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Posted by escee on Jun-02-2003 10:22:

thats amazing xavier, nice work.

quote:
I first overclocked a CD player about 1 year ago, at my first position as an electronics repair technician. I simply used a coil and a capacitor as the 'tank' circuit, hooked up to the clock pin on the CD player. This worked pretty well, but you had to move a ferrite core into and out of a coil to change the pitch on the CD player. This obviously wasn't the best solution.

zuh?

Posted by gilmista on Jun-02-2003 12:40:

thats crazy, where did u learn how to do all this?

Posted by Philby on Jun-04-2003 05:29:

haha thats gold xavier
'i dont need no cdj-1000, i'll make my own!!'

Posted by jizza on Jun-04-2003 14:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Xavier
I first overclocked a CD player about 1 year ago, at my first position as an electronics repair technician. I simply used a coil and a capacitor as the 'tank' circuit, hooked up to the clock pin on the CD player. This worked pretty well, but you had to move a ferrite core into and out of a coil to change the pitch on the CD player. This obviously wasn't the best solution.

I went out and bought a couple of CD players from my local second hand shop, and started mucking around with them. I took the cover off, shorted out the switch that detects when the cover is open, then pulled out the 16 MHz crystal. I then fed a variable clock frequency into the CD player, and bingo! the CD player was pitch controlled.

My first couple of circuits were just a really simple Resistor-Capacitor oscillator, but that had the problem of changing pitch when you put your hand near the slider! Sort of like theremin, but not really all that good for matching beats.

I then started to try to make a voltage controlled oscillator, and came up with the pitchman circuit. This has gone through a couple of different versions, and although the current version is pretty good it could probably be improved apon a bit more.

Here I am, slowing down the spinning CD player with my finger. This actually works, and you can hear the pitch bend down,

it's funny, i read all this and yet my brain refused to acknowledge that is was actually english.

looks like xavier's another friggin macguyver in the making - what next mate? you gonna turn your cat into a turntable?

Posted by gumble on Jun-05-2003 09:20:

..almost

Posted by nixter on Jun-10-2003 09:30:

2 x technics sl- 1200
Denon mixer dj-25 (will be upgrading soon)
Senheiser hd-25
Pioneer amp and 2 pioneer speakers

Posted by escee on Jun-10-2003 09:32:

haha nice pic gumble!

that cat is as fast as zabiela...

Posted by OzTi�sto on Jun-10-2003 12:20:

2x Vestax PDX2000
2x Shure M44G
1x Vestax PCV2 (or something....shitty 2ch mixer I got off a mate for $25)
1x Philips headphones, soon to be Technics RPDJ1210 or Pioneer HDJ1000

Posted by webmeister on Jun-10-2003 12:28:

Yay me .. as a consolation for missing James Zabiela on the weekend, I bought myself decks instead

Now the proud owner of:
2 x Technics SL1200mk2
1 x Behringer VMX-200 mixer
1 x Pioneer HDJ1000 headphones

Posted by BigT on Jun-10-2003 13:51:

my current setup is
2 technics 1200's
1 pioneer djm 300s
1 pair of technics rp-dj 1200 headphones
2 mission speakers
1 sony mini disc recorder
1 yamaha amp
1 harman kardon cd player

hopefully can add 1 or 2 cd decks in the near future , crosses fingers n toes!!

Posted by OzTi�sto on Jun-10-2003 20:21:

quote:
Originally posted by webmeister 1 x Pioneer HDJ1000 headphones

How are you finding the headphones? And have you used the technics headphones before and can you compare?

I'm just trying to get some other comparisons before I splurge on some new headphones....

Posted by JayKuE on Jun-11-2003 00:50:

quote:
Originally posted by webmeister
Yay me .. as a consolation for missing James Zabiela on the weekend, I bought myself decks instead

Now the proud owner of:
2 x Technics SL1200mk2
1 x Behringer VMX-200 mixer
1 x Pioneer HDJ1000 headphones

geezus. that's some consolation dude.
welcome aboard tho. sorry bout the wallet.

