portable turntable digging strategies

since it's fairly obvious that listening to an entire record in the store is a waste of time when digging, what strats do you guys use when previewing and trying to find samples? do yall just jump around on the record? any tips would be appreciated

i just buy the damn thing and listen to it at home.

crossings wrote:i just buy the damn thing and listen to it at home.

+1

use your spidey sense...

crossings wrote:i just buy the damn thing and listen to it at home.

And then of course listen the record from A to B, even the wackest shit might have some hits right in the middle.

when listening i just skim around...

intros. interesting looking groove patterns...


most record store recluses arent too fond of you bringing in a portable and running your cheap hard wearing needle on their records from my experience though...


if they have a listening station great. other than that, as SEAN mentioned, its all about the "spidey sense"...


a portable might work better at a swapmeet flea market setting, but even then, its just a distraction from the actual digging imo...

while your trying to listen to some record, the digging fiend dude in the rubber gloves and respirator just copped all the heat... then glanced at you over there with your headphones on and snickered to himself....

fobedafied wrote:

a portable might work better at a swapmeet flea market setting, but even then, its just a distraction from the actual digging imo...

while your trying to listen to some record, the digging fiend dude in the rubber gloves and respirator just copped all the heat... then glanced at you over there with your headphones on and snickered to himself....

THIS

fobedafied wrote:interesting looking groove patterns...

I was watching this documentary and Lord Finesse was showing how he could find the drum breaks just by looking at the groove patterns and shit.

post that video

spidey sense +1

thats half of the fun diggin man.

also

flowers jean luc ponty, he has thrown my spidey sense out more than once, got these mad phyc looking covers and then has records full of shit hahahah

i'll never buy another no matter how phyc that cover klooks

peeping tom wrote:spidey sense +1

thats half of the fun diggin man.

also

flowers jean luc ponty, he has thrown my spidey sense out more than once, got these mad phyc looking covers and then has records full of shit hahahah

i'll never buy another no matter how phyc that cover klooks

I thought cosmic messenger had some cool stuff on it, think I made a beat or two from that but had to reeeeealllly slow it down and mess with those samples....but yeah, don't feel bad. That dude has pulled that on me with those covers too lmao

**** a portable turntable, nowadays I just put my hand on a record and listen to the grooves with my fingers like Blind Fury.

illgreen digging through braille?

Danny wrote:

thats crazy!

if i see some dude with that schit at the digging spot, im leaving....