Why Does My Vinyl Sound Distorted On One Side

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Why does my vinyl sound distorted on one side.

I think it may be sorted now though after noticing many were like that i took off the mat on the turntable and that seems to have sorted all of the records out. Courtesy of one of our favorite mastering engineers. The record is damaged the turntable is cheap and nasty the. It is usually best to use the manufacturer s highest recommended pressure but no higher.

Whether you re playing tape or spinning vinyl moving parts are involved in getting sound to reach your ears. To do this remove the platter and lay the deck upside down and a soft surface like a pad of sponge rubber pillow or a few thick towels. Vinyl can sound bad for all sorts of reasons chief among which. Mofi are over all hit or miss but thier cut of dsotm is superb.

That sibilance is definitely not because of the age of or the wear on the record. I have the same thing on my copy. A turntable s basic function is to pick up the vibrations emitted by the grooves of your records via the tonearm and cartridge the stylus then measures and converts these vibrations into an electrical signal that is amplified into sweet sweet music via. Check and adjust if necessary the stylus pressure.

If the dead channel comes back in one position or another then the switch wiring or the switch itself could be at fault. I don t have the fuzzies on breath on the one or two other cuts of the track i have but those lp s run noisier and have some warp and flutter that i don t have on my 180 gm pressing of dostm from about 2004. By the way that sibilance is so loud clear it completely ruins the whole song. Records must always be stored upright like books on a shelf.

That s the only record my ear has caught that distorted s sibilance problem ie nightwish oceanborn for instance does not have it. Weird and distorted isn t a recognised description of anything that anyone can usefully use to diagnose your issue. I also realised 3 or 4 of my records were like this also with one side being great an the other being distorted.