Since my last beat-making session and finishing the 33 1/3 book on Donuts, I started going through my old vinyl records and found that my current turntable was not working correctly. The speed was adjusting and made it difficult to even realise what is playing. I thought it was cool to use for something creative, but that I needed a new turntable. As I want to create dig and sample vinyl on this musical project that I’m making, influenced again by the 33 1/3 book that discusses how J Dilla broke the rules and sampled everything, and also how vinyl has very rare records that are difficult or impossible to find online.
I ordered this new Audio Technica LP120X, it is a Technics 1200 MK2 clone but still very good quality and much cheaper than a real Technics.
After setting it all up, I realised that I lack the correct cables to get it going straight into my interface, and then into my monitors. I then did a workaround where the output goes into my SP404MK2 and then out of its USB C output, which then connects to my mac and that goes through my Apollo Twin X.
I spent a few hours listening to records that I own, discovering new samples and digging through a collection I had not tinkered with in ages. I collected a few ideas and samples into my SP404MK2 and just prepared the idea for what I need going next.
I think I need to do the Mise En Place exercise again and reshape my studio set up in my home studio, currently, it does not allow for quick working and efficiency. I also realised I need new cables two TRS cables in order to record the output of my SP404MK2 into my audio interface as it is having issues operating correctly. I’ve ordered two Van Damme cables and Neutrik connectors which I will use to create them myself as I can’t afford good cables so I’ll make them instead.
After this point, I need to locate a few record shops, read into crate digging and then go digging and create more beats. I think a good schedule going on forth is constantly making beats and music, and then simultaneously reflecting and researching. Hopefully ending by March 17th end of term, before our break with a finished musical project. Mixed and Mastered. Including artwork.
Also at the same time, I was using the turntable creatively to manipulate things on it, I’m curious to look at turntable works and consider how I can do things before going into the sampler? Can I create a turntable piece of work maybe, perhaps on a song on the album?