Vinyl&Kicks86
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Big Tymers had some bangers for their time but for me something i wouldn't spin on wax more of a mp3 listen if i wanted to own a physical copy a 99 cent thrift store find would do.
Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop
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Melt Face Molly Drop
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Don’t disagree but at the same time I’ve got plenty of records that I keep purely for collecting purposes. I’m not gonna pay 40 bucks for it but like you said, thrift finds are great for hip hop
walkingdogs
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Welp. Got my Low End Theory copy today and immediately upon dropping the needle the disappointment set in. There's an insane of noise and static right from the jump and for some reason my VM95ML does not track the first track well at all. It's not noticeably warped or off center but it skips all over the place. The static does fade and the occurrence of skipping decreases significantly on subsequent tracks, but no matter what I did could I improve the sound and performance of the first track. I tried the second disk and it was better but still had some skips which there should be none of. Going to of course contact CS, but man I am bummed. Seen promising reports so far about this release, but it's still early so I'm curious to see if this is a wider spread issue like with too many previous releases recently or if I just got a bad copy. From what I could hear, it sounded great, but if I can't listen to a song in it's entirety, the mastering is irrelevant.
Edit: Put on the VMP copy of Salt N Pepa Black Magic, which is also a standard weight 45, and it was silent no static and no skips. I did just fairly recently get the VM95ML so I at least wanted to make sure it wasn't a stylus issue, and that album showed me that it wasn't.
Edit: Put on the VMP copy of Salt N Pepa Black Magic, which is also a standard weight 45, and it was silent no static and no skips. I did just fairly recently get the VM95ML so I at least wanted to make sure it wasn't a stylus issue, and that album showed me that it wasn't.
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Sonicpharmacist
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Reading the reviews on Discogs and they’re mostly all very positive, maybe you got a bad copy?
Mather
Unknown Member
Hmmm, I didn't have that issue on side A but I'm going to spin again later and I'll check more thoroughly. But just because i didn't have it means nothing, totally believe it's a effed up GZ press. But I will say of ALL the issues I've had I've never had a piece of vinyl skip, from anywhere. So that COULD be down to a setup issue... maybe... Tracking force? Anti skate? What kind of table are you running?
walkingdogs
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That's definitely the way I'm leaning thus far from all that I've seen reported on this album thus far.
walkingdogs
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Running the fan favorite AT-LP120 non X version (been wanting a reason to upgrade). I'll triple check the tracking force, but I've only had the cart for about 6 weeks and I fully calibrated it upon receipt and everything thus far I've listened to with it has sounded great. I even upped the tracking force a smidge to see if that would mitigate the skipping, and it did a bit, but certainly didn't eliminate it. I'll also check the anti skating, but I know that's something this deck always struggles with. Thanks for the suggestions.
Mather
Unknown Member
I mean honestly... it's probably GZ but it can't hurt to check.
Plumcrazyfx
Member
I had to check our my 1240 because I've never had skipping in over a year. Got Mamas Gun and Side B was skipping all over the first track on two copies. Made a little adjustment but sometime it's the record.
Mather
Unknown Member
So you've also got skipping on ATCQ?
Plumcrazyfx
Member
No, mine hasn't even shipped, yet. Just saying sometimes they sneak a lemon in, even on ones that are mostly good.
Mather
Unknown Member
Oh for sure, TRUST me. I've had every issue in the book, it's just that skips are not something I've ever had an issue with through like... 800+ records. So it's not USUALLY something I would say is coming from the pressing. But also different tables different carts etc etc. But yeah, I have no love for GZ... Hopefully any skips get sorted out.
December_boy
Member
45rpm does require your anti-skate to be correctly set up. I have a few 45rpm AP and MOFI and they are more than exacting. Fingers crossed for you.
bdrummond
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I honestly can't remember the last one I picked up....Clipse maybe? Definitely in for Pharcyde.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Curious about the excitement regarding Pharcyde. While I love the album Isn’t there a readily available version already? I haven’t heard the current available version listed below and at $33 “add on” I am gonna grab the VMP pressing regardless but is this version not well regarded?
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 Vinyl release of "Labcabincalifornia" on Discogs.
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jfitzy
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I’m mostly just excited because it’s an albumCurious about the excitement regarding Pharcyde. While I love the album Isn’t there a readily available version already? I haven’t heard the current available version listed below and at $33 “add on” I am gonna grab the VMP pressing regardless but is this version not well regarded?
The Pharcyde - Labcabincalifornia
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 Vinyl release of "Labcabincalifornia" on Discogs.
I’ve been meaning to add to the collection for a while now and using this as an excuse to finally pull the trigger.
I almost bought that pressing a couple of years ago but never got around to it and/or it fell off my radar.
Ghost
Original Resident Ghost
Essentially this. Thre is a certain level of buying confidence I have with VMP in comparison to other releases. So its great to get a definitive edition of this album without having to make a detour for it.