My ultimate turntable for club/turntabalist DJ.

0:00 This is an idea I've got for my ultimate turntable

Alright folks, this is an idea I've got for my ultimate turntable. Now again, if you've got any comments, if you'd like to put anything forward, if you think it's a load of crap, whatever, then please leave comments. And don't forget as well, if you've got any other ideas, then brilliant, because at the end of the day, you know, it's people like us now that could change the way turntables are made. Right, here's... Here's the idea. Now first of all, that's a general idea of how turntables are set up. Pitch control, turntable, mixer in the middle, crossfade, so you get a general idea. Now that's your basic club setup, isn't it really? Because we know pitch control there, easy to work with. Then if you go here, that's your sort of turntablist setup. Now I've seen very often turntablists, they've got their arm right across here and they're almost...

The arms trying to do weird things that it physically shouldn't have to, across here, which is really, to me, that needs to be somewhere else. Alright, now then, the pitch control that is. Now then, how about this for an idea? This is your basic turntable, that's your arm, your platter, etc. You have two pitch controls, just ignore that part there for the moment. Two pitch controls, now then, a button there. Press that button, this pitch control is working, minus and plus 10. So there we go, so we're messing around with this. Now let's say all of a sudden you want to start becoming a turntablist or you're a club DJ but you do like to mess around, cut and scratch, that sort of stuff. So what you do is you turn the turntable across like so.

Again, buttons, as soon as you press the button, one is engaged, the other one is disengaged. Okay? So now this one here's engaged and there you go, plus and minus 10 and you're sorted. This one now won't do anything. So perfect idea I think. Again 33 and 45 have them across there so they're easier for the turntablist to get to. Sorry being, you know let's say if you're a club DJ or a mobile DJ or whatever, there's no real need to have the No, sorry, I beg your pardon. No real need to have the actual 33 and 45 RPM buttons here. They could go across there. Again, start and stop. You could have another start and stop there if you want to. And a light there. Fair enough. Now then, on the Vestax you've got this dial here which is inlaid into the turntable for plus and minus, I think it's 40 or 50. Now that to me, being inlaid...

2:16 The side of the turntable

It, to me, is a bit of a dodgy thing because if you get a bit of beer or something tipped in there, it's going to be a nightmare to clean it. And also, that to me is like a bit of a dust collector, alright? Now then, right, still a good idea. I do like the idea of having an extra pitch control to speed it up or slow it down even more than plus or minus ten, but put it in a different place. Now then, the side of the turntable. Just think about it, this is so logical, but I personally think it's a bloody good idea. You have the actual dial underneath a little lip, facing down. Now then, it's still inlaid, okay, so it's still a case of the actual, the button, the thing you would have your finger on here, is just poking out. But think of it, if you imagine now...

There is the underside of the turntable. There's the front, if I put it like that. Now if you're looking at the turntable from the front and the side of it. So there's the side of the turntable like that. So all you do then is you put your fingers underneath and you think right I want to go faster that way, slower that way and there's a click. There's a click which knocks it on to 45 or 33 so you don't have to look underneath. Now then also Again, with the brake. On the turntables that I've got, you've got two little brakes for starting up the turntable and slowing it down. So this little brake here, as you turn it, the turntable will either start instantaneously or start very slowly. And the opposite with the brake. Now then, there's no need to have those there. Again, you can have them underneath here. Now then, very, very important fact, OK? Everyone's trying to get the most...

4:18 It's an absolute nightmare

Fantastic turntables with loads and loads of torque. What torque is, is basically this. Yeah it's me flabbing. Okay but what torque is, is it's the element of this turntable and the force at which this turntable goes around. Now for a turntablist, a lot of torque is fantastic because when you're cutting and scratching and whatnot, you want as much as you can possibly get near enough because you don't want that platter to slow down. For the club DJ, a lot of talk is a bit of a nightmare because nine times out of ten you will see DJs that they like to put their finger on the turntable here to slow it down and they like to touch the spindle there to speed it up. If this motor is very strong, you can't do that. It's an absolute nightmare. So what you'll have underneath here as well is a couple of buttons.

One for say 4.5kg, the other one for about 2kg. So you press those buttons, so if you're a turntablist, you press it, 4.5kg and you know as soon as you start going wiki-wiki, that platter isn't going to move an inch. It's going to stay at exactly the pitch you want it to. But then if you're a club DJ, you press the other button underneath and then you've got more control over this platter here. There's a few ideas. Now then, here's another one for you as well. This is just the foot. Alright, now can I get a bit closer? No, never mind. Oh there you go, there you go. Right, again here you've got a bit of felt. But here you've got some sort of pin. Not a sharp end, just a small tiny little round dot at the end of it. But this is metal. And this bit here, the orange, is metal where it screws into. Now that can screw all the way in so it's out of the way. So basically the foot is sitting on some felt with a tiny little hole in the middle. This part here, the brown, is soft rubber.

And then here is harder rubber. So this works on the same principle as some very good hi-fi speakers that have little pins at the bottom of them, eliminating a lot of vibration because the vibration will be passed into this soft rubber area. Again the foot will screw into the base of the turntable. So there you go, there's a few ideas. Give us your reactions folks because I'll tell you what, I am sure there are people watching these videos now and they will get ideas. I mean at the end of the day, you buy a turntable and you want it to work but six months down the line you think if only they'd have done this, that, this and that. We now have the opportunity to make these guys think because at the end of the day we are the people using these items. Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy. Take it easy.

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