diff --git a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-data/deeplearning4j-datavec-iterators/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/datasets/datavec/RecordReaderDataSetIterator.java b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-data/deeplearning4j-datavec-iterators/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/datasets/datavec/RecordReaderDataSetIterator.java
index 53cdc82e7..bda0f9c95 100644
--- a/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-data/deeplearning4j-datavec-iterators/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/datasets/datavec/RecordReaderDataSetIterator.java
+++ b/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j-data/deeplearning4j-datavec-iterators/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/datasets/datavec/RecordReaderDataSetIterator.java
@@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ public class RecordReaderDataSetIterator implements DataSetIterator {
      */
     public RecordReaderDataSetIterator(RecordReader recordReader, int batchSize, int labelIndexFrom, int labelIndexTo,
                                        boolean regression) {
-        if (!regression) { 
+		this(recordReader, new SelfWritableConverter(), batchSize, labelIndexFrom, labelIndexTo, -1, -1, regression);
+		if (!regression) { 
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("This constructor is only for creating regression iterators. " +
                                                "If you're doing classification you need to use another constructor that " + 
                                                "(implicitly) specifies numPossibleLabels");
         }
-        this(recordReader, new SelfWritableConverter(), batchSize, labelIndexFrom, labelIndexTo, -1, -1, regression);
     }