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Jocelyn Stengel

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  1. hi, new kid in the forum and I'm definitely out walking well outside of my own neighborhood cuz I am a vinyl junkie. but I'm super interested in sound theory, production, the scieney stuff that take something from the studio to my speakers.. so I find myself enjoying your site. There's a whole group of music lovers you folks are forgetting about when you talk about us vinyl junkies. Now I may be past 40 but I' actually new to vinyl.. why? Because I"m a DJ... and underground dance dj... yah, raves.. they still happen. (and let me tell you about the heated debates we have between the digitals ad the analougs, and very few of our fighting points have to do with your pro's and cons... yah, we do talk about sound quality, argue over tinny compression versus the alleged warmth.. there's those of us who want the first second of a record to sap crackle ad pop like a breakfast cereal, but I'll freely admit that's 100% a nostalgic thing. I stopped playing digital music (by way of a laptop ad controller) 2 years ago, got myself two Technic 1200 mk3, a hot-as-heck mixer, a good quality monitor, and have been quickly amassing what a lot of my dj peers consider to be an enviable vinyl collection for a while now. I'm not going to go into the whole "fun of the chase" or "record delivery day joy" with you... though its real and it's great... But I'm going to talk about sheer fun of PHYSICAL MANIPULATION OF MY MUSIC. And yes, you can aboslutely manipulate digital music on CDJ"s (turntables for cd's or mp3's on thumbdrives) and controllers, but there's something just so pleasing about an action, with a tactile sensation, creating a change in noise. A nudge does this.. a gentle caress of the side of the platter does that, twist or restrict the movement of your spindle for fine tuned changes, Loop a great section by going back and forth between doubles of a record and knowing EXACTLY WHERE to drop the needle exactly when, back and forth, by reading the grooves (you know how a song is about to change by subtle color and texture differences)... you can be gentle and subtle or treat your decks and records like sledge hammers depending on what you want to do.. AND YOU GET TO FEEL IT ALL WITH YOUR HANDS. And, the newer technologies for dj's, the cdj's and controllers, they have SPECTACULAR options for manipulating and changing the music, they are an artists pallet with 40 colors and unlimited brushes to chose from. But vinyl.... vinyl is SET You can't loop it, you can't speed it up without altering the pitch, there's no pre-programmed cue points that you can jump back and forth within a song to, completely rearranging a tune as you go. Nope, we vinyl DJ's get a pallet of Black and White and if you have a real advance mixture, maybe a little red, and one damn brush.... with which we are expected to paint just as lovely AND VIBRANT a landscape as our digital competition (AND WE ARE IN COMPETITION, both friendly, and directly for a limited number of gigs). So the vinyl DJ, to create competitive art has to be far more creative... even creative about OW to be creative, if that makes sense That forced creativity leads the not-complacent to a place where we make discoveries... people have been using 2 turntables and a mixer sine I think about 1925, yet, we all want to create something new... I spend HOURS in my room every week doing things I completely expect to sound awful because evvvvery so often, once in a blue moon... it's not awful, it's beautiful and it's SOMETHING I CREATED that o one has ever done before, at least that I know of. AND THAT... is something that doesn't happen for most digital dj's... not because of sound quality or recording method, but because they have too many tools and gadgets, they are TOO FREE to every really experience the true freedom of creative invention. And all through this bizarre creative process, I'm not just listening to my music, I'm literally massaging and caressing it... what's not to love about that? I'm in NO way saying "vinyl is better" though I will say it's better FOR ME... but when you are discussing serious music jnkies, people who live and breath for music, who have formed their entire life around that love, who left hobby to date passion and eventually broke up with passion to move in with OBSESSION for music, remember the DJ's. And for fhose of us who chose vinyl, it's absolutely not a trendy thing (we get made fun of... "isn't that box of records heavy? HOW MUCH SPACE did you say thats taking up in your house? Oh look, I have 4000 songs on the thumb drives in my back pocket!" and on and on) we do it because we love it, we can't even HELP it. We try to quite, but there's no cure for a vinyl dj, only remissions..... so don't forget us when you talk about why "the kids are getting into vinyl" JS
  2. AWEEEEEEESOME! What is the most effective begging mechanism that works on you? Cuz I need soooo desperately to see this very article but to have clean vinyl recordings included in the comparisons. Seriously, about a decade of arguments among hundreds of my friends (and 10's of thousands of dj's around the world) could FINALLY get put to sleep. Would pretty please with sugar on top be sufficient .
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