I've just added information about this tool to help you when playing on vinyl.

Rumble, hum, dancing people and wooden floors often give problems when using the old vinyl decks (hehehe, CD's don't have these probs ). Everybody knows the orange Freefloats, but they are only an emergencu solution. The Earthquake is the more solid and professional way of dealing with these problems.

Read more information : Earthquake, the Turntable Stabilizer for Pro's.

From my personal experience I must conclude that freefloats are far superior to the Earthquakes.  I think there is a serious contruction / design flaw in the Earthquakes, as the suspended platform is not totally contact-isoloated from the ground. So if you are on an unstable stage, your fucked with Earthquakes and Freefloats will save your day.

During an event the organisator initially didn't want to use freefloats, so the DJ booth was set-up with earthquakes, but this didn't prevent rumble. When we put freefloats under the decks the was an average of 15 dB more gain before feedback, and more than 25dB on problem frequencies.

Freefloats are a bit more unstable, which might give problems with scratching. But there are easy ways of stabilizing them, without compromising the anti-rumble effect.

My personal thoughts are  that the Earthquake is probably the better solution when it is used for installation purposes (allthoug a concrete DJ Booth is even better). When used on mobile installations (rental market) the Freefloats seems a better choise.

My personal favourite is the EarthQuake because I get crazy when my TT's are dancing

The unstability of the freefloats is the reason quite a lot of DJs don't like using them. There is however a really easy way of stabilizing them. The idea is from Peter Gelderblom (owner of club revolution and a DJ himself), who at first really hated the freefloats because of the 'bouncing' of the decks.

He put the freefloats in his DJ booth, and surrounded the freefloat with thick foam. This stabilizes the freefloats, and so bouncing of the decks is not an issue any more. No DJ that played there has ever complained about bouncing or unstability. It's an easy trick and it works well, way better than the earthquakes did in his club.

 Smart Idea !!!!

I think lots of people going to like this one !

I'll check if I can find the ingredients for this....  Logically it seems a good solution, but there's nothig like a practical test :D

 

a stabilizer for a stablilizer......

we have another sollution.... 50mm thick MFD on tennisballs....

 looks weird

 

works good!

Very smart solution !

Works accoording the same principle as the FreeFloat, but looks much nicer !

 

in the right collor: more professional!

Have you done a comparison of Gain Before Feedback between your MDF on tennisballs solution and freefloat?

I have seen an article on the net where they compared several solutions. Freefloat came out best, your tennisball soluiton was tested as well. But did like 13 dB less GBF. So I am curious if you did some test yourself.

How do you mean testing? bass level full and a needle on a record and waiting till resonanse??

The Freefloat system maybe the best sollution, but the most terrible to play on. Without anything (when possible) is the best sollution of all!

Two German sollutions

I agree with you that spinning on the (unstabilized) freefloat can be quite horrible if you like to scratch a lot.

At first a was very sceptic about the freefloat ... it is wobbly, and when I first used them (Paul Oakenfold in Paradiso), I still had some characteristic feedback, 120 & 300Hz, which are air-borne tone-arm resonances, to be exact. But when it saved a couple of gigs where the stages and Dj-booths where really bad (very prone to resonating, etc) my opinion gradually changed. And I am not the only one ... you might want to talk to Peter Gelderblom from Club Revolution. He hated the freefloats at first.

But for preventing feedback there is no better alternative, although rubberband suspension (if you know what you are doing) comes very close.

 

I couldn't resist.. I had a Freefloat to spare and just tried it :



Because not all foam has dried yet I will not be able to test this today, I would make my booth stickie with foam. A full detailed story of this project is almost completed...

And then for the final test... will it have effect to the effect of the freefloat (in comparisson to a freefloat without Foam Coating) ?

Possibly tommorrow I will be able to do a basic test.

Oops ... this mess happens when dutch are trying to communicate in english.

The foam I was talking about is the foam (inlays) used in DJ coffins. Just like turntables are surrounded with those inlays, you can also surround the freefloat.

WHOUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....

Maybe nice idea for a new topic? : "How to f*ck up Freefloats"

I will nail one to my booth

Whahahaha :D LOL !!!!

In Dutch this could be interpreted as the same... Anyway, I'm going to test my Freefloat this evening and post my findings in a topic this weekend.....

Stiekem had ik het wel begrepen, maar zoals het er nu naar uitziet lijkt deze oplossing ook te werken.... En eigenlijk loop ik al een maand te zoeken naar een toepassing voor die bus pur-schuim die ik in de kast had staan.... Ik was juist zo blij dat ik uit je bericht kon begrijpen dat ik hier die bus voor kon gebruiken.

Die bus was een overblijfsel van de 2 jaar die ik in mijn huisje aan het verbouwen ben geweest... Ik wilde dit altijd al ergens tussen spuiten en eindelijk heb ik het doen gevonden

 HAHAHAHA.....

Die is echt goed

Maar misschien heb je wel een nieuwe uitvinding.
Pur-schuim voor Freefloats.

ziet er in elk geval heel FOUT uit

ik krijg steeds YOU CANNOT MODERATE te zien als ik wil editten ?


was dit er vergeten bij te zetten:

en toen had Jeroen a.K.a. Lead de Ultieme oplossing gemaakt

Als er bugs zijn maak dan even een topic aan in :
Dj-Resource Related

Dit is makkelijker om over bugs te discusseren

En hier is dan de Freefloat Fuckup Trick :

http://www.djresource.nl/index.php?page=Topics&story=71

hahaha ja heb em geleze ziet er nie uit en et is zonde

Hihi.... ziet er niet uit, maar werkt wel !

Ik zie nog 1 onaangetast exemplaar onder de andere draaitafel