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  • August 29, 2012 at 7:49 pm #1011175
    Gizmotech
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    Congratulations on your first gig!! It’s always a very special experience playing your first show! 🙂

    I guess you would just connect the output of your mixtrack pro into one of the mixer channells, set the gain and levels and you won’t need to bother with it after that. The guys at the place where you’re playing at would have connected all the speaker inputs from their mixer, so diconnecting it would just be making it inconvenient for both them and yourself i think.
    All your mixing should still be done on you mixtrack pro. Since you’re routing your entire output to the mixer, any effects that you use on the mixer is going to be applied on the master. If it was me, I’d just use my software for everything, and use the mixer as a means of connecting to the speakers and providing extra gain to my signal if needed.
    I’m not very experienced too but, hope this helps!! 🙂

    August 29, 2012 at 8:34 pm #1011178
    Gizmotech
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    Yep! That’s the standard setup when using a controller in clubs with mixers. You can always use a little analog gain if the levels of your controller aren’t enough as well!

    August 29, 2012 at 9:25 pm #1011180
    Gizmotech
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    I’m pretty sure that’s all you need, connect that to one of the channells on the mixer and the other end would go to your controller’s out. Btw, headphones go into your controller and not the mixer, pretty obvious but I’ve seen guys do that while setting up!! Lol. My first real gig was really recently man(2 weeks ago), like I said i’m not that experienced at this. and that had the following setup 2xCDJ-1000 MKIII + DJM-900. But i have quite a few DJ friends and hanging out with them in the booth and seeing them as well as other DJs setup I noticed this stuff. Btw, i wrote like a completely detailed thread on my first gig titled “My Red Bull Thre3Style experience”, do give it a read, i think ot’s still on the first page of this forum. right now i have a very DIY setup. I have a laptop running traktor to which i have an external qwerty keyboard and i have an iPad running TouchOSC connected wirelessly via an ad-hoc network and i have one of those crappy usb soundcards that i use as my monitor out, and my computer soundcard as my master out. Keyboard is perfect for cueing and playing as it has no latency at all, and the iPad is just brilliant for controlling Effects, loops, Beatslicing.
    Hope you kill it at your First gig man! 🙂

    btw here’s an article on the same question.

    http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/08/over-to-you-how-to-plug-into-a-club-mixer/

    August 30, 2012 at 1:40 am #1011186
    Gizmotech
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    No problem at all and Thanks man! 🙂
    The mix wasn’t recorded but i had made a rough layout of my tracks in FL studio when i was preparing. Just to keep a reference of what goes where and when. But for the actual transitions, i used a lot of effects for the transitions cos the BPM ranges were so widely spread out, i used stuff like delays, filters, spinbacks and breaks, and cut mixed tracks behind these effects so that it didn’t seem as abrupt as in my original layout. Cos there were totally 3 tracks that could actually be beatmatched, which i did.
    This is the link for it.

    http://soundcloud.com/gizmotech/rb-final-mix-alt

    Always good to find people who have similar tastes in music!! Do Keep me posted when you find interesting tracks!! 🙂

    August 30, 2012 at 1:42 am #27347
    Tom Potten
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    Ha awesome man will check it out now. Since we’re swapping links. . . 😉 http://www.mixcloud.com/tpotten/

    I’ll also drop a thread reply here about how my first gig goes, i’ll try record it too if i can figure out what settings or whatever i need to adjust for it haha

    August 30, 2012 at 1:50 am #1011187
    Gizmotech
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    Haha, will definitely check your link out man.
    Yeah, recording your set is a great idea, and recording traktor is cake, there’s record panel in the top right corner under effects, just start recording using that. Really simple. A google search will get you the info in no time. 🙂

    August 30, 2012 at 1:58 am #1011189
    Tom Potten
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    Yeah yeah i got the recording down, recorded loads of sets. It’s just once i’m hooked up to a new mixer and stuff like that i’m gonna have to change it about to match the external mixer or something i imagine. But yeah got like 4/5 mixes up on my Mixcloud plenty of bass in there woop

    August 30, 2012 at 2:13 am #1011190
    Gizmotech
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    Was goin through your mixcloud, but couldn’t listen to any of the mixes cos I’m on my iPad (laptop charger died). But from the track selection i have to say, it’s pretty much almost exactly the kind of stuff I enjoy both listening to and mixing! 🙂
    And as far as recording is concerned the mixer shouldn’t affect it in any way at all, unless you use it for effects or something, cos everything will be done internally in Traktor if you use your controller and that would all be recorded into the final file. I’m pretty sure that it should work regularly.

    September 6, 2012 at 8:23 pm #1011690
    Phil Morse
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    Sorry, I was late coming to this – looks like you’ve been well looked after in the meantime!

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