so this week has been nice. steve lawler spun 7 hours on wednesday here, me and my friends got together on thursday, got drunk. got together on friday, got drunk, went to club, got drunker, went to eat, went to park, got drunker, went home. saturday, went to park, got drunk, went home.

so to finish, we decide to come to my house today, spin and get drunk. you've all heard of my sound problems at least once, and this time, we proved that it was in fact the humidity, as today there was no rain, and the sound worked fine.

but then... well, we had 2 tech12 turntables, a stanton rm3-s mixer, and 2 americand audio cd decks. so, my friends spin for a good 3 hours on vinyl, then my other friend gets on his cd decks and drops a very amazing minimal techno set. then we continue to vinyl, and all is good for about 15 minutes. one of my friends (luckily, the owner of the decks) mixes from deck A to deck B. he goes to deck A and stops it. removes record, gets another, puts the needle on, and starts it. the deck starts normal, then starts speeding up like crazy, and just continues going. it was insane. not only that, once it started speeding up, no matter how many times you tapped stop, it wouldn't. you had to power it off.

it was like just plain ridiculous. the pitch was at 0, 33RPM, and you had the vinyls flying at like 200BPM and beyond. the other very weird occurance was when he tried backspinning it, and the deck went in REVERSE. the motor literally went backwards, although it only happened once. a friend banged on the platter a couple times, and the deck went back to normal functionality for like a minute or two.

anyone have any idea WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? is it fixable? how much does it cost? and WHAT could have caused it? i had everything on connected on the same jack, and the only thing affected at any time was that deck, so i doubt it was electrical problems.

thanks for reading yet another boring "something fucked up" Inertia story, comments will be appreciated.

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LOL! you must live in some ancient graveyard or something that gives bad vibes to the ancient corpses, cuz they'd like something a bit more banging! dunno! really weird problems you're having anyway. can't help in any way

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There's some weird stuff going on inside of your turntable. I would make sure the pitch is calibrated correctly and if not then fix it. This will help you out with that:
http://music.hyperreal.org/dj/sl1200.html

I have no idea why it would start playing backwards too..dunno how to fix that one.

the chances are, it has got too damp inside and fucked up some of te electrics..

but that doesnt explain why banging it would fix it for a minute..?? definitely some very strange goings-on

it would probably fix things if you moved

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Originally posted by tu_face the chances are, it has got too damp inside and fucked up some of te electrics.. but that doesnt explain why banging it would fix it for a minute..?? definitely some very strange goings-on it would probably fix things if you moved

lol, no! my house is so cool for gatherings. huge backyard, surrounded by nature, no neighbors (at least the ones i have don't complain... EVER) and chicks seem to... love the place.

but it was not humid, if the humidity had been the culprit, it wouldve fucked up the stereo amp as well, or the other deck. but this just happened out of the blue.

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Originally posted by tu_face the chances are, it has got too damp inside and fucked up some of te electrics.. but that doesnt explain why banging it would fix it for a minute..?? definitely some very strange goings-on it would probably fix things if you moved

banging electronics always works

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maybe you were drunk?

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Originally posted by Haunted maybe you were drunk?

not quite yet. and my sister was sober (does not like rum) and can vouch for the veracity.

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Originally posted by dinoXpress banging electronics always works

thinking about it, you're right

inertia: would it be too expensive to get the house (or at least that room) air-conditioned..? i've no idea of the price for that sort of thing, but i think that would sort out the humidity problem in the house, it is useless if you have exterior doors and windows open all the time though...

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Electronics absolutely hate the humidity so i would suggest getting a dehumidifier and putting it near your gear and maybe a couple of fans so that your gear lasts better. I have no clue whats wrong with your deck maybe you should give Technics a call to find out whats up.

yes, the humidity precautions have been taken, we were actually in an air conditioned space. humidity was not the issue, as our amplification problems had always been the constant, they were not a problem now. now the deck just went crazy stupid. i'll call my friend to see if it's still screwy, was just checking to see if anyone had had a deck go nuts like that on them.

bah... as soon as a gathering at my house is getting nice, something must go wrong.

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