Max Playtime On One Side Of A Vinyl

A standard 12 inch 33 rpm vinyl record can have a playtime of roughly 22 minutes per side for a total of 44 minutes.

Max playtime on one side of a vinyl.

If a 12 vinyl record is cut the process in which the grooves are created and cut into the vinyl at a lower volume at 33 1 3rpm one can fit around 20 minutes onto one side of a record. But the sound quality isn t good at all. Vinyl records share the same limitation and can represent a limited playtime accurately. Six pretty long tracks on each side make op for a little over 30 minutes.

Some examples given have a far longer running time but the craziest example in my collection is the vinyl edition of the 1980 uk comp deepest purple. Just like any medium for music there is only so much space you can use to transcribe music onto. Gorgeous full length vinyl records on 150 and 180 gram 12 inch records are generally manufactured for full length lp albums. Vinyl record pressing 7 inch records.

Recently i had an audio restoration job on a 6 minute funk jam squeezed on one side of a 45 and pressed on styrene ugh. A 7 inch 45 rpm record can fit approximately 5 minutes per side for a total of 10 minutes. I recall miles get up with it which came out on vinyl in the early 70s having sides that clocked in at slighty more than 30 minutes per side. At 33 rpm they hold around 15 22 minutes per side.

So to make a great sounding record i have to be concerned about the playing time and how the music itself sets the parameters for sound quality. The lp from long playing 1 or long play is an analog sound storage medium a phonograph record format characterized by a speed of 33 1 3 rpm a 12 or 10 inch 30 or 25 cm diameter and use of the microgroove groove specification. Squeezes 59 20 on one vinyl. The cuts in particular are caypso frelimo he loved him madly.

And on a 12 inch record you can fit around 12 15 minutes per side at 45 rpm and 15 22 minutes per side at 33 rpm the most common speed. A vinyl lp can hold over 40 minutes of music a side. The cutting engineer s didn t roll off the bass or. Introduced by columbia in 1948 it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry.

But the sound quality isn t good at all.