Monthly Archives: March 2010

An Update from HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis

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This is just a quick update to say thanks to everyone who came to the Turntabling booth at HorrorHound on Friday night. It’s been great to meet fellow vinyl junkies and soundtrack heads. I’ve been updating via Facebook and will have plenty more images and such from the show for the rest of the weekend.

A quick note about online orders—HorrorHound Weekend has been successful thus far thanks in part to a stunning lineup of guests including George Romero, Ken Foree, Sid Haig and many other horror luminaries (Clive Barker and Richard Lynch are also here). Some of the Turntabling stock has sold out–we brought quite a lot out for this one. Any online orders will get personal attention via e-mail as soon as the show is over. If your titles are sold out we’ll work out a back order for you, rest assured!

–Joe Wallace
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WTF Bad Album Covers Harry and Terry

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Two things. First, it’s clear that someone’s hand is in a “bad touch” position. Second, if you saw this album cover in the store and you bought it anyway, you’re a CHUMP. That is all.

No, wait, that is NOT all. WTF is an effing VETRILOQUIST doing with a RECORD out? Isn’t the entire schtick of working that idiotic puppet supposed to be “WOW, that puppet is REALLY TALKING! I can hardly see this dude’s lips move!”

An album with a wooden puppet is sort of like turning someone suffering from multiple personality disorder loose in the studio. You don’t really know WHO the voices are, but you’re terrified ANYWAY. Why is this guy talking to himself in that goofy voice? And what gives with wooden puppets and their dental problems? Charlie McCarthy, this dude…someone get these damn things to a cosmetic oral surgeon and FAST.
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Got Record Needles For Your ION TTUSB Turntable?

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If you own an ION TTUSB turntable, sooner or later you’ll need a replacement record needle so you can continue burning your vinyl collection to MP3. Do you have any idea where to get replacement record needles for the the Ion TTUSB or ION TTUSB10? Now you do. Ion TTUSB record needleGet replacement needles here for your ION USB turntable and keep those MP3s coming. Oh, and while you’re at it you could put together a mega-mix or DJ demo of your favorite 60s and 70s soundtrack sounds and give us a link to your DJ mixage…we’d be happy to tell the world about your amazing good taste. Did we mention these replacement needles are inexpensive? Just under 20 bucks before taxes and shipping from Zzounds.com.

Numark V7 Motorized Turntable Software Controller

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Numark V7Some people are attracted to the Numark V7 because of the direct-drive motorized turntable platter. High and low torque options? You got it. Serato suuport? Scratch LIVE libraries. Yes. Compatible with all DJ mixers, blah, blah blah. The thing that caught our eyes here is the ability to use this motorized turntable controller between two DJs with two laptop setups. You can create up to four virtual DJ decks with the V7.

I admit I’ve never done a DJ battle and have no personal use for the hand-off feature…but I know plenty of people who do. And then there are the crazy collaborative mutants who want to create their own riffs, samples, mashup insanity, you name it. Two people in a room, the back-n-forth between four decks with one controller. A case of beer, a burst of creativity and sleep deprivation all add up to serious mayhem potential. That’s on V7 shared between two DJs. Convenient and loaded with possibilities for the right sick minds who can think outside the DJ booth.

The Numark V7 handoff feature has so many other potential uses and abuses beyond the standard DJ set…get crazy with the cheese-whiz with the V7–and PLEASE be sure to send us the results of your sonic experiments using the Numark V7. Throbbing Gristle meets Erasure at King Tubby’s, anyone?

Specs include support for Mac and Windows, so cross platform types won’t be let down here.