SoulAlive said:

PDogz said:

I don't blame you! I wish I were nearby so you could spin some of your favorite vinyl for me. I'm sure you have some gems that can't be found on CD anywhere. I also have no doubt you could come up with a few tunes that I've NEVER heard. Enjoy man!

That's the cool thing about vinyl...some of this stuff never even made it to CD.I can listen to rare records that I would never find on CD.And since this is a USB turntable I can digitalize all this music to my computer,iPod and CDs.

I'm no good with computers. I can never figure them out because there's always something deep inside the computer that needs to be set a certain way to accomplish what I want to do and instructions don't do me any good either because they use all these computer terms that might as well be a foreign language because I don't know what the hell they mean. Whatever happened to the days of simply buying something, plugging it in, turning it on, and start doing what you want to do immediately without downloading this or that to make it work?

I've had just a simple CD recorder for years that is an actual stereo component. I record records onto CDs just like the old days when we used to record records onto cassette. Then, I take the CDs and scan them into the Windows Media Player in my computer. I love it. It even has a recording volume level that you can turn up if the sound is too low. I can record from the radio and if I can't find a particular song to download, I'll plug my laptop into the stereo and go to youtube and record the audio onto a CD.

Get yourself one of these, you'll love it!....

phunkdaddy said:

SoulAlive said:

a Stanton T92 USB turntable.I'm in love with it

Niice! I need to stop being cheap and update my turntable. I'm still using the same old

ass turntable i bought in 1986 but it sounds good mainly because of my speakers. I also

agree that Cameo was at the top of their game during the Knights of The Sound Table

and Alligator Woman period.

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Oh yes, it's definately time for you to upgrade. Can you even find a replacement needle if yours should wear out?

SoulAlive said:

JamFanHot said:

What kind ya got, Soul?

a Stanton T92 USB turntable.I'm in love with it

Sweet choice, Soul. They make some really pretty decks. Prolly the only one's I'd replace my Tech 1210's with....and I NEVER use anything but Stanton carts.

phunkdaddy said:

SoulAlive said:

a Stanton T92 USB turntable.I'm in love with it

Niice! I need to stop being cheap and update my turntable. I'm still using the same old

ass turntable i bought in 1986 but it sounds good mainly because of my speakers. I also

agree that Cameo was at the top of their game during the Knights of The Sound Table

and Alligator Woman period.

Yeah,get a new turntable make sure it's a USB turntable so you can connect it to your computer/laptop and digitalize your music collection.I spent $300 for this new turntable and it's worth every penny.

JamFanHot said:

SoulAlive said:

a Stanton T92 USB turntable.I'm in love with it

Sweet choice, Soul. They make some really pretty decks. Prolly the only one's I'd replace my Tech 1210's with....and I NEVER use anything but Stanton carts.

vainandy said:

Great song from their last really great album.

Did you like their next album 'Style'? That one came and went without a trace.The only song I heard from it is the title track,which sounds alot like "Be Yourself".

is 'Alligator Woman' on CD?

SoulAlive said:

vainandy said:

Great song from their last really great album.

Did you like their next album 'Style'? That one came and went without a trace.The only song I heard from it is the title track,which sounds alot like "Be Yourself".

Love that one, too.....from '83

"Style"

"Let's Not Talk Slot"

"Aprodisiac"

"Cameo's Dance"

"Slow Movin"

"This Life Is Not For Me"

It's got jamz. The 12's offa that album are bangin, too.

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SoulAlive said:

is 'Alligator Woman' on CD?

Yep, 2nd run of reissues in Japan. Along with "Knights Of The Soundtable" and some from Con Funk Shun and the Bar-Kays in that same series.

Amazon.com: Alligator Wom...meo: Music

JamFanHot said:

SoulAlive said:

Did you like their next album 'Style'? That one came and went without a trace.The only song I heard from it is the title track,which sounds alot like "Be Yourself".

