Vinyl

[Blackbrook]

Hey,

since we all in here paly digital music I wonder if there are still people out there buying "real" records? I am doing this (again) since a few months. How about you? Absolutely digital or do you use both? What are your (!) pros and cons? Please no offense against any poster! Thanks!

Cheers,

Steve

[Jim B]

I don't buy "Real" vinyl anymore, Steve. But I have about 1,200, 12" still in my mum's loft.

I had about 10,000 but I got rid most of them a few years ago. I've just kept my best and favourite stuff from 97-05.

It's nice to get them out every now and them and have a old school session, mate

[christiankoopmann]

Hey,

Most songs are from the internet like beatport or iTunes. Some tracks are from CD or vinyl but currently I only buy new CDs not vinyl anymore. CDs are easier to handle and the weight is minimal. To parties I take my "Backup-CD-Case" where I have songs from all genres I need for the party.
This is only if for example my laptop is not working correct or if some other things are not working correctly (soundcard not working, MIDI device problems, harddrive problems and so on).
My double CD-Player works perfect and for backup it is the best option (power on in 2seconds)

regards
Christian

[Hannes]

Still buying vinyl, not as much as I used to but around 30-40€ a month are reserved for 12", and appr. 100€ are spent on digital music
(DnB-Arena, Juno and iTunes)

I´m having 500 vinyls here in our appartment, and around 1300 at my parents place.
CDs I only have 40 here, but 3 Cases (each 200) at my parents.

So for me it´s either Cross or Vinyl when doing a gig.
For Backup I usually carry 4 12" Sampler and 4-5 Singles.

[Blackbrook]

For Backup I usually carry 4 12" Sampler and 4-5 Singles.

Same here Filled a small case for my last gig as backup, but it could stay in the car :P

[rhopkins]

I only have a few vinyls, where the whole package looked great enough that it was worthwhile. Got a couple of my favourite albums from when my musical taste changed and I got into this hobby framed on my wall.

But for DJing I spend more than I probably want to admit on Boomkat most weeks! I find Beatport expensive.

It would be good to learn to DJ just using real vinyl, but I fear it's too late and I rely on Cross a little too much. Still wouldn't get rid of my decks and use just a controller though.

[Blackbrook]

I find Beatport expensive.

You're right! If I buy an EP there I can go to my shop and get it physical for exact the same price.

[Hannes]

I find Beatport expensive.

You're right! If I buy an EP there I can go to my shop and get it physical for exact the same price.

Buying it .wav the cd always is cheaper than beatport.
their prices are ridiculous....

[djeksotik]

I still occasionally buy vinyl, on a payday chill in the ONLY place in town that still sells vinyl (about 3 crates in a book store but theres also some new stuff always), and maybe find something, but I admit it has to be really good for me to buy it. There is still no alternative to breaks so far, so I buy breaks sometimes, just bought "step into the scratch game" or whatever the name was.

One thing that puts me off from buying vinyl is that you never know the quality, only ONE of my breaks records is almost absolutely flat, the others are warped slightly and slide better on one side than other... thats REALLY annoying especially when juggling and of course the slippier sides have to be opposite sides on both records.. talk about murphys law.
Then there is BADLY mastered vinyl.. ofc nowadays you can come across badly mastered music everywhere..

Couple of years ago I ordered Wildchilds "secondary protocol", turned out one side out of four had some RANDOM wack money-rap on it, the pressing plant had messed something up (it was another artist altogether, dont know who but it SUCKED)
, so I returned it and they ordered another one for me, guess what exactly the same problem, and the best part is that the missing side had 2 of the best tracks on the album which made me buy it in the first place...

Buying vinyl is kind of a lottery and not worth it anymore, especially when Cross could shave another few milliseconds off the latency Right now skratching is the only thing making me buy vinyl.

Of all this does not apply to GREAT records and rarities etc, and buying such records is still satisfying, like buying a good book.

[Blackbrook]

Unfortunately in german, but here it is:

http://www.focus.de/kultur/musik/musik- ... 90322.html

Summary: record sales increased to 1.65 million because people get weary of digital music, they can not touch it.

I am feeling a bit the same. I have bought more than 3.000 MP3s since 2004 and spend more than 5.000€ for it. This is stored data on my harddisks and this starts to annoy me a bit. I can not touch it, except I am using Cross to play with it.