For those of you using rubber mats, what the hell are you doing in the DJ Booth?

lol

Rubber mats? Do they still HAVE these things?

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i would have to say B

my friend has some great slipmats that are kinda textured on top and really slippery on the bottom, and i love using them... the slipmat stays with the record and the only sliding is between the slipmat and the platter, which is what a slipmat is supposed to do....
that's why when you buy tech 12's new, you get that little piece of wax paper to put between your slipmat and your platter

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curious myself, i checked, and it is B...
tech 1200mk2's and plain black slipmats with flutlicht-icarus spinning on top.. the record has more friction than the metal platter, so it sticks with the record.

ha, take that tranceformer

Last edited by mute79 on Apr-05-2002 at 21:32

Well then i guess it depends on how u actually CUE, because I hold my records on the edge, I don't put my whole palm on the vinyl. Ofcourse if you are CUEing that way. only the platter will move, but on my decks both, the slipmat and the platter move.

P.S. Sry trancegeek, just had a bad day...

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wow, i tried your way, i just don't see how you can cue like that... seriously... weird... but to each their own i guess

I just don't want to mess up my records with my fingers, i mean even after you clean them, there's still a lot of shit left in the grooves...

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hi im really new but i wanna learn i was just wondering when you cue a record do you do it manually with your hand and just keep the record there until your ready or do you hit stop and have the whole tt shutdown at the point your ready at...? also if you do just hold the record there with your hand (as ive done in many a record shop) does it wear out the vinyl? does spinning it forward and backward profoundly to get to a point wear out the record too? (it seems like it does) how come you wouldnt just lift the stylus up and go forward a little on the record wouldnt that be a safer way for the records?

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TranceFormer, put your fingers on the label... works very well. There's nothing I can't stand more than fingerprints
I used to grip the record on the side like you, but i found using the label makes cueing easier (imo)

Jah, you don't turn off the turntable... because then you have to worry about it starting up again which takes longer than just releasing the record with your hand.

You can't just lift up the stylus and go forward a bit for a couple of reasons. First of all, when you're spinning, you don't want to waste any time. Secondly, and most importantly, it's impossible to know how much forward you have to go to find the beginning of the beat you want to cue from. Every record is different. The aim of cueing is to accurately cue a part in the song. The only way to do that accurately is to rock your hands back and forth and go by what you hear, not what you see by "guessing" how far forward to place the needle.