vinyl drag

Vinyl Drag is an experiment. An experiment that takes place on an unsuspecting slab of 12” vinyl.

We all know that vinyl records are vulnerable, and need to be treated with respect. Keeping to this rule I’ve always been mindful of the way that I handle all records that I come across. Now it’s time to see what happens when I don’t follow the rules. Below you will find recordings that serve as a document of degradation. Every week (or so) since October I have been using this page to post an audio recording of a 12" record that has been intentionally abused.

As with all blogs the posts work backwards with the most recent post at the top and the original track at the bottom. Click to hear the original track.
Alternatively, you can click here to be presented with just the audio posts.

Mar 04
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It’s Vinyl Drag Wednesday! Here’s the upload for this week. It’s getting pretty ruined now and I’m really interested in how the sound looks in Logic, the waveform is very compressed and flat, with no dynamic range. However, I haven’t put any processing on the track whatsoever, and it is recorded in the same way as it has been the whole project. It seems that with degradation comes reduced dynamic level.