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Sweetness61686 on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

Sweetness61686 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:01:36 +0000

word...thats wat im trying to get on

DJbirdflu on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

DJbirdflu — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:43:21 +0000

on the real, f*** numark turntables. A buddy of mine had 2 TTX mk1s... motor crapped out on one after 2 years (wouldn't start unless you jammed the platter down and hit the start button in the right place). Basically, if you get 2 techs and a pre 2008 Vestax mixer, you'll never need any other tables or mixer for life.

you smoke dodo? on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

you smoke dodo? — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:50:48 +0000

I always thought the great thing about technics is they take an absolute f*cking beating... Especially important if your going to be hands on battering them every day...

skeezee on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

skeezee — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:48:16 +0000

Loudown is giving some primo advice.

I shocked the hell out of my friend last year with a pair of Numark tt200s for his birthday and a Stanton SK-6f mixer. After a month of light, daily use, one of the Numarks would not work anymore. After 3 months, the other deck barely had enough torque to play the record, let alone do any scratching.

Maybe it's me personally, but this is not the first bad experience I've had with Numark products.

When buying a turntable setup, IMO, it's better to buy a solid deck before mixer. If you have to buy one turntable at a time, do that. You can still practice scratching with it and hook a computer/CD player to the other channel for an instrumental.

Don't believe that "Technics is the only way to go". I own Technics, and have owned several in the past. They have definitely earned their "industry standard" reputation. This being said, Stanton and Vestax have decks that are just as good as Technics, if not better.

What makes Techs a more popular choice is their longevity, user serviceability and availability of parts. Second hand 1200s are a good way to go, provided you can check them out before hand or interrogate the seller!

Xellerated on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

Xellerated — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:45:53 +0000

Lmao, as I was practicing, I came across this skit by DJ Revolution. Its funny as hell. SCRATCH NERDS..

http://www.officialperiodic.com/uploads/DJ_Revolution_-_Scratch_Nerds__skit_.mp3

Xellerated on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

Xellerated — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:42:36 +0000

Damn! Thanks for the killer list Birdflu, much love.

I went diggin at Amoeba in Hollywood today for some of these, I found Superseal II, and Hee Haw Breaks. SO MUCH FREAKIN' FUN.

I feel like my poor needle is gonna catch on fire.

When I get more cash, I'll start buying up those other ones.

Money money money..

DJbirdflu on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

DJbirdflu — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:37:26 +0000

Xellerated said: Yo everyone, thanks for all your input. I ended up getting the stanton deck with the M44-7 cartridge and the vestax mixer. Havin' so much fun! Just one question.

What do you guys recommend for scratching practice? Any particular vinyls come to mind?

Essential scratch/break records:
Hee Haw Breaks (for all your classic scratch samples/great sentence structure)
Doubles of every Beats for Jugglers (get your Roc Raida [RIP] on)
Any of the Mr. Dibbs Unearthed series (you'll recognize lots of early DMC routines)
Doubles of DJ Babu's Superduck Breaks (simply as close to perfect as original break/battle records were before skipless/all the new tech)
100mph Backsliding Turkey Cuts (everything you need on one record)
Boom Bip's Doo Doo Tones (get your Mixmaster Mike face perfected)
Sqratch Festishes of a Third Kind (great low-fi boomin beats to cut to)
Butt Ugly Breaks (amazing beats to cut to... and they go on for days)
Needle Thrashers vol. 1 (you know you want those ATCQ drums from Bonita Applebum)
Sealed Breaks (so you can learn to drum)

Once you have those, the rest is gravy

EarthTraveler on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

EarthTraveler — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:00:04 +0000

Yes, yes.
Gotta love BE too, another f*ckin classic!
I hope he didn't get soft, and he redeems himself for Universal Mind Control.

Xellerated on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

Xellerated — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:47:31 +0000

you smoke dodo? said: ooooh, i like the dj Q-bert break records, that one, what's it called... scratchy seal or something... um... SUPER SEAL BREAKS, that's the one. It's designed some how (don't ask me how it works) so that if the needle skips, which is does all the time when i start gettin into some heavy scratching on my sh!tty set up, you don't loose the break that your sampling. I think it's to do with the way it's pressed, each groove is in time with the groove next to it, so if you jump up and come down again, you don't really notice... you can really beat the sh!t out of this record, it's awesome...

Hell yeah dodo! Superseal Breaks is classic. I'm probably going to get my hands on that, as well as D-Styles stuff. God damn, last night, I was up all night scratching up Common's Resurrection (Its the only album I have more than 1 of)

I started at 8pm, and I didnt even realize how late it got, I got lost in the music. I had to stop when my neighbor started yelling

Thanks for the info dodo, you da sh!t!!

P.S. Resurrection is so amazing. Common Sense was dropping SCIENCE on that album. Classic.

you smoke dodo? on "First Serious Turntable Help!"

you smoke dodo? — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:43:54 +0000

ooooh, i like the dj Q-bert break records, that one, what's it called... scratchy seal or something... um... SUPER SEAL BREAKS, that's the one. It's designed some how (don't ask me how it works) so that if the needle skips, which is does all the time when i start gettin into some heavy scratching on my sh!tty set up, you don't loose the break that your sampling. I think it's to do with the way it's pressed, each groove is in time with the groove next to it, so if you jump up and come down again, you don't really notice... you can really beat the sh!t out of this record, it's awesome...