d00ban
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Lots of cut n paste records have ultra pitch on one side and normal on the other no?
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Saw this on Reddit so thought I'd give it a try.
If I'm honest I just like making videos, tis fun!
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Hey, I recently got into vinyl and turntablism and managed to grab some shure m44-7 carts. I love these carts including the sound quality, low record wear, and how they track tremendously while scratching and backcueing even at 3.0G tracking weight.
My first needle is on its way out and I heard Jicos are reliable replacements for the original needles and with the steadily increasing price of the OEM needles I decided to give the Jicos a shot.
I ended up purchasing a Jico 3.0G model marketed as a replacement for the n44-7. I calibrated the weight and TT height just as I would the OEM n44-7 but it skips all over the place on the simplest scratches and backcueing. I tried breaking it in for a couple days (left it sitting on the record and played some records) and tracking at 3.5G but I'm seeing little improvement.
Did I just get a dud here, what has been your guys' experiences with the Jico's? Are the 3.5G models better? Am I better off just buying OEM needles?
Picture of the Jico: https://i.imgur.com/6UTTmYc.jpg
I heard good things and bought some. Not actually tried them out yet though so can't help you too much
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Nice one Mo. Makes me motivated to make some of the tutorial ideas I've got written down
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We're not that far from photorealistic games are we?
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Aren't they starting to roll out 5G soon though?
The speeds that shit can achieve would be fast enough to handle the data as far as I can tell from my (limited) research.
Time for Steve to swoop in and make me look a fool like normal.
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It's pretty funny reading that old thread.
Love how they reference Erik's video too as "this guy" ha. I miss Erik and his tutorial, he needs to come back soon. Alas he may be another scratch casualty.
Does anyone really do mirrored chirps? I've never bothered with em.
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Nice! Looking forward to listening to this
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dope vid, thanks for the info!
also what do you use to mount the camera overhead that way if you dont mind me asking
Thanks, man!
It's one of these bad boys:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/R%C3%98DE-Swivel-Mount-Studio-Microphone/dp/B001D7UYBO
It's not perfect as it's sort of sits where it wants to sit more than I'd like. What I ended up doing is clamping it to my shelf on the wall and then positioning my deck in the right position underneath it.
Love the top down angle, makes the vid look much better as you can see both the fader and turntable easily.
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Great tutorial and scratching - Please keep them coming!
However, as you asked for feed back: What you do is not 'double time' - that would mean doubling the speed but you go from a rhythm in straight 16th notes to a sextuplet rhythm, so the speed is increased by 1.5 and not 2. Double time would be 32nd notes.
I tried to use this online note editor - the start of each 9 note pattern is marked with a >. The first line is the 'single time' variation.
Ah cool thanks man. Guess the autobahn is a weird one and I've never actually counted the notes as I'm doing it or even watching it back
yeah its mad confusing... i have been trying to get my head round what the best terminology for that is - i mean whats the difference between "reverse" and "mirrored".... to me i think of things as mirrored if the record hand is doing the opposite thing it normally would. reverse would be just doing the same thing backwards.hmm I totally forgot about mirrored, can't even remember what my own definition for that is any more.
What's the 8-sound autobahn thingy called?
I think you're probably referring to the 'slow autobahn'. I decided to not put that in, as I think it's more like a boomerang than an autobahn myself.
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Nice job, d00b! You're a good presenter.
Thanks man! Taken me a long time to get all the shit and knowledge I needed to do that vid
Yeah man, some nice cross rhythm action going down!
I think the bit at 2:20 where you say, "I don't know what that's called" is a chirp crescent flare but I could be wrong. It's that kind of thing. Maybe it's not a chirp at the start... hmmm...
Dope vid though
Hmm, yeah it doesn't seem like a chirp to me, more of a slice. Although I think I've heard the beat junkie call a slice a reverse chirp... So may be that's why. Man, it gets annoyingly complicated sometimes.
