Hi, my name is Spuds and I'm an addict

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Posted by Spuds6s on May-23-2004 11:10:

Hi, my name is Spuds and I'm an addict

Am I the only one that does this? I sit on the computer for hours late at night at go through every equipment store that I can find searching for all this great equipment that I can't afford right now. AGHHHHH, its so annoying to see all the pretty pictures and just imagine yourself jamming on beautiful new equipment, but you cant, cuz youre broke from buying too much shit already God dammit, I need a job

Thanks for letting me vent

Posted by trancintaiwan on May-23-2004 15:19:

lol... i do that for equipment and records

Posted by Dervish on May-23-2004 16:07:

LOL I used to that too.... looking at the manuals for all the decks and compairing and contrasting them....

It came to a head when I was with some other people and one guy asked a Ministry of Sound resident "Whats new on the new Technics" he said about the click then I went on to go into HUGE detail about other things which are differnt and then was talking about what was differnt about the Stantons they have at MOS which they don't use and why they are actually good... when I finally stopped everyone was looking at me funny..... I felt ashamed.... and I knew I also had a problem

Posted by Digital Aura on May-23-2004 17:40:

I, too, feel your pain! Keep workin' to play!

Posted by jwear2004 on May-23-2004 22:42:

I know exactly what you mean! I was hoping to buy this Korg Kaoss KP2 effects processor ($300) but then I just dropped about $200 on records yesterday, so no effects thingie for me. It's kind of a love/hate relationship. I love looking at all the cool gear at places like djmart.com, but I hate knowing that I don't have the money to buy the stuff!

Posted by DR86 on May-24-2004 03:00:

i do that ALL the time.

except i do it for discuses and javelins as well as for DJ stuff.

Posted by tranceDJ on May-24-2004 03:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Dervish
LOL I used to that too.... looking at the manuals for all the decks and compairing and contrasting them....

It came to a head when I was with some other people and one guy asked a Ministry of Sound resident "Whats new on the new Technics" he said about the click then I went on to go into HUGE detail about other things which are differnt and then was talking about what was differnt about the Stantons they have at MOS which they don't use and why they are actually good... when I finally stopped everyone was looking at me funny..... I felt ashamed.... and I knew I also had a problem

Why do they have the stantons if they don't use them...I've always wondered why they even had them to begin with. Stantons are good decks but a big club like MOS should definetly have top of the line techs.

And it's good to know lots about equipment. I'm sure it's the same as with any other "instrument" if you consider DJ equipment an instrument...guitar players know everything about guitars, DJs know everything about DJ equipment.

Posted by Inertia on May-24-2004 04:47:

guilty, right here.

Posted by dj chex on May-24-2004 04:51:

quote:
Originally posted by tranceDJ
Why do they have the stantons if they don't use them...I've always wondered why they even had them to begin with. Stantons are good decks but a big club like MOS should definetly have top of the line techs.

It's because the ministry of sound is sponsored by stanton.

look at the str8-100 on the right side. See it's tonearm is in the way so it would be a pain in the ass if you attempt to do anything with that deck. it's simply there for looks and for stanton to say "our decks are in the MoS dj booth"

Posted by Inertia on May-24-2004 04:56:

quote:
Originally posted by dj chex

dude, i've told you a million times. STOP TAKING PICTURES OF MY BEDROOM SETUP!

i wish...

Posted by dknylady on May-24-2004 17:22:

hahah yeah jesse you do spend a lot on equipment..

i would but i am real tight with $$ and i keep buying records ! i think if you're a vinyl dj there is no way to save up money. i look at something that i'm considering buying and i think, hmm i could buy x # of records with that

i'm bad with clothes too, i keep trying to tell myself that i don't need anymore...but yet i keep buying them. (doesn't help that i work in a clothes store in a mall haha)

Posted by Cosmic Realm on May-24-2004 18:41:

Its cool man do it all the time, drooling over the DJM 600... I almost had the money for it a few months back, but guess where my money went....records
I also drool over having Tech's one day too...
so dont feel bad

Posted by DjSimonB on May-24-2004 21:21:

I'm happy enough with my setup, it's records that I wish I could afford

Posted by Dervish on May-24-2004 21:48:

quote:
Originally posted by dj chex
It's because the ministry of sound is sponsored by stanton.

look at the str8-100 on the right side. See it's tonearm is in the way so it would be a pain in the ass if you attempt to do anything with that deck. it's simply there for looks and for stanton to say "our decks are in the MoS dj booth"

Exactly, I played in the "cockpit" (^^^ that ^^^) on a redletterday thing and the Stantons didn't even have carts in them, just the tone arms up in the air

Posted by dknylady on May-25-2004 00:11:

well isn't that normal?

where i'm from at least dj's bring their own needles...

Posted by Dervish on May-25-2004 00:47:

Nah they had needles in the Techs. Nice ones

Posted by tranceDJ on May-25-2004 02:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Dervish
Exactly, I played in the "cockpit" (^^^ that ^^^) on a redletterday thing and the Stantons didn't even have carts in them, just the tone arms up in the air

There's surely no need for that many tt's too...I'd like to see a DJ who could keep something going on all of them at once, LOL.

Posted by Dervish on May-25-2004 02:54:

The DJ who was there with us (Nick Bridges) reconed he could do five (dunno why you'd want to or how it would possibly work without seriously minimalistic tunes, 3 yeah two tunes one vocal but 5???).

He did three when we were there with ease (was ace). But your right enough it is just a silly number of tables maybe it's for if one breaks mid set.... *shruggs*

BTW they even have a fridge for water and other assorted bevrages now thats the mark of an ace setup!

And it looked differnt when I was in it cos they had a pair of thouse Pioneer CD decks where the Stantons. And the dance floor looked differnt too.

Posted by Tranc3 on May-25-2004 04:35:

quote:
Originally posted by tranceDJ
There's surely no need for that many tt's too...I'd like to see a DJ who could keep something going on all of them at once, LOL.

Well they don't always have a single DJ up there.

Posted by Wildfir3 on May-25-2004 07:42:

still a lot of turntables, even for two dj's

Posted by venomdx on May-25-2004 11:47:

I do that for records, but not gear

Posted by Inertia on May-25-2004 20:34:

maybe a DJ trio (a la X-Press 2) could fiddle with that many at once? Pete Tong did exclaim during a live show on Essential Mix they were on 6 decks.

i dont feel like checking it out, but is there more than one mixer in that booth? perhaps it would allow you to cue up various records seperately (ie. 2 DJs using two seperate headphones). i dunno. basically, it's so whatever happens, you can't blame the gear

Posted by Psiweaver on May-27-2004 15:44:

I have an addiction, to both gear and records. Which is why its dangerous when i have money.