A DJ's Guide To Ripping Vinyl

What’s covered

We’re going to look at what you need, then at the process that you’ll be following to do it successfully, and finally I’ll share some hard-won practical tips.

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We’re going to focus mainly on how to do this for individual tracks, because you should really only be adding individual tracks to your DJ collection that you’re actually going to DJ with – a DJ collection is no place to be adding album after album of stuff that you’re never going to use in a DJ set. However, we will look at how to rip whole releases and albums towards the end of this article, as it is something vinyl collectors will want to do aside from DJing at times.

A DJ’s Guide To Ripping Vinyl – Contents

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Prefer me to talk you through this? In this video, a recording of a live show from the Digital DJ Tips YouTube channel, I talk you through everything in this article, and we take questions from our community on the subject.

Why rip vinyl?

There are four big reasons why you may want to rip vinyl. The first reason is the obvious one, which is that you want a digital copy of something that you own on vinyl (or even – God forbid! – cassette, but we won’t go into that here), and you don’t know where to find it as a digital file. Essentially, it’s not available to buy. In this instance your only option is to rip the record that you already own.

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The next reason is an economic one – if you have loads of records that you want to DJ with, especially if you’re moving to digital DJing from playing with vinyl in the past, you may not have the money to buy them all again as digital files.

Now I’ll reiterate that unless you’re cash poor and time rich, it’s almost certainly a better use of your efforts to simply go and buy those files digitally. But that was the exact reason I spent that summer ripping all my vinyl back in the day. I simply couldn’t afford to buy digital files. And to be honest, back then, there wasn’t really a good place to buy them.

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Typically the ARM (Abrasive Resistant Material) when added to ripper boots tempers the metal and they often break right where the weld material finishes.

You didn,t say if you are turning the boot over to keep it sharp and what gear you are ripping in. I worked for a "world class" goldminer once who had a D11 and they used brand X ripper boots that had a lifting lug cast on what would be the top of the boot on the initial install. They would call up to get a new boot all the time and one day when it was my turn to go change it i went down and said to the operator why don,t i just turn it over for you and he promptly advised me that management had told all dozer drivers that you can,t turn the boot over because it does not have a hook on the opposite side to lift it from!!!

Straight up and down is definently not the go scrub puller, you definently want some curl under, best way is to think of it is like an excavator bucket as you load it.

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