How many grooves are on one side of an LP record?
"the ""Think Visual"" LP. However, one month later, ""How Are You"" was released as the debut U.K. single from said album, backed with ""Killing Time"". It was a moderate success, peaking at #86 on the U.K. Singles Chart. This would be the last time that a Kinks single charted in Britain. Although the Dave Davies-penned ""Rock 'n' Roll Cities"" was chosen to be the lead ""Think Visual"" single in America, ""How Are You"" was eventually released as its follow-up, this time backed with ""Working at the Factory"". In the U.S., AOR disc jockeys flipped the single over and played ""Working"
"Multisided record A multisided record is a type of vinyl record which has more than one groove per side. This technique allows hidden tracks to be encoded on LPs, 45 rpms and 78 rpms. On a disc that has a multi-groove, whether the listener plays the main track or the hidden track depends on where the stylus is cued. The most frequently cited example of a multiple-groove record is Monty Python's infamous ""three-sided"" Matching Tie and Handkerchief album, issued in 1973. One side of the album (both sides were labeled ""Side 2"") was ""normal""; the other contained a pair of"
"side A lasting 38 min 4 s and a side B lasting 31 min 8 s, for a total of 69 min 12 s. In any case, the standard 45-minute playing time of the LP was a significant improvement over that of the previous dominant format, the 78 rpm single, which was generally limited to three to four minutes. At around 14 minutes per side for 10-inch and 23 minutes per side for 12-inch, LPs provided a satisfactory time to enjoy a recording before needing to change or turn over a disc. Turntables called record changers could play records stacked"
"music or an hour of speech per side. This was accomplished by the use of a slower rotation speed of 16⅔ rpm—versus 33 rpm for conventional long-playing records and 45 rpm for singles—in conjunction with an extremely tight groove pitch of 550 grooves per inch (216.5 grooves per centimeter, over four times that of a standard monaural LP of the period). The recording surface extended to an unusually small diameter of , which constrained the label to for long-playing titles, but demonstration discs with brief contents not requiring an extended playing time were manufactured with standard 3 inch (76 mm)"
"15 minutes of audio on each side, but this was occasionally pushed to as much as 20 minutes. Unlike ordinary records, some were recorded inside out, with the start of the recording near the label and the end near the edge of the disc. The label usually noted whether the disc was ""outside start"" or ""inside start"". If there was no such notation, an outside start was assumed. Beginning in the mid-1950s, some transcription discs started employing the ""microgroove"" groove dimensions used by the 12 and 10 inch 33 1/3 rpm vinyl LP records introduced for home use in 1948."
"quality sound than 33 RPM by virtue of their faster rotation speed combined while also providing significantly longer playing time than standard groove 78 RPM records. LP records rarely exceeded 45 minutes per disc (both sides), with a limit in the early years of 52 minutes, due to mastering issues. By the 1960s–1970s, some records began to exceed the 52-minute limitation, with single albums going to as long as 90 minutes in some cases. However, such records had to be cut with much narrower spacing between the grooves, which allowed for a much smaller amount of dynamic range on the"
"LP record The LP (from ""long playing"" or ""long play"") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter, and use of the ""microgroove"" groove specification. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums. At the time the LP was introduced, nearly all phonograph records for home use were made of"
"of a high-quality, correctly adjusted turntable and tonearm, a high-compliance magnetic cartridge with a high-end stylus in good condition, and careful record handling, with non-abrasive removal of dust before playing and other cleaning if necessary. The average LP has about of groove on each side. The average tangential needle speed relative to the disc surface is approximately . It travels fastest on the outside edge, unlike audio CDs, which change their speed of rotation to provide constant linear velocity (CLV). (By contrast, CDs play from the inner radius outward, the reverse of phonograph records.) Thin, closely spaced spiral grooves that"
"at the large-diameter beginning of the groove than exist at the smaller-diameters close to the end of the side. At the start of a groove on an LP there are 510 mm of vinyl per second traveling past the stylus while the ending of the groove gives 200–210 mm of vinyl per second — less than half the linear resolution. Distortion towards the end of the side is likely to become more apparent as record wear increases. Another problem arises because of the geometry of the tonearm. Master recordings are cut on a recording lathe where a sapphire stylus moves"
"musical phrases, which can then be utilized by a DJ. ""Warp20"", the 20th anniversary box set from Warp Records, features two 10-inch locked groove albums, each containing 20 looped tracks from the record label's most popular artists. Both album sleeves contain correct turntable pitch speed settings for each track. Another example is Luke Slater's ""Diesel Drudge,"" from his 1994 EP ""Planetary Funk Vol 4"", which also ends in a locked groove. Speedy J's 2002 album ""Loudboxer"" was released on CD with 15 songs segued together, but the double LP version consists of 200 locked grooves, each with its own four-letter"
"had 20 songs with 10 on each. With regard to records, most double album sets have sides one and two back to back on the first disc, followed by sides three and four on the second disc, etc. The record industry term for this practice is ""manual sequence."" However, some double album LP sets have sides one and four pressed on one disc along with sides two and three on the other. This practice, known as ""automatic sequence,"" began in the era of 78s and was intended to make it easier for listeners to play through the entire set in"
"size. The record diameters are typically nominally 300 mm, 250 mm and 175 mm. There is an area about 3 mm (0.12 in) wide at the outer edge of the disk, called the ""lead-in"" or ""run-in"", where the groove is widely spaced and silent. The stylus is lowered onto the lead-in, without damaging the recorded section of the groove. Between tracks on the recorded section of an LP record there is usually a short gap of around 1 mm (0.04 in) where the groove is widely spaced. This space is clearly visible, making it easy to find a particular track."