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Prob not that advanced for most the peeps on here but I just like making videos, so here's my latest:
Feedback welcome as always
Word!
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Ehhhh Dopez's was uploaded 8 months ago!
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Wonder if it's as easy to smash up as it looks
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Thank you all for checking it out; I'm trying to gain better control over the fundamentals, which is why it seemed so repetitive...
More people need to do this!
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Cheers dudes and ALL CAPS PETE
@mfsop - funny enough a module like the one you shared for putting triggers on a real kit is something we've been looking at doing with the brass band so we can develop a more authentic electronic sound when the band does D&B stuff.
The old school Vdrum kit in the vid has mesh heads but only the earlier versions, the module is proper basic and 90% of sounds are naff AF. As things stand Im pretty keen on not using a real kit, the practicalities of electric vs having to mic, mix, setup, move and the space a real kit takes up is stretch to far to jus gain real feel. Ultimately the kit samples we want to eventually use will all be electric anyways.
Im hoping Jack will go down road of an Roland Octapad style device where he can jus add decent quality e-drums - basically biting the electric rig in the vid link below
And then have one mic for live looping some real perc into Ableton where I can dub it up.
After last summers experience of festival gigs with an 11 piece brass band Im now keen to make this dj + drummer thing practical and as easy to set up as pos
My brother's a drummer and has an electric drum kit to practice as it pisses off the neighbours less. He's played around with a few different options over the years and the one he's landed on is Superior Drummer. I think it's basically just a plugin/sampler thing. It runs off his laptop anyway. He says he gets the most realistic sounds from it with all the versatility of having an electric drum kit.
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Ya that's a really good shout J House!
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Getting themselves involved in the first place,probably..
LOL, tis true tis true.
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Nice one lads, all good points for sure!
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Not learning the basics rushing in to learning as many techniques as possible at once
Not counting bars
Not actually reacting to the beat, just doing the same scratches no matter the beatNot pausing, resting
Thinking they are flaring when actually just transforming
Not swinging/pitching scratches
Always practicing scratching at the same tempo
Not scratching with other djsCan you think of any other things you see a lot of beginner DJs do, or maybe did yourself?
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I thought it was a great night.
Lapalux - wasn't too impressed. I guess his music is kind of chilled out any way so doesn't transfer well to a live environment. He ended up playing a kind of housey set though which was weird, didn't recognise any thing by him.
Was impressed with Dorian Concept's set. He obviously plays key live and they used camera to show his fingers playing everything. Was super cool and generally had a lot better tunes than Lapalux.
Georgia Anne Muldrow was cool, she can really sing. It seems pretty in contrast to everything electronic that had come before though. Was more of a sort of traditional soul kind of vibe. Dudley Perkins came on and did a spiel "no more war" kind of bizz.... Was kind of lame lol.
Thundercat - dope all round
Flylo - amaze balls! really digging his new shit, it's kind of more electronic sounding again. He has taken a bit of Trap influence but put his Flylo spin on it all, it's cool. His 3D show thing was wicked too!
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DJs using the pitch slider to try and play well-known tunes with locked tones
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I mean this shit always sounded pretty cornball to me. Let's be honest, it's out as tune as fuck.
I recently went on a little mini tour filling in for Dubba Dutch with Dat Brass band (they're all proper trained musicians). I was pretty embarrassed when drunk trumpet came on by Kid Koala and they had to turn it off it was so out of tune.
I know that to most people they don't care and the name 'drunk trumpet' obviously show Kid Koala knew it was out of tune. But still, it's sometimes humbling to hear what other people think of turntablism.
My other friend who plays guitar and who once came to a Super Scratch Sunday couldn't stand it either. He was just like, "it's just a load of people taking it in turns to make a load of noise."
I have to admit, I've had similar thoughts. You get the odd routine in turntablism that is pretty much the bees knees, but the majority of it is wack (I include myself in that list too ha)