Welcome Vinylmusic
Welcome all you vinyl fans and audiophiles! This is THE site for reading up on vinyl. Learn how it compares to other media and how to protect your collection form damage. Read more about its history and find out how ‘skratching’ was born.
Vinyl records, first made towards the end of the nineteenth century, held an impressive and predominant status for just about a century.
Learn how to preserve your Vinyl disc records. Preservation is the term used for preventative measures that is taken to defend vinyl records against damage, help maintain fidelity, and prevent slow degradation.
Vinyl is virtually unbreakable and made out of plastic containing PVC (Polyvinyl chloride acetate copolymer). Because of the PVC base records is considered as the most stable analog recording media available today. It does not deteriorate as easily as records that were made on fragile materials such as vulcanite, acetate or shellac.
Read on to find out more on Scratching, also called “skratching”. Itis a turntablist or disc jockey (DJ) technique that is used to create specific sounds. The sounds are made when the DJ moves a vinyl LP backwards and forwards on a turntable whilst also manipulating the DJ mixer crossfader.
Find out what the limitations of your Vinyl records are. Vinyl records are quite hardy and don’t break easily, but the soft vinyl material is often easily scratched. Vinyl acquires a heavy static charge that attracts dust, which is very difficult to remove.
