Vestax VRX-2000 Vinyl Cutter

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Whats up ya'll, young butta with another guerilla question, but anywayz. Has anybody used the vestax vrx-2000 vinyl cutter?
And if you have, is it any good?
 
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i've heard it is. but who wants spend 10000 on it? ****kkkk that
 
Hmmm tough desision huh?

$10,000 + blank media + a costly replacement cutting stylus's every 50 records cut... and the outputed tracks only play for 100 plays or so, less if used in turntablism.


or....

$60 for a CD-burner, 20cents per blank media....


Ohhh which one, which one.... ??? :confused: ;)
 
not that i've ever done it, but i think you could get 50 acetates cut of different tracks for less than messing with that vestax cutter. for the $13,000 MSRP i would venture you could actually buy a real no $hit cutter and associated equipment. - jeff h
 
I have to admit though it would be cool to cut a vinyl of your fav most played( hard to replace) and use it instead of the original.
If only I was rich and money meant nothing. lol.:p
 
but if money meant nothing, none of that vinyl would be hard to replace, hence still no need for the cutter

ts
 
sniff said:
but if money meant nothing, none of that vinyl would be hard to replace, hence still no need for the cutter

ts
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???.. you cant get most songs on vinyl..
 
spinning house, progressive tech breaks etc. i would have to say the opposite is true. you cant get most songs on cd.

that would be why i as a primarily cd dj i own a tt.

whateva

ts
 
most of the record companies, even the smaller ones, either produce their tunes on CD, and/or many are either selling downloadable tunes already, or are considering it.

I got a surprisingly high CD-positive response just by emailing some of the info@ or sales@ address on 12'' sleeves/labels etc.

Virtual, or downloadable stock costs a company "virtually" (sorry, couldnt resist that;) ) nothing to run, once initial set up costs are covered. With all the advantages of not having to set aside physical storage space, pass on shipping costs, store and dispose of incoming/outgoing packaging, not having to "guess" how many production run's of 100's or 1000's to order etc. The big advantage to us, as customers, is that we never hear "Out of stock" either.

If you've got favourite labels for your particular genres, drop them an email, it'll probably only take you a few minutes. Why not start a separate topic here on the forum for "CD friendly record labels" so that the bigger picture is established.
 
the Vestax vinyl cutter and the Kingston dubcutter are both examples of great ideas that just took too dam long to come out.

at $50 a dubplate (which is on the high side), you can still have 200 plates cut before you've spent what the Vestax costs. who needs that many dubs? especially when you consider the cost of a CDJ-1000 and a cd-burner.

if Vestax and Kingston had gotten their shiznit together like, 10 years ago, then their machines would probably have become legendary among DJ's. instead, they waited too long and so A. CD player technology is so advanced that even turntable-centric DJ's don't mind using one to drop their own tracks, and B. systems like Final Scratch have closed the last gap between digital music & vinyl.

those dub cutters were dinosaurs before they ever hit the stores, and all but the richest folks should never even consider buying them. they'll forever be a footnote & a curiosity in the history of DJ equipment.

peace,
sim*n
 
a store in stockholm tried to sell theirs off for a measly $7500 but had no interestees at all. I heard they went as low as $6000 but to no avail. It sits there nicely, gathering dust in their basement. I had a dub cut there once and they wanted $50 for the 'trouble'...
 
i saw a Kingston Dubcutter for sale on Ebay yesterday, $7000. omg weeeeeeeeeeeeeee :rolleyes:
 
Hotstepper said:
and the outputed tracks only play for 100 plays or so, less if used in turntablism.
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very not true the outputed tracks are of the same quality of commercial records.
 
it's a great innovation..to offer the average dj the possibility to cut vinyls himself..but deep price tag and the stylus doesn' t cut deep enuff after what I've heard...so the vinyl doesn't last long..a friend of mine has a vinyl cutter he had manufactured in europe and it works perfectly..I tested the vinyls myself and they're terrific
(www.vinylgrabber.com)
 
Chase said:


very not true the outputed tracks are of the same quality of commercial records.
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the dub plates DO NOT LAST AS LONG as the regular production run Vinyl...
 
for one thing dub plates are cut on acetate coated metal discs, not vinyl.

acetate is softer, thus letting it be cut with a heated stylus (as opposed to vinyl, which is stamped under very high pressure and heat), but also wears out much quicker for the same reason.
 
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