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  • July 6, 2011 at 3:54 am #2982
    Boris
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    mr_john, post: 2972 wrote: Djing at a club and you don’t know this? sigh…

    i know right!? im telling u!

    July 6, 2011 at 3:55 am #2983
    Boris
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    i usually play on my mobile gigs with my own mixer and serato i dont have a problem there but at the club they dont have room for my turntables so i dj with virtual but yea without headphones

    July 6, 2011 at 4:03 am #2984
    jezalenko
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    Alright mate, you’re going to need a sound card here. I would recomend an NI Audio 2, these things are the best 2-channel sound card on the market, and it even comes with Traktor.

    From there you can either hook up one output as your main mix to the club mixer and the other as your cue (headphones), however, the way I would do it is have one output as Channel 1, the other as Channel 2, and run these both into Ch 1 & 2 in the club mixer. From there you can use the club mixer instead of the software (a much better option) and run your headphones from the club mixer.

    July 6, 2011 at 4:08 am #1000872
    Boris
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    jezalenko, post: 2975 wrote: Alright mate, you’re going to need a sound card here. I would recomend an NI Audio 2, these things are the best 2-channel sound card on the market, and it even comes with Traktor.

    From there you can either hook up one output as your main mix to the club mixer and the other as your cue (headphones), however, the way I would do it is have one output as Channel 1, the other as Channel 2, and run these both into Ch 1 & 2 in the club mixer. From there you can use the club mixer instead of the software (a much better option) and run your headohones from the club mixer.

    okay i see u, imma look into getting the soundcard, pss the clubs mixer dont got any headphone plug in it done fell off of it hahahaah but yea definetly gon get me this soundcard hey thanks a lot!!

    July 6, 2011 at 4:08 am #1000873
    jezalenko
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    Also see http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/06/10-commandments-for-better-digital-djing-6/

    July 6, 2011 at 4:15 am #1000874
    Boris
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    jezalenko, post: 2978 wrote: Also see http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/06/10-commandments-for-better-digital-djing-6/

    yea its all this technical stuff that i do need to lear more about u so right on, hey thats why im here to better myself from people that know their stuff !

    July 6, 2011 at 4:25 am #2989
    Boris
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    jezalenko, post: 2978 wrote: Also see http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/06/10-commandments-for-better-digital-djing-6/

    monstersounddj, post: 2977 wrote: okay i see u, imma look into getting the soundcard, pss the clubs mixer dont got any headphone plug in it done fell off of it hahahaah but yea definetly gon get me this soundcard hey thanks a lot!!

    boy im digging this soundcard a lot!! gotta get it!!

    July 6, 2011 at 4:35 am #2991
    jezalenko
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    monstersounddj, post: 2979 wrote: yea its all this technical stuff that i do need to lear more about u so right on, hey thats why im here to better myself from people that know their stuff !

    Yeah, I used to work as a sound tech, so this stuff is fairly simple for me. It’s when you have 24-odd mics running to your two mixers, over 80m of loom, with 4 stageboxes, 10 aux busses, effects, compression, limiters, crossovers, and you still have to patch in the foldbacks plus a squark is when it gets complicated!

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