
Vinyl Records: Black Magic at Work
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Amir Tone, Rheum Tone?
Rheum tone literally cuts the sound you make directly onto a record that you take home. You get these black polyvinyl pellets, you melt them down in a hopper and what plops out is a little puck shaped of vinyl. They trim that off with a machine so it's perfectly round and that excess stuff is called flash. And they actually just throw that back to use later on. There are... I saw people online who say records made from that reused flashing do not sound as good as other records.
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