Just imagine bringing one of these to a live show: a scratch dj for
instance can scratch 12"s of the performance of a dj who played earlier
that night and one-off records from the show can be auctioned on stage at
the end of the night.
The records might not be of the highest quality, but if you were a scratch
dj, you could condense the 30 individual records of material you wanted to
use/manipulate into one dub plate for a lot less. I'd expect few people
would buy it, but that they would sell the service of pressing dub plates
to cover the investment. If I could get a dub plate that lasted 30-50
playings and only pay $30-40 and it was stereo, hi-fidelity, I'd start
planning my first 5 dub plate masters (cdr) right now! Hmm, imagine the
one-off lock-grooves and weird mastering experiments when people start
tweaking these devices ...
I produce probably 1-2 tracks a week, out of which maybe 1 in 5 would be
worth including on a dub plate. I would be able to dj sets of my own
music mixed with mu record collection beyond the few records I'm already
on. For me, being able burn my music on cdr is cool, but only so far
because I've always been into vinyl manipulation and already have the
tools (2xsl1200 turntables and a nice mixer) whereas I've never had (or
much liked) the cd-mixing tools I've ever played with, just not physical
enough! The idea that I could hit record on a vinyl press, start a
pattern on a drum machine, sit down on my drumset and play along (mic'ed)
and then get up and scratch the record (do they need to cool off or
'dry'?) along with the same drum machine is pretty fing mindblowing
considering what I was limited to 10 years ago when I didn't even have an
affordable sampler!
maybe it is a bigger deal if you have a sentimental attachment to records,
because I could see it seeming a little unneccessary if you're really ok
with cd media and don't like vinyl records or didn't grow up playing them.
Solenoid
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, component wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: that one girl <killcandy@netzero.net>
> To: solenoid <solenoid@syncopated.net>
> Cc: IDM-List <idm@hyperreal.org>; if@poly.syncopated.net
> <if@poly.syncopated.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 6:20 PM
> Subject: Re: (idm) Vestax vinyl press - VRX-2000
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> >its a great idea but not very cost effective... it's still cheaper to get
> >vinyl pressed somewhere else. vinyl is also not very high quality with
> this.
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> Not extremely cost effective for large pressings but for dublates, something
> like this would be amazing.
>
> Rob
>