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Not an Anthem posted:Yea one of my favorite places in Chicago has a demo turntable for customers (a handful of stores do) and it was out for a while because someone slapped the tonearm and bent the needle and they didn't want a repeat performance.
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Vintersorg posted:$35 for a nerdcore band? I was able to get a limited, 250 print edition of Decapitated's new album for like $15 who are a little bigger. PS: the less they sell of a release, the more they have to charge for it. Economies of scale and all.
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Jul 10, 2011 22:41
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answersyouseek posted:$10 for an EP? What the gently caress is that about?
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Oh most of the records I buy are european imports so I guess that explains it.
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Jul 14, 2011 19:56
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Just bought a near mint copy of this record off discogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d7jNZXcKHk Should probably buy new needles soon. Does anyone have a good solution for keeping dust off records?
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Jul 28, 2011 14:15
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Tiny Faye posted:Also, unless you're a scratch DJ, never play your records on a turntable that doesn't have a dustcover.
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Jul 28, 2011 18:45
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Wilbur Swain posted:How much dust can settle on a turntable without a dust cover? Where does that dust go when you put a staticky record on it?
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Jul 28, 2011 19:35
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Stuntman posted:Does anyone know a good place in the US to buy oldschool hardcore techno/gabber vinyl? I don't feel like paying 6 bucks shipping for something that costs 2 bucks.
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Maguro posted:humming How close are your speakers to the turntable? What is the turntable standing on? sounds like feedback to me.
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Aug 17, 2011 13:37
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The fact that it only happens when you turned it up leaves me with no other plausible explanation besides speaker feedback. If you can't fix this with placement, you can always record your vinyl with the speakers off and then play back the recording (with sufficiently good tools to do so). No feedback problem then!
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Aug 17, 2011 17:53
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Try putting the speakers on a different surface than the turntables, or if they have to be on the same surface, put something very heavy underneath the turntables (like a big slab of stone or something) If the speakers and turntables are both sitting on the same piece of wood or thin metal, vibrations will transmit very easily.
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Aug 17, 2011 18:59
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Can someone recommend a good turntable/cartridge for archiving (recording records to digital) that will cost me around 4-500 total?
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Aug 23, 2011 04:17
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NESguerilla posted:Couldn't they obtain the recording through much easier means as well? You seem to be making the assumption that all music which was ever released on vinyl was rereleased on CD at some later point. This is not, in fact, the case. Much of the music I own was only released on vinyl (or the version released on CD was poorly mastered/a different edit than the vinyl version) Socket Ryanist fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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Aug 23, 2011 05:18
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NESguerilla posted:If you really want to transfer your Lp's to digital more power to ya but it seems super pointless in this age of technology where someone else has probably already done it for you. Some of the records in question have 500 or less copies in existence, some of which are probably destroyed, many of which are probably sitting in a warehouse or used record store, unsold, and most of which are owned by people with no motivation to record them and post them online. Trance records from the mid-90s are mostly in the possession of people who were DJing at that time, who most likely have dozens to hundreds of said records and probably never even look at most of them because they're either no longer DJing or have switched styles (since absolutely no one plays trance from the mid 90s anymore).
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Aug 23, 2011 06:45
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I want to start a company or nonprofit foundation which goes around hunting down the master copies of various obscure records and digitizing them. Do you think people would be willing to contribute to this?
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Aug 23, 2011 07:41
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Ron Burgundy posted:Are you talking needle drops of the best available copy or going back to master tapes? Because the record companies honestly have no idea where half of their stuff is. The master tapes for stuff like Steely Dan and The Who are missing. The obscure stuff is going to be hell to find.
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Aug 23, 2011 08:39
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When it comes down to it, any analog storage medium is also potentially usable as a digital storage medium, and you can make it as redundant as you want by adding more and more layers of different types of ECC (the tradeoff being you need more medium the more ECC you add).
