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[host] Are there questions now? Well
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the workshop has really gone a little bit over time
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unexpectedly due to our set up time
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with the turntables so we're going to have to cut it at this point.
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Before we move into a workshop on GQ dancing.
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Are there questions for either the DJs we have here, Grand Wizard Sly or Grand Master Nell, and --
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Yes, sir?
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{SILENCE}
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Do you use expensive turntables? Oh- special turntables
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It's really the same thing
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{DJ 1} Well the best kind of turntables to use would be 1200s. Just about every manufacturer that makes a turntable- he make a 1200 model.
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{SILENCE}
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On a regular turntable?
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You could do it but it wouldn't come out as good as it would come out with, um, magnetic turntables.
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{host} One of the problems which a lot
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of people meet up with
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when they try and go home and do blending or scratching-
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especially scratching - is that they're turning the turntables
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the disc on the turntable backwards against the motor
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well now, that's the best way to burn out a motor on most turntables, because what you're doing is
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forcing the platen to go against
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the motor's direction. The way that the DJs will get around that
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A) Is to use a special turntable
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and B) is to put something under the record that will allow the disc to slide against the movement of the turntable
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Now, could you explain what you put under there to allow it to slide and why you do that?
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{DJ 2} Ok, I took the rubber mat off because- the reason why I took off the rubber mat cause when I put on the record, if I want to bring it back
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the whole entire player would come back like this
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and what I be doing is forcing the motor back.
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And if I keep doing that there- I'd burn my motor out.
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so, what I done- I cut out 2 round circles

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