"encoded by fine variations in the edges of the groove that cause a stylus (needle) placed in it to vibrate at acoustic frequencies when the disc is rotated at the correct speed. Generally, the outer and inner parts of the groove bear no intended sound (exceptions include the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" and Split Enz's ""Mental Notes""). Increasingly from the early 20th century, and almost exclusively since the 1920s, both sides of the record have been used to carry the grooves. Occasional records have been issued since then with a recording on only one side. In the"
"was added to the CD release of the album in 1987). Although originally released as a double album (two LPs in a gatefold sleeve) in the US, the album was released in the UK on a single LP with 10 songs on each side. The records were pressed with Sides 1 & 4 on one disc and Sides 2 & 3 on the other. The cassette version differs slightly as to the sequence of tracks. Side 1 features all tracks from Sides 1 & 2 in the same order plus ""I Get Around"" from Side 3. Side 2 includes the"
"at the end of a side. An example of a live album with a locked groove is ""Eagles Live"": The applause at the end of side 4 would continue into the locked groove, rather than fading out like on the other sides. On the 12 inch single of ""Spice"" released in 1990 by Eon, the locked groove at the end of the disc continues the instrumental lead-out of the track indefinitely as long as the DJ wished to let it play. There are also many techno records featuring loops as recorded locked grooves, which will continuously repeat the beats and"
"full LP of 10 songs and a second 12-inch disc with five bonus tracks and the same five tracks on the flip side. The Monty Python album ""Matching Tie and Handkerchief"" was originally issued with two concentric grooves with different programs on the second side (this was done for comedic rather than practical reasons). The Stranglers, Elvis Costello and The Clash (amongst other 1970s/80s acts) would sometimes release early pressings of their albums with extra material on a 45 RPM single. Stevie Wonder's ""Songs in the Key of Life"" was released as two LPs and a 45 RPM 7-inch disc."
"records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them. In the 1930s, record companies began issuing collections of 78 rpm records by one performer or of one type of music in specially assembled albums, typically with artwork on the front cover and liner notes on the back or inside cover. Most albums included three or four records, with two sides each, making six or eight compositions per album. When the 12-inch vinyl LP era began in 1949, the single record often had the"
"an abrasive (and therefore noisy) shellac compound, employed a much larger groove, and played at approximately 78 revolutions per minute (rpm), limiting the playing time of a 12-inch diameter record to less than five minutes per side. The new product was a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) fine-grooved disc made of PVC (""vinyl"") and played with a smaller-tipped ""microgroove"" stylus at a speed of rpm. Each side of a 12-inch LP could play for about 22 minutes. Only the microgroove standard was new, as both vinyl and the rpm speed had been used for special purposes for many"
"This allowed 30 minutes to fit comfortably on each side of a 16-inch disc. These later discs can be played with an ordinary modern stylus or a vintage ""LP"" stylus. The earlier discs used a larger groove, nearer in size to the groove of a typical 78 rpm shellac record. Using a ""78"" stylus to play these ""standard groove"" discs usually produces much better results, and also insures against the groove damage that can be caused by the point of a too-small stylus skating around in the groove and scoring its surface. Some specialist audio transfer engineers keep a series"
"sides; side one began with ""I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down"" (the current single) and ended with ""Riot Act"". The second side started with ""Love for Tender"" and ended with ""High Fidelity"". Only on the record labels themselves was the true running order revealed. The original release of the album was on 12-inch vinyl and cassette. It was unusual for a single vinyl record to contain as many as twenty songs because it was thought that what was known in the industry as ""groove cramming"" would result in a loss of sound quality. ""Get Happy""'s producer, Nick Lowe, mentions"
"be played at two different trajectories as well as any number of speeds. The original release came with instructions for the listener to drill more holes in the record as they saw appropriate. Janek Schaefer's ""On/Off LP"" is a one sided clear 12-inch record with one centered groove and one off-centre groove on the same side, designed to be played on Schaefer's multi arm Tri-Phonic Turntable, and Twin Turntable. The disc was cut using two holes, one for each track. Schaefer's Wow 7"" was also cut with two holes and one off centre track on the B side. Developed in"
"Laboratories undertook efforts to address problems of recording and playing back narrow grooves and developing an inexpensive, reliable consumer playback system. It took about eight years of study, except when it was suspended because of World War II. Finally, the 12-inch (30 cm) Long Play (LP) rpm ""microgroove"" record album was introduced by the Columbia Record Company at a New York press conference on June 18, 1948. At the same time, Columbia introduced a vinyl 7-inch rpm ""microgroove"" single, calling it ZLP, but it was short-lived and is very rare today, because RCA Victor introduced a 45 rpm single a"
"side of the album has four grooves. In the 1980s, the band Pink Slip Daddy released a 10-inch single called ""LSD"" on clear pink vinyl with pink glitter inside the vinyl. One side of the single had one song that played from inside out and, on the other side, there were two songs that were pressed as concentric grooves. Many of The Shins' 7-inch records have parallel grooves (such as their 2007 single ""Phantom Limb,"" which has ""Nothing at All"" and ""Split Needles (Alt. Version)"" on the b-side.) The band None of Your Fucking Business released a one-sided 7-inch called"
