r/Turntablists

Has MWM ever dropped an updated release date, is has it become vaporware?

Why would people fit an Innofader to a Rane 72? If you're dropping that money on a mixer, why the actual fuck do you need an aftermarket fader?

In theory you can fit an Innofader to a £50 mixer from eBay and it's automatically as good at cutting as a £2k Rane.

Rane did kinda fuck up though when they put plastic fader mechs on a £1500 mixer!

I’m based in the uk, any good recommendations for best slippynes with my slip mats. Good polish or any other ideas. I polished the platter recently & the polish I’m using is useless for what I want. Seems to be some chemicals missing from the good old days lol.

I'm used to listening to records on a Fluance, but I want to learn record scratching and after much research, I decided to get the Vestax...

I've plugged it into the MPC Sample to try and record some loops, and it's difficult to focus on what I'm doing, because the stylus noise is so obnoxiously loud. This is a brand new stylus, but I don't know what it sounded like with the old stylus, since I just replaced it (and the belt), before getting acquainted with it.

Did I make a big mistake? Did I install something incorrectly? Is this just normal?

Hey all. I'm thinking of upgrading the crossfader on my 72. It looks like Innofader makes a dedicated replacement (1-70-72) and a more universal one (PNP2). By my read, it looks like the only real difference is that the PNP2 will require a bit more time installing due to needing to mount brackets, etc... I'm hoping to find some opinions from people who have used both to help make the decision. Thanks!

I'm getting used to my SC500 and I'm trying to fine-tune the crossfader cut-in behavior via scsettings.txt. Right now even a tiny movement off the min/max jumps straight to full volume, which I get is normal for scratch, but I'd like to understand the practical effect of the different settings before I start blindly changing numbers.

For anyone who's already messed with this:

Which exact parameters did you change (e.g. cutbeats, fader cut-in values, anything else relevant)?

What values did you set them to?

What was the actual result — smoother cut, tighter cut, only affecting the beat channel, etc.?

Trying to avoid a bunch of trial and error if someone's already dialed in a setup they like. Thanks in advance!

Hey all sorry for the newbie question but, I just got my first "real" 12" turntable a few days ago (first one was a Numark PT-01 Scratch). Edit: Should include that I'm fully set up on Serato as well, and I'm scratching on the 12" control record. One thing I've noticed is, I have the torque turned up all the way but samples still have a short "wind-up" period where they start slow and go up to speed. As I've been developing technique I've been giving what in my mind I've been calling a "helper push" to push it up to speed quicker when I need it. Is this a normal thing at high torque? Or should the sample go straight-away at full speed with no wind-up period? Do regular DJ's give that little "helper push" to it to get it up to speed without the wind-up when scratching?

Hoping to hear this is normal and not a problem with the turntable's torque, it's an SL-1200 and the torque is supposed to be great on these - not sure if samples should just jump right in at full speed or if it's normal to have that short "ramping up" period where they go from slow to normal.

Edit: Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I started on r/turntables but those don't seem to be related to scratching or anything but regular turntables and r/turntablism didn't have any entries for 14 years.. -- Cross-posting to r/turntablists as that might be the one.

Edit #2: Honestly thank you so much for all the feedback, I'm also starting to wonder about slipmats - I'm using the original technics slipmat with the plastic slip sheet but I ordered some Dr. Suziki's today - will see how those turn out. Double checked that the torque was at the highest setting yesterday as well. Will see how the new slipmats work out.

I am a musician suoer inspired to start scratching. At home first and then live with bands and jam sessions. Any recommendations on begginer gear? Or online resources? Thanks!

I'm relatively new to turntables but have gotten the hang of scratching. I play for a band right now and my favorite part is the "behind the scenes" finding fun samples to scratch to work with so I wanted to know what your guy's favorite or most unique samples are to scratch with? For instance mine is a sound effect from dig dug

Moving to a new apartment and recently wiped the dust off my 1200's (literally).

I haven't touched them in a while, and remember the last time I was cutting I had some RCA noise (jiggling the cables to find the right spot). Pissed me off as I had replaced these a decade ago + ground mod.

Been out of the loop on this and don't remember if I used special cables or just stripped/soldered a pair of RCAs.

What's your recommendation these days? I looked at some of the repair kits and of course they're stupidly priced.