Any sure shot ways to unwarp records?
 

Just wondering cause I have a out of print set that will only play one side & I'd like to hear the other, thanks.

if yr really fast with the pitch control, you can adjust it in real time to match and counteract the distortions of the vinyl. rockin technics...


...no. not that in know of.

i've been seeing turntable with a kind of clamp

http://www.lpgear.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LG&Product_Cod e=SOTAICLAMP

supposed to do the trick

I have a few bauhaus 12"s that are forever warped because I loaned them to a friend.

he left them in the fucking back window of his car.

what the fuck is "air around the instruments"?

audiophile language often gets on my balls

um, ....the medium for sound.

wave n'such

owned.

Only way I know... replace it with a new one.

i'm not an audiophile, either....

i'm just down with the whole particle / wave duality of the universe in general. :cool:

ha ha ha

There was a trick where you would put it in a warm oven under bricks to flatten it - I tried it once and it was tricky because the areas of record that weren't pressured rippled like crazy. You don't specifiy exactly what is wrong, you might turn up the tracking force or even place a penny on top of the cartridge...

my brother warped my records once. I never found how to fix it.

Have none of ya read Sonic Death? ;)
Don't have my copies to hand, but one of the issues has a fix for this: stick your warped rekkid between 2 panes of glass and leave out in the sun on a warm day. You might need to weught the top pane down, I can't remember off-hand...

I've actually used that with some success. It takes heavy glass, though, and hot sun. I actually unwarped a couple of 180 gram records after two hours in the sun under a heavy glass top to a table (more than an inch thick). Without the weight, nothing will happen. It doesn't always work, and it depends a lot on the severity of the warp and how it happened. Plus sometimes unwarping it creates distortion problems, because now the grooves have been reshaped and may not conform to the way they were meant to be cut.

If it's a slight warp and still playable--doesn't skip--leave it alone, I say. All records, believe it or not, have some warp. I don't have one, but I think a record clamp is a good idea for this reason. They're pricey, at least 50 bucks, but probably a good investment.

I've also found that some slightly warped records unwarp as they sit on the shelf over the years.

also, it is very nice to carress your ladiy's sweet sweet ass on a warm day and feel that

I don't mind a warped ass on my lady, either.

That's pretty ingenius using a heavy glass tabletop and the heat of the sun. I'd recommend trying that on a flat surface if one has a very heavy glass and the patience to wait for a hot day.
In the end though, I don't believe that warped records aren't easy to ever fix into being really all that playable and clamps wear down the lifespan of a turntable, but if you absolutely must give it a shot, here's my shot based on pure conjecture:

Get two pieces of plexiglass or glass with some kind of thickness, like at least quarter inch each, and big enough to cover the record completely. You might have to go to a Lowe's or something to get the glass pieces cut. Put the record in a sleeve you don't care about anymore and insert it between them. Place in the oven on a center or above center rack at the lowest setting and leave the oven door open (since most ovens are difficult to gauge the proper running temperature, and I don't know how low your oven can go). After allowing the oven to warm up for a few minutes with the door closed, open the door and leave it in there for fifteen minutes or so with a brick or two on top. Remove it and place on a genuinely flat surface. If you have one, test the surface with a leveller beforehand. After weighing this down with something very heavy with a flat bottom and waiting a couple of hours, take a look. If the record is still warped then repeat the process. Perhaps experiment with covering the top glass with ice after it's all moved from the oven to shorten the waiting time on cooling. Keep repeating until you have a relatively flat record. One can always up the oven temperature to speed this flattening process along, but bear in mind that one won't be able to undo any fuck-ups if things get too hot. I don't know, maybe you can try to do it without the sleeve. If the thing gets too hot then the vinyl is obviously going to melt into the sleeve. With thick records, I would think that there's no way using the sleeve would be a good idea. The trick of course is to get the vinyl hot enough to be pliable without actually causing any surface melting of the record.

the unwarping of a record and listening to it again sounds beautfiful

I actually haven't had many problems with warped records. The few I've had have been right from the sealed package. I bought them from a store where it was unbearably hot almost year--I stopped going there because after 10 minutes I'd start sweating on the record bins! I took the records back for replacements.

When I started looking into ways to fix a couple of records I was stuck with because I hadn't bothered to return them right away, I found that getting the supplies to fix a warp was more expensive than just re-buying the record! So I could spend 30 bucks minimum on glass and waste a lot of time, or I could spend 15 bucks on a new copy. Hmmm....