Quinvy

When was the book printed twenty years ago?

I was lucky in that I had Karl to advise me. He had been gigging with his band for many years and he knew about PA. The first time he came to my little soul night at Burnley Cricket Club he told me in no uncertain terms that my speakers were crap. I was very upset, but he brought a set of Peaveys over one day and we set both sets up in the venue. My God I was embarrassed, mine sounded like sub woofers. I went straight out and bought some Peaveys.

Nearly as disappointed as I was when I eagerly clicked on the thread in freebasing that read "show us your bird"

I agree that the room can make a big difference to the sound. But I always had my top speakers set up high so the sound went over the crowds heads and was crystal clear to the back of the room. Because I am a perfectionist I once made the mistake of listening to a so called expert who told me my Technics mixer didn't have any mid range adjustment. So I went out and bought a very expensive mixer which also needed all new cables with XLR's. What a disaster. The mic was so loud that it was either off or blowing the speakers, and one Chanel was louder than the other (couldn't sort it all night), and it fed back all night. Sent it back the next day and went back to the Technics. If it ain't broke don't try and fix it. You can have the best gear in the world, but if you haven't got the ear to set it up properly it'll still sound shite.

I just can't understand why you need so much complication to play records? Surely the record has been equalised in the studio, why do you need to equalise it again? I always worked on the assumption that simple is best. Less is more.

What does balanced outputs mean?

The first and only time that I get four questions right on University Challenge.

whopps, posted in wrong place.

You won't be disappointed mate, good luck. I had three of them at on time.

JM had a couple from the big find a few years ago. They were stone mint. Don't know how many he had, but I seem to remember around three on his auction? The copy I saw was so mint it was scary.

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But why do you want a four channel mixer for two turntables? It just causes confusion and isn't necessary.

But for a pair of turntables playing sixties vinyl I found it perfect.

There isn't anything to touch one of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-Technics-World-DJ-Championship-2-Channel-Mixer-Model-No-SH-DX1200E-K-/361190058685?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Mixers&hash=item54189aeabd

Yet some do Geoff.

In my experience they mainly fiddle with the gains, because they think they are volume controls. The mixers have green and red lights. If it's in the green it's safe, if it's in the red it f*****g isn't. Turning the gain control up is like driving a car at 70mph and slamming it into second gear.

Exactly. But what about if you had paid thousands of pounds for them. Would you still play them?

I'm not naming names on a public forum, but you must be aware it goes on. I'm talking about the ones that are out Dj'ing every week all over the country. As for the decks, you tell them to leave them alone, then you constantly check them throughout the night. That's what I did. Same with the mixer. Oi Dj........NO! It's called being a promoter and acting professionally.

Yes but the ones who do have them are playing lookalike carvers because they don't want to damage their real copy on some badly set up deck with a knackered stylus. Or they have sold their original copy but can get away with it because they are "A BIG NAME", or they've just paid £12k on Eddie Parker and they don't want to risk it. If the promoters actually ran their events professionally, and actually knew how to set up their equipment. Then made it clear to the Dj's that they play o.v.o. or not at all, these records wouldn't have a market. And we would get rid of 80% of the Dj's overnight. Talk about double standards, and lack of ethics.

I haven't seen anything nasty posted on here, and I wouldn't have anything to do with the mindless trolls who go way over the top and get nasty. There's debate and opinion which is a good thing. Anything personal and vindictive isn't.

What's a gloomy label Bearsy?

Everyone said it had been booted when I bought mine. Nearly came to blows with a guy at a nighter that said my copy wasn't original. It was though.

Mmmmmmm, not sure about that Billy. Unless you had the record in your hand, how would you know? It's like I said in my post, once you atcheive national acclaim, nobody will question your ethics. I can give you an example. I was very good mates with Guy Hennigan in the seventies, but lost touch with him when I left the scene around 76. I think Guy moved to Derby? Anyway twenty odd years later, I met someone that knew Guy and put me back in touch with him. We met up a few times as he was running various events and doing some Dj spots at that time. Long story short, a few years down the line and I started running my own Allnighters at Burnley. Word got out about what I was trying to acheive and the first couple of nighters were like a who's who the rare soul scene. Guy turned up along with many other luminaries of the scene. Guy said he would help me out by Dj'ing for me. Now at the time he was playing some very rare stuff in his sets, but I knew he didn't actually own them. So as diplomatically as I could I explained that he couldn't play any carvers at my event. He went ballistic." I discovered all these records" "who the f**k do you think You are" blah, blah, blah. He has never spoken to me since. But nobody else dared to question what he was playing. Nobody else could care less. The promoters are to blame.

The only trouble with threads like this is that the majority couldn't give a ****. I despise boots and re-issues personally, but it's gone too far now. It's one thing to have 45's that don't look anything like the original, but once you start scanning labels it becomes very dodgy indeed. It then becomes a counterfeit as it is trying to deceive. As far as the scene goes, I hate to be the one to burst some bubbles but......many of the so called big name Dj's are playing these fakes week in, week out at events all over the country, to protect their original copy. So what's the difference between your hero big name Dj, and the wannabe's? Especially when the same big name Dj sells his original copy yet continues to play the carver. After all, who would dream of questioning our hero's? The hypocrisy on the scene has killed it for me. I've even been threatened for daring to go up to the decks to check the authenticity of records being played by big names. Would you Dj with the Eddie Parker you had just paid £12k for?