Posted by webmeister on Jun-12-2003 11:51:

quote:
Originally posted by OzTi�sto
How are you finding the headphones? And have you used the technics headphones before and can you compare?

I'm just trying to get some other comparisons before I splurge on some new headphones....

I compared the Pioneer to the Technics headphones in the store before buying .. the sales dude swore by the Technics, but to my ears the Pioneer had a better, crisper sound with less distortion. However, they were plugged into different mixers, and they were both store demo models, so who knows how much they'd been thrashed...

I've used these a fair bit over the last week, and no complaints so far

Posted by Ghostface on Jun-12-2003 12:00:

i've got the hdj1000s and have also used the technics hps before. IMO the pioneers shit all over the technics. The sound is better, they're more comfortable and the technics feel really loose. It's not even close imo.

Posted by chunky XL on Jul-04-2003 10:59:

quote:
Originally posted by matt_a
Hey Dowlz are the Pioneer CDJ-100's good? Like are they worth $949? I wanna get one soon to make my sets better and to play rare stuff. What kinda stuff does it do?

Oh man, i want to be the guy who sell's you that if your paying that much for them. I sure hope thats for a pair of em. Give the dealers some of this and watch the price drop.

Has anyone fiddled with the new behringer mixers, Copy's of the djm-300 and djm-600.

Posted by Phorte on Jul-04-2003 11:16:

ok i already have a list prepared from another forum lol..

- AMD XP1800+ (cant be bothered overclocking..)
- ASUS A7V333 motherboard
- 512 PC2700 DDR Ram
- Thermaltake Volcano 9 fan
- Topower 470W PSU
- Sparkle Geforce 4 ti4200 w/128 DDR-Ram and VIVO
- Hercules Gametheater XP soundcard
- Western Digital 120gb HDD w/ 8mb cache
- Western Digital 40gb HDD
- Pioneer 12x DVD-Rom
- Yamaha 12x CDRW (need to upgrade this)
- 22" NEC Flatscreen monitor
- spare 19" Mitsuibishi monitor (not enough room on my desk)
- Lian-Li PC65 Aluminium Case w/ blue rounded cables, two blue cold-cathode tubes (one is set to sound sensitive) and one green lazer-led and the case itself already has four fans on it (two intakes at the front, one blow hole on the top and one in the back below the PSU)
- Logitech Freedom Optical cordless keyboard and mouse
- Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (for games)

now, my HT gear thats also connected up to my computer

- B&W 602 front speakers
- B&W 600 rear speakers
- B&W LCR60 centre speaker
- Sonique Thunderbox subwoofer
- Sony STRDB-1070 receiver
- Sony (forgot name) Mini-disc player
- Sony Playstation 2

my Bowers & Wilkins speakers are my pride n joy hehehe..

and then some..

- Roland PC70 controller keyboard
- Pioneer CMX-5000 dual CD players (scratchable)
- Pioneer DJM-500 4chn mixer
- Vestax PMC-03A 2chn mixer

all the other external gear ive sold (usual novation boxes and a k2000). pics are from last year so things have been moved around a lot and look a lot cleaner..

Posted by webmeister on Jul-04-2003 12:52:

heh .. apart from the gay stuffed animals, that's a pretty setup

Posted by Phorte on Jul-04-2003 13:45:

hehe they give me inspiration..

Posted by Spang on Jul-05-2003 06:53:

2x Technics 1200mk2
1x Roland Dj 2000 mixer
1x Sennheiser HD-25 headphones
Technics headshells with ortafon pro S needles.

Stereo is a Panasonic with 2x 110 watt speakers.

Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 4100.

Got a nice big table from Ikea last week aswell as the sound system. Recently moved all the equipment into my room which is a recipe for disaster as i go back to uni in a few weeks

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