spinning drum blog

To things I realized yesterday. One is you can’t have a low fat brownie. The concept is wholly unnatural. It defies the very thing itself. Secondly all the traits and challenges you have in the real world follow you in to the creative realm.

For instance, I’m a fast mover. A friend once remarked they never saw a person move so quick with such small steps. Turn around, blink, and yes, I’ve already done it. It can be frustrating, I admit, for a procrastinator. I’m a speedy scratcher too, and my drive for well-executed words is mirrored in my fader articulation and vinyl manipulation. However, my challenge in life, and same when I step behind the decks, is to slow down, take a deep breath and be in the moment, not hurry to complete it and turn it into a well done thing, but continually be in the process of creation. This is living.

Got the new fader in the P&G fx3000 series. I’d ordered the simple vca replacement, but through a series of delayed shipments and the intervention of a nameless gear store saint who had a bent for putting the customer first, I got the more expensive P&G ones for the same price as the vcas. The later I ordered over two months ago! After these seemingly endless weeks with a one sided mixer and empty promises that another was just two more weeks away, I finally got to walk out of the store with a fresh fader in hand.

Of course, mid way through the whole operation, at the delicate moment of unscrewing the last remaining screws holding the old fader in, I discovered they were cross point screws (all the other xone02 screws are small phillips). Now that is the one screw driver I don’t have, or I should say didn’t. You see a cross point, also called a pozidriv has a head shaped in a five pointed star. It is somewhat similar to a phillips with the head blunted down. Post google fact check informed me that these screws can be found in lots of Japanese appliances and was apparently rare in North America. Well, the guy in the hardware store told me they are also found in a lot of new automotive parts and power tools. He told me this while handing over a “torque” screwdriver. Torque it seems is the Canadiense for cross -point.

Anyway the moral of the story is once again nothing about gear is straight forward. But the right tool will save the day.

So how do I like the new P&G?

Well I like it. The transforming click is softer and there is something just a touch lighter about the thing all together. I’m not sure if the effect is merely psychology or due to the smooth glide of the ‘co-molded conductive plastic’ as opposed to metal. I just hope it’s sturdy enough to take the wear, i’m going to inflict upon it.

more p&g info check out http://info.bergenteknomafia.com/tech/pngpvc/

difference between a pozidriv and phillips and why one is better than the other.

http://www.pbtools.ch/en/pbquality/pb_quality/unterschied_phillips_poidrv.asp