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Laptop Djing. USB soundcard or splitter cable??

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  • January 30, 2013 at 6:55 pm #35991
    DJ Bone
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    USB Sound card is the best option 😀

    January 30, 2013 at 7:10 pm #35994
    softcore
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    Still to this day wondering why these “splitter” cables ever came to existence….Its 2013 for christ’s sake…Mono? Really? They are a joke, IMHO!

    January 30, 2013 at 7:15 pm #35995
    DJ Bone
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    softcore, post: 36150, member: 243 wrote: Still to this day wondering why these “splitter” cables ever came to existence….Its 2013 for christ’s sake…Mono? Really? They are a joke, IMHO!

    EXACTLY!

    This is for when u have some friend and want to listen the same music in one ipod… ONLY for this 😀

    January 30, 2013 at 7:41 pm #35996
    softcore
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    Frankly I dont even listen to music on iStuff nor through my laptop speakers – and Im dead serious about it. Even if I receive a promo during working on my laptop I wait till I get to my studio and listen through proper speakers. 😉

    ….and then I read all the stuff about how MP3s are bad quality and I just lough….Listening through shitty systems is, for me, way more severe than listening to 320kbps mp3s.

    January 30, 2013 at 10:41 pm #36003
    Bojan Ljukovcanin
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    >_> splitters are for DJs who might not be able to right now afford a soundcard and have a sufficient audio card integrated with their laptop and maybe don’t need as great sound quality.Such as my self,i’d be wasting money paying for a sound card when i DJ small parties where people barely listen to the music.

    January 30, 2013 at 10:47 pm #36004
    Shaun Pearcey
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    I’d say the splitter, you can get them cheap off ebay for around £2 and it splits the sound into two outputs from your laptop.. I had one of those usb soundcards and they are cheaply made and break (mine did bad times) so i’d say go for the cable.. Also most of the free programs that split the sound for the usb cards don’t work so i would highly recommend the cable unless you want to invest £80 on a dj soundcard..

    January 31, 2013 at 8:23 am #36021
    Terry_42
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    softcore, post: 36150, member: 243 wrote: Still to this day wondering why these “splitter” cables ever came to existence….Its 2013 for christ’s sake…Mono? Really? They are a joke, IMHO!

    And still in 90% of the really big clubs: Their whole sound system goes into a nice stereo mixer, is mixed down into a mono channel, then goes into a mono line amp system and then is blasted in full quality mono to the array of speakers….

    January 31, 2013 at 12:53 pm #36029
    Dj Jick
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    What i meant with usb sound card was something like that:

    not the sound cards of NI, numark and this kind of stuff!!!

    January 31, 2013 at 12:55 pm #36030
    Dj Jick
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    Shaun Pearcey, post: 36160, member: 6431 wrote: I’d say the splitter, you can get them cheap off ebay for around £2 and it splits the sound into two outputs from your laptop.. I had one of those usb soundcards and they are cheaply made and break (mine did bad times) so i’d say go for the cable.. Also most of the free programs that split the sound for the usb cards don’t work so i would highly recommend the cable unless you want to invest £80 on a dj soundcard..

    i meant usb LAPTOP sound cards not dj sound cards!!! form those u buy about 10 euros online

    February 1, 2013 at 7:50 am #36057
    softcore
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    Terry_42, post: 36177, member: 1843 wrote: And still in 90% of the really big clubs: Their whole sound system goes into a nice stereo mixer, is mixed down into a mono channel, then goes into a mono line amp system and then is blasted in full quality mono to the array of speakers….

    True that….but in any case, if we are to also include the problems that arise from poor drivers of built-in soundcards (for audio real-time applications) such as big latency, I’d strongly recommend to anyone trying to dabble with DJing to save money and get a cheap but quality DJ-dedicated soundcard. NI’s Audio 2 (I believe it is now named Traktor 2) is less than 100 euros. I know it may seem like a lot of cash for a guy who just wants to sart up a hobby (or a young fellah trying to make ends with his/her parents money) but the truth is I never, as a kid, had any hobby requiring less money. Go see the prices of a skateboard or of a football and a pair of football shoes. 😉
    My personal opinion is that AT LEAST 100 euros to be spent on a “real” soundcard is nothing compared to the amount of money a DJ would need 10 years ago (hobbyist or not). There really is no excuse….again IMHO – and believe me, Im not in the upper-class of my country economically, barely middle!

    February 1, 2013 at 7:53 am #36059
    Terry_42
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    You are of course totally right there. If you can shelf out the cash, always go for the right gear and the NI Audio 2/Traktor 2 is a cheap alternative and will give you a Traktor License.

    February 1, 2013 at 10:41 am #36066
    DJ Vintage
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    Terry_42, post: 36177, member: 1843 wrote: And still in 90% of the really big clubs: Their whole sound system goes into a nice stereo mixer, is mixed down into a mono channel, then goes into a mono line amp system and then is blasted in full quality mono to the array of speakers….

    LOL. Very true that. Too much problems running a massive stereo setup in a big club. And not too much (danceable) music features nice stereo sweep effects. Besides if you are in the middle of a square or round dancefloor, what would be left or right … people are facing any direction. So left/right may be right/left for the person in front of you and front/back for the person next to you :-=)

    October 20, 2013 at 1:06 pm #1014855
    djatome
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    I recently bought a Griffin splitter cable as a backup for whenever my Reloop Mixage IE would break down during a party.
    However I can’t get it to work with Traktor Pro version 1.something

    I assumed that in Traktor Pro it would be possible to split outputs but apparently there isn’t. Does anyone have suggestions for a workaround, or was this just bad decision-making on my part?
    Would it work in Traktor 2 for instance? Thanks for your advice

    October 21, 2013 at 10:31 am #1014902
    Terry_42
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    I honestly cannot remember the Traktor 1.x days… so I cannot comment on that.

    But yes it works to configure a splitter cable in Traktor 2.x

    October 22, 2013 at 4:03 am #1014988
    Harold Tan
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    That cheap little external sound card at the start of this thread?  It’s really cheap. It works.  However, that caused some latency on a real gig.  Fortunately, I only used that for headphones so the audience is not hearing any of the latency from it.  And it’s annoying having to pull out from and reinsert it on the USB port several times in a night.

    I suggest a Behringer U-Control UCA-200 or UCA 202 or UCA 222 (any one of the three will do).  It’s not as cheap as that little thing but it’s not expensive enough to break the bank and it’s worth the upgrade specially if you’re on a budget.

    And get yourself an ASIO4ALL.  It should solve most of your latency problems.

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