When doing gigs in smaller clubs, often solo artists would rock up with nothing more than a cassette with backing tracks, so the ability to just connect a walkman straight to the turntable was a godsend. Particularly if the mixer was built into the furniture, or if it didn't even have line inputs at all. My first one was homemade, 3.5mm lead + a bunch of passive filter components + standard headshell + far too much epoxy. Looked sketchy but got me through a few gigs lol
Yeah, I don't think there were many (if any) mixers that didn't have line inputs. The statement at 0:56 is incorrect- you couldn't plug anything other than turntables into the phono input, so there was never a reason to unplug the turntable. There was always (in every DJ mixer that I've ever seen- and I've seen many over the last 35+ years- from the cheapest crap to the most expensive). The reason that this device existed was exactly so you either A: didn't have to scrabble round the back of the mixer, half cut in the dark while a record was playing trying to find the right line input, risking accidentally messing up the wiring causing nasty buzzing or worse, or that B: the back of the mixer was simply inaccessible due to it being built in. This was a simple and safe option.
@@chillstar There were quite a few mixers without line inputs, especially in the 80s. Even some later mixers didn't (Vestax PMC07ProISP, released in 2001).
@@chillstar Even cheaper and simpler were RCA barrel inline adapters to reduce (attenuate) line level to phono level and some came with a dongle and a switch to alternate between the two very different output levels What could go wrong? I did one gig with vinyl ,July 4th pool party- I watched in horror as the sun melted my record-from then on it was two cassette decks- and later two SONY discmans- who wants to carry 6-7 crates of vinyl to and fro?
Imagine this - Spotify on a smartphone, over bluetooth to a bluetooth cassette adapter in a walkman, connected to Stanton LineMaster on a turntable with a built-in pre-amp, connected to a receiver that supports bluetooth. Perfection.
When I started watching the video, I thought WTF?!? Who would need this goofy thing? Turns out...There WAS a market and legit use for such a device! I learn something new here all of the time.
I built one of these decades ago to turn an RIAA input into a line-in input as it was the only spare input my amplifier had, but I had no idea this had ever been a commercial product. This is amazing!
@@Eliotime3000 I'm aware of that, several turntables have bluetooth connectivity, in fact Kevin showed/reviewed some on this very channel. What I meant we need to have one of those, this weird little device, and a Bluetooth receiver with a jack output. The sound of eternity is ours! It probably sounds somewhat like Metal Machine Music, I imagine.
It's not the ONLY reason. He's a talented artist and he's not a jerk about other retro enthusiasts using clips of his music, all he asks is to be credited.
Very good. Never knew this existed, though I have been tempted on occasion to feed a signal into the tonearm wiring as a 'simple' way to make use of whatever amplifier was connected! 😅. Thanks also for the link to my video. Very much appreciated 😀👍
@@mikeriverajr4447 I would never assume the author had any bad intention and I believe he put best effort to find information. Good for you that you know more! Maybe you could educate us all about the mistakes made?
@@mikeriverajr4447 These few resistors and capacitors create a direct RIAA correction, which is then rectified by the phono preamplifier. I myself assembled a similar one in order to check, repair and adjust phono preamplifiers.
@@mikeriverajr4447 On my headphones at least, the example in the video and the original from TH-cam Music sound like they have basically the same equalisation. Even just in this example, it definitely sounds like there's a lot of treble.
I would think a 10:1 transformer for each channel would be a better option, because a ground loop at 0.500mv can be corrected, but a ground loop at 0.05mv would be atrocious.
I never seen a mixer with just strictly 2 inputs. Yes, 2 channels but you always had 2 inputs on each channel. One was for Aux/CD/Line and the other switch was for Phono, and you still had the line/phono CD. Now this would come in handy where you had the mixer flushed down into the table. These set ups were really nice to look at but many a DJ spilled a drink only to watch its liquid contents just gravitate right into the mixer. In many of these set ups, you would have what I call a "band" mixer with multiple channels that the DJ mixer would be patched into. Great video.
