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Posted by Rick D on Feb-27-2005 00:26:

slippery records??

is there anyway to make them less slippery, They're so difficult to mix with, take ages to get up to speed.

An example of such records would be

MIKE - turn out the lights
Danny C - The Twist

anyone got any suggestions

Posted by A83 on Feb-27-2005 02:11:

Sandpaper?
Cement?
Chains?

Posted by FirstBorn on Feb-27-2005 10:33:

Burn 'em to CD and use CD decks?

Posted by Rick D on Feb-27-2005 11:01:

cheers, really helpful

Posted by dj_lane on Feb-27-2005 20:36:

these records are thinner, therefore not spinning up faster, you just hafto use your fingers, or get different slipmats.

Posted by D Dubya on Feb-27-2005 20:43:

buy better music?

i'm just kidding.

Posted by wee_rooney on Feb-27-2005 21:05:

use the weights which come with the technics 1210's, etc. think there in a wee hole thing at the top of the tts.

Posted by razzi on Feb-27-2005 21:35:

quote:
Originally posted by wee_rooney
use the weights which come with the technics 1210's, etc. think there in a wee hole thing at the top of the tts.

that is used for playing 7" vinyl with a bigger hole.. but i guess it can be used as a weight.. although i think itd be annoying when changing tracks. any thin vinyl i have i just compensate with how i queue it up. just practice a bit and its pretty easy to get around.

razzi.

Posted by wee_rooney on Feb-27-2005 21:39:

or maybe you could Blu-Tak it to the top of an old record (non slippy one), thats what i do with my 7" & 10" records!

Posted by Boomer187 on Feb-27-2005 21:45:

someone actually makes weights to set on top of them. My buddy uses them sometimes. but I dunno where he got em.

Posted by Freak on Feb-28-2005 01:52:

Practice
learn to deal with it.

Warped one sided records are slippier than a very slippy thing from slippy world covered in oil, but shit happens.

Or glue them to a spare pair of slipmats.

Or learn to pitch and adjust using the slider and not touching the vinyl itself