longest youve left a record playin a runout groove
flatblackplastic
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4+ hours just now i was playin it before i left my house in a hurry. good thing it was a new 45.one time i was playin my gwen mccrae 90% 45 while i hopped in the shower right quick. when the song ended it started playing on the label....SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!man i hopped out of that shower so fast, soaking wet, to take it off, damn.
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I miss auto-return.
Turned off the record player, and moved to the bed.
...not to mention that when you let the needle just ride like that, sometimes it peels the edges of the label.
Yeah, this is a nightmare sound. Reggae 45's are infamous.
Yup. But I do that on purpose to break in new needles.
But yea... i'd say definately some overnights.
What is the effect on the Spanky & Our Gang elpee? What are they doing?
As for others...
There is a runout groove effect on The Best Of B.B. King on ABC (reissued on MCA)...at the end of "Nobody Loves Me But My Mother," the last song on Side 2, B.B. King tells his producer, or somebody, "now what I want to know is, what are we gonna do?" Then somebody does what we'd now call a scratch mix on his voice, slowing down the pitch in the process - "do, do, do, DO DO DO DO DO DO DOOOOOOOOOOO..." By the time it's over, the needle is already past the runout and onto the label.
Also, "Your Love Is Like Nuclear Waste" by Tuff Darts had a nuclear-explosion sound effect ending the song and playing in the runout groove...it's on their self-titled Sire LP from (I think) 1978.
I think it's at the end of "Expressway To Your Skull"
... I'm trying to remember what 60's LP I was playing recently
had a locked groove at the end of side 1 saying "turn the record
over" or something ... I know these are vague answers, but my brain ...
Im mostly talking about locked grooves at the end.
Do people really "break in" needles?
The Minutemen "Double Nickels On The Dime" has car revving noises in all of the runout grooves.
Playing on the label happened last sunday when I was listening to a new record I had just brought home. The needle hit the runout groove and immediately run onto the label. HORRIBLE,JUST HORRIBLE.
I once went camping for a weekend and came home to a record spinning on the platter.
But on the locked groove related, i just picked up this really strange locked groove record with like 30 grooves per side, bunch of strange acid 303 loops and dirty wharehouse techno loops. Label: LOOPS AGAIN by serotonin records out of NY.
Love crazy loop records, just ordered the T&A B-more loop record. Excited for that.
real tablist mo-fo's been burning in them 447's for years that way... i been doing it for every needle for the past 10 years...
Loud ass bell ringing in the locked groove.
Not to hijack, but yeah - hijack.
So "breaking in" concord style (aka Ortofon's) is totally useless?
Back to the grooves - I have this record (packed away, just moved) that has two separate "sides" of the album on one side. Depending on what groove at the very beginning of the record you start it on, there are two separate albums on the same record. Anyone else see this?
2 weeks while I went on holiday. We spent about an hour when we got home going: "Shhhh! Can you hear that wierd noise? Listen - there it is again!" New needle time.
Kool G Rap & Polo - It's A Demo....the vocal "it's a demo" is repeated in the runout at the end of the dub version.
Beatles - Sgt Pepper LP.....on the UK OG (don't know about US copies) there is a continous loop of some indecipherable chatter by all 4 Beatles.
I suddenly hear him screaming, bolt up the stairs and the needle had hit the run-out and coasted onto the label. Poor little man thought there was a monster coming to get him. He was terrified, and hung on to me like a baby koala for a good 10 minutes.
It took me 3 days before he would let me put another record on.
He is cool now though.
That made me laugh - but poor little boy! Nothing makes me get up quicker than the roar of the needle hitting the label, though...
that happens only when the runout groove is without noise.