Love that one, too.....from '83

"Style"

"Let's Not Talk Slot"

"Aprodisiac"

"Cameo's Dance"

"Slow Movin"

"This Life Is Not For Me"

It's got jamz. The 12's offa that album are bangin, too.

I'll look for this on my next vinyl dig

Shango said:

SoulAlive said:

is 'Alligator Woman' on CD?

Yep, 2nd run of reissues in Japan. Along with "Knights Of The Soundtable" and some from Con Funk Shun and the Bar-Kays in that same series.

Amazon.com: Alligator Wom...meo: Music

Cool,thanks for the info.

JamFanHot said:

SoulAlive said:

a Stanton T92 USB turntable.I'm in love with it

Sweet choice, Soul. They make some really pretty decks. Prolly the only one's I'd replace my Tech 1210's with....and I NEVER use anything but Stanton carts.

What's a cart? Is that the needle?

I ordered my Stanton turntables off the internet back in 2001 and they were about $125 each. I just couldn't find a turntable with a start and stop button in the stores, let alone with a pitch control, unless you pay $400 or $500. One of the reasons I went with the Stanton turntables instead of another brand, is I kept in mind that the needles are not going to last forever so I researched the internet on replacement needle prices and the Stanton needles for that particular model was around $25 at the time. I had seen other brands with replacement needles that cost over $100 and I didn't want to get something that I'd have to save up for months to replace the needle.

I haven't ever had to replace the needles yet, knock on wood, because I also bought two Gemini CD players with pitch control at the same time (income tax refund ) so I haven't played the turntables nearly as much as the CD players. But now the CD players have finally died on me and it looks like I'll be using the turntables a lot more. I'm dreading to see what needles costs nowadays in 2011 or if I can even figure out how to replace them when the time comes. They look like they just screw on. Let me hush before I jinx myself.

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SoulAlive said:

vainandy said:

Great song from their last really great album.

Did you like their next album 'Style'? That one came and went without a trace.The only song I heard from it is the title track,which sounds alot like "Be Yourself".

I love the song "Style". That's another strong one and is definately "Be Yourself" (Part 2). I only bought the 45 though because I never heard anything else from the album on the radio except for "Talking Out The Side Of Your Neck" which was kinda midtempo and weak sounding. I'm not even sure if it's on the "Style" album though because "Alligator Woman" was the last Cameo album I bought other than 45s and 12 Inches until "Machismo" years later.

SoulAlive said:

make sure it's a USB turntable so you can connect it to your computer/laptop and digitalize your music collection.

That's a waste of time to me. I don't listen to music on a computer and I don't download. I have a stereo system. That's what I like. My reciever was made in 1979 and it works just fine, except the FM radio doesn't work. But I don't listen to the radio anyway, so I don't care about that.

MickyDolenz said:

SoulAlive said:

make sure it's a USB turntable so you can connect it to your computer/laptop and digitalize your music collection.

That's a waste of time to me. I don't listen to music on a computer and I don't download. I have a stereo system. That's what I like. My reciever was made in 1979 and it works just fine, except the FM radio doesn't work. But I don't listen to the radio anyway, so I don't care about that.

But don't you ever want to make a CD of a rare,obscure album that's never been on CD before? That's what's so cool about a USB turntable.Vinyl is the best but you can't drive around town playing a vinyl record in your car.

SoulAlive said:

MickyDolenz said:

That's a waste of time to me. I don't listen to music on a computer and I don't download. I have a stereo system. That's what I like. My reciever was made in 1979 and it works just fine, except the FM radio doesn't work. But I don't listen to the radio anyway, so I don't care about that.

But don't you ever want to make a CD of a rare,obscure album that's never been on CD before? That's what's so cool about a USB turntable.Vinyl is the best but you can't drive around town playing a vinyl record in your car.

