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i totally fixed those motherfuckers! it was indeed the optical movement sensor on the platter encoder. the new encoder cost about 10€ each. actualy one of the decks just spontaneously started working again, i think i had misaligned the sensor when i took it out to swap with the other deck, i though this might be the case so i gave it a solid whack on the side and hey presto! so i still have a spare optical sensor AND a spare motor controler chip, this means that the next problem i have will be something the interwebs haven't heard about yet. feeling smug about my mastery of ttx1 repair i'll try and get around to writing a web page about fixing them. no promises about when though.

should have sold them on ebay for parts, there seems to be quite a market for ttx spares. that must have been tremendously satisfying. "fuck you ttx, out of my life!" "in the rubbish with you" *crash* or maybe more like dumping an annoying girlfriend. " sorry ttx we weren't made for each other, i think we'll be happier if we go separate ways, by the way, don't call me"

is this fault/repair documented anywhere? i've been thinking of creating a simple web page bringing all the ttx fixes together in the same place. for future generations of dead ttx owners. and so i don't need to re-google everything the next time i have a ttx die. the motor chip and the platter sensor are well documented but the movement sensor isn't. when i get mine working again i'll doccument the process. my decks are the infamous ttx1 , so none of this suprises me in the slightest. i'd be miffed if i had a shiny new ttxusb. maybe it was all a confusion at numark, they wanted to appeal to the turntablists, so they made a deck that "breaks"

man the numark ttx turntable are a pain in the arse. not so long ago one of my tuntables went crazy and started spinning like a dervish. after a bit of humming and harring, i traced the problem to the platter movement sensor and ordered a few spares. i'm still waiting for the spare platter movemnet sensors to arrive, and my "good" deck decided to do the exact same thing as the last one. at least i know what it is, but if the little fucker had the dignity to have a diferent problem i could have at least put together one working turntable. i suppose for the time being i'll have to practice finger drumming or make beats or some other dull shit. have fun telling me i should have got technics........

raspberry pi is just a little linux computer that cost about 30€ it has ethernet and hdmi video/audio out. you can connect it up to a usb keyboard and hdmi monitor, set everthing up so it runs on startup, then put in in a little plastic box and forget about it. just about anything you can do on a regular linux computer you can do on a raspberry pi. but obviously you need to get your hands dirty. they have an active community of people who will help you get stuff working. i'm sure people have already done streaming audio systems with it using jack audio /netjack i'm skeptical about audio over wireless networks, especialy if your using the same network for watching movies. its going to end up about as skip free as youtube. cabling a house isn't that difficult, depending on where the doors are, what kind of flooring you have if you want to drill holes in the wall, or if you have a ceiling that you can pass cables through. yeah, you can definatly do it with wireless, but when your editing config files(for the cheap way), or handing over your credit card(for the easy way) you'll be wishing you'd just laid some cable and got out your soldering iron. cables just fucking work, wireless dosen't. you'll get all sorts of crazy problems with wireless, like having to find a channel your neibours arent using, finding out that your mircowave fucks it all up. etc etc. i use wireless microphones all the time, some days they work great, others they just cause pain. soundchecks are no indicator of what will happen during the show, and sometimes 1k mics fail when 200€ mics keep working. over the years i just got used to it. it's a become a natural reflex to memorise the radio blackspots on stage and avoid them. every time i set up for a show, i'm looking for radio mics that can be replaced with cables. maybe i'm overeracting for your "listneing to stuff in different rooms at home" question its not that much of a big deal if lionel ritche's greatest hits skips every so often. all i know is that i avoid wireless like the plague.

if you *can* connect it with a cable, connect it with a cable. wireless is for situations where you *can't* use a cable. otherwise you are just inviting unnecessary pain and suffering into your life. even if you don't already have the tools and skills you need, you can buy the cables, tools, fuck up and do it all again for less than what a wireless system would cost. you can even buy flat cables that fit inside doorways and under carpets. considering that the cheapest possible wireless system is probably ((raspberrypi + wifi + usb soundcard) * rooms) + netjack streaming.. probably about 55 -60€ per node, think how much audio cable you could buy for that...

google "midi cv arduino" there's tons of projects. you probably won't need to write a single line of code if you don't want to.

also its entirely possible that the cia/nsa did it, and can use the weaknesses they built into the hashing and encryption functions to retrive the passwords, so they can sell them on the black market to fund their clandestine wars. that would really be the icing on snowdons cake.

i make stuff with arduinos quite often, the advantage over using bare chips is that lots of stuff is really simple to do and there is already a library to do practicaly everything you'll ever want to do, the downside is that you can easily get in over your head and end up having to write everything from scratch because the libraries were all written by people with slightly diferent needs from yours. arduinos *are* cheating, but thats the whole point. you get to make stuff that you wouldn't be able to if the work hadn't be done by someone else. i made some stuff with pic microcontrolers before arduino came out, but it was so much of a pain in the ass to get the same results. some stuff i made so far includes: anamatronic systems for costumes, dmx controlers for led strip lighting. dmx lighting controlers, i'm currently working on a wireless battery powered led lighting system. if you are a real programer you probably don't need the arduino and you'll find the IDE a bit basic. but for mortals like me the arduino makes loads of non trivial stuff trivial again, and i don't have to read so many datasheets. i think the real arduino hate comes from the amount of arduino projects that people post on the internet that could easily be done with a couple of transistors and a 555 timer chip. obviously i wouldn't put an arduino in a comercial product, but for simple one-off projects it makes a lot of sense. i often make a sheild out of veroboard slap it on an arduino and start coding. some stuff i'd like to do is: midify my mixer, adding some arcade buttons and get a midi out from the crossfader. make a midi pitch control for my numark ttx turntables. and maybe even give them dicer like cue point buttons.

