craft knife/pocket knife/razor blade/scalpel. Take your pick. Cut down on a flat surface or cut across the join by putting the blade in the gap & holding the record upright.
Man... F*ck cutting a centre out. In Oz we go one step further and just have small-hole 45s... why even give people the option of knocking the centre out?
From a DJ'ing aspect, it is much easier to play 45's with smaller holes....why would you ever want to make it harder on yourself? I guess I'm not seeing the appeal of doing this? Can anyone explain?
From a DJ'ing aspect, it is much easier to play 45's with smaller holes....why would you ever want to make it harder on yourself? I guess I'm not seeing the appeal of doing this? Can anyone explain?
I think Button's "pointlessly ugly" point pretty much summed up his position on the matter.
From a DJ'ing aspect, it is much easier to play 45's with smaller holes....why would you ever want to make it harder on yourself? I guess I'm not seeing the appeal of doing this? Can anyone explain?
I think Button's "pointlessly ugly" point pretty much summed up his position on the matter.
How does Button feel about LPs and 12s? Are they pointlessly ugly?
I guess it would make a little bit of sense if you play 45s only and are too lazy to remove the adapters for the occasional small center hole...
From an aesthetical standpoint though it's always wrong to alter an artifact and you might even reduce the value of the record.
With African 45s, you sometimes get the small center hole and sometimes the large one, it would never cross my mind to snap out the middle. Maybe if 2 or 3 out of the 4 connecting pieces have already been broken and I'm afraid of the middle falling out and scratching the record while it's in the box but if you don't have to, leave those things alone.
From a DJ'ing aspect, it is much easier to play 45's with smaller holes....why would you ever want to make it harder on yourself? I guess I'm not seeing the appeal of doing this? Can anyone explain?
I think Button's "pointlessly ugly" point pretty much summed up his position on the matter.
How does Button feel about LPs and 12s? Are they pointlessly ugly?
From a DJ'ing aspect, it is much easier to play 45's with smaller holes....why would you ever want to make it harder on yourself? I guess I'm not seeing the appeal of doing this? Can anyone explain?
I think Button's "pointlessly ugly" point pretty much summed up his position on the matter.
How does Button feel about LPs and 12s? Are they pointlessly ugly?
Man... F*ck cutting a centre out. In Oz we go one step further and just have small-hole 45s... why even give people the option of knocking the centre out?
You guys also had pop out centres on your 45s up until the mid-60s. A lot of the times it depended on the pressing plant whether or not they would make the centre pop-able or solid. I think the UK/Europe persisted with popout centres for a while longer than OZ/NZ. But yeah, it was all to satisfy jukebox operators. Regardless I sourced a ex jukebox collection of 45s where every single originally small holed 45 (out of thousands) had unmatching centres re-taped into the big holes, thus screwing every label with either tears or tape residue when removed or the fact that the original label had a big chunk chopped out of the middle often removing the title/artist. Ugly. I don't really advocate the practice of centre removal but if it's a rare 45 that you know you're not gonna sell you should just do what you want with it.
yeah, coming from the dude who soundclashes with Soulseek mp3s!
I think all in all though, Frank's argument about leaving things in their truest form struck a chord. They're still ugly looking and annoying to DJ with, but I should appreciate rares for what they are, not what I'd like them to be.
I don't understand why they are considered so ugly. Never really thought of that myself. And I've always found undinked 45s easier to DJ with. What is it that you find annoying?
Well Aesthetics can't really be justified, but practicality-wise its nice to have some uniformity when you're spinning mainly all 45s. Its nice to just leave the adaptors on the decks all night. It also makes it easier to grab a whole stack out the box to flip through. Just slip your middle finger through a bunch of center holes, lift out, and go. No need to worry about some UK centre filed midway through impeding your progress.
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They cramp my DJ process (short version)
Whatever. Who cares, I'm just being bitchy. Its staying in. I don' tknow why guys like Pico gotta get all crazy about it.
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I think Button's "pointlessly ugly" point pretty much summed up his position on the matter.
How does Button feel about LPs and 12s? Are they pointlessly ugly?
From an aesthetical standpoint though it's always wrong to alter an artifact and you might even reduce the value of the record.
With African 45s, you sometimes get the small center hole and sometimes the large one, it would never cross my mind to snap out the middle. Maybe if 2 or 3 out of the 4 connecting pieces have already been broken and I'm afraid of the middle falling out and scratching the record while it's in the box but if you don't have to, leave those things alone.
He stamps out 45 holes in those too.
with the heel of his fascist jackboot
are you just trying to be a dick or are you really that simple minded?
With the correctly colored labels, too???
A lot of the times it depended on the pressing plant whether or not they would make the centre pop-able or solid. I think the UK/Europe persisted with popout centres for a while longer than OZ/NZ.
But yeah, it was all to satisfy jukebox operators. Regardless I sourced a ex jukebox collection of 45s where every single originally small holed 45 (out of thousands) had unmatching centres re-taped into the big holes, thus screwing every label with either tears or tape residue when removed or the fact that the original label had a big chunk chopped out of the middle often removing the title/artist. Ugly. I don't really advocate the practice of centre removal but if it's a rare 45 that you know you're not gonna sell you should just do what you want with it.
yeah, coming from the dude who soundclashes with Soulseek mp3s!
I think all in all though, Frank's argument about leaving things in their truest form struck a chord. They're still ugly looking and annoying to DJ with, but I should appreciate rares for what they are, not what I'd like them to be.
Please elaborate.
I don't understand why they are considered so ugly. Never really thought of that myself.
And I've always found undinked 45s easier to DJ with.
What is it that you find annoying?
Geeze... can't you people just leave things alone!
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They cramp my DJ process (short version)
Whatever. Who cares, I'm just being bitchy. Its staying in. I don' tknow why guys like Pico gotta get all crazy about it.
I don't usually chime in with stuff like this, but seriously....this is so stupid... they aren't "ugly" , what are you talking about?
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