Peter T. Bense (textures@techno.org)
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 21:16:47 +0200
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What we know based on replies we have received thus far:
*O* - ABOUT The FAQ (OLD AS HELL) - Revision 2.2 - January 18, 1994
Copyright (C) 1993,1994 by Steve Valdez <svaldez@ucsd.edu>
http://www.hyperreal.org/music/dj/sl1200.html
*O* - SL1200MK3Ds have the "quartz lock kill switch", however are "not
intended for sale in N. America". In fact, the only place they are being
sold is Japan.
(note: I believe this is a "pitch reset button" and not a kill switch...
e.g. it resets your pitch to 0, and has nothing to do with disabling the
"true zero". someone correct me if I'm wrong. looking to hear personal
experience on this one.)
*O* - N.E.W. Music (www.newenglandworks.com), according to an employee,
does all of the modifications that I mentioned in the original post. They
also reported:
"...However, making your tables play in reverse does wear on your motor, we
tried it on an older one and it conked out after 3 months, not sure if its
any better on brand new ones, could be...let me know?..."
*O* - http://www.audio-depot.com
"...a wisconson store that sells nothing but dj equipment and all of the
people that work there are dj's. there are comments about these types of
modifications in the new issue of Massive Magazine that indicate to me that
they would know how to do all of this shit if anyone would. if there's
nothing on the website, call them up...the toll free is 1-888-251-2002..."
HOWEVER, THE MOST INFORMATIVE E-MAIL was from Mix Machines, the
manufactures of Vinyl Touch... based in Germany.
They explained the installation of Vinyl Touch:
"...Installation is fairly simple: remove the turntable platter and the
plastic plate underneath, then plug the VTR module onto some connectors on
the circuit board. This is described step by step in the illustrated
instructions manual. It's really quite easy to do..."
They also mentioned this about their "tuning kit":
"...the VTR Tuning Kit, which contains the reverse module, the LEDs and
detailed instructions on how to solder in the LEDs. We recommend that this
tuning is only done by who have some experience with technical work,
because you need to solder directly on the circuit board of the turntable.
So, you might do some damage if you don't know what you're doing...."
As far as changing the LEDS:
"...the installation takes quite a bit of work and is potentially risky for
the turntable (because of the soldering). Also, the square LED next to the
pitch control is custom size, so you might have problems finding one that
properly fits. The blue square LEDs that come with the VTR Tuning were
tailor-made for us in Asia..."
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