Crosley Cr49 How to know when Record Needle is Worn out?
I have a Crosley CR49 Turntable, and I want to know how to detect a Worn Needle to avoid damaging my records, and also, how long does a needle of the crosley cr49 last?
one more thing:
why does the needle make the noise of the song that i am playing when the volume is turned down?
especially noisy when playing 45s singles
Thx,’
Ben N
Strange section to post in, but are you lucky to find me! If you are unsure of how old the needle is, replace it for sure. http://www.needledoctor.com Today, almost any needle you buy will be a diamond needle, but make sure. Many of the old needles are carbon. lesser quality = quicker failure rate.
The reason you can hear the music is because that is how vinyl works. The old turntables with the funnel coming off the needle used no electricity, just amplified noise. The receiver is the amp in modern stereos.
Turntable Level What is a quality beginner level Turntable (for scratching)?
I was looking at the $199 Stanton Dent and Scratch, is that quality? Any things helps I don’t know anything about this kind of stuff.
Believe it or not, I would recommend an older JVC model, that you would find in a pawn shop or on Ebay. Any one of them with the “tracing hold” tone arm would do great. The ones with quartz locked speed control looked sharp, too, because they had tiny mirrors all around the platter itself.
I DJ’d with them exclusively years ago, the were quite resistant to the floor and table shaking, and were almost impossible to cause feedback in a high sound pressure level situation.
I’m wanting to say that the model numbers were JLA-20, JLA-30, JLA-40, etc. The tone arms were slim, chrome, and were shaped like a long “S”.
Hope you find something good.
How to Operate a DJ Turntable : DJ Turntable Controls: Levels
The Essentials of Dj Equipment
There are several young people out there that aspire to become DJs, but do not have the necessary knowledge of what they need to get started. If you are serious about pursuing a career as a professional DJ, you must begin by investing in basic, yet essential DJ equipment that you need to succeed such as a sound mixer, turntable, headphones and speakers. As you gain experience and income opportunities, you will be able to upgrade your DJ equipment to more sophisticated DJ systems.
The turntable is the most important component of DJ equipment that a successful DJ must master. Your initial set of turntables, you should begin with something used. If you do choose to purchase a new turntable, be sure to invest in one of the less expensive models as you are just starting your career as a professional Disc Jockey. It takes a lot of hard work to reach the highest level of spinning on a turntable and wowing a packed out dance floor with your awesome beat. This is a nerve-wracking process that takes a lot of dedication and practice. Practice your spinning in front of family and friends before hitting the big stages. Once you are confident with your level of skill, then you should upgrade your turntable. An ideal starter model is the popular Technics 1200 or the 1210.
Next on the list of essential DJ equipment is a great set of headphones. Most experienced DJs recommend Sony brand headphones for beginners.
If you are limited by a tight budget, you can put off buying a sound mixer because you should be able to manage at the start without it. Once you have your foot in the door to the industry of professional DJs and begin making some real money, you will be ready to invest in a sound mixer.
Just as you have to in order to get started in any new profession, you must make investments and the Disc Jockey profession is no different. A beginner DJ can expect a budget requirement for essential DJ equipment to be around £2000. A turntable usually sells for somewhere around £1500 and you can usually get a mixer, speaker and headphones for about £100 each. About the Author
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A small metal cylinder rests on a circular turntable that is rotating at a constant speed.
The small metal cylinder has a mass of 0.20 kg, the coefficient of static friction between the cylinder and the turntable is 0.080, and the cylinder is located 0.15 m from the center of the turntable.
Take the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity to be 9.81 m/s^2.
Turntable Cake How do I decorate a blank cake to look like this…?
I bought a plain cake from Publix with white frosting only. I need to know what decorations can I buy to make it look like this cake. I would like for the decorations to be eatable. Thank you for your help.
Will San Francisco 49ers Tickets Be Cherished Again?
San Francisco 49ers tickets were once the premier sports tickets in the country. The 49ers’ run in the 1980′s and early 1990′s is nearly unmatched in the history of the NFL. The team featured some of the best and most recognizable players and coaches on the planet, and for years, the team was the gold standard by which every other NFL club was measured.
Since then, however, the team has gone almost literally from the “penthouse” to the “outhouse.” The 49ers finally had years of salary cap issues catch up with them, and they bottomed out completely in recent years. It was hard to imagine, when watching the team over the past couple of seasons, that this was the best team in football for so many years. Below we’ll look at how the rebuilding effort is coming along, and attempt to answer whether the 49ers can realistically expect to return to their perch atop the NFL anytime soon.
