Talk and share knowledge on rare records, sources of new samples, vinyl, diggin, etc
ByTr1pl36ix Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:19 pm
hey ya, I copped a turntable and got a bunch of vinyl from my father (I don't live with). Got like 28 of them. Mainly classic stuff... according to him. I'd post 'em up if ya care to know which ones I have. Currently I'm in the process of converting each vinyl, song by song, to a wav track with Pro Tools. This way, I listen to the each song and I've been takin notes on like what I hear when. Like when there's a drumbeak or a section where only an instrument plays (no drums) like riffs or whatever. But yea. It's been pretty tight. It's time consuming but I have all the time in the world right now.

Got some bad luck lately tho, had to drop my macbook off at the apple store here in NYC. Had some problem going on that turns out had to do with my Mbox. I think we solved the issue though. I downloaded an update for Pro Tools at the site, didn't even know was there. So yea.. now I find out today my speakers are blown... I'm pretty sure. And I JUST bought 'em. Spent like $400 for the pair. They're some KRKs. Decent I suppose but now it makes... like this crackling sound at the end of a kick sample, for example. Or even a snare. But yea, it's like a popping sound something like what I hear on these vinyls. >_< I'ma call them tomorrow and see what can be done.
ByTr1pl36ix Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:15 am
turns out these KRKs were only making that crackling sound after a drum hit using that 'MPC Pad 187' program. The sound is not there when played through another program like QuickTime.

I found 'MPC Maid' which is a better version of MPC Pad 187 and it works on both MAC and PC (it's a program ran through Java). But yea the cracklin sound is not there now when I listen to the samples I'm assigning to pads. So the speakers are prolly alright for now... I hope.