Rarely does anyone on TH-cam show me something I've not seen before, at least as far as video/audio is concerned, but this is a first! Talk about a limited market though, jeez! I bet the serial numbers (if they had one) wouldn't go much past a few hundred 😂 Quite bizarre. The closest I've seen to this is Sony's in-line Line to Mic level adapters, from the 70s. Still, happy to know there are still a few audio surprises out there! 😄 Good luck plugging one in to a Garrard SP25 MkIII though, or a BSR! 😂 Nice find, either way! eBay, presumably?!
My very first DJ gig at the tender age of 16 was on one of those all-in-one consoles - a Citronics one I think - always had a soft spot for them ever since - if I'd the space to spare I'd collect a few, they look so 70's.
This is blummin awesome! I didn't know this existed! Gawwwd dayummmm this would think solved so many problems in the booth I used! 😫😫 ... brilliant that 👌🏼
Today I learned that this exists, and today I also learned that if someone says, "two turntables", _without_ following that with, "and a microphone", as you did twice, then I get really uncomfortable because I feel like something hasn't been completed 😄 Interesting little thing - I'd love to see a blind A/B test done with this on some audiophiles.
On the other hand, this device in itself kind of looks like a lamprey :) In case you don't know, it is a fish, but not really a fish. It doesn't have any jaws, just small teeth in a circle
I'm not a DJ, but I love gizmos that solve unique oddball problems, tho' even I can't think of a scenario where could find a use for this gadget. Still, it makes sense for its intended use case. BTW, I have that exact model of Sony Discman - and it still works. And "Mad About You" is one of my favorite Candy Apple Blue tracks. GREAT video - exactly the kind of stuff we "RetroTech" nerds love! Bonus points for the brief cameo of that vintage iPod.
@0:25 - I started djiing 33 years ago and 4 channel mixers were very easy to come by and rather ubiquitous - radio shack had a few examples for a consumer level mixer - .. but to your point.. about 25 years ago after the 'bedroom dj' craze hit hard in late 90s , the market was flooded with 2 channel mixers with a cross fader. -for the 'wanna be battle dj' kid set up. I have never ever seen this Stanton product I though the title was a joke at first.
There are also adapters where you can input a line level and output directly a phono level with RIAA eq (without a turntable in the middle 😁), they're used to convert a phono input in an amp or preamp into another line input.
theres also the ones with rca in and output so you can use your phono input for something else. also useful for repairs to save some space on the bench
Add me to the “didn’t know this existed” group. And until you explained why this was practical for DJ’s, I wouldn’t have ever known a need for one existed. Thank for you sharing this!
They should have made one that had both a 3.5mm input and a stylus, so that one should not have replaced the cartridge back and forth. I like your Minisette-11, so cute. Minisette-9 is common on eBay, but not the 11.
I can only imagine in some alternate reality, an RIAA curve is meeting with its antimatter counterpart, annihilating, and creating another universe full of blown midranges and headphone drivers.
This might actually be useful for debugging audio issues with a turntable. It would let you do a direct 1:1 comparison with a digital source, which could help rule out things like an impedance mismatch or a problem with your phono preamp.
Weird that's like one of those things I would've dreamed up as a kid and built because it didn't exist but for some reason I never thought to go into the tonearm. I did retrofit a record player to have a line input for a CD player but that was one of those cheap all in one plastic and fiber board units. I also took a tonearm to a 3.5 Jack.
This is good for anyone just using a single input with their vinyl turntable, but I don’t think it’s convenient for DJs anymore, it’s not as useful anymore now with wireless audio devices, since they can use their mixer or receiver with just a push of a button switching audio inputs.
I have still cassettes all metal quality and many in mini discs from 96' at Goa and other psytrance music from that era now you remind me this you putting me ideas again 🤣
Secretly I was hoping for the device to contain an actual MM or MC cartridge, connected to a little lever instead of a needle. That lever would have a magnet at it's tip which would sit inside two perpendicular coils that are fed by the L+R and L-R line input signal. That way you could have all the mechanical distortion and subpar crosstalk suppression of a proper record player too. Then all we'd need to find would be a way to add some wow and flutter and THAT would be the good sound of vinyl from any source.