I've occasionally copied records to CD for friends/relatives. But I don't have a special turntable. I just hook up the stereo to the PC and I have a program that gets rid of the record noise (or most of it, if a record is in really bad condition). I know many people today don't like the pops. As soon as I'm finished burning the CD, I delete the music from the computer. Listening to records is just fine to me and sounds better than the CD of the same album. I generally don't buy CD's of records I already have unless they have extra songs or something.

vainandy said:

phunkdaddy said:

Niice! I need to stop being cheap and update my turntable. I'm still using the same old

ass turntable i bought in 1986 but it sounds good mainly because of my speakers. I also

agree that Cameo was at the top of their game during the Knights of The Sound Table

and Alligator Woman period.

[Edited 6/22/11 18:57pm]

Oh yes, it's definately time for you to upgrade. Can you even find a replacement needle if yours should wear out?

Yes easily from Amazon and they sound good.

SoulAlive said:

phunkdaddy said:

Niice! I need to stop being cheap and update my turntable. I'm still using the same old

ass turntable i bought in 1986 but it sounds good mainly because of my speakers. I also

agree that Cameo was at the top of their game during the Knights of The Sound Table

and Alligator Woman period.

Yeah,get a new turntable make sure it's a USB turntable so you can connect it to your computer/laptop and digitalize your music collection.I spent $300 for this new turntable and it's worth every penny.

I am already digitizing my vinyl with my old turntable. That's the biggest misconception that these USB manufacturers are shoving down consumers throat. All you need is a RCA plug that is compatible with your receiver and plug it into your computer's sound card. If you have a reciever without a phono output then you will need a phono pre amp. Some people use the free Audacity program but it's a little tedious and boring. I purchased Spin It Again for about 40 bucks and it

takes all the guesswork out of it and it's fun. I have already recorded various albums to cd as

well as a couple of Isley and Commodores albums from cassette. I just want to update my turntable but i don't neccessarily need the USB turntable type.

vainandy said:

SoulAlive said:

Did you like their next album 'Style'? That one came and went without a trace.The only song I heard from it is the title track,which sounds alot like "Be Yourself".

I love the song "Style". That's another strong one and is definately "Be Yourself" (Part 2). I only bought the 45 though because I never heard anything else from the album on the radio except for "Talking Out The Side Of Your Neck" which was kinda midtempo and weak sounding. I'm not even sure if it's on the "Style" album though because "Alligator Woman" was the last Cameo album I bought other than 45s and 12 Inches until "Machismo" years later.

Talking out the Side of Your Neck was the second single from She's Strange.

Style was a good album but i think it was a little too new wavish and experimental

for radio and it didn't have a killer single like most Cameo albums did. The only other

single from the album was their remake of Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling In Love

which probably killed any momentum the album could have had by releasing a better second

single.

MickyDolenz said:

This is my #1 All-Time Favorite Cameo album!!! Woot woot!!

MickyDolenz said:

SoulAlive said:

make sure it's a USB turntable so you can connect it to your computer/laptop and digitalize your music collection.

That's a waste of time to me. I don't listen to music on a computer and I don't download. I have a stereo system. That's what I like. My reciever was made in 1979 and it works just fine, except the FM radio doesn't work. But I don't listen to the radio anyway, so I don't care about that.

Oh, I said the same exact thing. I want to listen to my music on a high powered stereo that's going to disturb the neighbors and get the police called out, not some little ass computer speakers. However, I purchased a cord from Radio Shack where I could plug my computer into the auxilary jacks in my receiver and I shake the walls with my computer these days. The thing I love about it most, is not having to search for CDs. When I moved last year, I didn't even unpack my CDs. I have one of my upstairs closets crammed full of CDs still packed in the boxes. I have my vinyl unpacked and play it all the time but with the computer, there's no need to clutter up my small living room with box after box after box....after box....of CDs. Plus CDs are small and somebody can steal one and you wouldn't notice until later on when you decide to play it.