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Aug 25, 2011 02:31
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But I guess I should rephrase my earlier question: What is the best turntable/cartridge combo, fidelity-wise, for $600 or under? Size/weight is my second factor after fidelity.
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Aug 25, 2011 07:24
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Is there really not a turntable as good as the 1200 that's belt-drive and not huge/heavy?
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Aug 25, 2011 08:30
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I was going to buy a technics or two at some point anyway so I guess I might as well just spring for that. Does anyone know how to best check a used one for defects? Also, no one's mentioned cartridges...
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Aug 25, 2011 14:40
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Ron Burgundy posted:What's wrong with the 3 others I mentioned? Also hooolly poo poo $200 for a cartridge is NOT the price range I was thinking My knowledge in the realm of turntables is limited to stuff that's designed for DJs. DJ turntables and DJ cartridges are designed for things like ultra-high skip resistance, minimal record wear, reverse record travel, et cetera. I am looking for stuff that is similarly priced or cheaper that focuses primarily on fidelity, and not any of those things. It kind of surprises me that stuff which is designed for professionals (DJs) costs less than stuff which is designed for home use. Even the higher-end DJ cartridges cost maybe $150 Edit: on second though it's probably better to spend more on the cartridge and less on the turntable, no? Socket Ryanist fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Aug 25, 2011 |
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Aug 25, 2011 17:04
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lack of a preamp should leave you lacking in bass, not an excess of it. If you have too much bass, either you're double-preamping, or the speaker in question is hosed up. Do you have a picture of the speaker?
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Aug 26, 2011 13:07
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Red posted:I'm getting a preamp because the volume from this turntable is super low, both through speakers and headphones, and my previous turntable wasn't.
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Aug 26, 2011 13:35
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So I lack a dust cover for one of my turntables and I just came up with an ingenius idea to prevent my records getting dusty: Flip your slipmats over when you're not playing records. That way, dust will collect on the bottom side. Then flip them back over and the non-dusty side will come into contact with your records 
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Aug 26, 2011 15:15
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Do all phono cartridges have slight balance issues? Maybe it's because my turntable is straight-tonearm (the scratching type, not the over-hanging type), but every cartridge I've used on it has been panned slightly to either side, and it's always different. The weird part is that it seems like it pans the highs more than the lows. like I can adjust the balance to the point where the bass sounds centered but the highs are slightly to one side.
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Aug 27, 2011 11:33
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Dr. James Hetfield posted:It's a neat gimmick, but I have definitely noticed the volume and compression issues. Is it safe to assume that this is characteristic of all parallel grooved records? I do not plan on buying very many more, but this is more for curiosity's sake.
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Nov 18, 2011 08:53
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Amoeba in Hollywood is a great place to get lots of old house and trance records for 50 cents
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Dec 25, 2011 15:51
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I'm sorry if this was asked before, but if I'm setting up a DJ booth for a party, what's the best way to prevent bass feedback through the turntable? Assume that the subwoofers are close to the turntables and this is not avoidable. I know it's doable because I've seen it done many times before.
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Crumbles posted:Shure M44-7 cart
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I know, vidjagame music but the original music does have some nostalgic value from when I was 13 and still had time to play videogames.
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Jan 3, 2012 19:25
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Crimson Sox posted:I don't think the increase in vinyl popularity won't be going away. I think with music being so portable now, it's natural for music lovers seek format that can offer greater tangibility and fidelity.
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Not really a matter of opinion: If you're using the turntable for DJing, you need a slipmat. If you're not, you're probably better off using the rubber mat since it better isolates the record from rumble.
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That 70s Shirt posted:But the music, from my turntable playing through my system sounds awesome. Rich, lots of depth, it sounds great. The recorded files, even played back through the same system just don't have "that". (or it got clipped in the act of recording)
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alg posted:I don't really wanna send the back to this small label because I'm sure they will lose money on it. Do any of the crazy tricks I found on google actually work to un-warp a record?
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