BEST CHRISTMAS RECORDS EVER

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Dec 19, 08 8:33 am

Nice one Clivey!

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Dec 19, 08 8:36 am

Nice one Clivey!

I always think of the Mel Smith / Kim Wild song.

Actually I always think of Kim Wilde!

Did I ever tell you, I have seen Kim Wilde's tits? Honest, in real life!
Oh, and I once met Jimmy Page! (aimed at Dave).

Get's Ready to duck!

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Dec 19, 08 8:46 am

I've got that Sport Fury CD. The cover is the best bit by a country mile.

Folds out nicely and some good pics, but they're not exactly Guitar Legends.

Christmas Song is the Tull track off Living In The Past. Great song. "Hey... Santa.... Pass us that bottle will ya!?"

If I ever get round to replacing my stylus, that'll be played again this year. Along with Dead by Christmas by Hanoi Rocks. Brilliant.

Never heard this, but I might have to get it for Christmas!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Dec 19, 08 8:51 am

Stu wrote: Christmas Song is the Tull track off Living In The Past. Great song. "Hey... Santa.... Pass us that bottle will ya!?" If I ever get round to replacing my stylus, that'll be played again this year.

I regretted throwing out my cassette player when I realised I only had that album on tape.

Locomotive breath on that album is my favorite Tull song as well.

I doubt the tape will play very well these days anyway. I won it in a game of cards in the mid 70s and it has been played a lot.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Dec 19, 08 8:53 am

Dave, when I finally get round to getting a USB turntable, I'll be shoving a lot of my vinyl on MP3. When I do, you're more than welcome to a CD in the post.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Dec 19, 08 8:58 am

Cassette tapes, are they those new fangled inventions? Blue gave me a stack of 8 tracks for my mustang. Billy was very confused when I pulled one out to play while driving down the A505!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:06 am

These two are good.

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:08 am

latil wrote:Tell us more about that one,Steve.
Looks as rare as my Dumpys rusty nuts album

Steve...I know Dumpy, he works as a Rigger on gigs we do

http://991.com/Buy/ProductListing.aspx? ... ography=on

album cover pic, its about 8 years old, they sound like BRMC....black rebel motorcycle club, i like it

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:08 am

WHAT has that bloke in the flowery dress in the front GOT ON HIS HEAD!???!

(Syrup...

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Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:09 am

AllKiller wrote:aphy=on

album cover pic, its about 5 years old, they sound like

... a bosted bag o bolts.

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:16 am

You peaked to early Stu

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:18 am

AllKiller wrote:BRMC....black rebel motorcycle club, i like it

Should've seen that coming, shouldn't I!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Dec 19, 08 9:35 am

Stu wrote:Dave, when I finally get round to getting a USB turntable, I'll be shoving a lot of my vinyl on MP3. When I do, you're more than welcome to a CD in the post.

I wouldn't say no to that!

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Fri Dec 19, 08 10:28 am

if you already have a turntable

i woudln't bother with the USB turntable

its a low quality turntable with a sound card built in

i.e if you have a sound card and a turntable with a preamp

just plug the output from the preamp into your sound card and record

any claims they make about the software that comes with the USB turntable about it being simple and easy to use or a load of old cods

Nero or any CD making software has exactly the same features

apart from playing your 33s at 45 or 78 to speed the record process up....something you wouldn't want to do anyway because the affect on tracking is dire, surface noise is massive, and the rumble caused saturates the sound card with unwanted bass interference.

and i would only ever use declick on a 78 shellack disk and even then only if i had to (better to play it with an old modern cartridge which even in its worn state tracks the grove lower than any old chunk of rock from the 50s (wire the left and right channels togerther at the cartridge for mono recordings and try to use a premap with a 78 record equlising circuit otherwise it will be bass light and very hissy, modern RIAA equalisation aint suitable for 78 records, you can adjust with sofware but its a poor second)

you will still have to name each track manually and the tracks are split based on silence which of course screws anything with a bit of silence up good and proper. or each album records 150 tracks the majority of which are less than a second long because the thing triggers on scratches which are amplified by the poor quality of stylus, cartridge and manufacture of the turn table

spend £125 on a turn-table from Project or buy a second hand Thorens or Lenco off ebay stick an ortofon OMB cartridge in it 17-25 quid
richer sounds to a 45 quid Cambridge audio pre amp that will adapt your turntable to any amp surround sound system Ipod speakers or sound card just plug it into any none turntable analogue input

I nearly bought one of the USB ones for my dad (his mate had one) but once i got me hands on it in maplins i found it was the biggest pile of brown stuff ever.

for albums you own that are reasonably main stream

use ISOhunt website to find and bit torrent to download the MP3s of the CD version or indeed an ISO image of the CD which can be burnt to a CD with 1 click

or use Ares to search for similar

you have not broken the law if you don't then share what you download with anyone else you have paid your dues for that music your LP is your licence to own a backup.

any you can't find

use nero soundtrax, cool edit windows sound recorder or any free ware you like to record the "not on CD Yet" Lps

but if you have an LP (unless its the only one) someone somewhere will have MP3d it

if i can find "Ape Call" by Nervous Norvus anything is possible

this will save you the misery associated with trying to transfer an analogue collection to PC

i have hundreds of LPs 1 a night worked out at about 3 years of misery

by no. 3 (on about day 5 of the process) i'd lost the will to live

i occasionally do some singles and 12 inches.. or the odd bootleg but thats it

Dave

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Dec 19, 08 11:12 am

We bought some handy little, good quality digital audio recorders a few months ago and they have a line input. When I get the Challenger running next year I am going to plug one into the LINN pre-amp output and transfer some of my LPs so I can then download to my PC (which is upstairs in the box room) and then burn a few CDs for the car.