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Reminds me of...me No, I'm sure of it. I hate him
Sav0r said:What software do you use with kflop? Mach3?
You can use mach, or they have their own software as well that I'm using, it's simple but I like it.
Sav0r said:What software do you use with kflop? Mach3?
J-Rod10 said:These guys make a pretty stellar retro for not a ton of coin. Basically a bolt on and go, outside of tuning everything in once it's up and running.
https://www.candcnc.com/store-home/bladerunner-servo-system-5-3-gearheads/
That is a hell of a deal for $850. I paid $5K for my Bridgeport with a bad AccuRite system on it, then retrofitted it.
I've been running it on my Bridgeport for two years. No issues thus far.SONIC. said:I had Candcnc on my last cnc plasma, was not really a fan. Plasma is really noisy though but I had nothing but issues. I imagine it would work fairly well on a mill.
The advantage to the dynomotion is that it's real time and not handled on the PC, so if the PC crashes or freezes for a second youre still good.
It certainly takes more programming and trial and error than the Candcnc kit and isn't nearly as easy to setup, but total cost was 500 shipped for the boards. I did reuse the old servo drives, power supply, etc basically just replaced the computer.
J-Rod10 said:I've been running it on my Bridgeport for two years. No issues thus far.
I've seen a lot of people talk about putting controls together cheaply, but, I'm an idiot when it comes to electronics.
cxman said:cbx is a piece of cake
grandpaul said:The hard part is carefully splitting out each song then properly filling in the info tag. A bit tedious.
grandpaul said:$20 USB turntable with "Audacity" software, to convert my classic LPs to .mp3
I've done 14 albums this week, it's a lot of work, but well worth it. I probably should have ordererd a better needle/cartridge, but what the heck, it's just tunes for the shop/truck...
The hard part is carefully splitting out each song then properly filling in the info tag. A bit tedious.
Extra points if you can guess which entire album (both sides) this is-
I left a strong hint...
grandpaul said:$20 USB turntable with "Audacity" software, to convert my classic LPs to .mp3
I've done 14 albums this week, it's a lot of work, but well worth it. I probably should have ordererd a better needle/cartridge, but what the heck, it's just tunes for the shop/truck...
The hard part is carefully splitting out each song then properly filling in the info tag. A bit tedious.
Extra points if you can guess which entire album (both sides) this is-
I left a strong hint...
Ooh, close (I gave you the Moody Blues).irk miller said:Moody Blues- Days of Future Passed. You need to adjust your levels. You're losing all of your peaks.
It's significant the loss of quality when you add all the factors in. Convert to MP3 requires major compression to fit into the file size, plus the equipment itself is pretty cheap. Add-in that the levels are off the graph, which means it's losing major portions of the peak sounds. If I want digital versions of files, I add them to my Prime account. There are some things I listen to in all three formats: vinyl, CD and digitally through my phone. Though, I've gotten to the point where I listen to CDs far less. It used to be that I had something on vinyl for the house and CD for the cars.Sav0r said:I'm sure you are experiencing a major loss of audio quality in that conversion process. It's same you'd have to repurchase all of the music to get in in CD or other digital format.
SONIC. said:I do vinyl and spotify.
While I prefer vinyl, spotify is certainly not bad quality wise when streamed at 320kbps.
You can also download for offline use, i have several playlists at a time downloaded for when I lose signal (rare these days honestly).
I would look on spotify, you may be surprised how much is already out there digitally, may be no need to spend so much time converting.
irk miller said:The cool thing about Spotify and Prime (and similar services) is they are a good way to introduce you to music. When I was a teen, I read the liner notes for who inspired a band, the people they thanked, their labels, and other stuff. Magazines and such would supplement. Now, I have YouTube users I subscribe to, as well as specific users Spotify playlists to introduce me. Plus, the populated suggestions helps too. Then, I go to places like Discogs or various retailers to buy vinyl versions. I go to record conventions, flea markets, local stores and thrift stores too. The digital content is what's informing me when I go now. It's also pretty common for a lot of the music I have digitally to be very small run vinyl and/or CD. Which means if you want it on record, you're looking to pay $50 or more. It has to be pretty effin special for me to pay that much. I'm crazy about collecting music, with about 4000 lps and 1000 CDs, so I can only for to pay so much per unit.