Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by Ennayess » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:15 am

2manynoobs wrote:
laurent__duval wrote:
hayze99 wrote:Technic MkII 1210 x 2
Rokit KRK RP5 x 2
Serato SL1

Simple as

in a week i will have almost the same set up. i have a pioneer djm600 too.



do the rokit 5's kick out a decent amount of bass?
i bet they do..

at least untill only like 65hz tho
53hz so the manual says

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2x Stanton t.80
A Korg Km202
A pair of AKG K518's
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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by MikeE » Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:07 am

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2 x Technics 1200 MK2s
1 x Pioneer DJM 707 Scratch Mixer
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1 x Serato SL3
2 x Ortofon Concord Electro Needle/Carts 1 x Ortofon Club
1 x Technics 1210 Headphones
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Suicide Girls slipmats...

and heres what it used to be:

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by badger » Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:37 pm

hayze99 wrote:Image

I completely recommend the HD 215s. They're cheap as chips, sound amazing, have a good bass response and very good isolation. However, the most important thing about them is that they're shaped in a way that they stick to your head perfectly. That was always my problem with HD-25s; you'd be messing with em, trying to find the right little spot, and they'd slide off my head and onto the turntables. They've also lasted me a good 4 years without taking any damage.

Could not big em up enough. Really.
i have that problem too. out to all the weird headed crew!

i should get some headphones for general use rather than wearing expensive hd25s out and about so i'll have a look at those

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by staticcast » Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:08 pm

hayze99 wrote:Image

I completely recommend the HD 215s. They're cheap as chips, sound amazing, have a good bass response and very good isolation. However, the most important thing about them is that they're shaped in a way that they stick to your head perfectly. That was always my problem with HD-25s; you'd be messing with em, trying to find the right little spot, and they'd slide off my head and onto the turntables. They've also lasted me a good 4 years without taking any damage.

Could not big em up enough. Really.
Oh god. I mixed on these for about 3 years. I didn't realise they were the reason my ears hurt so much after a gig until I bought a better pair of headphones. The isolation is rubbish, there's a load of resonance from the closed back and they only go down to about 50-60hz or so. Awful sounding headphones IMHO. Not only that, but because of the rubbish isolation you often have to crank them up really loud - and then they distort much sooner than they should. Bleurgh.

Sorry - that's my opinion anyway! They are indeed cheap, though, and were still in decent condition when I got rid of them so I guess you could say they're durable.... ;)
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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by __________ » Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:39 pm

Technics 1210
Vestax PDX-2000
Vestax PDX-A1 MKII
Rane TTM54i
Allen & Heath Xone:32
Shure M447

Beat that :D

edit: oh and some Tapco S8 monitors. Going to invest in some Genelecs as soon as possible though.

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by 2manynoobs » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:18 pm

@MikeE looks very nice! what did you do with your mbp ???
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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by bass_culture » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:25 pm

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by volcanogeorge » Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:28 pm

hayze99 wrote:Image

I completely recommend the HD 215s. They're cheap as chips, sound amazing, have a good bass response and very good isolation. However, the most important thing about them is that they're shaped in a way that they stick to your head perfectly. That was always my problem with HD-25s; you'd be messing with em, trying to find the right little spot, and they'd slide off my head and onto the turntables. They've also lasted me a good 4 years without taking any damage.

Could not big em up enough. Really.
:z: to that! Brilliant pair of headphones, perfect for my head!

Back to the topic:
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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by MikeE » Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:01 pm

2manynoobs wrote:@MikeE looks very nice! what did you do with your mbp ???
Its just wearing an incipio hardshell and has SHORTKUTZ for serato ....

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by apmje » Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:53 pm

Just got some Alesis M1 mk2 active speakers, what leads will I need to hook this up to my mixer?

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by badger » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:05 pm

apmje wrote:Just got some Alesis M1 mk2 active speakers, what leads will I need to hook this up to my mixer?
they take either XLR or 1/4" jacks

i'd go for XLR personally (and have done in my setup) as it's much better sound. depends what outputs your mixer has i guess

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by apmje » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:08 pm

My mixer has just RCA on the back...doesn't look like XLR will fit?

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by badger » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:30 pm

you'll need either XLR to RCA or 1/4" to RCA then

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by apmje » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:42 pm

XLR to RCA seems to be sold no where!

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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by amidoinitrite » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:51 pm

1/4" to RCA
apmje wrote:XLR to RCA seems to be sold no where!
XLR to RCA is quite pointless.. XLR is balanced.. RCA is not.. so you'd end up with an unbalanced XLR which defeats the purpose
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Re: Vinyl Heads... What's Your Set-Up?

Post by apmje » Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:55 pm

Alright cheers. :)

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