"over two sides. With the advent of sound film or ""talkies,"" the need for greater storage space made rpm records more appealing. Soundtracks could no longer fit onto the mere 5 minutes per side that 78s offered. They were not an immediate success, however, as they were released during the height of the Great Depression, and seemed frivolous to the many impoverished of the time. It wasn't until ""microgroove"" was developed by Columbia Records in 1948 that Long Players (LPs) reached their maximum playtime that has continued to modern times. Owing to marketing attitudes at the time, the 12-inch format"
"like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them. In the 1930s, record companies began issuing collections of 78 rpm records by one performer or of one type of music in specially assembled albums, typically with artwork on the front cover and liner notes on the back or inside cover. Most albums included three or four records, with two sides each, making six or eight tunes per album. When the 12-inch vinyl LP era began in 1948, each disc could hold a similar number of tunes as a typical album of 78s, so they were still"
"formatted for an autochanger record player; one disc had sides one and four with the other having sides two and three. This allowed a person to stack sides one and two on the player, then flip the stack over for sides three and four, allowing the listener to have over half an hour of uninterrupted music interspersed with key bits of dialog before they needed to flip the discs over. First release on LP by 20th Century Records. For the original soundtrack, Williams selected 75 minutes of music out of the 88 minute score. To provide musical variety, it did"
"78 rpm records being digitized have never existed in any other form The digitization of the archive is done by audio engineer George Blood and his team, at a rate of 5,000 to 6,000 sides per month, or 100 sides (50 singles) per engineer per day. Blood had previously been responsible for the digitization of 10,000 singles for the National Jukebox, a similar project organized by the Library of Congress. Each song is recorded in 16 different versions (using four different styluses, recording both sides of the groove wall, and with/out equalization), the best of which is highlighted by the"
"short pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums (one side of a 78 rpm record could hold only about 3.5 minutes of sound). When long-playing records were introduced, a collection of pieces on a single record was called an album; the word was extended to other recording media such as compact disc, MiniDisc, Compact audio cassette, and digital albums as they were introduced. The LP record (long play), or rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted"
"on one side, has a ""technical note"" at the bottom of the inner sleeve: ""if the sound does not seem loud enough on your system, try re-recording the music onto tape."" The total of around 40–45 minutes often influences the arrangement of tracks, with the preferred positions being the opening and closing tracks of each side. Although the term EP is commonly used to describe a 7"" single with more than two tracks, technically they are not different from a normal 7"" single. The EP uses reduced dynamic range and a smaller run-off groove area to extend the playing time."
"different formats; CD, cassette and a limited edition picture disc LP featuring only twelve tracks. One side of the LP, also the face of the actual CD disc, features a vintage football with the names of the artists on the albums handwritten on it. The back cover featured the track listing split into two sections, resembling a football line-ups diagram, with the first eleven tracks being represented as blue shirted players, and the next eleven tracks represented as orange shirted players. In addition to the twenty-two track version, an abridged version featuring only sixteen of the songs was concurrently released."
"you got an extra side. Critics, of course, hadn’t had to pay for it.’ The LP release was a double album, but only three sides had music. The fourth side label stated ""there is no music on this side"", and the record had a groove that quickly led to the inner to prevent stylus damage. The CD release contained the same 15 tracks on one disc. The front cover of the album (work by Serge Clerc) features the phrase ""Big World"" in French, Persian, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Thai, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Armenian, Hindi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Arabic, and Polish."
"A-side and B-side The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records. The A-side usually featured the recording that the artist, record producer, or the record company intended to receive the initial promotional effort and then receive radio airplay, hopefully, to become a ""hit"" record. The B-side (or ""flip-side"") is a secondary recording that has a history of its own: some artists released B-sides that were considered as strong as the A-side and became hits in their own right."
"has to be physically lifted and moved to play the bonus track. This concept has been extended to the production of records consisting entirely of circular multiple bands to provide collections of infinite loop sound samples of duration limited to one revolution of the disc. Notable examples of this are the releases from RRRecords of the 7-inch RRR-100 (with 100 individual bands) and the 12-inch RRR-500 (with 500 bands) and RRR-1000 (with 1000 bands.) Most records have a locked groove at the end of each side or individual band. It is usually a silent loop that keeps the needle and"