I remember that Discman as a kid pre antishock going to the Goodguys and Circuit city those were the days. That CD player was a bit to expensive for me I bought the Sanyo version.
Those SME bayonette mounts are often finicky to make a connection. Sometimes I have to reattach the headshell several times before it comes out of both channels. I'm not entirely sure that I'd want to rely on this switching from the line input to a phono cartridge and back in a club setting. But i guess with one of those use cases you indicated it might be your only option, however mixing boards like the one you show have separate inputs for line level and a switch to switch to them already.
Uhm, ALL 2ch mixer have a line input and switch. Why do you need this? I owned several console set ups. I just added and input and or adapter for the extra mic input(s). That’s notwithstanding console turntables largely didn’t take standard 1/2” head shell. The cartridge is not what makes “vinyl sound”. Mastering and cutting of the lacquer master for plating, then pressing is what makes vinyl sound.
that sound test sounds perfectly serviceable through a set of Studio monitors (YT compression not withstanding) If I had bought one of these "back in the day" id've been happy with it
This is a good, comprehensive video and it leaves me with only one really big question still unanswered: where the heck did you get Retro Grooves on CD??
I still have the exact same Discman :-p . Pretty sure you could turn the turntable off even. The signal still goes through as always. What a funny item.
For DJs when this adapter came out it was pretty much useless in the early 90s Gemini and Radioshack where selling 3 to 5 channnel mixers with the flip switches there were really 6 to 10 channel. I have a Gemini PS-525 channels with the flip switches came out in 1997 and a Radioshack SSM-1750 4 channel with the flip switches came out in 2000. I use the Radioshack mixer with my internet radio station Phat Beats Radio.
always good to hear flourish.mid. interesting device, not sure if swapping it constantly would be more detrimental to the turntable's arm connector than just swapping cables on your console (if possible)
I cannot remember a single piece of music from Limelight or Palladium in NYC, so sure - yeah! I haven't idea what could possibly sound better because I am mostly deaf from all the hard partying.
Why didn’t they make an interface box (with a passive RIAA network) that connected to the mixer input. This would have two switchable inputs: selecting either the turntable’s RCA line or the auxiliary line source. This alternative approach wouldn’t require you to remove the headshell and risk damaging the cartridge or stylus.
Ay up, don't be dissing my plastic belt driven turntables! 🤣🤣 Citronic CL-12 anyone? 😁 I had a couple of matchbox sized boxes that did the same thing back in the late 90's - they had phono(RCA) in and out rather than connecting direct to the headshell.
When doing gigs in smaller clubs, often solo artists would rock up with nothing more than a cassette with backing tracks, so the ability to just connect a walkman straight to the turntable was a godsend. Particularly if the mixer was built into the furniture, or if it didn't even have line inputs at all.
My first one was homemade, 3.5mm lead + a bunch of passive filter components + standard headshell + far too much epoxy. Looked sketchy but got me through a few gigs lol
You're the guy that makes the HIDman. Fancy seeing you here!
Yeah, I don't think there were many (if any) mixers that didn't have line inputs. The statement at 0:56 is incorrect- you couldn't plug anything other than turntables into the phono input, so there was never a reason to unplug the turntable. There was always (in every DJ mixer that I've ever seen- and I've seen many over the last 35+ years- from the cheapest crap to the most expensive).
The reason that this device existed was exactly so you either A: didn't have to scrabble round the back of the mixer, half cut in the dark while a record was playing trying to find the right line input, risking accidentally messing up the wiring causing nasty buzzing or worse, or that B: the back of the mixer was simply inaccessible due to it being built in.
This was a simple and safe option.
@@chillstar There were quite a few mixers without line inputs, especially in the 80s. Even some later mixers didn't (Vestax PMC07ProISP, released in 2001).
@@chillstar Even cheaper and simpler were RCA barrel inline adapters to reduce (attenuate) line level to phono level and some came with a dongle and a switch to alternate between the two very different output levels
What could go wrong?
I did one gig with vinyl ,July 4th pool party- I watched in horror as the sun melted my record-from then on it was two cassette decks- and later two SONY discmans-
who wants to carry 6-7 crates of vinyl to and fro?
