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    Scratch Dubplate Cutting UK?

    in MUSIC/DJ HELP

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    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

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    SP-1200 Reissue by the Original Designer

    in EQUIPMENT & AUDIO PRODUCTION

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    https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/long-read/kenny-dope-gonzalez/

    Kenny Dope talks about using the SP1200 in here

     

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    Speaking of samplers, I’ve heard people say you made ‘The Bomb’ on an SP1200, I’ve heard people say you did it all on an MPC. Which was it?

    Nah, ‘The Bomb’ was done on an SP and an S950. The way I used to do my beats back then, all my rhythms and my drums were in the SP, but it didn’t hold long samples so all the long samples were in the S950 and I would trigger them from the drum machine. That’s how that record was made – and how a lot of records were made in that time period.

    I guess that was pretty common in New York house and hip-hop at the time. I think people like Pete Rock and Q-Tip were using the same combination.

    Absolutely. And there was a certain vibe to the two as well. Even today you can have unlimited amounts of sample time in a machine, but it’s a different vibe to those two machines.

    So did you move on from the SP to MPCs?

    I have everything. Before the SP1200 I used a drum machine called the RZ-1. It was a Casio.

    I have one of them. They’re really good fun.

    I used that because it’s what we could afford, but then when they bought me those two pieces [the SP1200 and S950], I used that for a long time. I never really used the MPC60 at all – I was never a 60 fan – but then when the 3000 came out there was a period where I was using both machines at one time, [the 3000 and SP1200] synced together. Then I got the 2000 and the 2500, I used the 5000 for a period and now I use the Renaissance or Maschine. Like I said, I go back to the 5000 and the 3000 and the 1200 whenever I want that feel, because there’s nothing like it. The converters in the 3000 are just knocking.

     

    ???133 BPM Scratch Records *NOT ULTRAPITCH*

    in MUSIC/DJ HELP

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    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.

    Nautilus Chop

    in MEMBER AUDIO & VIDEO FILES

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    13 hours ago, OKJoy said:

    Anyone else compete in this battle? feel free to post your entry here

     

    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...

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    Rane 57 SL - How do I set all effects to "off" on start-up?

    in EQUIPMENT & AUDIO PRODUCTION

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    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 

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    DMC WORLD FINAL ROUTINE - 2019 UK CHAMPION MIKE-L

    in MEMBER AUDIO & VIDEO FILES

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    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.

     

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