Back Catalog Vinyl Repress Confirmed (PRE-ORDER UP)

thepastinsidepressant · Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:39 pm

fujee wrote:Get onto Bleep if it's bad. They are willing to replace.

Shame the album seems to have been poorly pressed. The other two are great.

replace with what? surely the entire pressing lot is bad? unless it depends, each day
the pressings can change if not all done at once, i dunno how it works in those places.

i'll see how it goes with the replacements, seems a lot of people are noticing it though which makes
me think, the replacements from same stock won't make much difference.

1991 · Post by **1991** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:15 pm

Got mine today, upon visually inspecting TCH D side is pretty obvious that something wrong is going in there. Don't want to get depressed right now, saturday morning i'll give it a good listen and call Warp if I feel like it isn't acceptable.

Listenign to MHTRTC and i'm not impressed at all. Just feel like hanging those on a wall and forget that Warp messed up so badly.

EDIT: Am I going nuts or is the first vinyl of MHTRTC a bit off centre?

Pro-Ject Debut Esprit with acrylic platter + Cambridge Audio SR10 + Audio Technica ATH-M50 and I've listened to enough vinyl to know when something isn't right.

digitaldisc0 · Post by **digitaldisc0** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:06 pm

1991 wrote: Am I going nuts or is the first vinyl of MHTRTC a bit off centre?

Pro-Ject Debut Esprit with acrylic platter + Cambridge Audio SR10 + Audio Technica ATH-M50 and I've listened to enough vinyl to know when something isn't right.

Mine is pressed off centre too - obviously the quality control on these hasn't been great. I would shrug it off, but off centre pressings tend to wear weirdly over time.

1991 · Post by **1991** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:29 pm

I can accept lightly warped vinyl, some clicks and pops (it's really hard to judge where it comes from, the medium, some element in the hi-fi chain, the weather, divine intervention, etc.), but off centre records? This is beyond amateurish. There is no acceptable excuse for Warp to sell off centre copies of a fundamental record like MHTRTC. This borders scamming.

I'm listening to Geogaddi right now and only needed half of Ready Let's Go to realize that this pressing has nothing to do with MHTRTC. New cut and a german plant, is it that hard? I don't mind paying more, I just want some decent vinyl pressing.

EDIT: TCH side A/B goes directly to my top3 of warped vinyl. Lots of clicks everywhere and Ataronchronon is skipping, this is just ridiculous. Also interesting, on the few continuous seconds that this is playable the sounds seems pretty solid.

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:41 am

1991 wrote:I can accept lightly warped vinyl, some clicks and pops (it's really hard to judge where it comes from, the medium, some element in the hi-fi chain, the weather, divine intervention, etc.), but off centre records? This is beyond amateurish. There is no acceptable excuse for Warp to sell off centre copies of a fundamental record like MHTRTC. This borders scamming.

I'm listening to Geogaddi right now and only needed half of Ready Let's Go to realize that this pressing has nothing to do with MHTRTC. New cut and a german plant, is it that hard? I don't mind paying more, I just want some decent vinyl pressing.

EDIT: TCH side A/B goes directly to my top3 of warped vinyl. Lots of clicks everywhere and Ataronchronon is skipping, this is just ridiculous. Also interesting, on the few continuous seconds that this is playable the sounds seems pretty solid.

I've only listened to MHTRTC so far (some light hiss on Olson, but I was listening for it so I'm not too peeved), but.. you guys are making me scared to try out the rest..

1991 · Post by **1991** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:34 am

If it wasn't for Geogaddi being near flawless and sounding really good, as it should, on all three vinyls I would thought that the rumble/hum I was hearing was from my system, but nope, as soon as Geogaddi started it was clear who messed up.
My side E/F of Geogaddi is noticeably warped, but A/B of TCH can be even worse.

Moloch · Post by **Moloch** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:47 am

MHTRTC/Geogaddi sound excellent by me. But this TCH issue is becoming kind of awkward if you ask me...

rd1994 · Post by **rd1994** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:25 pm

got mine as well...and my coppy seems fucked...gues were....CORRECT TCH side D
will listen later when I have some spare time

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:36 pm

Moloch wrote:MHTRTC/Geogaddi sound excellent by me. But this TCH issue is becoming kind of awkward if you ask me...

This.

ONTHE88 · Post by **ONTHE88** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:42 pm

I'm starting to wonder if I should pick up TCH at all. I was planning on buying it from my local record shop this weekend, not through bleep. I really don't want to hassle with trying to replace one of the records. My MHTRTC and Geo are flawless and arrived the day of release from amazon, but I'm not sure if that luck will extend to TCH.

machinea · Post by **machinea** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:02 pm

At this point if you haven't bought TCH I would wait and see if bleep/warp straighten this situation out.

rd1994 · Post by **rd1994** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:30 pm

btw, am I the only one framing their geogaddi sticker set as a whole
there wouldn't be anyone so nice to scan the preorder print right?

digitaldisc0 · Post by **digitaldisc0** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:26 pm

On another listen through Geogaddi I'm getting some serious distortion on Julie & Candy, 1969, The Beach At Redpoint etc.. awful.

arvy · Post by **arvy** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:44 pm

yes, also 1969 have some clicking sound in it...

rd1994 · Post by **rd1994** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:55 am

does anybody else have this slash pattern like this: / / / etc.
on their first side of the vinyl? it seems like this laser etching

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:25 am

rd1994 wrote:does anybody else have this slash pattern like this: / / / etc.
on their first side of the vinyl? it seems like this laser etching

Photo? I think I know what you're referring to and I've seen it on loads of vinyl, not just these reissues.

In other news, I had my usual email from Juno records this week, in which they plugged the reissue. Interestingly, they only mentioned MHTRTC and Geogaddi, NOT Campfire. I wonder if that's just a coincidence, or are they aware of the issue too.

Have to say, this is such a shame. This was a great opportunity for Warp, but the silence from them is deafening..

Moloch · Post by **Moloch** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:27 am

also, 'weirdly' my local retailer did not the receive the amount of TCH copies he expected.

1991 · Post by **1991** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:34 am

rd1994 wrote:does anybody else have this slash pattern like this: / / / etc.
on their first side of the vinyl? it seems like this laser etching

Have that on TCH D side.

rd1994 · Post by **rd1994** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:02 am

also...does any body notice this single knocking sound in YOu Could Feel The Sky? is it an error or just a sound I never picked up before?

rd1994 · Post by **rd1994** » Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:04 am

rd1994 wrote:does anybody else have this slash pattern like this: / / / etc.
on their first side of the vinyl? it seems like this laser etching

sorry for the duoble post and I know its kinda awkwar to quote ones own post...but I think I got it ..I think it was just a smudge that ..by the spinning of the record seemed like an image so sorry guys