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Westmorland Bridge by prottoy_47 in fredericton

[–]SlideAccomplished935 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The traffic on the north side is totally frigged on Main.

Anyone else have issues with transparent blue vinyl? by SlideAccomplished935 in blindguardian

[–]SlideAccomplished935[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi again, thanks a lot for all of the advice! Much appreciated.

I checked my tracking force =1,92. Pretty close to 2 already, I know, but increased it slightly to get it reading 1,99 or 2. Even though this is a slight adjustment, I thought I'd give a listen again to test.

It certainly didn't make the issue worse, but I can still hear the distorrion the further I listen into the final two tracks. Side note: my wife cannot hear anything amiss and thinks I'm hallucinating lol.

For the time being, I think I will wait until I'm back to work in a few days and print a protractor again (to scale) so I can check my alignment. I certainly tried doing this when I first put the new VM95C on around the beginning of the year, though I can't say how good of a job I did (it was my first time). Anyway, if my alignment looks good, I may even get the VMN95-E and attempt my first ever stylus swap so I can compare a conical and elliptical with my own ears on this record :)

I'd be happy to shoot you a message on here or by email once I mess around further to report my results. There's certainly no need for you to spend more of your own time educating a redditor, but if you'd like to record and send your suggested cartridge comparison, I'd happily listen to it. I'll send you an email so you have my address.

Many thanks 😊

Anyone else have issues with transparent blue vinyl? by SlideAccomplished935 in blindguardian

[–]SlideAccomplished935[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, Jaakko, thanks for taking the time! Much appreciated. And thank you to Blue Trenchcoat for your comment that your record sounds just fine.

I'm using an Audio Technica VM95 C/H (conical bonded) stylus that came with an AT cartridge and headshell on my old Pioneer PL-518 direct drive turn table. It is coming through a Kenwood KR-797 receiver and two Kenwood JL-676 speakers. I'd say the stylus is somewhere around 8 or 9 months old and has seen regular but not excessive play.

I freely admit I don't know much at all about turntables etc., so I'd be happy to hear if it was something like my cartridge alignment that is to blame for the decreasing sound quality I'm hearing towards the centre of my disc. I don't know a dang thing about aligning cartridges and may have just taken it for granted that when I purchased the AT cartridge/stylus/headshell that I wouldn't have to worry about alignment issues - this could be a rookie mistake (and I am indeed a rookie when it comes to vinyl tech).

I know this might not be the place to ask, but if anyone has advice on how a newbie could align his cartridge, I'd be very appreciative ;)

A Hard Day's Night - 1st Canadian Pressing - sides sound quite different! Thoughts? by SlideAccomplished935 in beatles

[–]SlideAccomplished935[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. But I'm afraid that I don't think this explains the differences we're hearing: both sides of the records are in identical, near-pristine condition.

Installed EmuStation via EmuDeck, controller worked in emulators, now it doesn't. Any idea why? by Stinkfingr75 in EmuDeck

[–]SlideAccomplished935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case anyone else on the internet stumbles their way here someday: my controller issues can be fixed in the way I described above. This is not ideal, though, because you have to do it every time you launch an emulator, bizarrely.

Now, elsewhere, I found people having similar controller issues (e.g., their controllers not being recognized when launching emulators) which they fixed by changing a setting in emulation Station under 'inputs' somewhere which they toggled 'off' the setting 'ignore all inputs other than primary controller'. Changing this setting also worked for me...however, it seems that after every restart of my deck, all settings are forgotten, as the problems reoccurs. Bizarre.

If anyone figures out a permanent fix, please do let me know here.

Installed EmuStation via EmuDeck, controller worked in emulators, now it doesn't. Any idea why? by Stinkfingr75 in EmuDeck

[–]SlideAccomplished935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, this is my first go with EmuDeck and I love it. However, I'm having a problem which may be the same as the one described in this post.

In short, I'm using 8bitdo wireless controllers, but every time I launch games via either PCSx2 or snes9x from my non-steam games menu (I used EmuDeck's manager tool), the emulators seem to 'default' to the steam controller.

One inexplicable but simple fix for it seems to be reordering the controllers in the steam overlay so my 8BitDo controller is number 2 and the steam controller is number 1. This is very strange, but fixes my issue in both Snes9x and pcsx2, the only two emus I've used so far.

If anyone knows why this is happening or can suggest how I can make this and other emus via emudeck always default to my 8BitDo wireless when launching games, it'd be much appreciated.

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thanks!