quoted 4 lines Btw, all the coloured vinyl pressings of the AI albums suffer from> Btw, all the coloured vinyl pressings of the AI albums suffer from
> excessive surface noise. I'm told this is mainly because the vinyl
> has been recycled. On my orange copy of "Electrosoma", the surface
> noise almost drowns out the music on some tracks.
Most black vinyl pressings these days are recycled. The main problem
with recycled vinyl is that you sometimes get pressing flaws resulting
from bits of paper from the labels getting into the vinyl.
I very much doubt that much if any clear or coloured vinyl is
recycled, though. (Incidentally, the orange electosoma is actually
pressed on clear vinyl, with an orange sheet of plastic embedded, like
a picture disc.)
Clear/coloured vinyl is generally noisier than black vinyl, and it
seems to damage more easily, too -- I think the problem might be that
it's somewhat more brittle than black vinyl -- though the surface
noise on my copy of electosoma isn't excessive.
Cosmic