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Posted by Basilf1 on Dec-10-2006 21:31:

I have two vinyl turntables, I plan to purchase finalscratch so that I will have 2 copies of all my records and access to additional music. I thinking that if I was to paying the same track from two different sources I going to run into eq problems between the vinyl and the mp3s. I was thinking I would also need a 2 channel stereo eq on the line inputs. I was curious if anyone has run into this problem.

Posted by don_q on Dec-11-2006 00:39:

Dude, ... what?

At least I do similar and have no problems

Posted by RoBDaWG on Dec-11-2006 03:38:

Hrm, do you mean volume problem? I use vinyl and M-Audio Torq (similiar to Final Scratch) and when you use regular vinyl the sound quality is a little less than when you use mp3s, also the volume is a little lower, nothing terrible though, but someone with a good ear would probably notice it in a mix CD.

Posted by Basilf1 on Dec-11-2006 04:32:

It was more of a hypothetical question. I was talking to a friend who is into sound engineering about combining congruent sources of sound then I realized that that recording my records into to digital files aren't the same (especially mp3s). So I figured that I may run into trouble with my plan of making and playing two copies of the same record.

Posted by AndskiSpeed on Dec-11-2006 23:39:

If you play two copies at exactly the speed then you'll get a horrible dampened sound to what you're playing, if they're at slightly different speeds then you'll get a phasing effect as far as I can remember from past experience

Posted by Basilf1 on Dec-12-2006 14:44:

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Originally posted by AndskiSpeed
If you play two copies at exactly the speed then you'll get a horrible dampened sound to what you're playing, if they're at slightly different speeds then you'll get a phasing effect as far as I can remember from past experience

Is that with two vinyl records or just digital files?

Posted by Nemesis44 on Dec-12-2006 15:23:

Two records or files that are the same canceling eachother out is a totally separate issue.
That's called phase cancellation and is to due with frequencies in the same bandwidth that are competing to be heard. In addition you can create a flange sort of effect if you have them playing slightly off eachother. But that has nothing to do with the format they are in.

Overall the EQing would be the same as you would with any record as they are never the same.

Naturally you should always get MP3s as high quality as possible.

Cheers
Nem

Posted by Basilf1 on Dec-12-2006 21:29:

Well that answers my question about needing additional hardware. But its created much more questions for example how could someone do a live re-edit with vinyl then? My friend's a hip-hop DJ so he can make a quick transition from plate to plate. However with trance one would have more careful about abrupt changes.