You supply the finished mixes in whatever format the disc cutting facility requires. It has nothing to do with the audio you want to have cut to the disc. It means that the album rotates 33.3 times per minute. Please help me to understand this better.ģ3 1/3 is the speed at which the disc (LP album) rotates on the turntable. So, can anyone please explain me what does "33 1/3 rpm" actuallly mean? If I'm told to give audio materials for cutting in "33 1/3" (I'm recording in Ableton) does that mean the audio should be in 133 bpm or something else? I'm a completely vinyl beginner and I'm trying to find on the web some answers to my question but I can't find anything that helps me to understand it completely. All the above is true for 12-inch 45 records as well as the usual 7-inch format.Lelijaa, post: 441123, member: 49983 wrote: Hi, All of the detail aside, 45 RPM records just sound better (providing they’re mastered with skill and manufactured correctly, of course), and this is why many “audiophile” album releases are 45 RPM LP’s spread over a couple of discs. The downside to all this, of course, is a reduction in playback time per side. If that wasn’t enough, 45 RPM cuts experience less inner-groove distortion, as the increased groove velocity helps to minimize the loss of high frequencies and an increase in distortion as the groove moves to the center. Additionally, longer wavelengths, smaller angles in the grooves, and the less complicated geometry at 45 RPM help to cut very precise grooves with very fine detail. The higher the RPM, the greater the length of vinyl picked up by the stylus, and ultimately, the more accurate our sound reproduction becomes. Does 45 RPM Sound Better – Think of it like drawing a flipbook: If you drew the same animation on 33 and 45 pages respectively, you’d have to flip your 45-page version quicker to get the same speed animation as the 33-page version, but the changes from page-to-page would contain more detail, making the animation considerably smoother. There are quite a few technical details as to why this is the case, so for the purpose of this article, I will try to key this simple: Since 45 records travel faster than 33 RPM, more waveform definition can exist on the record surface in other words, there are more bumps and grooves created, which means better audio quality. 12-Inch LP’s mastered at 45 RPM sound better. What’s the Difference Between 33 and 45 RPM?ģ3 RPM records have always presented a compromise in sound quality, in exchange for longer playback time.
Most lack dynamics, and sound thin and noisy. Sadly, most of these releases are style over function and don’t sound particularly good. More often, however, when we think of picture discs, we think of collector’s items with full-color graphics over the playback surface. In fact, they date back as far as 1900, when the Canadian Berliner Gramophone Company had the “His Master’s Voice” dog-and-gramophone trademark lightly etched into the playback surface of some seven-inch shellac records as an anti-piracy measure. The roots of picture disc records go back further than you might think. We’ve all seen those picture discs hanging on the wall in record shops. After about fifty plays, the loss in sound quality becomes noticeable. Traditionally, the material of a dubplate is much softer than pressed vinyl. These dubplates will often be unreleased recordings, exclusive versions, or remixes of existing recordings. They’re also used by drum and bass and other electronic music producers. In reggae dancehall culture, a dubplate refers to an exclusive, ‘one-off’ acetate disc recording that only some DJs have access to. (Most are 10-inch discs, but 12-inch versions are available).
Very nostalgic nonetheless.Ī dubplate is a type of sample disc (referred to as an acetate disc) used in mastering studios for test recordings before proceeding with the final master, and mass-produced vinyl pressing. During the peak vinyl years, magazines often used to give away flexi-discs containing exclusive tracks or popular hits.Īs you can imagine, the quality wasn’t great as the thin material and subsequent shallow grooves didn’t reproduce great sound. Flexi Disc records are made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet.
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