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More Stevie related trivia: ..Ray "I ain't afraid of no ghost" Parker Jr played on Innervisions.

One of my favourite bits of music related trivia is that Gil Scott-Heron's dad played football for Celtic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Heron

Amazing. Even more so with the american accent. The scratching's pretty good on that set up Steve. It brought back memories of scratching Doowatchyalike on my sisters Hi FI - I turned the other side of the record (Deep Heat '89 compilation) from black to grey because I didn't know what a slip mat was. Happy days!

Thanks for the tip off. Much appreciated

Hi Fellas I want to get some scratch samples pressed up. Does anyone have any UK recommendations for vinyl dubplate pressing? I used to use Carvery cuts but they don’t do them anymore. I’ve also emailed a few places but not had any response yet (vinyl carvers,1-800 dubplate, the cut house,cut-a-dub). Any suggestions are much appreciated! Thanks Mike

Thanks Steve. Glad you enjoyed the set, much appreciated 👍 DMC decided to use a photo of me from 2004 when they published the results. Not sure what I should infer from that 😆. The judges breakdown:

So this kind of happened.....😲

https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/long-read/kenny-dope-gonzalez/ Kenny Dope talks about using the SP1200 in here

although a quick google does suggest the french house guys were into the SP too

Interesting to know about the 2400 issues. I'm all desperate to get my hands on the new sp404 mkii which looks like its seriously gone beyond some of the weird limitations of the originals. For the house guys - I think there were quite a few US house producers back in the late 80's using SPs & MPC60s. Not so much in Europe though.

Just realised Jam mentioned the 2400 in the original post. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.islainstruments.com/product/s2400/ This S2400 is worth a look. The sampling engine and filters of the SP1200 with modern work flow features (memory, USB, etc , etc) . At $1499 it seems epensive until you compare it to the reissue 😳

Cool. Thanks I don’t have that one so I’ll check it out.

^Yeah I’ve done some of my own similar to that for serato use. You can time stretch and edit the chops to get the timing right too. Just wondered if there was any off the shelf options for real wax. 👍🏼

Ah yes thanks, you are right, and I actually have that one 🤦🏻‍♂️(..and it is on vinyl too btw). Any others?

Thanks Doob. The normal side on those records and others like it are usually at 100 or 83 BPM though. I’m after 133 BPM but pitched normally so the vocals aren’t squeaky.

I'm after a 133 BPM skip proof which is intended for use on regular turntables. Most vocals on these records are chipmunkified unless you pitch down to minus 50 or whatever. Obviously there's a ton 100 bpm skip proofs... but does any one know of any 133 BPM skip proofs with helium-free vocals? Does such a record exist? Any tip offs are much appreciated.

I started on a beat for this battle but didn't have time to finish it due to work commitments.... I will probably finish it at some indeterminate time in the future...

Sorry also for choosing the exact fx type & parameters , you do this by the hardware panel in Scratch live. The panel should reflect mixer adjustments with visual feedback but also gives you the drop down menu to choose fx types.

You just select what you want your effects to be directly on the mixer and it memorizes them when you click save. I just tried it on 2.5 and it didn’t work though. V 1.91 does as expected, I think that may be the latest version that works. https://serato.com/scratchlive/downloads/1.9.1 Bit of a nuisance but I think there is a way to install separately so the installation doesn’t mess with your settings for 2.5

Yes there’s an option in the software to save the initial mixer settings. There was a few versions with a bug where this didn’t work properly so it depends which version of Scratch Live you’re running.

Thanks fellas.Much Appreciated 👍

Thats dope. I had one of these a few years ago but sold it to get a Subphatty. I never has the modular expander thing though... tempting

Hey Fellas After some deliberation I have uploaded my full 6 minute DMC World FInals set from last year, filmed during a practice session 2 days before the competition. Aside form the musical ideas for routine itself lots of thought went into this set behind the scenes -I programmed a module to hack the features of the Rane 72 to make it do stuff it can't do out of the box . Pad pitch shifting that is independent of cue-point triggering is a simple example with a ton of musicial potential .You can see this at work in the scratch routine with the Bobby Byrd horn riff at the 2 minute mark. The live looping composition at the end also uses pitch-shifting of continuous tones to create the melodies.

Cool Oh yeah i remember that! That might be the one. Will have a look. Thanks Broma