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Posted by jamesw1981 on Jan-20-2004 21:50:

Vinyl question...

I've just started DJing. Got a silly question about vinyls. How come on some records the BPM is really slow on side A and normal on side B. An example is Signum - Push Through. The Jaron inc mix on the A side is really slow but the mixes on the flip are normal. Any ideas why this is?

Cheers!!

Posted by Perfect_Cheezit on Jan-20-2004 21:51:

maybe they run at different rpm?

Posted by jamesw1981 on Jan-20-2004 21:56:

Thanks for the quick reply. Im playing them on a really dodgy record player as my decks haven't arrived yet - might this be the problem?

Posted by Pete Mitchell on Jan-20-2004 22:00:

lol

one has been pressed to play at 33.3 RPM (revolutions per minute)and the other has been pressed at 45 RPM

Posted by jamesw1981 on Jan-20-2004 22:02:

thanks

Posted by Matt Jay on Jan-20-2004 22:04:

There (usually) should be a setting on the turntable to change the RPM of the turntable to suit the RPM of the record

Posted by Shudder on Jan-20-2004 22:37:

crap this is something i gotta watch out for when i get my tables...

Posted by Zombie0729 on Jan-20-2004 23:35:

you'll realize that 45bpm is 90% of the time more DJ friendly then 33 and you'll also notice that if there is only 1 track on one side its 100x more friendly too.

Posted by SKYMOVE on Jan-20-2004 23:46:

HEHEHEHE - I ve a funny story about this Problem with 33rpm and 45rpm - I have the 12" of dj Icey - searching - and the one side is played with 33rpm and so I thought the other side is played by 33 too - and I always played the original version only with 33rpm - I always thought: oh - "what kind of relaxing Track of Dj icey" until one day (three weeks ago) I noticed that the origial supposed to be on 45rpm - and now it sounds better - but nobody noticed it that I played the records with the wrong speed - Shit happens

Posted by Shook1 on Jan-21-2004 01:11:

Just make sure u know what speed is which when Party Time comes!! I've mad a couple errors in that sense (not with Trance, but hiphop imports!).

Posted by Acid John on Jan-21-2004 01:24:

its not about what speed they are designed to be played at, its whatever you think sounds best. get creative...