Imagine this - Spotify on a smartphone, over bluetooth to a bluetooth cassette adapter in a walkman, connected to Stanton LineMaster on a turntable with a built-in pre-amp, connected to a receiver that supports bluetooth. Perfection.
I'll subscribe to your channel if you do this.
I.e how to downgrade your quality for no reason
@@AndreasJordanidis its spotify, it cant get worse than that lmfao
Will it be a turntable that sends the audio via Bluetooth ? I'm in.
Ah yes, sounds like noise and bluetooth artefacts, PERFECT!
I'm gonna get one and feed another turntable's output into it. Audiophiles will be so jealous of my warm analogue sound
It's analog squared.
Double the analogue goodness 😆
Daisy chain a few of these together and reach peak vinyl analog heaven!
If you want analog warmth, get some wood and build a fire.
@@60gregmaanalogue warmth in sound. It’s a different concept lil buddy. Leave this one to the pros!
When I started watching the video, I thought WTF?!? Who would need this goofy thing? Turns out...There WAS a market and legit use for such a device! I learn something new here all of the time.
From absurd to clever in under one minute.
Got to admit I thought the same, what mug would buy this?
Yep it could come in handy so thats me then 😂
Oh, no, just because it has a legitimate use-case doesn't mean it's not batshit crazy.
@@deadmetalbr A lot of shit seems batshit crazy...Until you need it.
Well Techmoan missed this one!😀
My thought exactly.😂
I'm still flabbergasted on his infamous CD Shaver episode
I built one of these decades ago to turn an RIAA input into a line-in input as it was the only spare input my amplifier had, but I had no idea this had ever been a commercial product. This is amazing!
Now we only need a Bluetooth equipped turntable and a jack Bluetooth dongle and we're full circle!
I like to imagine that something like this but wireless would have a small wheel and a dynamo to drive the circuitry instead of batteries
The actual iteration of Sound Burger/Mister Disk released by Audio Technika already complies to stream via Bluetooth the Vynil signal.
@@Eliotime3000 I'm aware of that, several turntables have bluetooth connectivity, in fact Kevin showed/reviewed some on this very channel. What I meant we need to have one of those, this weird little device, and a Bluetooth receiver with a jack output. The sound of eternity is ours! It probably sounds somewhat like Metal Machine Music, I imagine.
i firmly believe the only reason anders enger jensen is a known name in music is because he doesn't use copyright takedowns.
And because of Kevin and Matt from Techmoan
Also the 8-Bit guy. But in any case, Anders found a great way to have his music marketed!
Yes, unlike Don Henley and Jimi Hendrix's sister, he understands that it's not the 1970s music business anymore.
It's not the ONLY reason. He's a talented artist and he's not a jerk about other retro enthusiasts using clips of his music, all he asks is to be credited.
@@devikwolf Well said!
1:20 Correction: DJs had two turntables _and a microphone._ Because that's where it's at. ;-)
I was thinking what a missed opportunity to drop that reference lol
Glad you at least rectified it in the comment section 😂
I kept waiting for him to say it
What an intriguing device! Great video 👏 shared on Sonicstate today!
now THAT'S pretty cool
Very good. Never knew this existed, though I have been tempted on occasion to feed a signal into the tonearm wiring as a 'simple' way to make use of whatever amplifier was connected! 😅. Thanks also for the link to my video. Very much appreciated 😀👍
nice retro touch playing M$ "Flourish" as your outro tune!
Neat adaptor! But from the video title, I was expecting it to add pops and tiny scratch sounds to the audio! 😊
I am always very happy to see your videos show up. I just love how you make top quality content about very, VERY specific topics.
as a life long dj, this video is full of misinformation , whether just ignorance or willful ignorance am not sure
@@mikeriverajr4447 I would never assume the author had any bad intention and I believe he put best effort to find information. Good for you that you know more! Maybe you could educate us all about the mistakes made?
