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Man this is amazing - congratulations! After watching your Billie Jean juggle back in '98 (and being blown away by it) to win a title with an updated flip of it in the set seems kind of poetic. What you gonna do with another deck? 😄

I was in a similar situation a while back and wanting to play with DVS was high up the list but I didn't want to spend over a grand on a S9 or Rane. I bought a Numark scratch in the end (after seriously considering the DJM-S3 / 250). It lacks a few things I'd like but honestly don't regret the purchase for the money I paid.

As far as I could work out Jico/Tonar are the same thing just rebadged. Might be the case that other brands are just badged Jicos too but don't know. I picked up some Tonars recently. They seem fine. Didn't have any ogs to side by side test audio quality against but they track ok.

That looks shit Sav! Right up my street. Have they managed to wedge Grandad's 'Where's me puddin'?' line into it somehow?

Ed! Missed your replies. Great to hear you're well. Shame it's on the other side of the world, but still - can't blame you. Hope you're still reppin the BOG life down there though. Will look you up on the socials......

Standards are Carcassonne, King of Tokyo (although it's much better with more than a couple of players so better for non social distanced games), bit of Takenoko. A bloke I know has put out a game called Paupers Ladder which we're all enjoying. Sort of dungeon crawler style but lighter on strategy, heavier on luck - which works for us because the kids are in with a genuine shot at winning. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/263938/paupers-ladder Hero Quest has also been dug out!

Melo-d's Infectious mix covers some good synth/pop/mildly cheesy ground. Used to be on mixcrate but looks like you can still get it here: http://20dollajulio.com/publicmusic/infectious.mp3 A lot happened in the 80s. What sort of thing are you after? There's a ton of good synthwave/darkwave type mixes on youtube with good tracks but not exactly 'mixed'. eg

First mixer I ever owned the gm30tx. Soundlab direct drive turntables (dlp 3 I think?). They looked like technics but that's about it. They were shit.

Soulseek is still going? Wow. Picked up a 44g cart for non silly money so all good there. With the tonar/Nico needle seems to be running alright as a bedroom set up. Still undecided on a mixer. I'm a right indecisive bastard. To be fair I need a new laptop as well and I'm not made of money so can only get a bit at a time. Z2 seems to be best bang on the mixer but still not sure traktor the best way to go. Quite fancy an S2 or similar for dicking about on and throwing raves in the kitchen for the kids too. They look fun without having much to lug about.

Thanks for that Sav. Need to have a go on one though. Seems it's not the same magvel that's in the S9 and has a large-ish cut in time. Could do an old school credit card/washer mod but still.... Any opinions on any latency differences between traktor/rekordbox/serato? @Jam burglar- I still buy vinyl a bit anyway and can't see that stopping but digital does appeal for many reasons. I just need to get stuck in really but I'm tight and indecisive.

It depends what you're trying to achieve. Do you prefer the pre amp on the dbx processor or the Mackie desk. Given the dbx has pre-amp built in I'd say this is the only real deciding factor. Inserts are generally used for processing that needs to be pre fader ie compression. If you were feeding post fader then the fader will affect how the compression is working giving you strange effects. The only trick you may be missing could be using the aux bus of you mixer to send/return to the Scarlett for live DSP - but this will obviously affect your CPU overhead and you'll be dealing with latency etc.

Hey Steve - long time no speak. Yeah I picked up some Jicos when everything got unpacked a couple of months ago. I've got one running on my one working cart. Seems to do the job - no complaints. I don't have a working n447 I could compare audio quality to but it seems to track vinyl as good as I ever remember the n447 doing. Lets be honest, no one ever bought the m447 for audio quality anyway. Problem is my other cart - no continuity acoss the R/RG pins so it's done for on that channel. Assume the coil is broken internally. Not something that is easily fixed if even possible.

Hey Mike - congrats on DMC! I'm a bit more mobile than last time we spoke! Yeah hooking up would be good. Cheers Diggla. Yeah I'd spotted the Beat Junkies record pool via their youtube channel. Not a bad plan and yeah cheap charity shop hauls of CDs is a good shout. Might recapture the digging experience a bit. Too reliant on the likes of spotify these days.

..... well it certainly feels like it. What's up everyone? It's been a while. Well more like 9 years. Circumstances changed and a turntable didn't feature. Happy to report that a turntable and mixer is once again a permanant fixture in my household. Thought I'd check out an old haunt and good to see this place still going. There's a few familiar names and some not quite so much Things have changed a bit. First up - no one uses vinyl anymore. DVS was around but no one I knew was running it exclusively. Now youtube has kids spinning vinyl as a novelty. Not like in my day etc.... As it goes I'm pretty keen to get stuck into digital but what the fuck is up with the mixer market? In the world of serato it looks like if you've got £1300 to spend you've got good options. If not it's fisher price shit. I'm not dropping over a grand on a mixer so where are the mid market options? Z2 looks good but possibly coming to the end of its life and Serato possibly a better bet than Traktor? Might just look for a second hand unit to get a feel for it all and upgrade later. Recommendations welcome. Also what's the deal with building a good digital collection? Did you all literally sit and rip your vinyl to flac? Would be pretty shit to have to buy all my records again in digital format (not to mention expensive). Next up, I was getting everything set up and wondering why one turntable is coming out mono only. Much head scratching later figure I've got a faulty cart. Obviously didn't like being in a loft for 9 years. Might have even been knacked before, who knows. Never mind lets just order another one. WTF shure have stopped making phono stuff and my only option is jokers on ebay charging £120+. Bollocks to that. Second set of advice please - what's a decent cart that's not shure? Last time I bought something that wasn't a 447 was when I used to blu tack pennies to the headshell with a Stanton 500 in it back in the 90s. Either that or advice on a hook up for a 447 at a fair price. Half a mind to sell my knackered one 'as seen' on ebay to fund another but I prefer not to be a dick so I won't. Anyway yeah. Good to see you all. Expect more sub newbie questions.

Other direction.... Guiseley. Living the domestic dream. Last cut about 3 years ago which coincidentally is the age of my eldest bin lid.... Plus everyone I know into cutting moved away or gave up. Still get the itch every now and then.... might dig the turns out at some point. Give me a shout if you visit home.