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A slipmat is a circular piece of slippery cloth or synthetic materials disk jockeys place on the turntable platter instead of the traditional rubber mat. Unlike the rubber mat which is made to hold the record firmly in sync with the rotating platter , slipmats are designed to slip on the platter, allowing the DJ to manipulate a record on a ...
Turntablism has origins in the invention of direct-drive turntables.Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable for turntablism, since they had a slow start-up time, and they were prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, [9] as the belt would break from backspinning or scratching. [10]
Back spinning describes the act of manually manipulating a vinyl record (currently playing on a turntable), using enough force to cause the record to spin backward (despite the rotation of the platter beneath it). It is often used in DJing; many DJs use specialty slipmats so that
DJs typically replace the rubber mat on turntables that keep the record moving in sync with the turntable with a slipmat that facilitates manipulating the playback of the record by hand. With the slipmat, the DJ can stop or slow down the record while the turntable is still spinning. Direct-drive turntables are the type preferred by DJs. Belt ...
U-Turn Audio was established in 2012 by three friends from Lexington High School, [1] Benjamin Carter, Robert Hertig, and Peter Maltzan. They raised money to start the company by participating in a business incubator program at Northeastern University, and they successfully completed a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign [2] to build the first Orbit turntable prototype and begin manufacturing ...
The Technics SL-1200 [1] is a series of direct-drive turntables manufactured from October 1972 to 2010, with production resuming in 2016, by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic Corporation) under the brand name of Technics.