i'm not talking about the best case scenario here, i'm sure that if they had properly salted the password hashes they'd be shouting about it already. i'm pretty sure that ebay have *some* sense, but even though my password was an 8 digit random string, i'm not taking any chances.

yeah, we should probably all change our passwords, depending on how the passwords are encrypted we either have hours or weeks before the hackers can use them.

just in case anybody cares, it all went swimmingly, and we even got a booking at a festival for our trouble. it was the naked pinnie that did it though.

aparently the holograms on that jack white record are etched by hand by a crazy man. (on the masters, not the individual records, he's crazy, not stupid.) locked grooves aren't crazy imposible next level shit, but not every mastering company can do them, since it requires a special modification to the cutting lathe, obviously a cutting engineer who knows how to do them. and you have to pay a bit more for setup. just saying it would be nice though. i'm already happy! i had a quick look on google and it seems that scratch and sniff stickers are infact, rare as fuck!

are there going to be locked grooves on the end of each side? with continuous tones on them, because i'd realy like that.

you must be taking about a hifi amp i've never seen in all my born days a guitar/ pa amp with optical input. on hifi amps it seems like only boutique stuff has optical inputs. if you are looking for a small amp you could do worse than a tripath class d amp like this: http://www.ebay.it/itm/amplificatore-T-amp-25-25W-SURE-ELECTRONICS-digital-amp-class-D-TDA7492-digitale-/221307916536?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_101&hash=item3386fad0f8 they do come in boxes too. edit: totaly forgot about the remote control requirement.

no problem, i managed to get some funds! i'm in!

i was right, dv is full of comedians. no a bad idea, but it's a bit too much like a number we already have where two women dressed as todlers slowly turn to ninjas and beat the shit out of each other. we already have a song about masturbation, maybe it'd fit better there. rotating bow ties all good, but not realy my style, the double bass player has a bow tie, maybe i can suggest it to him. any way, we sorted it out at rehersals today, one of the guys was a graffiti writer, and he''ll spraypaint something on the piano, and the acrobat will do a 30sec breakdance number.(i worry slightly about him doing side summersaults within a meter of my turntables)

this saturday i'll be doing a show where we do a tounge in cheek hip hop number. we have two guys who can rap badly, a girl who is a proper opera singer, and me, who is bad at scratching. we already did this number a few months ago and it went down realy well, the unwashed masses even went so far as to compliment my expert scratchin. unbeknownst to them, i suck badly. i started by putting on a baseball hat that has a hole in it to let my lopsided mohawk hair out , and finished by doing a scratch where i put my forehead on the recordand and do scribbles, dv seems to be full of comedians, so i'm asking for your comic genius. what does dv suggest i add to the routine?

fuck fuck fuck, my paypal is empty, will it still be possible to buy one once the kickstarter ends?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DJ-SLIPMATS-BUTTER-RUGS-THE-PAIR-BLEMS-FOR-SCRATCH-DJS-/271480227906?pt=US_DJ_Turntable_Parts_Accs&hash=item3f357b8842 is somebody raiding the bins at the butter rug factory? or are thepeople who make butter rugs just good honest people who don't want to throw stuff away needlessly? or has one of q-berts arch enemys discovered the secret formula for butter rugs and is attempting to flood the market?

rasteri: you're right, it was the platter speed sensor. i swapped the sensors with my working deck, and it started working perfectly. now all i need to do is find a replacement encoder: the original was a sharp gp1a35r i found a thread on scratchlounge with relevant info: http://www.skratchlounge.com/index.php?/topic/2976-numark-ttx-1-mod/page__st__140 his deck had an agilent h9700 f 50 sensor neither of these were in stock anywhere i looked. but i found an equivelant part, the avagotech h9700 f 50 as soon as i get some money in my paypal, i'll order one and report back.

just to get this clear: by lag you mean the distance the fader has to move to switch between off and on? i'm pretty sure thats what you mean, but to me the word "lag" should refer to time, not distance. or do you actually mean the fader reacts too slowly? that would be really bad news. if the fader cut in distance it too big couldn't you just fix it the old school way and stick a bit of cut up creditcard under the faceplate? at the moment i have an old stanton sk2f with a focusfader v1, when i got it the cut in distance was far to long so i opened the fader up and stuck some bits of plastic inside to limit the distance it travels. it still has a slight fade in that i'm not too keen on, but its definatly not holding my scratching back.

anybody with the djtech dif-1s had these problems? i wouldn't be suprised if it turns out to be a problem with the traktor z2. more than the fader, the z2 is a complicated beast and it is traktors first atempt at a dj mixer. so i really wouldn't be suprised that they got something wrong. the dif-1s is a simple analog creature, so there are less things to go wrong, i 'm thinking about getting at djtech dif-1m so i'm interested to hear if anybody had problems,

it's not the pitch fader for sure, it goes crazy even when its in quartz lock mode. the platter speed sensor is a possibility. i have identical ttx1s so i can switch the sensors around to see if thats the problem. its not a custom part so i can probably find one. googling around i've seen a few references to speed sensor problems but nothing definitive. otherwise i'll just change the motor chip, i've got a spare.

i paid hardly anything for these decks so i'm not sore. i'd read about all the problems online before so i knew what i was getting into. i actualy do like fixing things, so its no big deal. i was just wondering if anybody else had seen this exact behaviour before.