Nothing crazy about it since it is passive, so it is just a few resistors and capacitors and some nice marketing, although it is a clever idea.
yeah exceppt for the phono preamp adds an RIAA curve, so now the source would an excess of bass and no trebble
@@mikeriverajr4447it’s compensated for the curve, as shown in the first 3 minutes of the video
@@mikeriverajr4447 These few resistors and capacitors create a direct RIAA correction, which is then rectified by the phono preamplifier. I myself assembled a similar one in order to check, repair and adjust phono preamplifiers.
@@mikeriverajr4447 On my headphones at least, the example in the video and the original from TH-cam Music sound like they have basically the same equalisation.
Even just in this example, it definitely sounds like there's a lot of treble.
I would think a 10:1 transformer for each channel would be a better option, because a ground loop at 0.500mv can be corrected, but a ground loop at 0.05mv would be atrocious.
Today I learnt that we all wish for many different things in our lives.
OMG, its an RIAA curve encoder! Wow! Thanks for sharing!
Basically the exact opposite of what a phono input does on a preamp.
@joeylawn36111 yup!
Crazy. I could never imagine something like this exists.
Thanks for flourish.mid from DirectX 9(?) played on the cassette at the end. Reminds me of simpler times of my life.
Loved hearing the Flourish midi at the end there as if it were from a vinyl record!
Wow. That device is so cool. Thanks for the info. Great video. Well done!
Thank you for another interesting video, you keep finding the most interestibg stuff 👌
I never seen a mixer with just strictly 2 inputs. Yes, 2 channels but you always had 2 inputs on each channel. One was for Aux/CD/Line and the other switch was for Phono, and you still had the line/phono CD. Now this would come in handy where you had the mixer flushed down into the table. These set ups were really nice to look at but many a DJ spilled a drink only to watch its liquid contents just gravitate right into the mixer. In many of these set ups, you would have what I call a "band" mixer with multiple channels that the DJ mixer would be patched into. Great video.
notice how yours the only comment that didnt get a like from him, i am also a old school vinly dj and the video was full of misleading statements. .
came here to say the same thing.
Rarely does anyone on TH-cam show me something I've not seen before, at least as far as video/audio is concerned, but this is a first! Talk about a limited market though, jeez! I bet the serial numbers (if they had one) wouldn't go much past a few hundred 😂 Quite bizarre. The closest I've seen to this is Sony's in-line Line to Mic level adapters, from the 70s. Still, happy to know there are still a few audio surprises out there! 😄 Good luck plugging one in to a Garrard SP25 MkIII though, or a BSR! 😂 Nice find, either way! eBay, presumably?!
My very first DJ gig at the tender age of 16 was on one of those all-in-one consoles - a Citronics one I think - always had a soft spot for them ever since - if I'd the space to spare I'd collect a few, they look so 70's.
This is blummin awesome! I didn't know this existed! Gawwwd dayummmm this would think solved so many problems in the booth I used! 😫😫 ... brilliant that 👌🏼
Today I learned that this exists, and today I also learned that if someone says, "two turntables", _without_ following that with, "and a microphone", as you did twice, then I get really uncomfortable because I feel like something hasn't been completed 😄 Interesting little thing - I'd love to see a blind A/B test done with this on some audiophiles.
And a mixer , 2 turntables and a mic is useless without mixer 😅
@@macgyver6999 That's not how the quote goes.
@@svenlakemeier but doesn't negate the fact, where you plugging mic into lol
On the other hand, this device in itself kind of looks like a lamprey :)
In case you don't know, it is a fish, but not really a fish. It doesn't have any jaws, just small teeth in a circle
I am reminded of how beautiful the Sony D-131 is.
Today, I learned this existed
I'm not a DJ, but I love gizmos that solve unique oddball problems, tho' even I can't think of a scenario where could find a use for this gadget. Still, it makes sense for its intended use case. BTW, I have that exact model of Sony Discman - and it still works. And "Mad About You" is one of my favorite Candy Apple Blue tracks. GREAT video - exactly the kind of stuff we "RetroTech" nerds love! Bonus points for the brief cameo of that vintage iPod.
