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make sure you have the sensor aligned properly, i had to try repositioning mine a few times. test all you connections for continuity with a multimeter, you could quite easily have broken the cable. the plater present sensor can just be shorted out with a blob of solder between the two pins on the sensor. there was an image floating around that described the fix but i can't find it. don't do it if you aren't sure that's your problem.

if you have annother ttx1 you can swap over the sensors to make sure that its really the problem. there is annother possibile problem with the ttx1s that is caused by the platter sensor(there is annother sensor that detects wether the platter is installed or not) it's actualy a simpler fix, you just need to short out the sensor so that it always sees the platter as installed. most of the ttx problems are caused by excess heat, i drilled a load of extra ventilation holes one of my decks, it probably helps since i havent had any more problems with that deck(when i got it it had a burnt out motor driver chip.)

in the end i actualy found the original sharp part on ebay. switched it over and all was good. my ttx's are still working good. i still have a spare motor controller and optical sensor for the next time one breaks, but more than likley it'll be something unrelated that dies the next time.

i have a super cheeapskate skratch setup. the secret: buy broken things! i have used numark ttx1s from ebay, they are the old ones that break, but i've managed to fix them both so far, motor chips and plator speed sensors. i paid 100€ for one and 80€ for the other plus another 20€ in parts so far. a stanton sk2f mixer from a fleamarket that cost me 25€ had a broken line switch on one channel. 2€ fix. for a dvs i use xwax opensource digital vinyl system, which uses serato vinyls,20€ and a mixvibes umix44 soundcard.100€ with an m-audio trigger finger for cuepoints 40€ i wouldn't recommend the ttx1s to anybody without electronics expertise, and i wouldn't reccomend xwax to people who don't know how to compile programs under linux. or who care about features other than basic dvs.(performance wise xwax beats everthing else though) a friend of mine was looking to buy a turntable and a mixer, so i found him a pdx2000 and a vestax 06 on ebay.for a total of about 170€ i'm happy with my ttx1s but if i had to start over i'd get pdx2000s

mental idea, sounds good too! what other words are actualy writeable? v, m, n ,u, w, any scrabble experts out there? num num, is that in the dictionary? at a stretch you could have an A, if you miss out the horizontal bar. vw van man if that scratch is called the internet scratch, then the whole concept of writing things in ttm should be called "scrabble"

i found some 720k floppy disks at a second hand shop, they had pirated amiga games on them. finding out a way to format them was fun..... unfortunatly my floppy drive is on the blink, it manages to load the os about one time in 10. maybe those hxc floppy emulators are good idea. i'll see if i can find myself a cheap replacement floppy drive in the mean time. a couple of keys are a bit dodgy too, i think its going to keep me busy for while before i get it back in shape. it sounds amazing by the way, even if its going to take me ages to figure out exactly how to program it.

on saturday i went down to the fleamarket looking for some random thing i can't even remember anymore, the first stall i walked up to had a big pile of disco lights, so i took a closer look, BLAM! ensonisq mirage all in my face!!! me:how much? seller:80€ (in a morrocan italian accent) me:30€? seller: mirage, good stuff 70€ me: 40? seller: no. me: its got a wonky key seller:huh? me: and i need to find the disks, that'lll be a right pain in the arse. seller: i don't care, i'll sell it to somebody else. me: 45? seller: no. i don't make any money like that. me: be back in 5, i'm going to get a coffee and think about this coffee, google, ebay past listings.....ciggarette.... it has filter chips that sell for 60+ each!!!!! i'm so fucking on this. it's got 6 filters. even if its fucked i can make some money on this. me:i've only got 50. seller: ok but you give me annother 10 next time i see you. me, ok but i only give you the other 10 if it works. seller: you tight bastard. me: i'm from scotland what do you expect? i gave him the monney, then we shook hands and i walked off with a really fucking heavy bad ass sampler that will probably take me months to learn how to use. got home, plugged it it, the light came on and it asked for it's boot disk, the phone rang, "hey, are you ready? i'll be arround in 5 miniutes, we've got to be there at in 3 hours and its on the other side of italy" i've just got home, found the operating system disk and manual on the internet, but its sunday evening and i haven't got a single floppy disk. so there is nothing i can do except write about it on the internet and hope somebody cares.

i have mpc lust at the moment, after loosing an ebay auction on an mpc2000 classic, that went for £108, ( i only had 100£ in my paypal and the fucker sniped me in the last three secconds.) ive decided i need an mpc more than i need to pay the rent. after a bit of research i think what i'd like best would be a 2000xl with the fx board and individual outs. but they are so damn expensive,it seems that you can get an mpc1000 or even a 5000 for less. theres a possibility of an mpc5000 for €300 within a half hour drive of my house. sounds a bit too good to be true so i'll have to check it out in person.

just to out-hipster you all: i'm going to buy a fostex 4 track tape portastudio and stop using a computer for recording.

rather than switching which hand you scratch with, try switching which hand you wank with. your brain will reconfigure within a week!

turntables are commodities! finally... really the best thing about the technics is the spares are available. are super oem spares available yet? does anybody know when the patents expired? before the numark ttx came out? time somebody in the know wrote a decent article about the history of the super oem turntable. theres lots of stuff that's be worth knowing about these turntables. there are probably only a few people who have run dj equipment review website for long enough.

saw this thread, instantly though of charlie parker: , lots of "salt peanuts" vocal samples. nice work by the way.

when you find a compatible encoder, buy 20 and sell them on ebay "l@@k: ORIGINAL OEM maschine encoder replacement NOT MPC NOT SP1200!!!!!" BUY IT NOW:20$ Shipping : 199$

Supreme mpa is indeed a work of genius, under the hood it works like propelerhead rebirth, the tracks are pre-rendered before playback. which is how it manages to work on shitty phones. just like how rebirth could work on shitty old computers. how they get the pads to respond so quickly beats me though. i think they might have used the native(baremetal) sdk rather than the regular android sdk. the next version of android will support usb midi and low latency audio. i'd be a happy camper if supreme came out with a version of mpa that supports usb midi.

you'll never overload a 13 amp socket with audio stuff, worst come to worst you'll blow a fuse. british wiring and plugs are pretty much idiot proof. you basicly can't fuck up. even if you are an above average idiot. plug in too much stuff and the fuse blows. british plugs and wiring standards are fucking top notch, its the only place in the world that you'll find a ring main. around the world i've seen so much dodgy wiring, whole towns that run off a 32amp red ceeform, theaters without earth, fuse boxes with bits of metal in them instead of fuses because the fuse keep blowing, there's even a company here in italy that sells a gadget that switches on your circuit breakers automaticly when the are overloaded. just keep pluging stuff in till the fuse blows, even then the british 13 amp plug is good til about 16 amps, the conductors on a british plug are actualy bigger(larger surface area) than an industrial 16 amp ceeform, german schuko plugs are rated at 16 amps and so are italian "big domestic" plugs, even though they both have smaller conductors and no fuses. the only british wiring habit that causes me concern is the widowmaker: http://www.blue-room.org.uk/wiki/Widowmaker but unless you are plugging in stuff with 32a ceeform plugs into small theaters, you'll never see one. luckily.