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Terry_42, post: 35816, member: 1843 wrote: Indeed, nothing to lose there. And the first 20 lessons you can easily do without a controller.
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what about the other 30 courses? will i need a controller?

The Black Rag, post: 35897, member: 7330 wrote: you don’t really need a lot of hardware to get started man,i started in my desktop pc and now im doing my stuff with a controller.Just sign up and practice with mappings on the laptop/desktop you have.If you love music get into it,you can map your keyboard to do stuff you wouldn’t even imagine it could do.I had mine mapped to where it was almost like a midifighter for me.And i sitll use it with my controller as add on gear.

i have already mapped my laptop and played at some parties with friend s soundcards, headphones etc. but i knew nothing when i did that, now i want to gain more insight into djing thats why im asking. I do know that i can start with almost anything but it s anoying when i practise i have to stop the one track,cue the other set the starting point and then mix. Djing with a splitter cable is not working to me !

The Black Rag, post: 35933, member: 7330 wrote: Are you sure you got a DJ splitter cable?There’s a lot of splitter cables out there but only serten types of splitter cables are usable for DJing.Make sure you’rs is a stereo to two mono splitter.

Well i have a splitter ADAPTER not cable ( like those you cna buy to airports as Phil said at his video of splitter cables) now i found online a splitter cable that will work i think. If this doesn t work i ll go for the griffin djay splitter cable which is a bit over-priced for just a cable…

The Black Rag, post: 36007, member: 7330 wrote: Or you could go the route that i went.Head down to an electronics shop that sells parts and improv your self your own splitter.I made my own splitter box that works for me.It’s not hard to do and you don’t need to be an electronics wiz,heck i could even walk you through making a splitter box like mine.Granted it’s not exactly a perfect solution but for someone on a tight budget it’s pretty good.Thing is if you’re in the states,or in a more developed country then mine is you can probably go into an electronics store and buy a splitter adapter for very little.You just need to make sure what you are buying is STEREO TO TWO MONO that way one mono chanel is for your speakers and the other for your headphones.

I went down town after i read your reply, it costs about 2 euros the stereo to mono splitter cable and he suggested to take 2 mono to stereo adapters.
These are the pictures
the splitter cable ( it has 2 black circle lines on the jack, i don t know if this matter or not, but i saw some adapters with 3. If you can t reply its ok)

these are the mono to stereo adapters he suggested to me.

Tell me that this is going to work !!!!

The Black Rag, post: 36027, member: 7330 wrote: Here’s the gist of it,the two lnes you see on the male plug for the stereo lets you know it is stereo they are the way you see it has two channels plus a ground while mono as the name would suggest has a single channel plus ground[or more commonly known as zero].The addapters you should use with the splitter if you plan to plug in stereo males from your pc speakers or your headphones have a stereo male plug.The adapters them selves don’t really transform mono sound into stereo.They feed one channel into two by splitting the channel allowing you to get essentially mono through a stereo plug which you normally wouldn’t be able to do.So yeah what you bought right there,if you bought both the splitter and the two mono to stereo adapters is exactly what you need.Given this solution isn’t exactly perfect in any way as it does make you have to rely more on your soundcard for sound quality.But it’s great for home setups for practicing and even maybe some minor parties where you don’t have to do give super high quality,it’s also a great setup if you are using a program to stream your mixes over the internet cause the person listening in will listen in stereo while you monitor and mix in mono to your self.

glad to hear this!! thanks for enligtening me about these lines, too.

The Black Rag, post: 36082, member: 7330 wrote: Always a pleasure to help out a fellow DJ.

As the laptop s soundcard s concerned i have a solution, i usually plug my laptop to a home cinema or a hi-fi so if i have the hi fi near to me and the speakers a bit far, i conncet my headphones and i should be ok.