@0:25 - I started djiing 33 years ago and 4 channel mixers were very easy to come by and rather ubiquitous - radio shack had a few examples for a consumer level mixer - .. but to your point.. about 25 years ago after the 'bedroom dj' craze hit hard in late 90s , the market was flooded with 2 channel mixers with a cross fader. -for the 'wanna be battle dj' kid set up. I have never ever seen this Stanton product I though the title was a joke at first.
"Make anything sound like vinyl" 😂😂😂I needed a laugh - thanks for that
There are also adapters where you can input a line level and output directly a phono level with RIAA eq (without a turntable in the middle 😁), they're used to convert a phono input in an amp or preamp into another line input.
Makes me wish i still had my old discman. So bright sounding!
I wouldn't have imagined this product existed, not even in my wackiest dreams, thanks for sharing.
theres also the ones with rca in and output so you can use your phono input for something else. also useful for repairs to save some space on the bench
Wow thats so cool! Never saw one of this anywere. Fantastic video as always.
Add me to the “didn’t know this existed” group. And until you explained why this was practical for DJ’s, I wouldn’t have ever known a need for one existed. Thank for you sharing this!
That will work very well for me because I use a phono preamp with vacuum tubes, the sound is so warm
They should have made one that had both a 3.5mm input and a stylus, so that one should not have replaced the cartridge back and forth. I like your Minisette-11, so cute. Minisette-9 is common on eBay, but not the 11.
Gary Wright "Love is Alive" is a bop!
I can only imagine in some alternate reality, an RIAA curve is meeting with its antimatter counterpart, annihilating, and creating another universe full of blown midranges and headphone drivers.
I had that exact Discman CD player back in the 90s. Worked good but it skipped easy, no anti-skip.
Great, now I want this even though I have zero use for it.
That Minecraft click at 1:20
Amazing.
Sounds much better than I would have guessed.
This is awesome. I love this.❤
Thank you Linemaster!
DAK - what a blast! Review one of his old catalogs please!
Spectacular video as always.
This might actually be useful for debugging audio issues with a turntable.
It would let you do a direct 1:1 comparison with a digital source, which could help rule out things like an impedance mismatch or a problem with your phono preamp.
0:50 I have the same realistic Cassette recorder. My Dad bought it to record stock reports off the phone in 1986.
I guarantee you could fool an Audiophile into thinking you're playing vinyl by hooking up a phone playing Spotify to it. Lol.
Nice how they packaged the unit to look like a P-Mount phono cartridge!
It literally is the same box that Stanton put their Technics-mount DJ cartridges in.
Weird that's like one of those things I would've dreamed up as a kid and built because it didn't exist but for some reason I never thought to go into the tonearm. I did retrofit a record player to have a line input for a CD player but that was one of those cheap all in one plastic and fiber board units. I also took a tonearm to a 3.5 Jack.
New Flash ! it is the analog recording on vinyl that sounds like vinyl, NOT the turntable, pre amp. This is just a line level input. Silly.
This is good for anyone just using a single input with their vinyl turntable, but I don’t think it’s convenient for DJs anymore, it’s not as useful anymore now with wireless audio devices, since they can use their mixer or receiver with just a push of a button switching audio inputs.
I have still cassettes all metal quality and many in mini discs from 96' at Goa and other psytrance music from that era now you remind me this you putting me ideas again 🤣
You're terrific. Love this nonsense fun stuff.
Secretly I was hoping for the device to contain an actual MM or MC cartridge, connected to a little lever instead of a needle. That lever would have a magnet at it's tip which would sit inside two perpendicular coils that are fed by the L+R and L-R line input signal. That way you could have all the mechanical distortion and subpar crosstalk suppression of a proper record player too. Then all we'd need to find would be a way to add some wow and flutter and THAT would be the good sound of vinyl from any source.
🤣
I remember that Discman as a kid pre antishock going to the Goodguys and Circuit city those were the days. That CD player was a bit to expensive for me I bought the Sanyo version.
Never saw that before, brilliant!
Those SME bayonette mounts are often finicky to make a connection. Sometimes I have to reattach the headshell several times before it comes out of both channels. I'm not entirely sure that I'd want to rely on this switching from the line input to a phono cartridge and back in a club setting. But i guess with one of those use cases you indicated it might be your only option, however mixing boards like the one you show have separate inputs for line level and a switch to switch to them already.