What I like best about the computer is the Windows Media Player. I have all the songs from my CDs that I like scanned into the computer and also all my vinyl that I like is scanned in there also. My favorite is the shuffle feature in the Windows Media Player. Put in on shuffle and you never know what comes up next. It's like having your own radio station. I also have my songs tagged with genres, year, artist, and song title. I can play a certain year on shuffle, or a certain genre on shuff, or a certain artist on shuffle. I love the fact that I never know what's coming up next and it's all throwing down hard from my stereo speakers. I sit back and let the computer take control and surprise me. I call the shuffle feature, the handjob feature. You can always jack off and it feels good, but if somebody else jacks you off and they're in control, when you come, it's a surprise and it's mindblowing.

phunkdaddy said:

SoulAlive said:

Yeah,get a new turntable make sure it's a USB turntable so you can connect it to your computer/laptop and digitalize your music collection.I spent $300 for this new turntable and it's worth every penny.

I am already digitizing my vinyl with my old turntable. That's the biggest misconception that these USB manufacturers are shoving down consumers throat. All you need is a RCA plug that is compatible with your receiver and plug it into your computer's sound card. If you have a reciever without a phono output then you will need a phono pre amp. Some people use the free Audacity program but it's a little tedious and boring. I purchased Spin It Again for about 40 bucks and it

takes all the guesswork out of it and it's fun. I have already recorded various albums to cd as

well as a couple of Isley and Commodores albums from cassette. I just want to update my turntable but i don't neccessarily need the USB turntable type.

When my old 1994 reciever finally died on me last year, I caught hell finding a receiver with a phono jack that wasn't $300 or more. Places like Rex and Circuit City are gone now and that damn Best Buy has a monopoly on stereo equipment in my area. I ended up buying their brand of receiver called Insignia for about $150. My mixer has phono jacks with ground wire connections but I wanted to be prepared if it should ever die on me and have a backup jack in the receiver. And these new receivers these days are hard as hell to get the speaker wire in. You don't hold the button down and stick the wire in like you used to. You stick the wire in a hole and screw these screws. I bout never got those damn wires in there right. I wanted to throw the son of a bitch across the room.

You're right about these companies pushing a new product that has a certain capability with a big price tag on it. I figured there was some type of cord that was available to plug a regular turntable into a computer if you really looked for one. I remember when these home theater surround sound systems first came out and they were, and still are, expensive as hell. I had my TV plugged into my stereo receiver for years before those came out with just a simple RCA cord for $5 and it sounds just as good. Speaking of those home theater systems, I caught hell finding a receiver that didn't have all those different features on it. A whole bunch of features that I would never use with a big price tag on it. Finally, I got pissed at the salesman and said..."Look dammitt, I just want a simple receiver that I can play MUSIC on. Fuck all these damn features.".

vainandy said:

MickyDolenz said:

That's a waste of time to me. I don't listen to music on a computer and I don't download. I have a stereo system. That's what I like. My reciever was made in 1979 and it works just fine, except the FM radio doesn't work. But I don't listen to the radio anyway, so I don't care about that.

Oh, I said the same exact thing. I want to listen to my music on a high powered stereo that's going to disturb the neighbors and get the police called out, not some little ass computer speakers. However, I purchased a cord from Radio Shack where I could plug my computer into the auxilary jacks in my receiver and I shake the walls with my computer these days. The thing I love about it most, is not having to search for CDs. When I moved last year, I didn't even unpack my CDs. I have one of my upstairs closets crammed full of CDs still packed in the boxes. I have my vinyl unpacked and play it all the time but with the computer, there's no need to clutter up my small living room with box after box after box....after box....of CDs. Plus CDs are small and somebody can steal one and you wouldn't notice until later on when you decide to play it.

