General Vinyl Tips/Advice

[thrush]

do u recommend labeling them with keys/bpm's just to make life a little easier?

[rbnc]

hey i still buy vinyl and i don't even DJ out. i just think it's a dead format.

wrong.

Back on topic.

How often do you guys replace your needles?

[serox]

do u recommend labeling them with keys/bpm's just to make life a little easier?

Only if you have been mixing for a week or so.

I recommend learning to mix how u want to end up. Just do it straight up and keep practicing! dont touch the record or the platter tho, pitch only!

[serox]

hey i still buy vinyl and i don't even DJ out. i just think it's a dead format.

wrong.

Back on topic.

How often do you guys replace your needles?

When I need too. Home use needles should last years unless your name is Hype.

[phrex]

do u recommend labeling them with keys/bpm's just to make life a little easier?

Only if you have been mixing for a week or so.

I recommend learning to mix how u want to end up. Just do it straight up and keep practicing! dont touch the record or the platter tho, pitch only!

may i ask why? though i don't touch the grooves but the label.

[deez23nuts]

any advice on warped records? i got a grip of em just sitting in crates... one of my rusko albums got a sick warp its like a half inch curve


i heard theres a service in san francisco for $15 a record but at that rate i might as well buy everything again

[serox]

do u recommend labeling them with keys/bpm's just to make life a little easier?

Only if you have been mixing for a week or so.

I recommend learning to mix how u want to end up. Just do it straight up and keep practicing! dont touch the record or the platter tho, pitch only!

may i ask why? though i don't touch the grooves but the label.

Because it sounds amateur when you hear someone touching the record.

Get the record in time in the cue. Then when it is in you should to really even have to change the pitch at all really with Dusbtep. Dubstep is easy to mix because it is all made on computers and is around the same tempo.

But if you do need to make adjustments use the pitch only! you will get tighter mixes every time after a while of practicing.

[serox]

any advice on warped records? i got a grip of em just sitting in crates... one of my rusko albums got a sick warp its like a half inch curve


i heard theres a service in san francisco for $15 a record but at that rate i might as well buy everything again

I have heard of people getting two sheets of glass and putting the record between that somewhere in the sun. Be very careful with this tho as it can cause damage so keep checking the record!

[rbnc]

Because it sounds amateur when you hear someone touching the record.

Get the record in time in the cue. Then when it is in you should to really even have to change the pitch at all really with Dusbtep. Dubstep is easy to mix because it is all made on computers and is around the same tempo.

But if you do need to make adjustments use the pitch only! you will get tighter mixes every time after a while of practicing.

You talk so much bollocks.

[rbnc]

do u recommend labeling them with keys/bpm's just to make life a little easier?

You could do that, but I reckon it's better to learn your tunes really slowly and steadily of by heart, or at least their rough keys and tempos, it's easier than you'd think!

[relik]

Make sure your tone arms are balanced and weighted correctly for your needles. Too much weight will eat your vinyl up. I try to organize by year/sub-genre, but everything usually ends up in different crates or shelves anyway, but I keep same genres together. Keep same sized vinyls together too (IE: 7" 10" 12"). If you have inner sleeves, put them back in the main sleeve sideways to keep dust out. If you want to bpm label your records, cut strips of stickers (free U.S. postal ones work good), write the bpm on them, and then line them up with the first beat of a cue point. I've only bpmed my tracks once or twice and it was because a majority of them I never played and it was for a set I wanted to have pretty dead on with certain cue points. Bpms were ranging between 150-180+. Dubstep is pretty much all around 140, so you don't really have to worry about it.

[relik]

You talk so much bollocks.

Actually mixing with pitch only is more preferred. May be more difficult at first, but once you got it down, your mixes will be much better. It's pretty much the only way to mix on shitty belt driven turntables.

[rbnc]

You talk so much bollocks.

Actually mixing with pitch only is more preferred. May be more difficult at first, but once you got it down, your mixes will be much better. It's pretty much the only way to mix on shitty belt driven turntables.

I mix with pitch too.

[relik]

Well you have to regardless...but we're talking about using the pitch control only and never touching the record or platter to beat match. Takes some skill and I personally don't mix that way myself, although I'm usually always riding the pitch. Use whatever techniques work best for you. You don't see many DJs who can mix that way...mainly older heads that have been doing it for years. Usually when I'm practicing I'll mix that way just as a challenge. Instead of touching the record or platter you are just flicking the pitch control up or down real quick multiple times in different increments until it's matched. My friend had cheap Geminis and mixing with the pitch control only was really the only way to mix cause if you touch the record or platter the track is stopping.

[nowaysj]

And for the record, I am a woman, ... and don't think hurting myself in order to prove something is smart or useful.

Definitely a woman

[deadly_habit]

Because it sounds amateur when you hear someone touching the record.

Get the record in time in the cue. Then when it is in you should to really even have to change the pitch at all really with Dusbtep. Dubstep is easy to mix because it is all made on computers and is around the same tempo.

But if you do need to make adjustments use the pitch only! you will get tighter mixes every time after a while of practicing.

You talk so much bollocks.

riding the pitch is the preferred method, though i have the bad habit of messing with the platter time to time

[evil madmen]

I never thought adjusting the pitch was the only way to go, but you have to get one record in time with the other. Ive seen people using the label, the side of the record, platter, the nub. I guess its all preference

[collective]

do u recommend labeling them with keys/bpm's just to make life a little easier?

Only if you have been mixing for a week or so.

I recommend learning to mix how u want to end up. Just do it straight up and keep practicing! dont touch the record or the platter tho, pitch only!

Agree with that first part, but the bit about not touching the record or platter just doesn't jive with how we use to spin records in detroit. Fast and sloppy, lol. No but really, i got my hands on the vinyl at all times... different strokes i guess.