New Vinyl Warped

Let s run through some checks to see if the vinyl might be at fault.

New vinyl warped.

Still plays good though. This guide to flattening warped vinyl records will hopefully get you on track or at the very least prevent you from irreparably damaging your records. Post by chimpsinties 10 mar 2016 21 54. If you re in a rush you can quickly fix a warped vinyl record using an oven.

I m still relatively new to vinyl as well but buying vinyl in stores is a lot better. Quite badly in some cases nirvana s nevermind is just playable and u2 s 18 is the same. Yes you can un warp them. Then take the glass and record out of the oven and place a heavy object on top of the glass until everything is fully cooled.

When buying vinyl back in the 70 s 80 s a warped record was rare not anymore. Production mistakes though exceedingly rare can cause a vinyl record to become warped. I was talking about surface noise before usually on clear coloured picture disc vinyl. All these new fangled special edition 180gm records you new fangled kids spend far too much on used to be the norm.

As mentioned above a brand new vinyl record is less often the culprit of playback skipping though it is not unheard of. Buying new is not always an option either. I seem to remember in the 80s they were like wet paper and warped easily. Does anyone else buy new records open em up and find them warped.

First place the record between 2 sheets of glass and heat it in the oven at 175 degrees fahrenheit for 3 minutes. Short of buying a replacement of your prized vinyl record there really is not an easy and quick way to ease that pain you felt of looking at a warped or bend record on your hands. It doesn t affect the sound or anything but this weekend i spent like 100 on records and at least 2 of them are warped. You probably wouldn t be reading about how to fix this problem if it wasn t already an issue but general prevention is a good place to begin.

It came in a special box set so shipping this whole thing back again seems useless as i guess that all the records sound like that. Pick up an early vinyl record from the 50s and they re pleasingly like lead weights. 10 nov 2015 16 52 location. At least it s not warped yay they weren t.

Las warped new vinyl i purchased was the re master of led zeppelin iii about 20 records ago. Taking it out and you felt that prick in your heart looking at a warped vinyl. But you won t like the answer.