Comments on: 10 Record Digging Vinyl Secrets

By: oskamadison

oskamadison — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:53:18 +0000

Very good gems passed along in this post. One that I would like to add, something that should be painfully obvious but neccesary to stress to impatient diggers: listen to the WHOLE record. It took me years to learn this but the older you get, the deeper your appreciation for music gets. We all are looking for that next hot break but in simply skimming the record, you don’t know what you’re skipping over. On top of that, I feel that giving a record a complete listen is the least you can do. Before you take someone’s music and just do whatever you’re going to do to it, I feel like they at least deserve enough respect to just give them a listen to see where they were coming from at that moment in time. The listening process could be made easier by simply doing something else while you’re listening (ie, laundry, dishes, cleaning, etc.) BTW, I actually have the Numark pt-o1 but I never take it out the house. Maybe I should, lol.

By: KillahJ

KillahJ — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:59:34 +0000

^ I agree wit you on that one IV, i’m just starting to truely appreicate music for what its worth, and passing up my olds ways on certain genres of music that i did not favor. This took me close to 5 years to finally understand.

By: IV

IV — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:49:43 +0000

#8 is the truest truth

By: LFDOOM

LFDOOM — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:30:35 +0000

i guess digging mp3’s is out of the question but sadly or positively mp3’s are a huge inexpensive way of finding some hard to reach records plus you’ll be surprised at the mp3 community i have a digital treasure chest I like using, and like a 1,000 vinyl crates = 1 I pod (with ROckbox for high quality Wav. Files) As for example why not searching wikepedia, amazon, and last fm for similar artists to digitally dig, browse through peoples collection, i am positive that you will find a release you never found on vinyl and I’m sure vis versa vinyl you can’t find on mp3 my friend has a hendrix/clapton collabo.

I am broke, If i did get a turntable (want 1 really bad) than I will most likely scour my friends parents collection for some gems and lost wax, to expand my HORIZONS.

Its like an Mp3 is tainted, compared to vinyl, especially when you think about the highs and lows that are cut off when vinyl are turned digital, but hey music is music and discrimination sucks.

One of my heroes is Paul Mawhinney and If I had the money I will buy that collection, a shit load of hardware, and an ounce a day and just get lost. I can go on and on. Also listen to Buck 65 – Driftwood his flow is boring but lyrics are on point his Jaws of Life beat was on a nike commercial.

By: rik riks

rik riks — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:50:32 +0000

yo dig tell you die…… good advice I also think that it has to do with were your at. Im in detroit so I come across allot of Motown, soul but it is not all way in the beat shape thats why sampling works its kind of like recycling old records that just are not worth much … look out for them gems keep digging

peace rikus

By: Semantik

Semantik — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:54:13 +0000

Of course you can cite this… I’m honored!

By: Deseure

Deseure — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:12:14 +0000

I was wanting to know if I could use this resource in an informative essay I’m writing; the essay being about ‘How to Dig for Vinyl Records,’ or something along those lines…There hardly are any resources or books available, so since I know you know your stuff and what-not, can I try citing this?

Thanks.