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Leaving the platter spinning?
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When you spin, do you leave the platter going the whole time, or do you stop it after each record has been played, until you place a new record on it again? Just curious, cause I always see/hear of everyone keeping it on, I personally stop it and start it back up again. Just a thought I was having...
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| DJ Charlie |
Which is the best way to get from one point to another with a bicycle carrying heavy weight attached behind you ?
Start rolling at point A and keep your speed till you get at point B ?
or Start at A... and take a break... then start again... take a break,... etc.. till you get at B ?
Its much easier to keep your speed cause the moment you are forcing the most is when you start rolling.
I believe its the same reason why DJs keep the platter spinning.
your table is forcing more at start. |
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| ascension |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Charlie
Which is the best way to get from one point to another with a bicycle carrying heavy weight attached behind you ?
Start rolling at point A and keep your speed till you get at point B ?
or Start at A... and take a break... then start again... take a break,... etc.. till you get at B ?
Its much easier to keep your speed cause the moment you are forcing the most is when you start rolling.
I believe its the same reason why DJs keep the platter spinning.
your table is forcing more at start. |
personal preference really...
you'd have the platter up to speed before you dropped a song, regardless of whether you have it spinning the whole time, or start it up a few seconds before, so i dont agree with that view
sometimes i stop the platter when ive queued the incoming record at the right place, but i dont stop it to take a record off |
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| sebjr |
| i used to stop between records and then start again, until i noticed noone else did. i dont think there is any need to now so i dont do it :) plus it looks cool when the decks are spinning :) |
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| Tiger777 |
| ha, who turns them off? I leave them turning... i'm too in lazy to turn them off :haha: |
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| j_spot |
ive seen lots of Djs use the stop/start method
hit it twice pretty fast, enough to slow down a beat but keep spinning...if you dont notice anything over the system, you are picking up the right needle.
otherwise you could look like a fool. |
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| Project T |
| if i'm doin a dj battle i'll stop it through courtesy and to rest the phones down, or if i am using a cd deck instead and have to reach and don't want to catch anything and lock the tonearm, but if i am just doing a set by myself ill generally just leave em on |
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| Mister_Michel |
| I usually stop it when I change vinyl, but when the new one is on it, I immediatelly turn it back ok. But I don't care really if I stop it or not, because sometimes i do, and sometimes I don't. |
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| Boomer187 |
| I stop it outta habit, started when I started djin and never kicked it. No use in actually stopping it when you are just gonna start it back up. |
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| JohnSmith |
| quote: | Originally posted by j_spot
ive seen lots of Djs use the stop/start method
hit it twice pretty fast, enough to slow down a beat but keep spinning...if you dont notice anything over the system, you are picking up the right needle.
otherwise you could look like a fool. |
that's gotta be about the WORST idea i have ever heard. how about looking at the cross fader and seeing which deck is playing? or.. just knowing?!?
or if you really don't know, and your spinning whitelabels or something, then, just move the volume a bit or something, don't stop the record!
(BTW, i never turn off the decks, unless i've found my cue point and don't want to lose it) |
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| bachatu |
I never hit stop, its just habbit i guess. I just concentrate on getting the next track up and running and cue'd. I would think though, that its less stress on the motor to keep running. Less wear over a long amount of time.
Something i do stop the platter for though is stop it on a specific cue point, instead of holding the record. That only really happens if i have a long to go before im going to mix my next track and if i want to start hunting down the 3rd record down. |
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| DaveSaenz |
| quote: | Originally posted by JohnSmith
that's gotta be about the WORST idea i have ever heard. how about looking at the cross fader and seeing which deck is playing? or.. just knowing?!?
or if you really don't know, and your spinning whitelabels or something, then, just move the volume a bit or something, don't stop the record!
(BTW, i never turn off the decks, unless i've found my cue point and don't want to lose it) |
Yeah, but you want to lift the needle off of the record before you stop the platter, or it will burn a spot in the groove and turn into a "pop" sound like that chemist guy said. :nervous: |
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