B.B. Koning

Terry_42, post: 44052, member: 1843 wrote: Exactly you cannot do both at the same time, soundflower is not made to do that. (I like soundflower, it is a neat program especially for broadcasting, but not in the way you try to do it.)

There has to be enough hardware devices to route things to. Why I said only an external soundcard will work (even a cheapish “iMic” – USB) as you could route traktor to that sound card use the traktor cable to split output and headphones and route skype to the internal sound card. So both would use 2 different devices and there would be no “cross traffic” and no speaking over your mix. However this you can easily do by using Skype and Traktors built in setups. You would only need soundflower if you do not use Traktors built in broadcasting, but want to split to Icecast or something similar.

Thank you, Terry. I appreciate both you and Steve’s input very much. I am a PC guy by trade, and my friend just bought a mac. Although I can navigate a mac on a basic level, this was really screwing me up. I can get them to use Icecast within Traktor, but they were also considering using BUTT. At any rate, thanks guys. Big ups and respect.

Terry_42, post: 44023, member: 1843 wrote: What you are trying to do is impossible without an external sound card. Using soundflower is bogus.

Bogus as in impossible, or bogus as in you just don’t like it?

Thanks.

Hopefully I will not have to use the headphones very often. Unfortunately, with the schedule being what it is, there will be times (much like when making DJ mixes) I will have to use them. I will save the tinkering and idea stage for this, then, and use the field monitors for the mastering/mixing.

Thank you guys. I really appreciate your detailed and expert advice!

djmdubs, post: 41372, member: 2813 wrote: I agree with Chuck here. I have the rokkit 5’s and they sound great but lacked punch so I added the rokkit 10s and now they are a perfect setup for me.

I wish the 10s were in my budget frame. Since I can get a new pair of G2 5’s for 250 right now, I think I’ll consider going this route to start, and put some egg foam or mats underneath them.

Do you have a preference for a good starter keyboard? M Audio is usually what people recommend, but I’m thinking of getting a low end keyboard to help learn chords and such that could double as a midi controller.

I value all opinions.

Chuck van Eekelen, post: 41353, member: 2756 wrote: I can see how you’d want the best quality for the available budget, but why not back breaking? Or is that your financial back you are worried about?

I have a set of KRK Rokit 5’s. They are pretty good (I use them for home studio work), but a tad lacking in the low’s. The 6’s are already better in that respect, or you could get the matching KRK sub.
At the end of the day it’s a personal choice, so try to do some A/B comparisons with your own music or productions if you can before deciding.

Everybody here will have an opinion and they are all right. The good news is though that for that kind of budget it’s not a really big pond to fish in.

One thing I’d like to stress here is that you need to set up your monitor speakers so the high end drivers are aimed directly at your ears, preferably from slightly higher. You should be one of the three corners of the triangle made up of you and the two speakers. Everything should be equidistant, i.e. the distance between the two speakers and between of the speakers and the middle of your head should be equal. Since the distance from your screen will be a determining factor, you’ll probably end up with a distance of 4 to 5 feet between the speakers and your head.

Also you don’t want the speakers to produce any sounds that are not supposed to be there. So get good, freestanding, pedestals (made for monitor speakers) that are heavy/solid enough not to add any vibrations. Finally stick some auralex or other acoustic foam under them to decouple the bass somewhat.

Greetinx,
C.

Dank u wel, Chuck. The first part is a very Dutch answer. My financial back was what I was referring to, but not breaking the physical one is also a good thing too!

I have extremely limited space to work with, but I can place the monitors in triangle style setup at ear level on my desk. Hopefully it will support some stands, but at the very least, acoustic foam or auralex sounds like a fine idea.

All I have is a lowly Audio 4 card to work with right now (which obviously does not support the balanced cables) but if you have any suggestions for a better card on a reasonable budget, I’m all ears.

I suppose I could run everything through my MC6000, but that would complicate things unnecessarily I think.

Thanks again!

mvg,

B.B.

Thanks for the reply.

I only use itunes to build playlists at the moment. I do not have any music folder configured in itunes at all. I just point the playlists, just like I do in Traktor, to the file folder that they are located in.