In fact, all 6 of these that were recently listed on eBay have all sold as a result of this video.
Great video.
3:16 Why not connect the Discman direct to the mixer? 🤔
Easier to switch cartridges than rca plugs during a live set.
Uhm, ALL 2ch mixer have a line input and switch. Why do you need this? I owned several console set ups. I just added and input and or adapter for the extra mic input(s). That’s notwithstanding console turntables largely didn’t take standard 1/2” head shell. The cartridge is not what makes “vinyl sound”. Mastering and cutting of the lacquer master for plating, then pressing is what makes vinyl sound.
some consoles in the 90s / early 00s you couldn't get to the line level input in the back even if the mix had it so it has a niche purpose.
Well, I learn something every day. Were line inputs really that scarce back in those days??
You have done your very best to explain its usefulness, but still, this is just such an absurd product 😄
You could use it to test EQ on preamps 🤷♂
that sound test sounds perfectly serviceable through a set of Studio monitors (YT compression not withstanding) If I had bought one of these "back in the day" id've been happy with it
*I’d’ve
@@fclefjefff4041 OK OK I fixed it
Man o man, the stuff you come up with Kevin that I never knew existed! Very cool. Thanks for all the great content you upload :)
This is a good, comprehensive video and it leaves me with only one really big question still unanswered: where the heck did you get Retro Grooves on CD??
I made it myself.
I still have the exact same Discman :-p .
Pretty sure you could turn the turntable off even.
The signal still goes through as always.
What a funny item.
I would have liked to hear a comparison through this unit to direct hookup, I guess I will compare it to Tidal later!
@0:35 - is that a radio DJ or are they in a recording studio..that guy has a Technics broadcasting turntable in special plinth
Nice bit of Flourish at the end.
Looking at all those early DJ turntables made me wanna play some IIDX lol
It deals with the RIAA curve in the phono input.
A real discovery! Thanks!
Fascinating!
Oh wow, i would have never know this existed!
Another cool gadget that I didn't know existed, but now I can't live without getting one.
Feels like an early April fools…but yeah it makes sense. A good sized record collection is very heavy.
Perfect. I need one.
There's a bunch of them currently on eBay.
For DJs when this adapter came out it was pretty much useless in the early 90s Gemini and Radioshack where selling 3 to 5 channnel mixers with the flip switches there were really 6 to 10 channel. I have a Gemini PS-525 channels with the flip switches came out in 1997 and a Radioshack SSM-1750 4 channel with the flip switches came out in 2000. I use the Radioshack mixer with my internet radio station Phat Beats Radio.
I wonder how many of those were sold when they came out !!
always good to hear flourish.mid. interesting device, not sure if swapping it constantly would be more detrimental to the turntable's arm connector than just swapping cables on your console (if possible)
...man I need that cd in my collection....wow...vinyl never sounded better.....
The August MD1 1:40 has an aux/tape input next to the mic input :)
To quote the great Lewis Black... "We're going BACKWARDS!"
I cannot remember a single piece of music from Limelight or Palladium in NYC, so sure - yeah! I haven't idea what could possibly sound better because I am mostly deaf from all the hard partying.
Why didn’t they make an interface box (with a passive RIAA network) that connected to the mixer input. This would have two switchable inputs: selecting either the turntable’s RCA line or the auxiliary line source. This alternative approach wouldn’t require you to remove the headshell and risk damaging the cartridge or stylus.
I thought i'd seen it all but there you go. 😅
6:25 WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS
I used many Stanton Cartridge + Stylus when DJing but never seen this genius piece of kit...Thanks for showing us VWestlife 👍
AYYYY I NOTICED THE FLOURISH MIDI AT THE END
Ay up, don't be dissing my plastic belt driven turntables! 🤣🤣 Citronic CL-12 anyone? 😁 I had a couple of matchbox sized boxes that did the same thing back in the late 90's - they had phono(RCA) in and out rather than connecting direct to the headshell.
Neat little thing 👍👍