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Joe Babb
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Posted 7 Oct 2004 7:22 am |
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I guess this question falls under electronics. I'm looking for a new record turntable. You know, the things with needles that play those old vinyl round things with a hole in the middle. I'd like to find one with variable pitch so we can play along without retuning guitar or piano. I've been looking at some of the new fancy DJ turntables like the Stanton ST100. Anybody had any experience with these or have any other suggestions? I don't have any turntable presently so copying things to computer and burning to CD is not viable.
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Greg Simmons
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where the buffalo (used to) roam AND the Mojave
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Brad Sarno
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St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2004 10:15 am
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Joe, keep in mind that to get signal from a turntable to a computer, you'll need a phono preamp. They make a cheap one that can be found at Guitar Center for about $39.00 made by Rolls. There is also a Stanton (I think) on sale at Guitar Center for about $200 and it has a coax/digital output to send directly to a computer digital input if you've got one. That turntable doesn't need a preamp if you go digital.
The ones that Greg mentioned are really nice and are more for high quality music listening than for DJ's like the Stanton. I think Audio Advisor sells a good turntable for about $200, or at least they did.
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Joe Babb
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Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2004 10:54 am
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| Yep, I'm aware of signal levels and such. The Stanton ST100 has an analog line level output which is attractive to me so I could run it through my mixer without a phono preamp. It also claims to be able to change the tempo of the song without changing the pitch and/or be able to change the pitch. All of this by virtue of its digital nature, I suppose. I was hoping to find somebody who had actual experience with a table like this to tell me whether it actually worked well or not. |
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Steve Alonzo Walker
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Spartanburg,S.C. USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Oct 2004 1:18 pm
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Brad Sarno
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St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2004 2:11 pm
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Joe, I have that Stanton and it's quite rugged and reliable. I just don't use it that often. It's handy with the built in pre and those outputs so you can avoid the RIAA compensation EQ curve factor that an external phono pre provides.
Brad
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John Bresler R.I.P.
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Thornton, Colorado
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Posted 8 Oct 2004 8:42 am
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I use a RCA Lab 1200 turntable that I bought at Radio Shack for less than $100. I use a software program called RipVinyl that costs somewhere around $7.00 to record my records and tapes. I can burn CD's or put them on tapes which I run through a player with a pitch control. When recording tapes, I usually adjust the pitch control so the tapes are in tune before burning them to CD. An easy way to make play-along CD's.
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Joe Babb
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Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 Oct 2004 9:35 am
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Brad,
Thanks much. Knowing someone who's had positive experience with the Stanton is very helpful and what I was looking for.
John,
Thanks also. That is possibly a good, less expensive option. I've already got Power Tracks so I can record to computer. I also have a tape recorder with pitch control. I wonder if there's any software out there that will do the same thing that the Tascam gadget for stealing (steeling?) licks will do? Slowing the thing down but keeping the pitch the same? Hmm. |
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Dave Van Allen
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Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 8 Oct 2004 11:08 am
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| I wonder if there's any software out there that will do the same thing that the Tascam gadget for stealing (steeling?) licks will do? Slowing the thing down but keeping the pitch the same? Hmm. |
Amazing Slow Downer... does just what you need, a remarkably cool piece of software. Stretches time of CD's or audio files at pitch, changes pitch but not time, saves time shifted/ pitch shifted passages as files...
spiffy |
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