What I like best about the computer is the Windows Media Player. I have all the songs from my CDs that I like scanned into the computer and also all my vinyl that I like is scanned in there also. My favorite is the shuffle feature in the Windows Media Player. Put in on shuffle and you never know what comes up next. It's like having your own radio station. I also have my songs tagged with genres, year, artist, and song title. I can play a certain year on shuffle, or a certain genre on shuff, or a certain artist on shuffle. I love the fact that I never know what's coming up next and it's all throwing down hard from my stereo speakers. I sit back and let the computer take control and surprise me. I call the shuffle feature, the handjob feature. You can always jack off and it feels good, but if somebody else jacks you off and they're in control, when you come, it's a surprise and it's mindblowing.

My cousin had all her music on computer, mostly from downloads. She's also buy CD's, rip them to the PC and then take the CD to the used record store for credit. One day, her computer crashed and all that music was lost.

I've never hooked the computer to the stereo to listen to anything on it. For things like Youtube, computer speakers are fine. A lot of the stuff on there is poor sound quality, so playing it through the stereo won't make a lot of difference.

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MickyDolenz said:

vainandy said:

Oh, I said the same exact thing. I want to listen to my music on a high powered stereo that's going to disturb the neighbors and get the police called out, not some little ass computer speakers. However, I purchased a cord from Radio Shack where I could plug my computer into the auxilary jacks in my receiver and I shake the walls with my computer these days. The thing I love about it most, is not having to search for CDs. When I moved last year, I didn't even unpack my CDs. I have one of my upstairs closets crammed full of CDs still packed in the boxes. I have my vinyl unpacked and play it all the time but with the computer, there's no need to clutter up my small living room with box after box after box....after box....of CDs. Plus CDs are small and somebody can steal one and you wouldn't notice until later on when you decide to play it.

What I like best about the computer is the Windows Media Player. I have all the songs from my CDs that I like scanned into the computer and also all my vinyl that I like is scanned in there also. My favorite is the shuffle feature in the Windows Media Player. Put in on shuffle and you never know what comes up next. It's like having your own radio station. I also have my songs tagged with genres, year, artist, and song title. I can play a certain year on shuffle, or a certain genre on shuff, or a certain artist on shuffle. I love the fact that I never know what's coming up next and it's all throwing down hard from my stereo speakers. I sit back and let the computer take control and surprise me. I call the shuffle feature, the handjob feature. You can always jack off and it feels good, but if somebody else jacks you off and they're in control, when you come, it's a surprise and it's mindblowing.

My cousin had all her music on computer, mostly from downloads. She's also buy CD's, rip them to the PC and then take the CD to the used record store for credit. One day, her computer crashed and all that music was lost.

That's why I still have all my CDs upstairs in the closet if that were to ever happen. I have a ton of downloads in my computer too but don't have them on backup CDs. I really should put them on some though in case that should happen. I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

I don't think mine will ever crash though because I don't have internet on it. When I bought it in 2007, I never put internet on it and never will. I use that computer stictly for music only. I figure if I never have internet on it, there's never a chance it will get a virus and crash. I bought a laptop in 2009 that I use for internet. I download from the laptop, burn the songs onto CDs, then put them in the regular computer and rip them into the Windows Media Player. Then, I throw those homemade CDs away. The only reason I throw them away is, they are just downloaded songs at random from all types of genres with no real theme to the CD so it wouldn't be enjoyable to listen to on it's own. The only reason they were on a CD in the first place was a means to transfer them from the laptop into the regular computer. I rip other CDs from the computer with various songs for whatever mood I'm in to play in the car. Otherwise, I never listen to CDs at all.

I just worry about when the computer gets old. I hope there is some type of gadget out there that I can transfer every single song from that computer into another computer and still have the songs formatted by genres and years without me having to do all that again. That was years' worth of work.

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vainandy said:

MickyDolenz said:

My cousin had all her music on computer, mostly from downloads. She's also buy CD's, rip them to the PC and then take the CD to the used record store for credit. One day, her computer crashed and all that music was lost.