New Coach
Mike Nolan is currently in his second season with the 49ers, and his first season was a total washout. Nolan had no talent to work with as the team attempted to right their salary cap situation, and he almost had to play a rookie QB with no playmakers around him. As expected, the team finished with a dismal 4-12 record, and San Francisco 49ers tickets were basically being given away outside the stadium.
However, Nolan did get to work on laying a cultural foundation, and he jettisoned veterans who weren’t buying in to his plan. He took his lumps with his young players as they gained experience, and he instilled a discipline that had been missing in San Francisco for many years. If one wanted to take a close look at how Nolan was doing, he or she needed to dig much deeper than the team’s record.
New Quarterback
Alex Smith came into the league in 2005 as the top pick in the NFL draft. There simply is not any situation in football where a player can come into the league with higher expectations and more pressure, as every QB who is the top overall pick is expected to be a franchise savior. Looking at past results, some of these top picks succeed and others fail.
After the 2005 season was completed, the jury was still way out on Smith. He threw only one touchdown pass against 11 interceptions, but again, he had no talent around him. So far in 2006, Smith has shown marked improvement. He’s got a few more players around him, but it’s hardly an all-star team. Regardless, Smith is having a much better season, is showing much more football-savvy on the field and has led the 49ers to more wins in 2006 after 10 games than they had in all of 2005.
Overall Progress
It appears that the centerpieces are in place with a good coach and a talented young QB. Those are usually the most difficult pieces to find when building a team, so now that the 49ers are getting cap-healthy, it’s time to start adding complimentary pieces that will push the team over the top.
Overall, the 49ers are headed in the right direction. It’s going to take a few more seasons with good drafts and wise free agent additions, but if the team can keep their momentum, San Francisco 49ers tickets will be “the” sports tickets to get once again.
About the Author
Written by Jay Nault, sponsored by http://www.stubhub.com/ . StubHub sells San Francisco 49ers tickets
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I have a usb cd-rom drive (teac cd-224e) and my pc says the driver is corrupted? not sure what to do?
I’ve tried editing the registery and downloading drivers and NOTHING has worked. need help.
uninstall the drivers. reboot. and attempt to install again.
if that doesn’t work. uninstall drivers again, and use the downloaded copy (after a reboot)
Turntable Belts yes i have this turntable it play fine but everytime i uncue it the needle jump off crazy?
and every time at the end of the record it get stuck i have a new needle and new belt the name or my turntable is a technics sl-b200
have you tried other records as it may be that. maybe adjust the counter weight to increase or decrease the pressure on the needle. try adjusting the slider that pushes the head inwards and prevents it slipping as the disc spins
Radio Turntable What is a antique clock radio worth?
It is cherry oak, it has a turntable, and an 8 track, radio, speakers, tape player, clock…
Wooops! Sorry no tape player!
You could check in the price check forum of RarityGuide.com
Many antique collectors hang out there and might be able to help you learn how much your antique clock radio is worth.
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The Midnight Funk Association, the Last Great Radio Show
The Midnight Funk Association was the 12 a.m. one hour segment of the legendary late night Detroit radio DJ Electrifying Mojo, a.k.a Charles Johnson.
An entire generation of faithful fans and listeners from the late 70′s through the early 90′s recognize the radio show for shaping the musical tastes of listeners in the Metropolitan Detroit Area, Northern Ohio, and Eastern Ontario Canada.
Mojo broke many artists in the Detroit market including Prince, The J. Giles Band, The B-52′s and turned audiences on to classic legends like Pink Floyd and Peter Frampton, artist previously unheard on radio stations that were labelled as “black”, or “R and B” .
Nightly at 12 a.m., Mojo called to order The Midnight Funk Association, an homage to some of the great funk bands of the day and of all time. He frequently played original long versions, and entire sides of albums by George Clinton and Parliament / Funkadelic, Prince, Rick James and many other all time great bands and artists, as well as local groups like Ready For the World.
At the top of the show, Mojo opened membership to the MFA, and members new and old were asked to stand up to show solidarity.
* If you were driving you were to flash your headlights. * If you were at home, you turned on your porch light. * If you were in bed listening to the show, you were required to dance on your back.
And every night for years, people did it !
To become a card carrying member of the MFA, listeners wrote in the radio station and would receive their official MFA I.D. card.
Electrifying Mojo, and the Midnight Funk Association was one of the last great radio music shows of our time. Many fans of the radio show credit Mojo for being fans of music that they would have otherwise never heard of. He was a huge influence in turning millions of listeners into Prince fans, and many say was responsible for a six show sell out at Cobo Hall in Detroit in the late 80′s.
