Is Vinyl dying?

sines · Post by **sines** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:23 pm

QUIT MAKING THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! K.THANKS

dirt_mcgirk · Post by **dirt_mcgirk** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:28 pm

Dubloke wrote: I need to be able to see the change in grooves on a record, be able to properly adjust the record with my hands etc. Hard to explain but VINYL FOR LIFE!!!!

THIS ^

its all about the tactility, vinyl just feels more natural to play with. when it comes down to it, i could care less what a dj uses as long as it sounds good it's all a matter of preference. but i feel that, especially in dubstep, there's still a strong base that spins vinyl and will keep the market going. it may be more expensive, but records are waaaay cooler to own than mp3's.

aleks zen · Post by **aleks zen** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:34 pm

i used to love vinyl and still do! but as times move on it doesnt take much to realise cds are the way forward. the little bastards are easy to carry, and u can burn ur own riddims quick time

cd's

gchrist · Post by **gchrist** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:38 pm

Sinecure wrote:
gchrist wrote:A piece of vinyl as a hard copy of a song will long outlast a cdr or string of electrical data on a hard drive. If everything 'crashed' somehow, the vinyl will remain.
so true, unless the vinyl gets hot or scratched. Eventually, after a lot of use a vinyl gets pops and clicks too. I suppose every format has it's downfalls.

It's pretty easy to stop vinyl getting hot and scratched. You just dont put it anywhere hot. And keep it in its sleeve.

sinecure · Post by **sinecure** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:40 pm

haha, unless you have stupid gf's like in "Go"

sines · Post by **sines** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:02 pm

iggyiggy wrote:
Sines wrote:QUIT MAKING THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! K.THANKS
quit being a tnuc

dude get off my dick already.
2 threads and 2 tnuc ass remarks from you.

eshscramble · Post by **eshscramble** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:09 pm

i just bought a bunch!

can't wait for it in the mail!!!!!!

dopelabs · Post by **dopelabs** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:47 pm

same... ill keep buying vinyl as long as someone keeps making it....

kirkio · Post by **kirkio** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:56 pm

I love to DJ with vinyl way more than CDs. As plenty of peeps have already said its just so much more tactile, and the sound is warmer too. However it aint half getting expensive! I went shopping for tunes today and was shocked to discover that pretty much ever single plate in BM Soho was £6.50 or £7+

With prices like that for a 2 track 12" its hardly surprising that a lot of people will rather fork out £1.20 for the 320 from Juno or wherever, save the extra cash for more tunes, and the bad back from lugging a massive bag of plates around. Plus you get the added bonus of not usually having to get the other tunes on the single unless you want to.

bassbeyondreason · Post by **bassbeyondreason** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:11 pm

Vinyl will never die.
Even when the oil runs out and we're plunged into a new dark age, there'll still be someone in a cave playing a scratched copy of "I Feel Love" with their teeth.

kirkio · Post by **kirkio** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:25 pm

bassbeyondreason wrote:Vinyl will never die.
Even when the oil runs out and we're plunged into a new dark age, there'll still be someone in a cave playing a scratched copy of "I Feel Love" with their teeth.

If the oil runs out we could always melt down all the 1000s of copies of The Sound of Music or similar crap that fills the backrooms of every charity shop in the country. Might not be such a bad idea tbh. A shit records amnesty in order to provide new vinyl for more worthy presses in the future!

bassbeyondreason · Post by **bassbeyondreason** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:30 pm

They did that in Turkey in the 70s/80s and a lot of psych rock records got destroyed (so the remaining copies are now worth thousands). I think something similar may have happened in Jamaica too. I'd definitely support a major-label surplus meltdown though.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:36 am

No!!!!! now go slap ya mum for even asking that

struggle · Post by **struggle** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:47 am

vinyl dead? no.
threads like this? yes.

chrish · Post by **chrish** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:32 am

I love vinyl, and prefer records but have a bad back & can't carry a record bag anymore, plus cost has become more of an issue for me more then it was when I was 18/19 and had few bills. I'm a Torq DJ now.

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:42 am

http://www.myspace.com/waronvinyl

dj $hy · Post by **dj $hy** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:43 am

Vinyl will die. I was told dubplate's made for cutting in the UK are being supplied by just one company now... They bought out their competition so it isn't going to be long until that company is out of business! Add to that the simple, very simple fact that no one knows how to fix cutting lays(cant spell it!) means trouble! I've spoken to 3 different owners of cuttings houses who all use and only know one guy who fixes their lays! Ask next time you go cutting! He has no apprentice so what happens when he hangs up the old boots?

With regards to normal vinyl I seriously cant see it lasting either sadly due to the fact most people start on CD/MP3's now. Sales must be dropping and compared to the mighty days of UKG/DnB I'd say the motion is well set in place.

Very sad but just with anything in life nothing is forever and I think vinyl has lasted out a lot of competition over the last 10 years from other media's like CD, Serato and so on.

Long live vinyl!

bassbeyondreason · Post by **bassbeyondreason** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:14 pm

It was my understanding that vinyl sales were actually on the up compared to late 90s/early 00s, mainly due to indie rock types getting into it more. Not sure about the figures for dance music, but obviously the genre itself isn't as big as it was back in the days of Sash etc.

wascal · Post by **wascal** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:31 pm

sully.harmitage wrote:whats all this about other mediums being more 'convenient'. what does that really have to do with it?

When it comes to using Traktor Pro. It means having 1500+ tunes in a folder, searchable by genre, key, bpm and year instantly. Also having loop points on these tunes and cue points on some of them if thats your bag. Even better, having cue points for individual drums from tunes mapped to a pad controller to resequence tunes completely on the fly.

You would need a forklift truck for your records and the memory of rainman to have all that memorised for that many 12"s.

Did I mention I bloody love Traktor Pro?

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