That's why I still have all my CDs upstairs in the closet if that were to ever happen. I have a ton of downloads in my computer too but don't have them on backup CDs. I really should put them on some though in case that should happen. I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

I don't think mine will ever crash though because I don't have internet on it. When I bought it in 2007, I never put internet on it and never will. I use that computer stictly for music only. I figure if I never have internet on it, there's never a chance it will get a virus and crash. I bought a laptop in 2009 that I use for internet. I download from the laptop, burn the songs onto CDs, then put them in the regular computer and rip them into the Windows Media Player. Then, I throw those homemade CDs away. The only reason I throw them away is, they are just downloaded songs at random from all types of genres with no real theme to the CD so it wouldn't be enjoyable to listen to on it's own. I rip other CDs from the computer with various songs for whatever mood I'm in to play in the car. Otherwise, I never listen to CDs at all.

I just worry about when the computer gets old. I hope there is some type of gadget out there that I can transfer every single song from that computer into another computer and still have the songs formatted by genres and years without me having to do all that again. That was years' worth of work.

You could also use a USB flash drive to store your music files on as well.

That's pretty much what i do.

MickyDolenz said:

I've never hooked the computer to the stereo to listen to anything on it. For things like Youtube, computer speakers are fine. A lot of the stuff on there is poor sound quality, so playing it through the stereo won't make a lot of difference.

A lot of the youtube videos are poor sound quality because they are actual videos that were recorded years ago with VCRs and VCR tapes usually start sounding poorly over the years. But the youtube videos that are strictly songs that someone recorded from vinyl or CD and placed on youtube without any video usually sound pretty good. I've recorded a lot of them onto CDs and simply turned the recording level up on the CD recorder for the ones that have a lower volume.

phunkdaddy said:

vainandy said:

That's why I still have all my CDs upstairs in the closet if that were to ever happen. I have a ton of downloads in my computer too but don't have them on backup CDs. I really should put them on some though in case that should happen. I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

I don't think mine will ever crash though because I don't have internet on it. When I bought it in 2007, I never put internet on it and never will. I use that computer stictly for music only. I figure if I never have internet on it, there's never a chance it will get a virus and crash. I bought a laptop in 2009 that I use for internet. I download from the laptop, burn the songs onto CDs, then put them in the regular computer and rip them into the Windows Media Player. Then, I throw those homemade CDs away. The only reason I throw them away is, they are just downloaded songs at random from all types of genres with no real theme to the CD so it wouldn't be enjoyable to listen to on it's own. I rip other CDs from the computer with various songs for whatever mood I'm in to play in the car. Otherwise, I never listen to CDs at all.

I just worry about when the computer gets old. I hope there is some type of gadget out there that I can transfer every single song from that computer into another computer and still have the songs formatted by genres and years without me having to do all that again. That was years' worth of work.

You could also use a USB flash drive to store your music files on as well.

That's pretty much what i do.

Is that one of those little small black things, a little smaller than a cigarette lighter, that plugs into the computer? If so, will the Windows Media Player come up and have them placed in there with all the different fields you entered? The Media Player just seems to store them more easily than just going to the documents and looking for a needle in a haystack. With the media player, I just type the name of the artist and there it is. None of that scrolling down and looking for it.

I have a friend who doesn't actually put his music on the computer, but on an external hard drive. He only hooks it up when he wants to listen to it. If the computer crashes, his music and files are still intact.

MickyDolenz said:

I have a friend who doesn't actually put his music on the computer, but on an external hard drive. He only hooks it up when he wants to listen to it. If the computer crashes, his music and files are still intact.

I have all my music and video on an eSATA hard drive as well, but never disconnect it from my system. I've even reinstalled my operating system twice in the two years since setting it up this way, and my music and video remain intact. It's a 1 terabyte (1024 gigs) eSATA hard drive, and now I only have less than 100 gigs of free space left, lol. Time to invest in some more storage space!

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