Three days have passed since I received my lovely slab of vinyl and since then I’ve only achieved a few minor things in the way of the project. Of course I’ve left it out of it’s protective packaging all day and all night since Thursday - which has attracted all sorts of dust mites that may live in my bedroom, I’ve scratched a spiral onto the blank side with a knife (which addmitedly probably does nothing to affect the sound side) and have run my finger nails and other plastic objects across the grooves several times.
All pretty minor stuff, but still, the change in audio quality is quite drastic; the clicks and pops that are ubiquitous amongst older records from the ’70s have found their way very quickly and there seems to be a large amount of unwanted noise, almost like it’s been run through a crude distortion pedal.