It is common to speak to fans of the show that will credit him for turning them on to Peter Frampton, The B-52′s, Pink Floyd, and many other artists that were never heard on Detroit’s “R and B” stations, yet he also supported emerging rap artists like Eric B and Rakim, Run DMC, Whoodini, L.L. Cool J, and the many styles of music heard of the show fit together semmlessly as if they were mean to be enjoyed together.
The Godfathers and Originators of Detroit House and Techno Music, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, now known and respected around the world as groundbreaking, credit Mojo and the Midnight Funk Association as an early influence in their musical development and he frequently supported and played thier early and history making tracks that launched Detroit techno to the entire world including Inner City’s “Good Life”, Derrick May’s “Strings of Life”, Cybotron’s “Cosmic Cars”, Model 500 “No UFO’s”, “Technicolor”, “R9″ and so many others.
Mojo was known to support and embrace electronic music in it’s early stages and frequently played artists like Africa Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, and New Order as part of his nightly radio show.
Common segments of the legendary radio show included:
* 10:00pm – The Landing of the Mothership. This was the intro to each show with spaceship sound effects and related dialog. Sometimes the music heard during the first hour was indicative of what you’d hear that night; sometimes it would be completely random. * 11:00pm – Awesome ’84, ’85. In the mid eighties, Mojo played an hour of brand new music (hence the year in the title) and a lot of new songs were introduced. * 11:30pm – Lover’s Lane. A half an hour of “slow jams” for lovers. * 12:00am – The Midnight Funk Association. Consisted regularly of Parliament-Funkadelic, The Gap Band, Zapp and other funk bands of the era.
From 1:00am to 3:00am (2:00 am on Saturday nights), Mojo’s show was different every night. Sometimes, the MFA would stretch well beyond 1:00am, other times Mojo would introduce segments such as:
* Star Wars – A classic “artist vs. artist” set, where Mojo would alternate selections from two different groups or artists, and the listeners would call in to vote for their favorite. * Journey – Sometimes a multi-night segment, where Mojo played songs by a single artist or group, spanning their entire career. This usually included a mix of hits and obscure songs by that artist. * Shout-out – Everyone that called into the station during his show was the recipient of a “shout-out”. He would go on for as long as it took rattling off the first names of every single person who had called in to the show. * 35-35-35 – Mojo would take suggestions from listeners about their favorite artists and bands. He then would choose the three most popular groups that night and play thirty-five minutes, commercial-free, of each group. This segment often gave airtime to groups that no other radio station in Detroit played.
At other times, Mojo would spend the last 2 hours of his show showcasing live mixes on two turntables, by bringing in local DJs to do the same. One such DJ, Jeff Mills, began his career with Mojo as “The Wizard.” Mojo also would air music by local groups at this time.
In the Metro Detroit Area, The Midnight Funk Association was more than a nightly radio show, it was an event that listeners looked forward to every night for years. It was common to see cars flashing thier lights at midnight and horns honking on the streets all over town at Midnight.
Mojo crossed color lines and did not adhere to a play list like today’s prepackaged radio stations and while broadcast on stations marketed toward the African-American market, his programming was an inspired blend of the best soul, funk, New Wave, and rock that defied standard radio industry formats and genres.
He believed that good music had no color, and should not be packaged into “Black” stations, and “White” stations, a concept still lost on today’s radio station owners, and program managers.
Electrifying Mojo and his Midnight Funk Association was the last of the great radio shows, and the last show that had any originality, and independent thought outside of a prestructured play list or carefully crafted demographic studies.
By following his love of music and adhering to a standard of just playing what was good, Mojo accomplished something that radio has been unable to do since. Capture a cross section of music lovers that encompassed every age, race, and finacial demographic, and create listeners andloyal fans that tuned in simply because they loved the DJ and the music.
Most recently, Mojo is serving as Program Director for a handful of Detroit radio stations – he does not publicize which ones – and he was in negotiations to bring his show to XM satellite radio in 2006, but so far nothing has been heard about it.
Fans from all over still speak of the legendary radio show, as well as, others who have heard about it and what it meant to so many, for so long.
For those of us that were there, The Midnight Funk Association will live in our hearts forever, and we will always be card carrying members.
It was truly one of the last great radio shows of our time.
About the Author
Harold Mansfield of 4th Internet Media is the webmaster and editor of Midnight Funk Association.com, a fan site dedicated to preserving the memory of Detroit’s most famous radio DJ Electrifying Mojo, and his Legendary late night radio show.
