Time Per Side Of Vinyl

12 33 1 3 rpm 22 minutes per side.

Time per side of vinyl.

The origins of the single are in the late 19th century when music was distributed on phonograph cylinders that held two to four minutes worth of audio. And no the record doesn t sound very good. At 45 rpm they hold around 12 15 minutes per side. This is due to the fact that in order to fit more music on the record the grooves need to be closer together and shallower.

A 7 inch 45 rpm record can fit approximately 5 minutes per side for a total of 10 minutes. Please note that the longer your vinyl program is i e. 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. On a 10 inch record you can fit around 9 12 minutes per side at 45 rpm or 12 15 minutes per side at 33 rpm.

The more minutes per side the lower the volume of your records will be. Although cd baby doesn t make vinyl our partner disc makers is the best in the business when it comes to pressing records. Six pretty long tracks on each side make op for a little over 30 minutes playing time on each side of the album. Vinyl records share the same limitation and can represent a limited playtime accurately.

Gorgeous full length vinyl records on 150 and 180 gram 12 inch records are generally manufactured for full length lp albums. At the time the lp was introduced nearly all phonograph records for home use were made of 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. 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.

Recommended maximum program lengths. 33 rpm is the most common speed for 12 inch records. A vinyl lp can hold over 40 minutes of music a side. But the sound quality isn t good at all.

These were then superseded by disc phonograph records which initially also had a short duration of playing time per side in the first two to three decades of the 20th century almost all commercial music releases were in. 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.