. Excellent video!

I plan to setup a spreadsheet with different data on each like title artist location in storage etc

First tip is great. "I used to stack records in front of my cubes until I organized them" oops you caught me!!

Hey, do you have a link to your cube storage that you could link in the description as well please?

Where did you get your cube record storage shelf? It looks great

So, with the LEDs on, say, a white setting and all other lights in the room off or low, can you still read the record spines by the LED light alone?

What did you use to anchor your backspacers down?

We thoroughly enjoyed this video, we just subscribed. Our only suggestion would to provide links to the items you used, ie-LED lighting, etc. We also use the Better Home & Garden cubicles, a better, more economical way to store vinyl. Thanks for sharing!-Chris & Beth🎧

Where did you get the cube rack?

I like that Tacoma Acoustic Guitar. I have a DM 10

Love the ideas. On the file guides, Are those legal size or letter size?

I just made my own backspacers with $3.50 in lumber from Lowes.

The most underrated part of any good set up is learning the acoustics of a room to get the best sound out of your speakers

What link for the cabinet I’ve been looking for it everywhere

I own the Ikea Kallax shelving unit. The extra space at the back doesn't bother me. In addition to LPs, I also collect 78 rpm shellac records. It just so happens that an album booklet for 12" shellac records, fits perfectly in these cubes (height and depth). To each their own on how to organize. I do it loosely based off of year/genre. To me it would be strange to put Brahms next to Bowie. The "newly acquired" crate was a great idea.

I have over 2,000 pieces of vinyl, you can also buy storage racks versus your cubes. when you alphabetize your collection use first name, example Carlos Santana would be filed under the letter C, I use a flashlight or a light on a baseball cap to search my vinyl versus led lights, get some large cardboard and cut to size for your lettering instead of buying files , peace & love

Fun vid!!! \m/

nice ideas. Now we just need to work on getting those speakers out of the corners! Hopefully they are at least front-ported models!

Thanks for the plastic album cover solution. I bought a new 180 gram record got a pop. Saw a speck on the groove. RU-vid said use a wooden tooth pick to remove the defect. Good idea?

I love what you did with your collection. Did you have to add some sort of adapter to the LED light strips? Looks like you have 2 inputs, 1 for each of the 2 strips, yet the lights you linked to don't seem to have that.

Where can I get this table \ storage cube? Do you know the exact name of it? TIA

I do wish Death Cab would do a vinyl-specific mastering for Plans, the existing release is just the CD mastering cut to vinyl and it's not bad because it's not hyper-slammed like Kintsugi is, but it would be nice to hear a wide-open, dynamic mastering like the DSD-mastering they had Ed Brooks do for Transatlanticism that both the Kevin Gray and Ryan K Smith vinyl cuts (Barsuk and VMP respectively) used. Sadly Chris Walla was the audiophile in the band, I don't think Kintsugi would have been such a victim of the loudness wars if he was still controlling various production aspects. It was 100% thanks to him that Transatlanticism received an audiophile mastering for the SACD and vinyl releases.

What planet am I on? Records falling through the back of my "storage cube"? My brain hurts.....

Great tips!! Did you use legal or letter sized file guides?

Has anyone ever lit a 2-cube organizer? Mine stacks vertically. I'm not sure exactly how to run my LED lights...

Can you stand that cube up vertically as well as horizontally as you have it? Was just looking on Walmart for it and wanted to make sure it was the same one as yours. Great video thanks.

I was looking for a solution to my backspace problems a while ago as well. One day, I found a bag full of styrofoam ready to be dumped on the street. Perfect sizes, I only had to cut it to fit horizontally. It won’t damage the bottom of your sleeve since has a soft texture 😉 If you guys have ideas for a cheaper file guiding solution please let me know. Oh and by the way I like the LED lights 😉 Peace and love

I like the lights and the indexing cards. Do you get any vibration from your speakers through your turntable while playing? Reason I ask is because my speakers are qbout that close and I do. My space is about that big.

do you have a pic of the lights mounted from underneath? And did you just wrap them around the side divider as you went from left to right?

Can you give a link to the lights?

How much fade on covers have you noticed with these lights?

Why not beef up your cube rack by putting a back on it, even cardboard tacked on the rear will beef up the rack substantially and stop records from flying through the opening.

Thanks! I am going to try and get some of those file organizers, everything else online for this purpose is just way overpriced. Have you heard of or tried using pool noodles for the backing on the shelves? I plan to give that a try (an even more affordable way that the backspacers) and I’ll report back with my results.

Great tips ! I was just looking for lighting ideas your video showed up perfectly

those cubes from walmart r great , i think they make"m from 2 cube all the way up to 20 cube

How do you find the time to listen to all your records ?

How do you adhere them to the top of the cube?

How are the lights holding up after a year +? I see a lot of people in the reviews mentioning they died within a month.

Sister told me I needed to get organized . So I put everything in it's place . She then broke-in and shopped me out . Have not been able to organise after , tho I've tried

Where did you get the actual cube console? I’ll Ike it quite a bit!

which sleeves do you use?

Was searching the net for those back spacers, ended up at Turntable Revival which linked me to you. Cool help. I just bought a couple Ikea Kallax cube sets up, so working to get it all set up. Hadn't given any thought to lights, but might consider it now. :)

How many LPs does this cabinet hold. I have 2,000+ of EX vinyl. It covers 3 decades of Rock, Blues, Jazz, Comedy, and offbeat hard to find audio. I'm looking for nice solid storage. I have room for cabinets. You've sold me on adding LEDs.

Will this work for the 9 cube storage bin from Amazon? I don’t recall the brand. It does have a thin sheet across the back but it’s bowed out.

One sugestion for you. Move those speakers from the wall.

Do the LED lights generate heat that could potentially warp the vinyl?

Re the backspacers, I leave more front space, so I can put one nice record in the particular section of the alphabet with cover facing out. A real cover is nicer than the various spines. With a bit of scrap wood and any saw, the back spacers can be made at home for close to zero cost. I would not buy any, so easy to make. I made my own "arrival bin" (for me more of a current rotation bin) that also has a top display area for the record that is currently spinning. I would also suggest to not stuff each cube to the gills as it will reduce the frequency by which one has to shift everything. You can use library L-brackets to keep records upright, remove them once space gets less than 1". In your video, I hear a lot of slap echo and speakers are right against the back wall. I would invest in some sound absorbers (or make your own with a 2" wood frame and some Roxul 80), and pull out the speakers from the back wall. Will make a ton of difference. I made absorbers from a discarded trucking palette, covered them with printed fabric (etsy) showing some of my photos. Adds a ton of flair to my vinyl den. LED lights, hmmm. I might use some to get better white light onto the records I pull in the evening. Will ponder that for a while. The color lights are a bit too gimmicky for me, but that is a matter of taste, of course.

i’m worried about my records getting warped so basically i have my records the exact way you have them on the shelf. but there’s lots leaning on eachother there’s about 50 records in my collection all leaning will this warp my records ?

Do you have any interference from the LEDs with your speakers? Because I bought the same brand leds you did with the link you provided, but it causes pretty unbearable interference and sound quality decline. Not quite sure how to fix it.

It is not clear to me how the lights are installed.

Where did you get your cube storage?

Yes, the cubes are too deep--15"--and I don't know why they make them this way. It wastes precious space, especially if you have to put bracing on the back of the cube array. I can't find any cubes that are shallower but also large enough for records. It's either all or nothing. You really need nothing deeper than 10" or so. This allows being able to tease out records from below instead of having to shove your fingers between records.