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DJ turntables...has anyone matched the "Wheels of Steel"?
GnomeTank
What the what?Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
What the what?Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
I've been DJ'ing for quite a while, but had to get rid of my setup a few years back to pay for some medical expenses. I'm looking to get back in to the hobby, but much to my horror, Technic's SL-1200's are no longer in production. New units, sealed in the box, are going for over a thousand bucks. You used to be able to get a pair of high end digital M3D's for that price. My last pair was a set of Mk5G's, and I paid barely over 1000 for the pair. In the end, this may be a very very niche question that no one here has an answer too, but hell, I see stranger things asked in H/A!
Essentially the question is this: Has anyone (Vestax, Numark, ANYONE), come out with a magneto direct drive turntable that people consider to be close to on par with the SL-1200. Last time I tried a Vestax offering, it was spongy as hell and didn't have near the torque of a 1200.
If I have to, I'll pay the premium for a pair of 1200's...but if someone has finally come out with a direct drive deck that can at least compare with the titan of DJ gear, and it costs significantly less, it's an option I would consider.
Also, before anyone says anything: No, I will not buy a set of CD decks. DJ'ing is a hobby for me, and part of the fun of that hobby is spinning vinyl. I plan to get Serato Scratch Live so I can spin digital tracks, but I want the actual vinyl feel and real turn tables. I also own nearly five hundred pieces of vinyl, some of which is older and hard to find, that I would like to continue to play in it's native format without converting to digital.
Essentially the question is this: Has anyone (Vestax, Numark, ANYONE), come out with a magneto direct drive turntable that people consider to be close to on par with the SL-1200. Last time I tried a Vestax offering, it was spongy as hell and didn't have near the torque of a 1200.
If I have to, I'll pay the premium for a pair of 1200's...but if someone has finally come out with a direct drive deck that can at least compare with the titan of DJ gear, and it costs significantly less, it's an option I would consider.
Also, before anyone says anything: No, I will not buy a set of CD decks. DJ'ing is a hobby for me, and part of the fun of that hobby is spinning vinyl. I plan to get Serato Scratch Live so I can spin digital tracks, but I want the actual vinyl feel and real turn tables. I also own nearly five hundred pieces of vinyl, some of which is older and hard to find, that I would like to continue to play in it's native format without converting to digital.
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I may have to pop down to a Guitar Center and at least play around with a set, get a feel for them. The price is much more in line with what I want to pay, versus what a new set of 1200's would cost me.
I'd really rather spend that extra cash on a Allen & Heath Xone:92, which has always been my dream mixer.
Yeah, but people know how rare they are and still sell them for more than they cost new. A quick perusal of the Portland and Seattle Craigslists verifies that.
If you live in Portland that's fucking impossible.
Hipsters don't actually buy 1200s. Those are the domain of the professionals. They iPod or laptop DJ.
You've never actually met a "hipster" have you?
I'm gonna go down to 360 Vinyl in Portland one of these weekends and talk to them. I'll own another pair of 1200's someday, I just can't justify the cost right now.
;-)
but they are not all that much cheaper, so i don't know if that will help you in any way.
I think this will be my target setup now, hopefully have it all by June:
2x Vestax PDX-3000 MIX edition
1x A&H Xone:92
1x Serato Scratch Live
One of these days, I will find a pair of mint condition SL-12000 MK5G's that I will buy and then never get rid of again, but for now the Vestax's will get me mixing again, which is the important part.
Sort of a related sub-question: Anyone know of a good process for converting old vinyl to digital? I have probably 500 pieces of older drum and bass vinyl I want to convert digital, but the cheap-o Sharpstone digital turntable my ex-wife got me a few years back is so horribly out of pitch lock that all my music sounds 3x times to fast (which is kind of odd for drum and bass).
Worst case, I'll just run mixer output to my computer, record them, edit the extra bits off, maybe do a little clean up to remove some of the analog pop, then down convert them to 256k MP3's, or maybe Apple Lossless. The goal is to be able to play my old, sometimes very rare, tracks without putting more wear on the actual vinyl....plus when I go play a house party for a friend, I don't have to lug 80lbs of vinyl with me.