Re: [microsound] Disc Rot

[Brian Lavelle <x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jake Hardy wrote:

> Can anyone fill me in on the details of disc rot?  Does it actually
> change the sound of the recording or does it simply stop playing?

I seem to recall it's to do with the type of lacquer certain pressing plants used (possibly only Phillips
in fact) and, in my experience, it *does* change the sound quite considerably.  Not so much change as
augment, actually - it's as though sheets of static were added to the existing sounds.  Not very
microsound, though!

Try these sites for more info:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/bronzed.html
http://classical.efront.com/music/guide/society/krs/excerpt3.html

As to how you'd do it yourself, I'm not sure you could, unless you could replicate the corroding effects
from which these discs suffer.  Worth a try though...

Brian

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