Man. I miss the sound of a needle on a record....

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BushmasterM4 said:
I do own this cleaner and it works great. Not a easy as a $500 automatic, but hey its some exercise too.

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I'd wondered about that. I have a VPI cleaner but sometimes it would be nice to have something more portable.
 
I found a battery operated (you can plug it in as well) turn table last weekend. Built in speaker and all!
 
moresound said:
I found a battery operated (you can plug it in as well) turn table last weekend. Built in speaker and all!
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depends on what it is as to whether I'd put one of my records on it.

They have made a couple of very nice portable 'tables but if it has a speaker that sounds like old crap to me.

One time when I was on the road in the early 70's a band member brought along one of those old G.E. Wildcat stereos.
The kind where when you carry it the 'table part flips up and the speakers attach to make it sorta like a small suitcase?

So I had just bought the (at that time) new Crosby, Stills and Nash record and was laying in front of the record player listening to it and watching the needle track across the record ..... so I'm looking and I'm seeing this hair or something dragging behind the needle ....... I got to looking closer and it wasn't a hair, the cheap ceramic cart. stylus was actually slicing a strip of vinyl out of the groove and it was coiling up behind the needle as it went!!!

:eek:

I still have that record ..... it sounds horrible ........ I only play my records on good stuff.

:D
 
The first LP's I owned were given to me by my older cousin.

They were "A Hard Day's Night" and "Beatles For Sale"

And there the journey began.......
 
Anybody ever have a car turntable? (Sorry if I missed its mention--I think I skipped a couple pages.) I had one that I found at a garage sale when I was a kid. I kept it in the glove box of my first car (a 1968 Ford station wagon--complete with fake wood panels!). It was about the size of a paperback book, and the needle-arm extended out. Obviously the turntable itself was only a few inches in diameter. And of course, you had to have a flat surface to set it on. Also, you needed lots of batteries. But then it worked great. Well, assuming you weren't actually moving.

What the hell were they thinking when they made this thing? What the hell was I thinking when I bought it?
 
Damn...the power of the googlenets. It was a lot like this:

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Lol

Can you imagine leaning over to find your fave 45 on the freeway?


Im having great fun buying albums, got all my who albums, the specials, working on the jam now, even got a couple of 45s
 
check this out! i have a bahringer effects unit where it has the sound of a record and you can add that to your recordings ..even a slight record skip and the slight pumping of the needle and all that good stuff
 
SHOCKWAVE7 said:
check this out! i have a bahringer effects unit where it has the sound of a record and you can add that to your recordings ..even a slight record skip and the slight pumping of the needle and all that good stuff
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yeah ...... none of that exists on my gear or records and is hardly what the OP was talking about.
 
kcearl said:
Lol

Can you imagine leaning over to find your fave 45 on the freeway?


Im having great fun buying albums, got all my who albums, the specials, working on the jam now, even got a couple of 45s
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I'm having fun with it too! I can't believe I don't have any of the records from my youth, but I'm having fun grabbing them back up now!
 
WhiteStrat said:
I'm having fun with it too! I can't believe I don't have any of the records from my youth, but I'm having fun grabbing them back up now!
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thats exactly it...Im finding record shops here can get a little pricey for some of the good stuff but ebays been pretty good so far...only a copy of "Who's next" was a little worse than described...$10 though :)

My rule is it had to be released on vinyl before CD's


I have one arriving every three days or so :D
 
kcearl said:
thats exactly it...Im finding record shops here can get a little pricey for some of the good stuff but ebays been pretty good so far...only a copy of "Who's next" was a little worse than described...$10 though :)

My rule is it had to be released on vinyl before CD's


I have one arriving every three days or so :D
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check out flea markets ..... almost all of them have a record booth.
 
Another outlet for records are Good Will stores and other charity shops like that. You never know what you will find.
 
Illsidgus said:
Another outlet for records are Good Will stores and other charity shops like that. You never know what you will find.
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I've got a pretty good idea.... What's New, No Jacket Required, Slippery When Wet, Tubular Bells, Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, Sing Along With Mitch Miller, and all the Henry Mancini records you can shake a stick at.

And classical. Lots of classical.
 
I don't want to be accused of blasphemy, but, just for the records, there's a little VST plugin called Vinylizer. And suddenly, your mp3 samples have "dust" and skip according to the knob. Just sayin'. :D
 
lockesilver said:
I don't want to be accused of blasphemy, but, just for the records, there's a little VST plugin called Vinylizer. And suddenly, your mp3 samples have "dust" and skip according to the knob. Just sayin'. :D
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You mean there's a plugin that emulates vinyl?!?!?! :eek:
 
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