danswift Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 @Arkei and FlexHow did you get along working with the s-2000's ?..I'd be very interested in your opinions of the sampler.I've never really used a rackmount sampler before but i'm looking forward to starting to learn about the capabilities of this machine..I've also seen that a company named Circuitbenders do a 'sample grinding' mod for the s-2000 which looks pretty interestinghttps://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/synthmod/S2000.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexinoodle Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 S2000 is probably the easiest sampler ever to use, the OS on it is basic as fuck to go with the 2x LCD, if you havent learnt to use it in about 10-15 minutes i will be surprised, never had a manual, never needed one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Brought a Stanton SA-8 with focus fader in near mint conditon for a ton a few weeks ago. It feels nice to use and I really love cutting on it, Busting out the angles like DJ Disk   Props to Focus on designing such a dope mixer. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkei Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 Me so jealous now. I've always wanted that mixer. Congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Cheers Arkei, recommend one really solid all round, it's a shame that they don't come up for sell that often on Ebay. Came up on my saved searches at work so I just went for it but if I ever get rid of it you can have first refusal dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswift Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 the pedal only cost me a fiver from a store in town yesterday ..bargain, and good for some sample mangling bizness too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Symatic Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 i got a Marantz CP430 the other day. It's the european verson of the PMD430 which goes for silly money on ebay, but they are identical. Mine was £60. its a high quality portable cassette recorder with 3 heads which means you can do Delay with it, and it has pitch control, which looks relatively easy to mod to work while in record mode, which means you can do delay and mess with pitch and speed in a really nice analogy way. Gonna be sick when it's finished then next level after that is to add filters and feedback within the box, which people have done on the youtube, and have a proper standalone portable tape delay! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest It'sPhilFromThursdays Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Holy shit, that sounds stupidly awesome!!!! Top buy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutis Mayfield Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 i got a Marantz CP430 the other day. It's the european verson of the PMD430 which goes for silly money on ebay, but they are identical. Mine was £60. its a high quality portable cassette recorder with 3 heads which means you can do Delay with it, and it has pitch control, which looks relatively easy to mod to work while in record mode, which means you can do delay and mess with pitch and speed in a really nice analogy way. Gonna be sick when it's finished then next level after that is to add filters and feedback within the box, which people have done on the youtube, and have a proper standalone portable tape delay!I never see nothing like this before, congrats!Making a search I found Service Manual so I hope it could be useful to you  https://data2.manualslib.com/pdf5/111/11042/1104156-marantz/cp430.pdf?97bb3b8270b593cd10eab88f1605db6e&take=binary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Symatic Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 nice one mutis - I appreciate the manual-digging man - but i actually already got that sucka it even points out exactly what i need to do to disable the pitch control's shutoff during record mode, which is what will let me play with the delays time live, because it has its own little section about how that circuit works SCORE 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldielocksnthethreebrares Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 a PDX 8000. I feel like my vestax search is finally over. I love this table, it's great. I recommend that you all look for one. It has tsken me a whie but I prefere this model over all of the newer versions. Plus the red looks sick!It is basically a PDXa3s, but souped up.It may only have 12% pitch but everything else seems to be perfect.I reccommend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutis Mayfield Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 nice one mutis - I appreciate the manual-digging man - but i actually already got that sucka it even points out exactly what i need to do to disable the pitch control's shutoff during record mode, which is what will let me play with the delays time live, because it has its own little section about how that circuit works SCOREGlad to read it, mate! I found it searching to know more about the machine. Seems very interesting  Share your improvements, seems lots of fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic Schizophrenic Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Just copped another Stanton SA-5 in mint condition with a cheeky make an offer bid of £60 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Rock Well Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 ...a piece of Japanese made plastic some call "the poor man's SP-1200" (Jury's still out on that description though) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswift Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 ...a piece of Japanese made plastic some call "the poor man's SP-1200" (Jury's still out on that description though)Ive heard of a few samplers that have been called the poor mans Sp-1200 over the years, so what did you get ? the ZoomSt 224 ,Sp-303 or god forbid, a Roland MS1 hehe. Please,enlighten me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest It'sPhilFromThursdays Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 It's the Zoom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danswift Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 It's the ZoomThis is good ,never underestimate the hidden potential of the ZOOM ! Just ask Fat Larry if you don't believe me . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexinoodle Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 The Zoom is cool kit, Poor mans SP1200, fuck no.A poor mans SP1200 is a SP1200, once you buy it, you are a fucking poor man. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexinoodle Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Stylophone Beatbox is my latest POS, luckily Peado Harris isn't on the cover haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phonetic Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I just got this to add to my setup, although I didn't actually have to pay anything for it. Alecs picked three of these S2000's up last year at a cost of £60 for the lot from a studio that was closing down and kindly donated one to me ...finally collected mine this afternoon.. Ahh cool. I just copped one of these. It was cheap enough & a bit of an impulse purchase.No idea what I'm doing with it yet though haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Rock Well Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 The Zoom is cool kit, Poor mans SP1200, fuck no.A poor mans SP1200 is a SP1200, once you buy it, you are a fucking poor man. Ha! Yeah, I know really. Also, it really pisses off the internet defenders of keeping it real and impractical vintage gear they don't actually own  I've never really had any specific interest in the SP TBH, I prefer the Akai and Ensoniq stuff from this era... especially now clean ones have genuinely changed hands for £3000!.. That's some trust fund baby bullshit IMO. I'm never gonna stop using a computer as my main tool, but I wanted something cheap, simple to use and with a bit of character to get away from the screen for a bit. I like what I've heard of the Sampletrak's Lo-Fi mode so far, not as a specific emulation of X or Y but just as a bit of general old sampler character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Rock Well Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017  I just got this to add to my setup, although I didn't actually have to pay anything for it. Alecs picked three of these S2000's up last year at a cost of £60 for the lot from a studio that was closing down and kindly donated one to me ...finally collected mine this afternoon.. Ahh cool. I just copped one of these. It was cheap enough & a bit of an impulse purchase.No idea what I'm doing with it yet though haha  The other Akai rack sampler to look out for is the S01. They still go for well under a £100 and although they're 16 Bit, they're only mono and 32khz sample rate and little bit of grit to them. They've always been the unloved Akai sampler, but ever since Skitz told me he made all the beats on Countryman on one I've taken them a bit more seriously. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdiggla Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I used to see those at the pawn all the time but the design is so simple it's kinda intimidating... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkei Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 I got a Pio CDJ800mk1 for 80 swiss francs. I'll use this to sample from CDs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexinoodle Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 S01 was a piece of shit, now you can whip the floppy out for a USB (slow as arseholes but still) its usable, cant say ill be going back anytime soon though. Truth be told, any "grit" or "character" or whatever can be faked with a bit reducer an eq and a bit of drive. I am seriously impressed with Beatmaker right now, goid controller support and the right updates on the sequencer, I could be downsizing a fuck ton !!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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